Our goal is to empower researchers to analyze the interwoven roles of genetic, epigenetic & environmental variation on drug abuse risk, relapse, and treatment.
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NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
In mammals, the size of the neocortex is highly variable relative to the thalamus - anywhere from 5x to 50x. Tons of size-associated and lineage variation, including "neocorticalization" in primates. From Halley & Krubitzer (2019), link below.
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
Research shows more than 70,000 Tennesseans currently suffer from opioid use disorder. Further, it’s estimated 115 people die in the U.S. each day from accidental overdose. Substance use disorder also comes at an economic cost- estimated at more than $2 billion for the state.
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
Looking to teach #teens the dangers of vaping? This interactive from NIDA and @Scholastic can help.
loom.ly/WqVanA8
#NIDAteens #DistanceLearning
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
🎥 WATCH: Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA, answers common questions about #drugs, #addiction, the health effects of different types of drugs, and where to get help. loom.ly/8vAPTLM
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
to honor their rosy promises which has produced the fantastic and evil system against which we are now fighting for our lives and for the survival of anything that can be called civilization.”
A painful reminder 80 years later.
@rwalker1501 @GretaThunberg @ChomskyDotInfo
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
The preface to Julian Huxley’s The Uniqueness of Man (1941) will resonant with all of us today. “…economic and mechanistic ideals of the great era of laisser-faire no longer either satisfy or convince. Indeed it is man’s despair at there complete failure…
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
Summer internship openings working in the area of biostatistics, statistical genetics, genomics with Prof Saunak Sen and colleagues at UTHSC. Lots of flexibility—
@saunaksen @pjotrprins @robwilliamsiii @LauraSaba1 @Ilovepigenetics @kwbroman @DavidAshbrook @haomself
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
@OPARProject Rob Williams will be managing the OPAR NIDA P30 Twitter account starting soon (@robwilliamsiii )
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
There is still time to register for Gregory Farage and @saunaksen's webinar "Become a UseR: A brief tour of R" on Friday at 10 am PST/1 pm EST. Registration is free bit.ly/osga_2021-03-12
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
Everything you've always wanted to know
(but were afraid to ask) about GWAS and fine mapping in HS rats.
register today! bit.ly/osga_2021-02-26
thanks to @LauraSaba1 for the invitation and online venue
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
@saunaksen will be presenting on "Sex as a Biological Covariate in QTL Studies" at our OSGA webinar THIS Friday.
Registration is required. bit.ly/osga_2020-09-11
Video of webinar will be made available at: bit.ly/osga_YouTube
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
See previous webinars from the Quantitative Genetics Tools for Mapping Trait Variation to Mechanisms, Therapeutics, and Interventions Webinar Series are now on the NIDA Center for Omics, Systems Genetics, and the Addictome's YouTube Channel bit.ly/osga_YouTube
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
OSGA Webinar 2 – Friday 5/22 10am PDT/1pm EDT - Mapping Addiction and Behavioral Traits and Getting at Causal Gene Variants with GeneNetwork. Series Info: opar.io/webinar_series_1.htm…
- Registration: bit.ly/osga_2020-05-22
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
The CTC-Rat Genome meeting that had been scheduled for September 2020 has been postponed until June 2021. It will still be held in Manchester, UK.
complextrait.org/ctc2020/
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
Available now. New downloads including normalized HRDP v5 gene/transcript values, Ensembl v96 gene/transcript values, and genome markers for supported strains. Also a new genome browser feature, you can create a new custom view easily by selecting tissues and tracks of interest.
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
STATTRAK | Many statisticians in American academic institutions have “soft money” appointments funded by a mutable portfolio of research grants. @saunaksen
shares a few principles for estimating percent effort #collaborator #consulting stattrak.amstat.org/2020/02/…
NIDA Center in Omics Systems Genetics & Addictome retweeted
Check back 1/11 for the next major update to PhenoGen. It will include HRDP v5 with the addition of the F344/Stm and LE/Stm strains. We are also building new cirRNA tracks to include Heart cirRNA array data and predicted cirRNA in Brain/Heart/Liver using multiple tools.