Schedule
LOCATION: Medical Education Building, 145 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, Rm 114
8:30 – 10:00 am
Check-In, Breakfast, and Meet & Greet
Medical Education Building, 145 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, Rm 114
LOCATION: Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111
10:00 – 10:15 am
Opening Remarks
Jamie Maguire, PhD
LOCATION: Medical Education Building, 145 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, Rm 114
THEME A: Stress and Addiction
Session Chair – Elizabeth Byrnes, PhD
10:15 – 10:30 am
“Family History Density of Alcohol Use Disorder Moderates Craving Response to the Glucocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Mifepristone”
Nagapratham Rao, Haass-Koffler Lab, Brown University
10:30 – 10:45 am
“An ethanol abstinence state-dependent switch in the role of catecholaminergic PrRP in anxiety and stress coping”
Caitlyn Edwards, PhD, Winder Lab, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
10:45 – 11:15 am
“Stress-induced increases in anxiety-like behavior and alcohol drinking: The role of an amygdala-hypothalamic circuit”
Marcus Weera, PhD, Tufts University
11:15 – 11:45 am
“From Stress and Seeking: The Functional Role of the Basolateral Amygdala Neural Circuits”
Junghyup Suh, PhD, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
11:45 am – 12:15 pm
“Stress Reactivity in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Biomarker of Risk and Treatment Outcome”
Milena Radoman, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Lunch Medical Education Building, 145 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, Rm 114
Lunchtime Spotlight (1:15 – 1:45 pm)
“Multidisciplinary Opioid-Related Research: From Syndemics Theory to Spatiotemporal Predictive Modeling”
Tom Stopka, PhD, Tufts University
LOCATION: Behrakis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111
THEME B: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Addiction
Session Chair – Camron Bryant, PhD
2:00 – 2:15 pm
“Targeting Keratinocyte MOPr in PDGFR-Mediated Peripheral Opioid Tolerance”
Anita Khasnavis, Puig Lab, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
2:15 – 2:30 pm
“A replication study of cocaine reinforcement in spontaneously hypertensive rat substrains: Phenotypic expansion to ultrasonic vocalizations, fentanyl locomotion, transcriptomics, and reciprocal F1 crosses”
Britahny Baskin, PhD, Bryant Lab, Northeastern University
2:30 – 3:00 pm
“Adolescent drinking changes the trajectory of frontolimbic myelination in mice”
Heather Richardson, PhD, UMass Amherst
3:00 – 3:30 pm
“Sleep and circadian rhythm dysfunction in opioid addiction”
Ryan Logan, PhD, UMass Chan Medical School
3:30 – 4:00 pm
“Finding a shared epigenetic regulator of addiction and metabolic traits in mice and humans”
Elissa Chesler, PhD, Jackson Laboratory
4:00 – 4:15 pm
Break
4:15 – 5:15 pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Session Chair – Danny Winder, PhD
“A novel VTA pathway that encodes primary reward and is modulated by nicotine”
Marina Picciotto, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
5:15 – 5:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Marcus Weera, PhD
5:30pm – ?
Happy Hour Social (Optional)
Location TBD