Breakfast

8:00 am

Opening Remarks

8:45 am

Rebecca Cunningham, PhD

University President

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

8:55 am

Mark Thomas, PhD

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Scientific Director of the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction

Director of the Center for Neural Circuits in Addiction

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Session I - Basic Science

9:00 am

Evaluating and Learning from Rewards

Patricia Janak, PhD

Johns Hopkins University

9:35 am

Agmatine-Based Pharmacological and Gene Therapeutic Strategies for Reducing Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction

Carolyn Fairbanks, PhD

Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics

Associate Dean for Research, College of Pharmacy

Medical Discovery Team on Addiction

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

10:10 am

Incubation of Cocaine Craving: A Homeostatic Plasticity Hypothesis

Marina E. Wolf, PhD

Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Session II - Posters 

10:40 am - 1:00 pm

Lunch

12:00 pm - 1:25 pm

Session III - Translational/Clinical Science

1:30 pm

Substance Use Disorders - Genes for Drugs and Drugs from Genes

Arpana Agrawal, PhD

Professor (with tenure)

Department of Psychiatry

Washington University in St Louis

School of Medicine (WUSM)

2:05 pm

Neuroscience Informed Innovations in Addiction Prevention and Treatment

Hamed Ekhtiari, PhD, MD

Resident Physician-Scientist

Medical Discovery Team on Addiction

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

2:40 pm

Neural Circuit Alterations in Cannabis Use Disorder

Francesca Filbey, PhD

Professor, Cognition and Neuroscience

Bert Moore Chair in BrainHealth

The University of Texas at Dallas

20 Minute Break

3:10 - 3:30 pm

Keynote Address

3:35 pm

Novel Results and Directions in the Neuroscience of Human Drug Addiction

Rita Z. Goldstein, PhD

Professor, Neuroimaging of Addiction

Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience

Chief, Neuropsychoimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions (NARC) Research Program

Icahn School of Medicine

Mount Sinai

Concluding Remarks & Poster Prize Awards

4:35 pm

Mark Thomas, PhD

Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Scientific Director of the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction

Director of the Center for Neural Circuits in Addiction

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Adjourn

5:00 pm