2025 Meeting of the Complex Trait Community – Rodent Genomics

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community (CTC) was held October 21 to 24, 2025 at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with the Rat Genomics Community. See program details here! The conference was organized by Amelie Baud, Centre for Genomic Regulation at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park; Evan Williams, University of … Read more…

Dr. Palmer gives talk at the NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Meeting

Dr. Abraham Palmer gave a talk titled “Genetic evidence supports a relationship between locomotor activity in a novel environment in rodents a human externalizing behavior” at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) annual team meeting for Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research on September 11, 2025 at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, MD.

His talk was during the session titled “Harnessing Model Organism Genetics and Genomics in the Understanding the Role of Human Genetic Variation in SUDs,” which he co-chaired with Dr. Elissa Chesler.

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Xia Yang, Danielle Dick, Abraham Palmer, Elissa Chesler, and Marianne Seney

The 2021 Complex Trait Consortium (CTC) meeting was held virtually from Manchester, UK from September 1-3, 2021.

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…