Agenda

Opening Remarks and Introduction

Introduction:

Shang-Yi Anne Tsai, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Opening Remarks:

Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director, NIDA

George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award Lecture

Scientific Session I: Across Scales and Substances: Mechanisms, Computational Models, and Trajectories

Organizers:

Shailesh Kumar, Ph.D., NIAAA

Dominique Lorang-Leins, Ph.D., NIAAA

Jessica Mollick, Ph.D., NIDA

Kiran Vemuri, Ph.D., NIDA

Chair:

Silvia Lopez-Guzman, M.D., Ph.D., NIMH (Primary), NIDA (Adjunct)

Speakers:

Xiaosi Gu, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine

Ryan Smith, Ph.D., Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Elizabeth Goldfarb, Ph.D., Yale University

Qingyu Zhao, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medicine

Early Career Investigator Showcase (ECIS)

Chair:

Dominique Lorang-Leins, Ph.D., NIAAA

Speakers:

Gabor Egervari, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis: Metabolic-Epigenetic Mechanisms Related to Alcohol Exposure

Victoria Macht, Ph.D., University of North Carolina Wilmington: Newborn Neurons, From Death to Dysfunction: How Adolescent Binge Ethanol Remodels the Adult Hippocampus

Kauê Costa, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham: Orbitofrontal Inactivation and Cocaine Self-Administration Impair Model-Based Credit Assignment

Nathan Nakatsuka, M.D., Ph.D., NYU Grossman School of Medicine: Widespread Synaptic Alterations in Long-Term Oxycodone Intake as Revealed by Whole-Brain Single-Nuclear Transcriptomics

Jennifer Kim, Ph.D., Lieber Institute for Brain Development: Characterization of Opioid-Induced Gene Expression in Discrete Habenula Cell Types and Projection Neurons

Scientific Session II: Modulating the Addicted Brain: New Frontiers in Treatment

Organizers:

Jana Drgonova, Ph.D., NIDA

Katrina Foster, Ph.D., NIDA

Speakers:

Huiliang (Evan) Wang, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Claudia Beatriz Padula, Ph.D., Stanford University

Mary L. Phillips, M.D., University of Pittsburgh

Scientific Session III: New Resources and Toolkits from the BRAIN Initiative for the Addiction Neuroscience Research Community

Organizer:

Olivier Berton, Ph.D., NIDA

Speakers:

Bosiljka Tasic, Ph.D., Allen Institute

Michael Tadross, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University

William R. Stauffer, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Closing Remarks