• Center for Microbiome Innovation provided seed funds for P50 to study gene-microbiome interaction

The P50 Center’s proposal, titled “Genome-wide mapping of gene-microbiome interaction: implication in behavior”, has been selected for funding by the UC San Diego’s Center for Microbiome Innovation. The purpose of these seed grants is to jump start microbiome research in San Diego and spark new research collaborations.

• HS Rats Pilot Projects 2016

Pilot Studies in HS Outbred Rats Supporting Drug Abuse Research Center of Excellence The NIDA center for GWAS in outbred rats (P50DA037844) focuses on quantitative genetic studies of a range of psychologically complex drug abuse-related phenotypes in outbred rats. In order to broaden the impact of this center and to promote rat genetics studies we … Read more…

• GWAS can be now performed under FOA “The Identification of Gene Variants for Addiction Related Traits by Next-Gen Sequencing in Model Organisms Selectively Bred for Addiction Traits”

The U01 replaces the UH2/UH3 so it has more flexibility and GWAS can now be performed.

“The Identification of Gene Variants for Addiction Related Traits by Next-Gen Sequencing in Model Organisms Selectively Bred for Addiction Traits (UH2/UH3)” FOA and Notice of Change are now published. Please see the links below:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-DA-15-042.html

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-15-120.html