IBNS 19th Annual Meeting
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June 8-13, 2010 Tanka Village Resort Villasimius, Sardinia Italy |
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The major goal of the meeting is to bring together scientists whose interests are in the broad area of understanding the neural control of behavior. We cordially invite members and nonmembers alike to attend our Annual Meeting.
The program will include plenary lectures, oral communications, and poster sessions. Topics will focus on a number of themes including, but not limited to: Learning, Memory, and Neuronal Plasticity; Ingestive Behavior; Drugs of Abuse and Psychopharmacology; Behavioral Endocrinology; Behavioral Genetics; and Psychoneuroimmunology.
Program
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Keynote Speakers
Giovanni Biggio, Ph.D., University of
Cagliari, Italy Presidential Invited Address Michael Merzenich, Ph.D., University of
California at San Francisco IBNS Workshop Diane M. Witt, Ph.D., Program Director,
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA Special Symposia Please note this is a
preliminary list of symposia that will be highlighted at the meeting, THE ROLE OF THE BASAL GANGLIA IN LEARNING AND MEMORY.
Chairperson: Claudio Da Cunha Rui Costa,
Ph.D., Instituto
Philip Winn,
Ph.D.,
Massimiliano Di Filippo,
Ph.D., Clinica Neurologica, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy and IRCSS
Fondazione S Lucia, Rome, Italy Claudio Da Cunha,
Ph.D.,
FAMILIAL PATTERNS IN SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS: HOW
MATERNAL PHENOTYPE INFLUENCES VULNERABILITY TO FUTURE DRUG USE.
Chairpersons:
Josephine Johns and Elizabeth Byrnes Josephine Johns,
Ph.D., UNC-School of Medicine-Chapel Hill, NC, Elizabeth Byrnes,
Ph.D., Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North
Grafton, MA, USA Rina Eiden,
Ph.D., Research Institute on Addictions, State Dario Maestripieri,
Ph.D., Institute for Mind and Biology, Linda Mayes,
M.D., Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA EARLY ENVIRONMENT SHAPES ADULT MENTAL DISORDERS: ANIMAL
MODELS. Chairperson:
Mikhail V. Pletnikov and Co-chairperson:
Paul H. Patterson
Stefania Maccari,
Ph.D.,
North Lille University of France, Villeneuve d’Ascq,
Paul H. Patterson,
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology,
Francesca Cirulli,
Ph.D., Istituto Superiore Di Sanita,
Mikhail V. Pletnikov,
MD; Ph.D., NEUROSTEROIDS IN THE TREATMENT OF BRAIN INJURY, STROKE
AND NEURODEGENERATIVE MOTOR DISORDERS:
MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES.
Chairperson: Donald G. Stein Roberto Melcangi,
Ph.D., University of Milano, Milano, Italy Cheryl Frye, Ph.D., University at
Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY, USA Luis Garcia-Segura,
Ph.D., Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Allesandro De Nicola,
Ph.D., Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental-CONICET, Obligado,
Buenos Aires, Argentina Donald Stein,
Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Rachida Guennoun,
Ph.D., UMR 788 Inserm, Bicêtre, France
NATURAL INTER-INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR TO EXPLORE COGNITIVE
PROCESSES. Chairperson: Françoise Dellu-Hagedorn Louis D. Matzel, Ph.D., Rutgers
University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Neurosteroid modulation of GABAA receptor plasticity: Physiological and
pharmacological conditions
Nicola S. Clayton, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK
Development and evolution of mental time travel
Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, NIMH, USA
Crossing the translational bridge: From behavioral neuroscience to
public health
Brain plasticity-based therapeutics
additional symposia will be announced shortly.
Please check back for updates.
Learning, memory and striatal synaptic plasticity in physiological and
pathological conditions
he mosaic of Broken Mirrors Model
Cocaine’s effects on mother and infant
phenotypes: Models of intergenerational and translational mechanisms which
may impact offspring vulnerability.
Transgenerational effects of adolescent
opiate use
Maternal cocaine use and mother-infant
interactions: Direct and moderated effects
Maladaptive maternal effects in rhesus
monkeys: Implications for developmental psychopathology
The impact of substance abuse on attachment
related neural circuitry
Epigenetic programming of the stress response in male and female rats by
prenatal restraint stress
Maternal infection: Window
on neuroimmune interactions in fetal brain development and mental illness
Animal models of early life stress:
Searching for the early determinants of adult psychopathology
Prenatal and postnatal adverse events
interplay with genetic predisposition in mental health: DISC1 mouse model
Neuroactive steroids and diabetic neuropathy
Protective
effects of progesterone
Anti-inflammatory actions of estradiol and estrogenic compounds after brain
injury
Molecular and behavioral evidences for progesterone and neurosteroid
protection in motoneuron degeneration
Update on progesterone and its metabolites in TBI and stroke: from the bench
to the bedside
Progesterone in the healthy and injured central nervous system
Genetic and behavioral substrates for “Intelligence” in outbred mice
Andrew R. Conway, Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ, USA
Dissociable neural mechanisms underlying the relationship between
working memory and intelligence in healthy young adults
Françoise Dellu-Hagedorn, Ph.D., Université Bordeaux,
Bordeaux, FRANCE
Inter-individual differences in decision-making in the rat:
relationships with behavioral traits
Carmen Sandi, Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Personality traits in the prediction of performance in learning under
stress
Rachel E. Bowman, Ph.D., Sacred Heart University,
Fairfield, CT, USA
Sex-dependent stress effects on cognitive functioning: why accounting
for sex differences is important
THE UNIQUE EFFECTS OF STRESS DURING ADOLESCENCE. Chairpersons: Giovanni Laviola and Susan L. Andersen
Macrì, S., Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma, ITALY
Neonatal competition for maternal resources alters the ontogeny of
stress-related behavior and neurotrophic factors
Brenhouse, H.C., McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, MA, USA
Misguided development: the effects of early life stress on prelimbic
prefrontal cortex circuitry and working memory in rats
Pryce, C.R., Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Expression of infant stress experiences in adolescent brain and behaviour in
primates
Andersen S.L., McLean Hospital/Harvard
Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA.
Childhood abuse: delayed psychiatric and anatomical effects in humans
Endogenous Opioids and Addiction. Chairperson: Judith E. Grisel
Rafael Maldonado, MD, Ph.D., Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, SPAIN
Involvement of the endogenous opioid system in nicotine addiction
Ildiko Racz, Ph.D., University of Bonn, GERMANY
Endorphin and alcohol: From mouse to human
Judith Grisel, Ph.D., Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA
β-endorphin and negative reinforcement
Nigel Maidment, Ph.D., UCLA, CA, USA
Determinants of desire: dissociable opioid involvement in palatability and
incentive learning
Top-Down Modulation of Prepulse Inhibition of the Startle Reflex in Laboratory Animals. Chairperson: Liang Li
John Yeomans, Ph.D., University of Toronto, CANADA
How midbrain control of prepulse inhibition and startle activation helps
understand forebrain control and prepulse functions
Kiyofumi Yamada, Ph.D., Nagoya University Graduate School
of Medicine, JAPAN
Role of pallidotegmental GABAergic neurons in PPI of the acoustic startle
reflex
Benjamin Yee, Ph.D. and Joram Feldon, Ph.D., Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Is PPI cognitive? What we have learned from a correlative approach?
Caitlin Cleary, Holly Fitch, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, CT, USA
Use of pre-pulse inhibition to assess complex acoustic processing in rodents
Wei Sun, Ph.D., Edward Lobarinas, Ph.D., Daniel Stolzberg, Ph.D.
and Richard Salvi, Ph.D., University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Effects of noise exposure and salicylate on auditory cortex response and
hyperacusis behavior
Liang Li, Ph.D., Peking University, CHINA
Emotional learning enhances stimulus-specific top-down modulation of sensorimotor
gating in socially reared rats but not isolation-reared rats
Understanding the impact of emotional experiences on
brain function: insights from animal and clinical studies.
Chairpersons: Patrizia Campolongo, Ph.D., Sapienza University, Rome, ITALY and
Viviana Trezza, Ph.D., Rudolf Magnus Institute of
Neuroscience, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
(Sponsored by IBRO)
Klaus Miczek, PhD, Tufts University, Medford, CT, USA
Social defeat experiences with enduring impact on BDNF, ERK and
dopamine-mediated behavior.
Benno Roozendaal, Ph.D., University Medical Center
Groningen, Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
Glucocorticoids and the regulation of memory of emotionally arousing
experiences.
Carmen Sandi, Ph.D., Brain Mind Institute, Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Neurobiological and epigenetic mechanisms involved in the impact of
stress on aggression and depression.
Hee-Sup Shin, MD, PhD, Korea Institute of Science and
Technology, Seoul, REPLUBLIC OF KOREA
Observational fear learning in mice is dependent on the affective pain
system and L-type calcium channels in the anterior cingulated cortex.
Viviana Trezza, PhD, Rudolf Magnus Institute of
Neuroscience, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
The playful brain: Insights into social reward mechanisms.
TIME GOES BY: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN EMOTION AND MEMORY.
Chairperson: Antonella Gasbarri and Carlos Tomaz
Antonella Gasbarri, Ph.D., University of L'Aquila,
L'Aquila, ITALY
Working Memory for Emotional Facial Expressions: Role of estrogen.
Carlos Tomaz, Ph.D., University of Brasília, BRAZIL
Emotional Working Memory in Elderly.
Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, Ph.D., La Sapienza University, Rome,
ITALY
Prefrontal /accumbal catecholamine system processes: emotional and
motivational salience.
Mark Packard, Ph.D., Texas A & M University, TX, USA
Emotional modulation of multiple memory systems.
Christa K. McIntyre, Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA
Emotional Modulation of the Synapse
Presidential Symposium will be held prior to the
IBNS annual meeting
on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010,
8:30 am – 1:00 pm
IN SEARCH OF EFFECTIVE ANIMAL MODELS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE. Organizers: Robert Gerlai & Kelly Lambert - Click here for downloadable flyer with complete details.
Immediate-past and current IBNS presidents (Gerlai and Lambert, respectively) have invited six highly recognized leaders in the field of behavioral neuroscience to join them in a pre-meeting Presidential Satellite. The focus of the Satellite is the use of animal models in translational research. The topics have been chosen to span a broad range of brain disorders and behavioral dysfunctions (from stress and anxiety to drug abuse and sleep) as well as behavioral neuroscience techniques (from psychopharmacology to molecular and developmental genetics). The talks (please see next page) are organized around two very different model organisms: rodents and zebrafish. The Presidential Satellite Symposium is open to all participants of the IBNS Annual Conference.
Please register for the Satellite by e-mailing Kelly
Lambert at klambert@rmc.edu.
Registration is free, however, we would like to
encourage the participants to give a $30 donation.
The donation will be applied towards the IBNS Student Travel Award
Fund and will support the participation of students in future conferences of
our Society. You may enter this
donation via the IBNS webpage at
http://www.ibnshomepage.org/IBNSPaymentPage.asp (please bring a receipt
for our records) or on site.
Seats are limited for this event so please email ASAP to reserve a seat—you
should receive a confirmation email within 48 hours.
Session I: Coping with stress: Assessing adaptive and maladaptive responses in rodent models.
8:30 – 8:35
Introduction by
Kelly
Lambert
8:35 - 9: 05
Prehistoric Prozac:
Examining the neurobiological constituents of adaptive coping
strategies and effort-driven reward training in Long-Evans rats.
Kelly Lambert, Dept of Psychology,
9:05
– 9:35
Prenatal
social stress and programmed hypersensitivity to stress in adult offspring:
gender-specific modulation by neuroactive steroids in the rat.
John Russell,
9:35 - 10:05
Coping with social stress: Neurobiology of
behavioral responses to social defeat.
Kim Huhman, Neuroscience
Institute,
10:05 – 10:35
Stress revisited: a critical evaluation of the stress concept
BREAK (15 minutes)
Session II: From
motor function to emotion: Zebrafish, a new tool for Behavioral
Neuroscience,
10:50 – 10:55 Introduction by
Robert Gerlai
10:55 – 11:25
Genetics of neural circuit formation in
zebrafish.
Michael
Granato, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology,
11:25 – 11:55
The circadian clock and responses to
psychostimulants.
Irina V. Zhdanova, Dept. Anatomy
and Neurobiology,
11:55 – 12:25
Genes, neurotransmitters and behavior: Strain
comparison with a focus on alcoholism.
Robert Gerlai, Department of
Psychology,
Special Satellite Meeting - June 7, 2010 - Integrative Neuroscience of Excessive Alcohol Drinking
8:00 Introduction (A. Noronha)
8:30 Session I
Models of Excessive Drinking
Excessive Drinking in a Mouse Model of Ethanol Dependence and Relapse (H. Becker)
Excessive Drinking in a Monkey Model: Risks and Consequences (K. Grant)
Neuroadaptation to Alcohol Exposure in Humans and Animal Models (A. Pfefferbaum)
10:00 Break
10:30 Session II
Cellular/Systems Neuroadaptations of Excessive Drinking
Synaptic Plasticity in the Corticostriatal System: Roles in Habit Formation and Alcohol Addiction (D. Lovinger)
Alcohol Dependence: Neuroadaptations in the Amygdala (M. Roberto)
The Relationship Between Duration of Initial Alcohol Exposure and Persistence of Molecular Tolerance in Striatal Neurons is Markedly Non-Linear (S. Treistman)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Session III
Adaptations in Brain and Endocrine Stress Systems and Excessive Drinking Neuroactive Steroid Adaptations in Chronic Alcohol Consumption (P. Porcu)
Ethanol Modulation of GABA-A Receptor Gene Expression And Function In Socially Isolated Animals (E. Sanna)
Social Stress and Neural Sensitization: Escalated Cocaine Binging, a Model for Alcohol? (K. Miczek)
15:30 Session IV
Genetics and Genomics of Excessive Drinking
Next-Generation Approaches to Discovering the Genes and Gene Networks Associated with Excessive Ethanol Consumption (R. Hitzemann)
Gene Networks Associated with Acute Ethanol Responses and Excessive Drinking: Interactions Across the Mesolimbocortical System (M. Miles)
16:30 Brief Presentations
17:30 Open Discussion
The Program Committee is soliciting abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Abstracts may be prepared on any subject related to the general area of behavioral neuroscience. Both members and nonmembers may submit abstracts. More than one abstract may be submitted by each author. Only abstracts which are submitted electronically will be accepted. Abstracts should be no longer than 1600 characters or approximately 300 words and prepared as a single paragraph and single-spaced. No photos or tables will be accepted with or in the abstracts. Data must be original and not previously published. Additional formatting details are included on the abstract form. (Form will be available online by December 1.)
It is anticipated that more abstracts and requests for oral presentations will be submitted than can be accommodated at this Conference. Therefore, acceptance for presentation and type of presentation will be at the discretion of the Program Committee.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is February 8, 2010.
Oral Presentations: Unless otherwise indicated oral presentations will be 10 minutes in length with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Symposia and keynotes speakers have different guidelines, please contact the Chairperson for your symposia or the Program Committee Chair.
Poster Presentations: Please note
the
poster boards are 2 m height and 1 m width (approx. 6 feet tall and 3 feet
wide). This is not an
error. The boards are tall and thin. Incorrectly sized posters
will not be allowed to be displayed as it will interfere with neighboring
posters. Posters should be hung with non-permanent tacks (no pins or
tape).
Congratulations to the 2010 IBNS Travel Award Recipients - CLICK here for details.
Postdoctoral Student Travel Awards
Dr. Michael Vincent Baratta, MIT,
Graduate Student Travel Awards
Ms. Cindy Kaur Barha,
Presidential Travel Awards
Dr. Leonie de Visser,
Dr. Melanie A. Paquette,
Note:
Presidential Travel Awards are new this year. They serve to recognize young
scholars at early stages of their careers who not only have made an impact
in behavioral neuroscience, but have also significantly contributed to the
success of the Society.
Presidential Travel Awards are funded by donations from the IBNS membership.
| January 15, 2010 | Travel Award Applications Due |
| February 1, 2010 | Notification - Travel Awards |
| February 8, 2010 | Abstract submission deadline |
| April 2, 2010 | Deadline for Exhibitor Registration and Ads |
| May 1, 2010 | Online Registration Ends (On-site registration will be available) |
| May 3, 2010 | Last Day for Registration Refunds |
| May 13, 2010 | Hotel Reservation Deadline |
| May 13, 2010 | Transportation Reservation Deadline (transfer from airport to resort) |
| June 8-13, 2010 | Conference Dates |
GENERAL INFORMATION
Registration rates:
Member Registration - $360
Nonmember Registration - $440
Post Doc Registration - $280
Post Doc Nonmember Registration - $340
Student Member Registration - $205
Student Nonmember Registration - $245
Payments can be made online by clicking here. No refunds will be issued after May 3. Abstract fees are non refundable.
Discounts are now available to IBNS meeting participants on American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Avis Car Rental. Please click here to view details. Restrictions may apply.
Need help with your travel arrangements? Four Seasons Tours is offering IBNS participants a special rate of $35.00 per transaction. Four Seasons Tours has been located in Austin, Texas, for 16 years and issue both corporate, group and individual tickets. They also have a tour company which takes groups to Europe (excellent resource if you are planning a few extra days prior/post meeting). Sonnie Barham, Owner, states that her company values client service and they will do their best to meet the travel needs of the IBNS members. This service is especially useful if there is a problem on a trip as they are often able to resolve problems that cannot be addressed when booking on an online service. Brad Noakes has been assigned to personally assist our group. However, if he is not available you can speak to Eva. Their after hours service can be reached at 1-800-639-8622; use the code 3AX0. Daytime number is 512-328-2483 and the fax is 512-328-3286.
A shuttle bus service will be provided by the Organizing Secretariat from Cagliari’s airport to the Tanka Village Resort (around 60 km) and vice versa for the following days: June 8th and 13th. This service is available only for the participants and the accompanying persons who have previously informed the Organizing Secretariat about their arrival and departure date and time. Transfer fee for one way per person is € 30 VAT included. Buses will be organized depending on the arrival time and the number of the participants. At the airport participants will be welcomed by one of our hostess.
The ground transportation form is set up for the most common arrival and departure dates. PLEASE insert the dates you wish to arrive and depart. Confirmation will be sent with a shuttle schedule later in May. Shuttles will be arranged based on need. If you have any special requirements or requests, please attach a letter with your faxed form. Forms should be faxed to Corsi & Congressi at 39 070 3837102. You may also contact the agency by email at eventi@corsiecongressi.it.
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Tanka Village Resort
Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy
Telephone: +39 070 795403
Fax: +39 070 797135
All participants are requested to stay in the conference hotel and make reservations using the form provided on this website. Be sure to use the group name--IBNS. IBNS has negotiated an extremely competitive room rate which, compared to the high quality of the hotel, is unusually low. The hotel is our conference site and thus it is the most convenient location for attendees. Last, the hotel was chosen after careful consideration of its amenities and services, its location and its features. Therefore, Conference attendees are highly encouraged to book their rooms in this hotel.
Our extremely competitive room rates negotiated with the hotel are dependent upon our guarantee to the hotel to fill a set number of rooms. Therefore, if you chose to book your room in an alternate hotel, we will have to charge you a registration fee increased by $100 to recover the penalties we will incur.
If you would like to share a room to defray expenses, please contact the IBNS Central Office by email.
IBNS Group Rates are 99 Euro per PERSON per room for
double occupancy.
The rate will be 137 Euro for single occupancy.
(E.g. Two people sharing one room will pay 99 Euros each per day. One
person in a room--not sharing will pay 137 Euros per day.) Rates
include full board, buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner at the Oasys
Restaurant, 10% VAT included.
Our group rate may be available for extended stay based on availability.
The form is set up for the most common arrival and departure dates. PLEASE insert the dates you wish to arrive and depart and calculate the fees accordingly. If you have any special requirements or requests, please attach a letter with your faxed form. Forms should be faxed to Corsi & Congressi at 39 070 3837102. You may also contact the agency by email at eventi@corsiecongressi.it.
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Wi fi connection is available at the main reception, the Domus reception,
and in
the conference center. Currently there is no internet connection in
the sleeping rooms. The cost of the service is € 6.00 per 1 hour, € 20.00 5 hours, € 30.00 10
hours.
Due to space restraints and constantly changing guidelines, we are unable to list regulations for the 37 countries represented by the IBNS. Please contact your local government for current regulations.
The IBNS was formed to encourage research and education in the field of behavioral neuroscience. Anyone interested in the mission of the Society is invited to apply for membership. Membership in the IBNS is not required to submit an abstract or attend the annual meeting; however, membership does include discounted registration fees and other benefits.
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