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2024

December 2024

Palmer Lab Holiday Party
December 13, 2024

Palmer Lab members shared holiday treats on campus and some joined online for snowflake cut-out fun!

November 2024

ASHG 2024 (American Society of Human Genetics) — Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
November 5-9, 2024

photo courtesy of Hae Kyung Im
From left: Sabrina Mi, Dr. Palmer, Laura Vilar-Ribó, Festus Nyasimi, Brittany Leger, and Hae Kyung "Haky" Im

Dr. Palmer in Denver with fellow ASHG attendees James Knowles, Arsalan Hassan, and Ricardo Harripaul.

23andMe staff (from left: David Hinds, Katelyn Kukar, Pierre Fontanillas, Zayn Cochinwala) and Dr. Palmer.

Dr. Palmer with former Palmer Lab member Amy Hart and current member Brittany Leger
Brittany Leger presents poster Rare and Common Variants for Alcohol Consumption Identify Overlapping Gene Networks
Dr. Palmer and Carole Ober, Chair of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
photo courtesy of Hae Kyung Im
Dr. Palmer and Festus Nyasimi
photo courtesy of Hae Kyung Im

October 2024

Neuroscience 2024 — McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL
October 5-9, 2024

(see "Palmer Lab attends SfN 2024 in Chicago")

Palmer Lab member Montana Lara (center) received two travel awards for SfN24! Congratulations!
Montana explains RATTACA
Check out Dr. Palmer's RATTACA Green sneakers!
SfN Crew at McCormick Place
Palmer Lab members Michelle Doyle and Montana Lara
Oksana Polesskaya at our RATTACA booth at SfN24

Complex Trait Community (CTC)-Rat Genome Meeting — Medical College of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI
October 2-5, 2024

(see "Palmer Lab attends CTC 2024 in Milwaukee")

Dinner in Milwaukee with CTC colleagues
Brittany Leger and Apurva Chitre
Faith Okamoto and Apurva Chitre
Thiago Sanches (right)

September 2024

NIAAA T32 meet & greet — UC San Diego
September 11, 2024

NIAAA T32 Trainees and Faculty
(Dr. Palmer pictured middle row, second from right)

10th Annual Retreat—Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats — held on campus at UC San Diego
September 6, 2024

Check out the full collection of photos and presentation videos on the 2024 Retreat web page at ratgenes.org.

HS West team! Nina, Yizhi, and Rudy

August 2024

Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Neurobiology of Addiction annual meeting — Newry, Maine
August 18-23, 2024

Abraham Palmer and Camron Bryant (Northeastern University)
From left: Byungkook Lim (UCSD Biology) and colleagues from UCSD Psychiatry; Elizabeth Sneddon-Yepez, Mike Taffe, Abraham Palmer, and Marsida Kallupi at GRC

August 14, 2024
Lab lunch meeting

Palmer Lab members (from left): Brittany, Michelle, Faith, Yizhi, Rudy, Gavi, Dr. Palmer, Nina, Ben, Montana, Khai, Elaine.

July 2024

July 22, 2024: Abraham Palmer and Sandra Sanchez-Roige on set at local San Diego news station CBS 8 for a live interview segment during the morning show!

Is coffee good or bad for you? | CBS 8 San Diego, July 22, 2024

July 12, 2024
Lab lunch meeting

Palmer Lab members (front row, from left): Apurva, Faith, Nina, Den, Michelle. (back row, from left): Gavi, Ben, Jean, Joel, Dr. Palmer, Oksana, Yizhi, Michael, Brittany.

July 11, 2024
Nowell Family Foundation

Pictured (from left): Cory Sullivan (Director or Operations, Nowell Family Foundation), Kevin Shin (Chairman of the Board, Nowell Family Foundation), Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Abraham Palmer, Kara Reed (Director of Development, UC San Diego Health Sciences Advancement)

July 2024

High school student intern Michael Rempel pipetting in the wet lab.

June 2024

Annual Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) meeting — London, UK
June 26-28, 2024

Dinner with fellow UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry faculty and BGA researchers.

(from left): Thalia Eley, Danielle Dick, and Abraham Palmer at BGA.

May 2024

May 29, 2024

Palmer Lab visit! Zachary Tatom gave a talk titled "Genetic and Transcriptomic Investigations of Progressive Ethanol Consumption in the Diversity Outbred Mouse" and met up with Palmer Lab postdocs and grad students for dinner in La Jolla.

(front row, from left): Den, Apurva. (back row, from left): Michelle, Joel, Zachary, Brittany, Montana

May 17, 2024

Lab lunch meeting
[Takeout from Tahini (on campus)]

Palmer Lab members (front row, from left/center): Faith, Apurva, Gavi, Sakina.
(back row, from left): April, Joel, Elaine, Dr. Palmer, Oksana, Yizhi.

May 2, 2024

Palmer Lab photo op!

Oksana, Khai, and Yizhi posed with Clara on her last day at the lab.

Good luck, Clara!

April 2024

April 25, 2024

19th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium

The Judd Symposium was held on campus at UC San Diego in the Price Center Ballroom West; speakers and posters showcased the Department of Psychiatry's research work.

Palmer Lab member Brittany Leger presented a poster with her fellow graduate student researchers, and keynote speaker (and Palmer Lab collaborator) Dr. Marsida Kallupi presented her talk, "Deciphering Addiction Vulnerability: RATTACA, a Novel Genomic Approach to Predict Cocaine Use Disorder Susceptibility in Rats."

Palmer Lab member Brittany Leger (right)
Gregory Light (Vice Chair of Education and Training), Abraham Palmer, and Zafiris Daskalakis (Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry)
Giordano de Guglielmo, keynote speaker Marsida Kallupi, Angelica Martinez, and Palmer Lab member Michelle Doyle

April 22, 2024

Dinner at George's at the Cove in La Jolla, pictured from left: Vickie Risbrough (UCSD), Abraham Palmer, Peter Penzes (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine), Lilia Iakoucheva (UCSD), and Jonathan Sebat (UCSD).

Peter Penzes visited UC San Diego for his Department of Psychiatry seminar.

April 1, 2024

Dinner at The Lodge at Torrey Pines, pictured from left: Marisa Roberto (UCSD), Barbara Mason (UCSD), Tamara Phillips (OHSU), and Abraham Palmer.

Tamara Phillips visited UC San Diego to present a talk at the Scripps Research campus on April 2, 2024.

March 2024

Lab Lunch! Welcoming our newest Palmer Lab members (Anjali and Gavi!) and celebrating our recent accomplishments — while grabbing a bite at Snooze in La Jolla!

Palmer Lab members (front row, from left): Apurva, Faith, Thiago, Anjali. 
(back row, from left): Ben, Oksana, Dr. Palmer, Sabrina, Montana, Elaine, Gavi.

March, 2024

Tom Jhou and Abraham Palmer during Tom's visit to UC San Diego. While on campus, Tom met with members of Palmer Lab and George Lab to discuss the projects they are currently collaborating on. (see ratgenes.org for related project data)

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