The manuscript titled “Fifteen years of the Diversity Outbred mouse model: a review” was accepted for publication in Mammalian Genome.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Drs. Zachary Tatom and Abraham Palmer.
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The manuscript titled “Large-Scale Behavioral Characterization of Oxycodone Self-Administration in Heterogeneous Stock Rats Reveals Initial Analgesic Effects are Associated with Addiction-Like Behaviors” was accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Apurva Chitre, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.
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Jai is a rotating first year PhD student from the UCSD Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program who joined the Palmer Lab in January 2026.
Welcome, Jai!
Palmer Lab members enjoyed time together at the annual holiday party on December 18, 2025. Food, fun…and rats!
Abraham Palmer is one of the authors for the manuscript titled “Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype-phenotype map through new experimental paradigms.”
The 11th annual retreat for the NIDA Center of Excellence for Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders in Outbred Rats was held on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at the University of California San Diego.
Thank you to all who attended in person and remotely, and thank you to the session speakers and poster presenters! We hope you found the talks and discussions informative and made connections with new HS rats colleagues.
Palmer Lab members attended SfN/Neuroscience 2025 at the San Diego Convention Center, November 16 – 19 2025.
Did you visit us at the RATTACA booth to support the HS rats P30 center?
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.
Palmer Lab members Dr. Palmer, Dr. Oksana Polesskaya, Dr. Thiago Sanches, Dr. Montana Lara, Dr. Zachary Tatom, and Apurva Chitre attended and presented in person.
See the CTC 2025 photo album!
The manuscript titled “Genetic architecture and mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions from a multi-cohort analysis of outbred laboratory rats” was published in Nature Communications. (updated 12/18/25)
Authors include current Palmer Lab members: Denghui Chen, Apurva Chitre, Benjamin Johnson, Thiago Missfeldt Sanches, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.
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The manuscript titled “Sex-specific transcriptional signatures of oxycodone persist during withdrawal and abstinence in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of heterogeneous stock rats” was accepted in Addiction Neuroscience.
Authors: Tara C. Delorme, Snehal Sambare, Benjamin R. Williams, Mackenzie C. Gamble, Lieselot L.G. Carrette, Leah C Solberg Woods, Lisa Maturin, Abraham A. Palmer, Olivier George, Ryan W. Logan
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