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2024
(the most recent photos start here!)
April, 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.
Lab Lunch
March 2024
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)
2023
Palmer Lab holiday party
December 15, 2023
Good luck, Shae! Good luck, Beverly!
December 5, 2023
Dinner with the UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry group at Anchor & Brine in Tampa, Florida during the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annual meeting.
November 7, 2023
Complex Traits Journal Club (hosted by Mamad Ahangari from Sebat Lab); Palmer Lab attended in support of fellow member, Den Chen who presented on one of the papers that led to CATlas.
(Dr. Palmer proposes that we develop a rat version and call it RATlas...and the logo could feature a cat chasing a rat!)
Palmer Lab members (at the conference table, along the window): Den Chen, Montana Lara, Elaine Keung, Faith Okamoto, Bobby Vogel, Thiago Sanches, Dr. Palmer, Brittany Leger, Yizhi Wang, and Clara Ortez.
Comprehensive atlas for regulatory elements and functional annotations
9th Annual P50 Center Retreat
October 27, 2023
Additional photos and video recordings of the talks are available at ratgenes.org.
October 19, 2023
Dinner at Duke's La Jolla after Nancy Cox's presentation for the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology Colloquium at UC San Diego.
From left: Sandra Sanchez-Roige (Sanchez-Roige Lab, UC San Diego), Nancy Cox (Vanderbilt University Medical Center), Dr. Palmer, Terry Gaasterland (Director, BISB Program, UC San Diego)
20th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) | Rat Genome & Models
Memphis, Tennessee (October 8-12, 2023)
The CTC Crew! (Palmer Lab members, from left: Thiago, Den, Oksana, Dr. Palmer, Montana, Apurva)
Exploring the campus at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center
CTC Talks
Palmer Lab member Joel Leal Gutierrez gave his CTC talk remotely.
Celebrating the 100th generation of HS rats at CTC with fellow HS rats researchers!
Dinners and HS rats discussions with Palmer Lab collaborators
Memphis, TN
Lab Lunch
July 2023
(back row, from left): April, Bobby, Den, Ben, Oksana, Shae, Faith, Riyan, Khai.
July 19, 2023
A fun lunch together—talking about projects and celebrating our newest Palmer Lab members: summer/REHU students, Mika and Brandon, and recent hires, Montana, Bobby, Yizhi, and Ishita!
Delicious catered Indian cuisine was organized by lab member Apurva Chitre.
Thesis defense
July 6, 2023
Jessica Zhou’s thesis defense at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA.
Dr. Palmer was part of Jessica's thesis committee. (from left: Graham McVicker, Trey Ideker, Kyle Gaulton, Abraham Palmer, Jessica Zhou, Francesca Telese, Bing Ren)
Congratulations, Jessica!
Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) meeting
Bellevue, Washington (June 24-28, 2023)
(from left to right: Michelle Doyle, Olivier George, Tamara Phillips, Abraham Palmer, Giordano de Guglielmo, Tom Jhou, Chris King, Mehdi Esmaeili-Fard)
April 14, 2023
Celebrating our student lab members and their mentors for National Student Employment Week!
Dr. Palmer hosted lunch on campus at Underbelly for students Faith Okamoto, Emily Cameron, Cristina Comacchio, and Justin Park—and recent graduate Annie Choi!—and mentors Clara Ortez, Beverly Peng, and Apurva Chitre.
March 27-29, 2023
Apurva Chitre and former Palmer Lab member Alex Gileta at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Agricultural meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
January 26, 2023
Pejman Mohammadi and Abraham Palmer at Mandarin House in La Jolla
2022
December 16, 2022
Lunchtime presentations at Palmer Lab for University of Chicago undergraduate students during their career exploration trek to San Diego.
During the presentations, Dr. Palmer gave the students a practical understanding of daily life in biological sciences. He was joined by fellow lab members Thiago Sanches and Michelle Doyle, and graduate student Adam Kline from UC San Diego's BISB program, who shared their experiences and perspectives as well.
La Jolla (December, 2022)
November, 2022
Abraham Palmer and Jody Corey-Bloom celebrating the anniversaries of the Scripps Alcohol Research Center and the Pearson Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research during Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in San Diego.
Complex Trait Community (CTC)/Rat Genomics Community
University of Colorado (September 29-30, 2022)
Postdocs Dan Munro and Joel Leal Gutierrez attended and presented virtually.
CTC presentations
Dinner after CTC meeting
Karina's Going Away Party
2022 UC San Diego Health Sciences
Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award
September 9, 2022
Abraham Palmer received the 2022 UC San Diego Health Sciences Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award.
Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Roige and
Dr. Francesca Telese
Dr. Morton Printz, and Jana Printz
Lab Lunch for Dan's move!
Dinner to celebrate Larry Squire's retirement.
[(back row, from left): Susan Tapert, Abraham Palmer, Sandy Brown, Eric Granholm;
(seated from left): Jeff Daskalakis, Igor Grant, Larry Squire, Christine Smith.]
2021
Going Away Party for Amanda!
December, 2021
to be continued... (access the photo gallery of previous years here)