Agenda

2023 CBBRe Symposium Schedule of Events - Day 1

8.30 am                Registration & Breakfast

9.00 am                Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Tim Ridgway, Vice President of Health Affairs and Dean of the Sanford School of Medicine                                          

9.15 am                Talk Title: Genomics of Host-Microbiome Interactions

Dr. Ran Blekhman, University of Chicago, Section of Genetic Medicine

10.15 am             Break

10.30 am             Talk Title: Obese and Addicted to Food: Crosstalk between the Brain and Gut Microbiome

Dr. Arpana Gupta, Co-Director: Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Director: Neuroimaging Core, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

11:30 am             Talk Title: Pupillometry as a Viable Augmentative and Alternative Communication Pathway: A Machine Learning Application

Kouadio Marc-Antoine Niamba

11.45 pm             Questions/Discussion

12.00 pm             Lunch

1.15 pm                Talk Title: Trophic Factor Approach to Cognitive Function

Dr. Samuel Sathyanesan, Professor, Basic Biomedical Sciences, USD

1.45 pm                Talk Title: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Community Engagement

Dr. Michael Koenigs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2.45 pm                Break

3.00 pm                Poster Session & Poster Awards

6.00 pm                Evening Reception & Social

                                                   * CeCe’s Cocktail Lounge, Main Street Vermillion

Schedule of Events - Day 2

8.30 am                Light Breakfast

9.00 am                Talk Title: Risk and Resilience in the Intergenerational Transmission of Stress

Dr. Gerry Giesbrecht, Departments of Paediatrics and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

10.00 am             Talk Title: The Utility of Zebrafish in Characterizing the effect Embryonic Ethanol Exposure has on the Brain and Behavior

Dr. Yohaan Fernandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, USD

10:30 am             Break

10.45 am             Talk Title: Of Microbes and Minds: A Journey through the Autism-Gut Connection
Dr. Calliope Holingue, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Department of Mental Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

11.45 am             Discussion and Poster Viewing

12.00 pm             Lunch

1.00 pm                Talk Title: Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Dietary Fermentable Fibers in a Pickle: A Brew for Liver Cancer

Dr. Matam Vijay-Kumar, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo, Microbiome Consortium

2.00 pm                Talk Title: OTC Hearing Aids: FDA process and Stakeholders

Dr. Lindsey Jorgensen, Chair, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, USD

2.30 pm                Concluding Remarks and Poster Take-Down