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2025
October 2025
22nd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community - Rodent Genomics
Centre for Genomic Regulation
October 21 to 24, 2025 - Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Palmer and Palmer Lab members Oksana, Thiago, Montana, Zack, and Apurva presented talks at CTC-RG 2025.
Check out the full post and photo album here!
Palmer Lab member Denghui Chen presenting a poster at the annual meeting for the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG 2025).
October 14 - 18, 2025 in Boston, MA
September 2025
Brittany Leger's PhD Defense Reception
September 15, 2025 - Palmer Lab
Congratulations, Dr. Leger!
Palmer Lab members celebrated with Dr. Brittany Leger and members of the UC San Diego Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program.
August 2025
Summer Potluck Party
August 13, 2025 - Palmer Lab
July 2025
REHU - Summer 2025
The Research Experiences for High School and Undergraduate Students (REHU) program of the P30 Center for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats provides summer research projects and mentorship at Center-affiliated labs.
Pictured (from left): Bryan Montoya, Oksana Polesskaya (REHU mentor and P30 Co-I), Jaxon Leighty, Daria Kouzminova, Arnav Gurha, Yixuan (Ivy) Xin
June 2025
Festschrift - Harriet de Wit
June 27, 2025 - University of Chicago
Dr. Palmer at the Festschrift event held in honor of Harriet de Wit in the Biological Sciences Learning Center at the University of Chicago.
Harriet de Wit, PhD
Founder & Primary Investigator,
Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory
Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Chicago
Research Society on Alcohol (RSA) - 48th Annual Scientific Meeting
June 21-25, 2025 - New Orleans, LA
Palmer Lab Reunion Dinner at RSA
June 24, 2025
Past Palmer Lab members (front row, from left): Amanda Barkley-Levenson, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, and Katherine McMurray met with Dr. Palmer and current postdoc Zack Tatom at Curio in New Orleans.
20th Annual Lewis L. Judd Young Investigators Research Symposium
UC San Diego, Department of Psychiatry
June 12, 2025 - Price Center Ballroom, UC San Diego
Palmer Lab member Jean Gonzalez presented "Subjective Response to Opioids Predicts Risk for Opioid Use Disorder."
May 2025
18th Annual Genetics Training Program Retreat
May 23, 2025 - UC San Diego
Brittany Leger gave a talk titled "Getting the runaround: is the locomotor response to a novel environment a model of human externalizing behavior?"
She was also one of the event organizers.
April 2025
Saying goodbye to Yizhi and Michelle
April 23, 2025 - Palmer Lab, UC San Diego
Palmer Lab members shared some potluck goodies to send off Lab Assistant Yizhi Wang and Postdoc Dr. Michelle Doyle.
Good luck, Yizhi! Good luck, Michelle!
From left (back row): Riyan, Zack, Oksana, Dr. Palmer, Yizhi, Michelle, Ben, Montana, Nina, Rudy, Elaine, Thiago, Gracie. From left (front row): Brittany, Den, Apurva.
March 2025
Faculty and Fund Manager
Meet & Greet Event
March 19, 2025 - UC San Diego
Department of Psychiatry faculty members and research administrators connected at a Meet & Greet event on campus to facilitate teamwork.
Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club
Chalk Talk
March 11, 2025 - Zweifach Library, Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, UC San Diego
Each quarter, the Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club (UBIC) hosts "Chalk Talk" seminars given by the UC San Diego Research community.
Following the "Chalk Talk" format to encourage interaction with the undergraduate audience, Dr. Palmer used only a blackboard and chalk to introduce his research interests and explain his ideas.
Stand Up for Science Rally
March 7, 2025 - Geisel Library, UC San Diego
February 2025
Khai's last day at Palmer Lab
February 26, 2025
Saying goodbye to longtime Palmer Lab member, Khai Nguyen.
Good luck, Khai!
From left (front row): Riyan, Den, Ben, Khai, Nina, Thiago, Rudy. From left (middle row): Zack, Gracie, Dr. Palmer, Oksana. From left (top row): Montana, April, Elaine, Brittany.
Palmer Lab Lunch Meeting + Journal Club
February 5, 2025
Remote lab member Bobby visited campus and gave a talk during the Palmer Lab meeting titled "Haplotype wide association study: definition, statistics, and application," and he also presented "Modeling linkage disequilibrium, imputation, and haplotype inference with HMMs, a review" for Journal Club.
Taking a break between Bobby's presentations with some delicious lunch catering from Thai Time North Park!
January 2025
Palmer Lab Lunch Meeting
January 8, 2025
Enjoying lunch at Snooze in La Jolla after Thiago's lab meeting presentation. We also welcomed new lab member Ryan to Palmer Lab!
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