2023

Lab Lunch

Palmer Lab members (front row, from left): Montana, Dr. Palmer, Ishita, Thiago, Mika, Beverly, Apurva, Clara, Brandon.
(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, WA (June 24-28, 2023)

Sandra Sanchez-Roige receives the RSA Early Career Investigator Award

Dinner with fellow HS rats researchers while in Bellevue, WA for the **RSA** meeting.
(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.

**Palmer Lab holiday party**
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.