Dr. Daniel Munro, Assistant Project Scientist at Palmer Lab, was awarded a Pilot Grant for his project titled “Mapping Protein Quantitative Trait Loci in the Heterogeneous Stock Rat Brain to Identify Causal Genes at Substance Use Disorder GWAS Loci.” The Pilot Grant project was selected for support by the Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center, and it is directly aligned … Read more…
The manuscript titled “Genome-wide association study of cocaine self-administration behavior in Heterogeneous Stock rats” was accepted for publication in Nature Communications.
Authors: Montana Kay Lara, Lieselot L. G. Carrette, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Oksana Polesskaya, Alicia Avelar, Angela Beeson, Hassiba Beldjoud, Brent Boomhower, Molly Brennan, Denghui Chen, Riyan Cheng, Lindsey China, Apurva S. Chitre, Dana Elizabeth Conlisk, McKenzie Fannon, Benjamin B. Johnson, Elaine Keung*, Adam Kimbrough, Jenni Kononoff, Angelica Renee Martinez, Lisa Maturin, Khai-Minh Nguyen*, Alex Morgan, Joseph Mosquera, Dyar Othman, Sonja L. Plasil, Jarryd Ramborger, Paul Schweitzer, Sharona Sedighim, Osborne Seshie, Kokila Shankar, Benjamin Sichel, Sierra Simpson, Lauren Cassandra Smith, Elizabeth A. Sneddon, Lani Tieu, Nathan Velarde, Selene Zahedi, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Marsida Kallupi, Giordano de Guglielmo, Abraham A. Palmer, Olivier George
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Nature Communications, 2026, in press (online ahead of print)
A new U01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was awarded to Dr. Pejman Mohammadi and Dr. Abraham Palmer.
The grant is titled “Deep Analysis of Transcriptome to Understand the Genetics of Substance Use Disorders in Rats” (U01DA060443) and it will start July 1, 2025 and end on March 31, 2030.
The manuscript titled “Genome-wide association study reveals multiple loci for nociception and opioid consumption behaviors associated with heroin vulnerability in outbred rats” was accepted in Molecular Psychiatry.
Authors: Brittany N. Kuhn, Nazzareno Cannella, Apurva S. Chitre, Khai-Minh H. Nguyen, Katarina Cohen, Denghui Chen, Beverly Peng, Kendra S. Ziegler, Bonnie Lin, Benjamin B. Johnson, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Ayteria D. Crow, Veronica Lunerti, Arkobrato Gupta, Eric Dereschewitz, Laura Soverchia, Jordan L. Hopkins, Analyse T. Roberts, Massimo Ubaldi, Sarah Abdulmalek, Analia Kinen, Gary Hardiman, Dongjun Chung, Oksana Polesskaya, Leah C. Solberg Woods, Roberto Ciccocioppo, Peter W. Kalivas, and Abraham A. Palmer
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