Oksana Polesskaya Congratulations to the 2019 Pilot Grants recipients: Francesca Telese, PhD (University of California – San Diego). Project: “Studying cell type-specific gene expression in the addicted brain of HS rats”. Jonathan Sebat, PhD (University of California – San Diego). Project: “Structural variation in HS rat genome”. Hao Chen, PhD (University of Tennessee Health Science Center). Project: … Read more…
The NIDA Center for Genetic Studies of Drug Abuse in Outbred Rats (P50 DA037844) has been renewed. We are looking forward for the 5 more years of productive scientific research!
Daniel Liu (participant in 2017 REHU program) published paper inspired by his work in Palmer lab: Liu D. 2019. Fuzzysplit: demultiplexing and trimming sequenced DNA with a declarative language. PeerJ 7:e7170 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7170
Congratulations to Colton Sleister for winning Barry Goldwater Scholarship! The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was established by Congress in 1986 to serve as a living memorial to honor the lifetime work of Senator Barry Goldwater, who served his country for 56 years as a soldier and statesman, including 30 years in the … Read more…
The last batch of rats has been tested for behaviors in January 2019. Now phenpotyping s completed; total number of rats is 5,786 (this number includes TN breeders, naive rats for RNA samples and rats used for pilot on the role of enrichment).