100th generation of HS rats is born!
The 100th generation of HS rats have begun to be born on Nov 8, 2023
2023 pilot grants awarded
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”.
RATTACA booth at SFN2022
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!
2022 pilot grants awarded
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…
Manuscript accepted for publication in Frontiers Psychiatry
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…