Manuscript accepted in Nature Communications

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The manuscript titled “Novel insights into the genetic architecture and mechanisms of host/microbiome interactions from a multi-cohort analysis of outbred laboratory rats” was accepted in Nature Communications. Authors: Helene Tonnele, Denghui Chen, Felipe Morillo, Jorge Garcia-Calleja, Apurva S Chitre, Benjamin B Johnson, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Marc Jan Bonder, Antonio Gonzalez, Tomasz Kosciolek, Anthony M George, Wenyan Han, Katie Holl, Aidan … Read more…

Manuscript accepted in Addiction Neuroscience

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The manuscript titled “Sex-specific transcriptional signatures of oxycodone persist during withdrawal and abstinence in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of heterogeneous stock rats” was accepted in Addiction Neuroscience.

Authors: Tara C. Delorme, Snehal Sambare, Benjamin R. Williams, Mackenzie C. Gamble, Lieselot L.G. Carrette, Leah C Solberg Woods, Lisa Maturin, Abraham A. Palmer, Olivier George, Ryan W. Logan

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NIDA U01 Grant Awarded to Dr. Giordano de Guglielmo

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A U01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was awarded to Dr. Giordano de Guglielmo (contact MPI), with Christine Cheng, Dongjun Chung, Abraham Palmer, and Alexander Wanless Smith as MPIs.

The grant is titled “The Genetic Basis of Opioid Dependence Vulnerability in a Rodent Model” and it will start September 30, 2025 and end on May 31, 2030.

[This is a renewal of”The Genetic Basis of Opioid Dependence Vulnerability in a Rodent Model” (U01DA045300), awarded to Dr. Peter Kalivas, Medical University of South Carolina, from 2018-2024.]

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NIAAA R01 grant awarded to Dr. Lieselot Carrette

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A new R01 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) was awarded to Dr. Lieselot Carrette, with Dr. Abraham Palmer as co-investigator. 

The 4-year grant is titled “Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Outbred Rats with Variable Vulnerability to Compulsive Alcohol Use” and it will start September 20, 2025 and end on August 31, 2029.

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Dr. Palmer gives talk at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Meeting

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Dr. Abraham Palmer gave a talk titled “Genetic evidence supports a relationship between locomotor activity in a novel environment in rodents a human externalizing behavior” at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) annual team meeting for Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research on September 11, 2025 at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, MD.

His talk was during the session titled “Harnessing Model Organism Genetics and Genomics in the Understanding the Role of Human Genetic Variation in SUDs,” which he co-chaired with Dr. Elissa Chesler.

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Xia Yang, Danielle Dick, Abraham Palmer, Elissa Chesler, and Marianne Seney