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November 2024
ASHG 2024 (American Society of Human Genetics) — Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
November 5-9, 2024
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.
October 2024
Neuroscience 2024 — McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL
October 5-9, 2024
(see "Palmer Lab attends SfN 2024 in Chicago")
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")
September 2024
NIAAA T32 meet & greet — UC San Diego
September 11, 2024
(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.
August 2024
Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Neurobiology of Addiction annual meeting — Newry, Maine
August 18-23, 2024
August 14, 2024
Lab lunch meeting
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!
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.
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."
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!
(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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