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By identifying genes that influence behavior we hope to obtain fundamental mechanistic insights into the molecular basis of both health and disease. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENES AND BEHAVIOR Learn more

Faith Okamoto recognized as outstanding research undergraduate with two recent honors!

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!

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Abraham Palmer June 5, 2023 Awards, Palmer Lab News

Dr. Montana Lara joins the Palmer Lab

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.

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Abraham Palmer May 15, 2023 Palmer Lab News

Dr. Robert Vogel joins the Palmer Lab

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. 

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Abraham Palmer May 5, 2023 Palmer Lab News

Manuscript accepted in Genome 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.

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Abraham Palmer April 27, 2023 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Scientific Reports

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)

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Abraham Palmer April 25, 2023 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Cell Reports

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

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Abraham Palmer April 24, 2023 Publications

Manuscript accepted in Translational Psychiatry

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

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Abraham Palmer April 17, 2023 Publications

Manuscript accepted in BioData Mining

The manuscript titled “Automated Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis (AutoQTL)” was accepted in BioData Mining.

Published in BioData Mining: 10 April 2023

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Abraham Palmer April 10, 2023 Publications

Dr. Benjamin Johnson joins the Palmer Lab

Ben Johnson joined the Bioinformatics team at Palmer Lab in March 2023. He received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University with concentrations in Ecological Genetics, Population Biology, Systematics, and Physiological Ecology.
Welcome, Ben!

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Abraham Palmer March 14, 2023 Palmer Lab News

Manuscript accepted in GENETICS

The manuscript titled “An exponential increase in QTL detection with an increased sample size” was accepted in GENETICS.

Genetics, Volume 224, Issue 2, June 2023, iyad054

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Abraham Palmer March 13, 2023 Publications
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  • GWAS datasets...visit C-GORD

Abraham Palmer, PhD

Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research,
Department of Psychiatry
University of California San Diego
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Palmer Lab
University of California San Diego
Israni Biomedical Research Facility (BRF-2)
3147 Biomedical Sciences Way

La Jolla, CA 92093-0667
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Email: [email protected]
Phone: (858) 534-2093
Twitter: @AbePalmer

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Curriculum Vitae

PhD, Biomedical Sciences
University of California San Diego, 1999

BA, Biology
University of Chicago, 1992

Director, NIDA National Center of Excellence for GWAS in Outbred Rats

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La Jolla, CA 92093

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Mail Code: 0667
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BRF-2 | Floor 3-A: Dry Lab
Room 3A24: Abraham Palmer
Room 3A32: Oksana Polesskaya,
Thiago Sanches, Elaine Keung
3A07-D/E: Benjamin Johnson,
Gavrila Ang, Zachary Tatom
3A07-M: Apurva Chitre

BRF-2 | Floor 3: Wet Lab
Room 3217: Bays FF-JJ
  • Bay FF: Rudy Avila
  • Bay GG: Montana Lara
  • Bay HH: Brittany Leger,
    Denghui Chen
  • Bay II: Riyan Cheng
  • Bay JJ: Nina Suzuki

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