Palmer Lab attends CTC 2024 in Milwaukee

Abraham Palmer Events & Meetings, Talks & Conferences

Eight members from the Palmer Lab attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community | Rat Genome & Models held at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 2 to 5, 2024.

Dinner in Milwaukee: Palmer Lab members and CTC colleagues

(meeting agenda available here)

On October 3, Faith Okamoto* presented "Y and mitochondrial chromosomes in the heterogeneous stock rat population," Apurva Chitre presented "Genome-wide association of adiposity in heterogeneous stock rats," Thiago Missfeldt Sanches presented "PipeRat: A high-throughput python package to perform and visualize large-scale genetic association analysis," and Abraham Palmer presented "Introducing the Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats."

(recordings and slides available here)

Brittany moderating during Apurva's talk
Dr. Palmer introducing our new P30 Center...
...Behold: RATTACA!
Former Palmer Lab member Faith Okamoto and Apurva
Thiago discussing PipeRat with a CTC attendee

On October 4, Denghui Chen presented his poster, "Structural variants in heterogeneous stock rats."

On October 5, Montana Lara presented "Genome-wide association study of cocaine use in Heterogeneous Stock rats," Brittany Leger presented "Identifying the shared genetic signal from genome-wide association studies of externalizing and locomotor activity," and Oksana Polesskaya presented "Genome-wide association study for age-related hearing loss in CFW mice."

Faith Okamoto*, Apurva Chitre, Montana Lara, Denghui Chen, and Brittany Leger also served as session moderators.

(Current and past* Palmer Lab members)

Another Milwaukee dinner with CTC colleagues! Palmer Lab members, pictured from back left: Faith Okamoto*, Montana Lara, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Brittany Leger, Apurva Chitre, Denghui Chen, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.

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