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).
Manuscript “Incentive salience attribution, “sensation-seeking” and “novelty-seeking” are independent traits in a large sample of male and female heterogeneous stock rats” by Alesa Hughson, Aidan Horvath, Katie Holl, Abraham Palmer, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Terry Robinson, and Shelly Flagel has been accepted for publication to the Scientific Reports. Congatulations, Alesa and Aidan!
Dr. Palmer’s talk at IROC section (International Rat Omics Consortium) went well. He showed what have been accomplished with the P50. The group also discussed sequencing of inbred rat strains and more generally how to defend/advance the use of rats for research. Dr. Palmer also presented a poster highlighting P50 goals and results.
Dr. Monica Jablonski (Department of Ophthalmology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center) received R01EY021200 from the National Eye Institute to study glaucoma-related traits in HS rats, titled “Genetic Modulators of Glaucoma.” Dr. Jablonski has been collaborating with the P50 Center; she received eyes from HS rats. This grant … Read more…
Apurva Chitre (Research Project 4) presented poster “Genetic analysis of multiple measures of locomotor activity in 2,325 outbred heterogeneous stock rats”: Dr. Keita Ishiwari (Research Project 3) presented poster “Effects of environmental enrichment on behavioral measures of behavioral regulation in heterogeneous stock rats”: Connor Martin (Research Project 3) presented poster “Genome-wide association study of behavioral … Read more…
Project Number: 1 U01 DA 045300 Dates: 4/1/18 – 3/31/23 Source: NIH/NIDA Title: The Genetic Basis of Opioid Dependence Vulnerablility in a Rodent Model Goal Statement: This project will employ advanced behavioral models and an integrated high throughput genomics approach to examine outbred rats for vulnerability or resistance to the development of compulsive opiate self-administration. … Read more…
Manuscript “Neurogenetic Determinants and Mechanisms of Addiction to Nicotine and Smoked Tobacco” by B. Sharp H. Chen is accepted for publication to the European Journal of Neuroscience on Sept 18, 2018.
Suzanne Mitchell received U01DA046077, to work with HS rats, in collaboration with Dr. Palmer. The title is ““IDENTIFICATION OF GENETIC FEATURES OF DELAY DISCOUNTING USING A HETEROGENEOUS STOCK RAT MODEL”