Congratulations to the 2024 Pilot Grants recipients: Olivier George, PhD (University California – San Diego).Project: Role of Ces1 genes in cocaine metabolism and SUD. Samantha Ayoub, PhD (University California – San Diego).Project: Testing the impact of acute, chronic, and withdrawal of THC & CBD on sensorimotor gating in HS rats. Marsida Kallupi, PhD (University California – San Diego).Project: Investigating Synaptic Mechanisms … Read more…
The manuscript titled “Environmental enrichment promotes adaptive responding during tests of behavioral regulation in male heterogeneous stock rats” was accepted in Scientific Reports.
The 100th generation of HS rats have begun to be born on Nov 8, 2023
Congratulations to the 2023 Pilot Grants recipient: Paul Meyer, PhD (University at Buffalo).Project: “The effects of teneurin-4 c-terminal associated peptide (TCAP-4) on addiction-related behaviors”.
The Palmer lab will be running a booth at Society of Neuroscience (SFN) 2022. This convention will be held at the San Diego Convention Center from Nov 12 – Nov 16th . Our booth is located in Hall B, (Booth #3229), and will be featuring our new Rattaca project. We hope to see you there!
Congratulations to the 2022 Pilot Grants recipients: Philip Boone, MD, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital).Project: “Generating a rat model of Cadm2 intronic recursive splice site deletion”. Brittany Kuhn, PhD (Medical University of South Carolina).Project: “NAcc D1/D2-MSN functional plasticity and morphology in heroin vulnerable and resilient rats”. Marsida Kallupi, PhD (University of California – San Diego).Project: “Characterization of addiction-like behaviors … Read more…
The manuscript, “Genome-wide association study on three behaviors tested in an open field in heterogeneous stock rats identifies multiple loci implicated in psychiatric disorders”, was accepted for publication in Frontiers Psychiatry. Mustafa Hakan Gunturkun, Tengfei Wang, Apurva S. Chitre, Angel Garcia Martinez, Katie Holl, Celine St. Pierre, Hannah Bimschleger, Jianjun Gao, Riyan Cheng, Oksana Polesskaya, … Read more…
Christopher King started on a T32 training grant (Research Training on Alcohol Etiology and Treatment: T32AA007583) with the University at Buffalo Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions. The training grant focuses on alcohol use etiology and mechanisms in humans and preclinical settings. Program details Congratulations to Chris!
First version of shinyapp to access HS rats database hosted on the cloud
