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!
18th Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community ran virtually September 1-3, 2021. Many HS rats researchers joined this meeting. List of talks on HS rats at CTC-2021: Munro Daniel, University of California San Diego, USA; Title: Identification of regulatory landscape in multiple brain regions of outbred heterogeneous … Read more…
Dr. Palmer and Dr. Leah Solberg Woods presented at the Quantitative Genomics for Space Biology Workshop on May 26, 2021. Exploration of deep space by humans requires a better understanding of how multiple environmental factors encountered during spaceflight (e.g., radiation, microgravity, altered atmospheric composition) impact biological systems including astronauts, plants, and relevant microbiomes. The goal … Read more…
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.
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…
4th Brain Awareness Day gathered 100+ high school students, teachers and other guests. Brain Awareness Day was supported in part by NIDA Center for GWAS in Outbred Rats. Oksana Polesskaya, PhD., Scientific Coordinator, presented overview of Center’s research. Nicholas Grahame, Ph.D., Eva E. Redei, Ph.D., and Erik Jorgensen, Ph.D. delivered lectures on topics related to brain … Read more…
Twenty three Center members and 10 Advisory Board members came to Chicago to hear reports and discuss progress and future directions. Visit meeting page for details.
A workshop on advanced methods in statistical genetics will be held in Boulder, Colorado, March 2nd to 6th, 2015. This workshop is intended for advanced students of statistical genetics who are interested in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The local host is Dr. John K. Hewitt, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado. Dr. Benjamin Neale, … Read more…