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8:00am Symposium 1: Weaving Together the Strands: Cross-Species Insights into the Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Early Adversity Location: Ratu Makutu Event Centre Chair: Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira Chair: Tracy Bale
Translational methods to capture PTSD-related phenotypes in humans with trauma and PTSD
Tanja Jovanovic
Wayne State University
Mechanisms linking early adversity experience with fear and sensory system programming
Tracy Bale
University of Colorado Anschutz
ADHD and the Hidden Complexity Behind Contrasting Environments
Diego Rovaris
University of São Paulo
Epigenetic Impact of Trauma and Cocaine Use Disorder: Evidence from a Human Cohort
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira
Aarhus University
10:00am Tea/E-Poster Session 1 Location: Veranda
Operant set-shifting in mouse lines selectively bred for ethanol preference
Cheryl Reed
Oregon Health & Science University
Investigating the Role of Drosophila Dorsal Paired Medial (DPM) Neurons in Alcohol-Reward Memory.
Kristin Scalpen
Bryant University
10:30am Keynote Address: Professor Barry Dickson Location: Ratu Makutu Event Centre Chair: Timothy Bredy
Wired for sex: How the mating instinct is programmed into a fly’s brain
Barry Dickson
Queensland Brain Institute
11:30am Data Blitz 1 Location: Ratu Makutu Event Centre Chair: André Lucas Silva Borges
Effects of Chronic Unpredictable Stress on Dopamine: Stimulated Release, Half-life, and Auto receptor functioning in C57BL/6J and DBA2/J mice.
Melloni Cook
University of Memphis
Differential striatal gene expression profiles underlying the propensity for depressionlike behaviour in a mouse model of vertical sleeve
Renee Papaluca
University of Melbourne
A possible mechanism to link HTR1B genotype with the callous-unemotional phenotype.
Caroline Moul
University of Sydney
The role of context dependant cis-regulatory elements in disease: an intronic region of BDNF gene involved in the modulation of mood and anxiety.
Andrew Mcewan
University of Aberdeen
Effects of chronic ethanol exposure on proteolytic processing of the perineuronal net protein brevican and role for brevican in aversion-resistant ethanol consumption
Jonathas Almeida
Virginia Commonwealth University
Overexpression of OTX2 in Human Neural Cells Links Depression Risk Genes
Cathy Barr
Krembil Research Institute
Knockout of the Histone Chaperone Anp32e Alters H2A.Z Distribution, Gene Expression, and Adult Behavior
Sandra Youssef
University of Ottawa
Genetic Influences on the Metabolism of Orally Administered Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in the Mouse
Winona Booher
University of Colorado Boulder
Endocannabinoids system and alcohol effects across lifespan
Emmanuel Onaivi
William Paterson University
12:00pm Lunch Location: Veranda
1:00pm Open
3:00pm Symposium 2: RNA Modifications: Implications for Brain Function and Behavior Location: Ratu Makutu Event Centre Chair: Ina Anreiter
Epitranscriptomic regulation of feeding behaviour in Drosophila Melanogaster
Ina Anreiter
University of Toronto
Deciphering the roles of m6A and YTHDF proteins in synaptic function and plasticity
Mathieu Flamand
Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval
CircRNA-derived micropeptides at the synapse: a new mechanism of plasticity and memory?
Tim Bredy
University of Queensland
RNA modulation in brain disorders
Yanhong Shi
City of Hope
5:00pm Tea/E-Poster Session 2 Location: Veranda
E-Poster: Differential striatal gene expression profiles underlying the propensity for depressionlike behaviour in a mouse model of vertical sleeve
Renee Papaluca
University of Melbourne
E-Poster: Endocannabinoids system and alcohol effects across lifespan
Emmanuel Ovaivi
William Paterson University
5:30pm Selected Talks 1 Location: Ratu Makutu Event Centre Chair: Andrew Mcewan
GWAS of Neuroimaging Derived Subtypes of Alcohol Use Disorder
Alexander Hatoum
Washington University School of Medicine
Genetic basis of paclitaxel-induced mechanical and cold hypersensitivity in a C57BL/6 reduced complexity cross
Will Lynch
Boston University
Phenomic Characterization of C. elegans orthologs of Parkinson’s Disease-Associated Genes
Catharine Rankin
University of British Columbia
A female-specific role for cortical Eph receptors in depression
Melissa Perreault
University of Guelph
6:30pm Data Blitz 2 Location: Ratu Makutu Event Centre Chair: Olivia Wiliams
The autism-linked gene ap2s1 modulates acoustically-evoked habituation learning and behavior selection by regulating excitatory drive on hindbrain command neurons
Roshan Jain
Haverford College
Immp2l gene knockdown in mice increases stimulus-driven instrumental behaviour but does not alter goal-directed learning in a model of Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder
Teri Furlong
University of New South Wales
Do genetic predictors of poor mental health capture biological or environmental factors in humans?
Anna Dearman
University of Essex
Distinct prefrontal cortex neuronal ensembles bidirectionally regulate heroin seeking
Jamie Peters
University of Alabama at Birmingham
A Novel Approach for Targeting Brain Long Non-Coding RNA to Influence Behaviour
Kelly Clemens
University of New South Wales
Effects of chemogenetic activation of hypothalamic oxytocin neurons on alcohol self-administration in male and female mice
Sam Gottlieb
Medical University of South Carolina
A Single-Cell Atlas of Gene Expression and Chromatin Accessibility in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Reveals Molecular Signatures of Oxycodone Addiction
Francesca Telese
University of California San Diego
State-dependent properties of co-transmitting neurons
Lewis Sherer
Brown University
LAGS+ an LAGS- two new mouse models based on bidirectional genetic selection to identify death-induced genes in epilepsy
Benoit Martin
Université de Rennes INSERM
2. Activity-based anorexia (ABA) in rats: How reward value “drives the wheel”
Kaixin Huang
Monash Univesity
7:00pm Dinner/Resort Restaurants Location: Dinner Resort Restaurants
