The manuscript titled “Genetically predicted cocaine addiction vulnerability is associated with elevated GABAergic transmission in the central amygdala of drug-naïve rats” was accepted for publication in Neuropharmacology.
Authors: Ran Qiao, Benjamin B. Johnson, Michelle Doyle, Abraham A. Palmer, Giordano de Guglielmo, Marsida Kallupi
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Neuropharmacology, 2026, in press
The manuscript titled “Identification of novel candidate hypothalamic genes for diet-induced obesity in outbred heterogeneous stock rats” was accepted for publication in Genes & Nutrition.
Authors: Thu Le, Teresa McGee, Osborne Seshie, Trangdai Bui, Gina Giorgio, Angela Beeson, Swapan K. Das, Benjamin B. Johnson, Gracie Ang, Oksana Polesskaya, Abraham A. Palmer, William Valdar, Richard Mott, Leah C. Solberg Woods
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Genes & Nutrition, 2026, in press
The manuscript titled “Genetic Loci Influencing Sex-Specific Social Reinforcement in Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
Authors: Dale R. Federico, Keita Ishiwari, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Connor Martin, Christian R. Bruno, Apurva S. Chitre, Christopher P. King, Beverly F. Peng, Benjamin B. Johnson, Bonnie Lin, Celine L. St. Pierre, Elaine Keung, Gavrila Ang, Hannah Bimschleger, Katarina Cohen, Kendra Shae Ziegler, Khai-Minh H. Nguyen, Riyan Cheng, Yizhi Wang, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Jerry B. Richards, Suzanne H. Mitchell, Oksana Polesskaya, Abraham A. Palmer, Paul J. Meyer, David M. Dietz
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Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2026, in press
The manuscript titled “Aberrant recursive splicing in a human disease locus” was accepted for publication in Cell Reports.
Authors: Boone PM, Harripaul R, Yadav R, Grzybowski M, Hanafy MK, Lee AC, Choi EY, Collins RL, Polesskaya O, Makhortova N, Larson MO, Kayir H, Wang Y*, Avila RA, Frie JA, Eed A, Albeely AM, Vemuri S, Ayoub SM, Lemanski JM, Ben-Isvy D, Zhao X, Sanchis-Juan A, Handley M, Erdin S, de Esch C, Mohajeri K, Chen C, Gonzalez Tovar P, Salani M, Moyses-Oliveira M, Tai DJC, Currall B, McGraw C, Slaugenhaupt S, Doan R, Gao D, Gusella JF, Sanchez-Roige S*, Young JW, Khokhar JY, Geurts AM, Palmer AA, Talkowski ME
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Cell Reports, 2026, in press
Dr. Daniel Munro, Assistant Project Scientist at Palmer Lab, was awarded a Pilot Grant for his project titled “Mapping Protein Quantitative Trait Loci in the Heterogeneous Stock Rat Brain to Identify Causal Genes at Substance Use Disorder GWAS Loci.” The Pilot Grant project was selected for support by the Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center, and it is directly aligned … Read more…