Palmer Lab attends CTC 2026 in Portland, Maine
The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) was held November 8 to 12, 2026 at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community.
Palmer Lab members Dr. Palmer, Dr. Oksana Polesskaya, Dr. Thiago Sanches, Dr. Montana Lara, Dr. Zachary Tatom, Denghui Chen, Apurva Chitre, and Jonah Pacis attended in person.
Talks
Session: Molecular and cellular mediators of genetic effects
- Dr. Palmer presented a talk titled "Deep transcriptomic analysis of molecular mediators of complex traits in heterogeneous stock (HS) rats." On the opening day of the meeting, he also introduced the keynote speaker, Dr. Nancy Cox (Vanderbilt University).
Session: Complete genomes and pangenomes
- Dr. Polesskaya presented a talk titled "A spontaneous terminal deletion of the Y chromosome short arm in the heterogeneous stock rat produces fertile sex-reversed females and sex-chromosome aneuploid animals"
- Denghui Chen presented a talk titled "Pangenome for heterogeneous stock rats"
Session: Polygenic architecture: lifespan, obesity and correlated traits
- Apurva Chitre presented a talk titled "Genetic architecture of obesity-related traits in heterogeneous stock rats"
Posters
Dr. Thiago Sanches presented the poster titled "Scalable phenome-wide genetic correlation reveals low-dimensional shared genetic structures in heterogeneous stock rats." [Authors: Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Montana Kay Lara, Zachary Tatom, Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats, Oksana Polesskaya, Abraham A. Palmer]
Dr. Montana Lara presented the poster titled "Multivariate genetic analysis of addiction-related behaviors in heterogeneous stock (HS) rats." [Authors: Montana Kay Lara, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Oksana Polesskaya, Apurva S. Chitre, Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats Collaborators, Brittany Kuhn, Peter Kalivas, Suzanne Mitchell, Paul Meyer, Marsida Kallupi, Giordano de Guglielmo, Olivier George, Abraham A. Palmer]
Dr. Zachary Tatom presented the poster titled "Moving across species: systems-level analysis of externalizing-like behaviors in rodents and humans." [Authors: Zachary Tatom; Center for Systems Neurogenetics of Addiction; Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats; Abraham A. Palmer]
Jonah Pacis presented the poster titled "Genetic analysis of body weight in heterogeneous stock rats: age and sex dependent effects." [Authors: Jonah Pacis, Apurva S. Chitre, Gavrila Ang, Hannah Bimschleger*, Heather M. Bool, Christian Bruno, Paola Campo, Lieselot L.G. Carrette, Denghui Chen, Ayteria D. Crow, Eric Dereschewitz, Maya Eid, Angel Garcia Martinez, Anthony M. George, Katie Holl, Aidan P. Horvath, Keita Ishiwari, Benjamin B. Johnson, Marsida Kallupi, Elaine Keung*, Christopher King, Montana K. Lara, Connor D. Martin, Richard Mott, Alesa H. Netzley, Khai-Minh Nguyen*, Beverly Peng*, Sonja L. Plasil, Dominika Pullmann, Analyse T. Roberts, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Laura Soverchia, Celine L. St. Pierre*, Brady Thompson, Jordan Tripi, Massimo Ubaldi, Tengfei Wang, Yizhi Wang*, Nazzareno Cannella, Hao Chen, Roberto Ciccocioppo, Giordano de Guglielmo, Shelly B. Flagel, Olivier George, Thomas Jhou, Brittany N. Kuhn, Paul J. Meyer, Suzanne H. Mitchell, Jerry B. Richards, Terry E. Robinson, Leah Solberg Woods, Oksana Polesskaya, Abraham A. Palmer]
(Current and past* Palmer Lab members)
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