Breakfast

8:00 am

Opening Remarks

8:45 am

Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, FACS

Interim Dean of the Medical School

Interim Executive Vice President for Health Affairs

University of Minnesota

9:00 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

9:15 am

Cortical Opioids: Top-Down Regulation of Affect, Motivation, and Cognition

Daniel Castro, PhD

Washington University in St. Louis

9:50 am

From Diabetes to Addiction: Evaluating Metformin as a Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

Sade Spencer, PhD

Medical Discovery Team on Addiction

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

10:25 am

Targeting Brain Circuits in Addiction: Toward Personalized and Adaptive Neuromodulation

Ghazaleh Soleimani, PhD

MDTA Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

Session II - Posters 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Lunch

12:00 pm - 1:25 pm

Session III - Translational/Clinical Science

1:30 pm

Acute Alcohol Effects on the Functional Neural Correlates of Pain Processing

Jeff Boissoneault, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

Medical Discovery Team on Addiction

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

2:10 pm

Cortical Opioids: Top-Down Regulation of Affect, Motivation, and Cognition

Jodi Gilman, PhD

Harvard Medical School

20 Minute Break

2:45 - 3:00 pm

Keynote Address

3:00 pm

From a D3 Odyssey to Polypharmacology

Amy Hauck Newman

National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA)

Concluding Remarks & Poster Prize Awards

4:00 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

4:30 pm