Undergraduate students Faith Okamoto and Sakina Muckadam transitioned into the REHU program for the summer to continue their work in the Palmer Lab. They are joined by new Palmer Lab members Mika Okamoto and Brandon Krieg, who started in June.
Dr. Oksana Polesskaya will mentor the REHU students and prepare them for their group presentation later this summer.
Yizhi began working as a lab assistant at the Palmer Lab in June 2023. He received his BS in Biochemistry from UC San Diego in December 2022—he has a keen interest in biochemistry and molecular/genetic biology, and would like to attend graduate school in those fields.
In his spare time, Yizhi enjoys playing musical instruments, watching movies, playing video games, and traveling.
Welcome, Yizhi!
The manuscript titled “Polygenic Contributions to Performance on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task” was accepted in Molecular Psychiatry.
Update: Molecular Psychiatry (2023) online ahead of print. (Aug. 15)
Congratulations, Faith!
Recipient of the Gabriele Wienhausen Biological Sciences Scholarship for 2023-2024 at UC San Diego and a second runner-up for the 2023 Triton Student Employee of the Year Award!
Montana joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Vermont.
Her previous research examined the effects of genetic diversity on electrophysiological and neurobehavioral traits in epilepsy mouse models.
Robert joined the Palmer Lab in May of 2023. He holds a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and he completed postdoctoral work at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, IBM Research, and Scripps Research.
Abraham Palmer is an author on the manuscript titled “A Novel Quantitative Trait Locus Implicates Msh3 in the Propensity for Genome-wide Short Tandem Repeat Expansions in Mice,” which was recently accepted for publication in Genome Research.
The manuscript titled “Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted in Scientific Reports.
Scientific Reports, volume 13, article number: 7027 (2023)
The manuscript “Genome-wide Association Studies of Human and Rat BMI Converge on Synapse, Epigenome, and Hormone Signaling Networks” has been provisionally accepted for publication as a research article at Cell Reports.
Published: Cell Reports, 2023, August 29, Volume 42, Issue 8, 112873
The manuscript titled “CADM2 is Implicated in Impulsive Personality and Numerous Other Traits by Genome- and Phenome-wide Association Studies in Humans and Mice” was accepted in Translational Psychiatry.
Published in Translational Psychiatry: 12 May 2023
