Poster Abstracts

Poster Session A

June 4, 2026 – 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

#	Name	Email	Abstract Title
1	Nana Amissah	nanaamis@buffalo.edu	Polygenic prediction of incentive salience attribution to a reward cue using RATTACA in heterogeneous stock rats
2	Chesna Apere	capere@wi.mit.edu	Modeling Epigenetic Variation linked to Opioid Use Disorder in iPSC-derived Medium Spiny Neurons
3	Benjamina Arthur	barthur4@gmu.edu	Characterization of a new viral Biomolecular Condensate associated with PRC2 complex in HIV-1-infected cells.
4	Ashley Auth	ashley.olson@jax.org	Behavioral and molecular sub-type specific predictors of cocaine self-administration in the Collaborative Cross using permutation based maximum covariance analysis
5	Ryan Bachtell	bachtell@colorado.edu	Voluntary oxycodone self-administration reveals genetic variation in analgesic tolerance and hyperalgesia in rats
6	Robyn Ball	robyn.ball@jax.org	What, Where and How: Decoding Addiction GWAS with Mouse Data Resources
7	Britahny Baskin	b.baskin@northeastern.edu	Near-isogenic Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Substrains Differ in Cocaine and Fentanyl Sensitivity and Self-Administration; Behavioral and QTL Analysis of Gene Expression (RNA, Protein) in an F2 Cross
8	Urja Achal Bhatt	urja22@email.unc.edu	Immunomodulatory effects of THC on the immune cells of people with HIV on ART
9	Edward Browne	epbrowne@email.unc.edu	Impact of Substance Use on Viral Reservoir and Immune Cell Gene Expression in People With HIV on ART
10	Julie Blendy	blendy@pennmedicine.upennb.edu	Impact of neonatal opioid exposure on developmental trajectories of cortical GABAergic cell-types
11	Sarah Brislin	sarah.brislin@rutgers.edu	Family environment moderates the impact of genetic propensity on externalizing behaviors during late childhood and adolescence
12	Lieselot Carrette	lcarrette@health.ucsd.edu	Longitudinal Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Outbred Rats with Variable Vulnerability to the Development of Oxycodone Addiction-like Behaviors
13	Patrick Chen	pbc9@ucla.edu	Identifying genes that mediate the effect of genetic variation on behavioral variation related to substance use disorders
14	Hongmei Chi	hongmei.chi@famu.edu	Investigation of Using Explainable AI to Balance Genetic Discovery and Data Privacy
15	Maia Choi	maia.choi@rutgers.edu	Initial Results from a New Personalized Feedback Program for Addiction Risk Integrating Genomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Risk
16	Natasia Courchesne-Krak	ncourchesne@health.ucsd.edu	Genetic liability for tobacco use disorder predicts adolescent nicotine and cannabis use in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
17	Phoebe Cousens	pcousens@umd.edu	Role of dorsal striatal RASD1, a potential downstream target of HDAC5, in incubation of methamphetamine craving.
18	Richard Crist	crist@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Direct RNAseq reveals postpartum stress isoform and epitranscriptomic changes in BLA
19	Kyle Czarnecki	kyle.czarnecki@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	KMH-0046, A Novel Nr4a1 Agonist, Increases Expression of Downstream Target Genes Over Multiple Doses and Time in-vivo
20	Mingrui Li	mingrui.li@yale.edu	Dynamic Transcriptomic Response Over Time in Immune Cells Reveals Diverse Biological Effects Following Acute THC Administration
21	Eamonn Duffy	ea.duffy@northeastern.edu	Optimization of a translationally relevant mouse model of binge eating and binge drinking comorbidity in outbred stocks of mice
22	Dorzhey Matkhanov	dmatkhanov@unmc.edu	Robust AI single-cell annotation enables cross-species transfer and neuroimmune discovery in HIV/SIV
23	Isaiah Williamson	IWilliamson@som.umaryland.edu	Molecular Characterization of Parabrachial Nucleus after Opioid Exposure and Withdrawal
24	Daniel da Silva	daniel.dasilva@mssm.edu	Orthogonal Transcriptional Programs Distinguish Compulsive from Hedonic Alcohol Drinking: Implications for Addiction Neurobiology
25	Daniel Jacobson	jacobsonda@ornl.gov	Scalable AI-Driven Interpretation of Multiplex Brain Networks: From Mechanistic Modules to Therapeutic Prioritization in Pan-SUDs
26	Wanqiu Chen	wchen@llu.edu	Spatial and Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveal Region-Specific Metabolic and Developmental Reprogramming Following Prenatal E-Cigarette Exposure
27	Matthew Dalva	mdalva@tulane.edu	Seeing the nanoscale organization of synapses to better resolve synaptic function

Poster Session B

June 4, 2026 – 4:00 – 5:30 pm

#	Name	Email	Abstract Title
1	Xiu Fan	xiu.fan@yale.edu	Development of Epigenetic Drift Scores to Study the Impact of HIV and Substance Use on Biological Aging
2	Jonathan Gewirtz	jgewirtz@asu.edu	Repurposing drugs for opioid use disorder (OUD) through multiomics network analysis
3	Megan Hagenauer	hagenaue@umich.edu	Using spatial transcriptomics to characterize the effects of cocaine self-administration on brain gene expression in a selectively bred rat model of individual vulnerability to psychiatric disorders and drug addiction
4	Peter Hamilton	peter.hamilton@vcuhealth.org	Re-engineering brain transcription factors connects transposable elements and neuroimmune response to drug-use and social behaviors
5	Kazi Tanvir Hasan	kazitanvir.hasan@yale.edu	Leveraging phenome-wide data in the Million Veteran Program: Genomic relationships between substance use disorders and a broad spectrum of health indicators and medical conditions
6	Hongzhang He	simonhe@captisdx.com	Brain-Derived Extracellular Vesicle Isolation from Plasma Using Lipid Nanoprobe Technology for CNS Biomarker Discovery
7	Feiyang Huang	huang.f@wustl.edu	Genetic and phenotypic characterization of different modes of lifetime tobacco use in the All of Us Research Program
8	Yike Huang	y.huang@wi.mit.edu	Linking chronic physiological stress to opioid exposure responses
9	Derek Hui	mhui3@jh.edu	Epigenetic mechanisms of information storage after acute cocaine exposure
10	Karla Kaun	karla_kaun@brown.edu	A Drosophila model for nicotine reward
11	Jack Keady	jack.keady@uky.edu	Single-Nucleus Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Sex-Specific Hippocampal Cell-Type Responses to Nicotine Vapor Exposure and Withdrawal
12	Alyssa Klein	alyssa.klein@jax.org	From All of Us to All of Mus: Using human rare variant association scores to prioritize inbred mouse strains as complex, reproducible preclinical models for substance use disorders
13	Vivek Kumar	vivek.kumar@jax.org	Establishment and Characterization of Novel Mutant Mouse Models for the Addiction Research Community
14	Pilhwa Lee	pilhwa.lee@morgan.edu	Comparison of microglial-dopaminergic neuronal interaction in striatum in development and substance use disorder
15	Suet Kee Loo	SUL45@PITT.EDU	Perturbation of SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Suppresses Tumorigenesis and Induces Metabolic Dysregulation in KSHV-Mediated Cellular Transformation
16	Jenna Catalano	jcatalano@vt.edu	Multi-omic long-term reprogramming after perinatal opioid exposure across brain regions: a hypothesis-generating study
17	Qing Lu	lucienq@ufl.edu	Deep Transfer Learning for Substance Use Disorders Genetic Research
18	Jie Ma	jie.ma@temple.edu	JQKD82 Inhibits HIV Infection/Replication in Macrophages though Blocking Viral Entry and Enhancing Antiviral ISG Responses
19	Tianzhou Ma	tma0929@umd.edu	From Genetic Risk to Brain Mechanisms: Multi-Omics and Imaging Insights into Cannabis Use and Addiction
20	Stephen Mahler	mahlers@uci.edu	Sex- and Region-Specific Impacts of Early-Life Adversity and Self-Administered Heroin on Transcriptomics and Addiction Vulnerability
21	Marcelo Melo	marcelo-melo@uiowa.edu	Building a cellular platform to model addiction stages in the context of psychiatric genetic risk
22	Sophia Miracle	smiracle@bu.edu	Functional mechanisms linking Zhx2 loss-of-function with increased brain oxymorphone levels and oxycodone addiction model behaviors
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24	Anna Leonard	anna.leonard@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Adolescent oxycodone exposure potentiates adult remifentanil self-administration in female mice
25	José Martínez-Magaña	jose.martinez-magana@yale.edu	Deciphering gene regulatory effects of opioid use disorder risk variants through allelic-specific DNA methylation mapping in glial cells
26	Chen Fu	chen.fu@umassmed.edu	A Spectra-Based Framework Identifies Transcriptionally Defined Neuronal Subpopulations Enriched for Somatic Mutations in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
27	Christie Fowler	cdfowler@uci.edu	Transcriptional plasticity of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons induced by cocaine abstinence

Poster Session C

June 5, 2026 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

#	Name	Email	Abstract Title
1	Samar Nasser Chehimi	samar.chehimi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Cocaine self-administration induces cell-type–specific transcriptional changes in the nucleus accumbens of rats
2	Carlos Novoa	cmn5622@psu.edu	Genetic Architecture and Adolescent Social Stress Shape Anxiety-Related Behaviors and Nicotine Sensitivity in BXD Mice
3	Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz	janitza.montalvo-ortiz@yale.edu	Glial Epigenomics of Opioid Use Disorder in the Human Postmortem Orbitofrontal Cortex
4	Aya Nusir	anusir@gmu.edu	Microglial Adaptations to Chronic Nicotine in the Cerebellum: Proteomic Evidence for Neuroimmune Vulnerability
5	Gbadebo Ogungbade	debogungbade@gmail.com	Surrogate Aberrant Epigenomic Modulations of Glucocorticoids Receptor Gene (NR3C1) in HIV/AIDS and Major Depressive Disorders (MDD) among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and Underserved Whites: Quantitative Evidence synthesis (QES)
6	Emmanuel Onaivi	Onaivie@wpunj.edu	Endocannabinoidome genetic impact in the neurobiology of drug addiction and autism spectrum disorders.
7	Yingshi Ouyang	YOUYANG@childrensnational.org	Xylazine exacerbates fentanyl-induced mitochondrial and transcriptional dysregulation in human trophoblasts
8	Alayna Palamar	palamaras@vcu.edu	Effects of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Nicotine and Cocaine Reward in Mice: Impact of Genetic Background
9	Abraham Palmer	aap@ucsd.edu	The thrill is gone -- or is it? Insights from more than 28,000 heavy opioid users.
10	Ying-Xian Pan	yx.pan@rutgers.edu	Spatial mapping of human OPRM1 exon O-associated splice variant, hMOR-1O, in the brain by BaseScope: Implications for human opioid pharmacology
11	Holly Poore	holly.poore@rutgers.edu	Substance use disorders exhibit unique and disorder specific genetic associations with externalizing and internalizing psychopathology
12	Erica Prates	jacobsonda@ornl.gov	A Structural Systems Biology Platform for Pan-SUD Drug Repurposing and Effective Binding Discovery
13	Jill Rabinowitz	jr1919@rwjms.rutgers.edu	Association of School Connectedness with Suicidal Ideation Resistance Among Youth at Elevated Polygenic Risk
14	Benjamin Reiner	bcreiner@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Morphine isoforms and epitranscriptome signatures in accumbens subregions
15	Karissa Reyes	ktreyes@buffalo.edu	Genome-wide mapping of intermittent-access cocaine self-administration in heterogenous stock rats
16	Melody Rivera-Hernandez	melody.rivera-hernandez@yale.edu	Prioritizing Brain Cell Types and Biological Processes Associated with the Shared Addiction Risk Factor
17	Pamela Romero Villela	rpamela@wustl.edu	Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of chronic pain reveals widespread genetic correlations with substance use and substance use disorders
18	Yasmine Sami	yns@wi.mit.edu	Characterizing the effects of fentanyl exposure on induced pluripotent stem cell-derived medium spiny neurons
19	Nithya Sarabudla	nithyas@wustl.edu	Opioid overdose death is associated with distinct patterns of differential gene expression in the preBotzinger complex
20	Katherine Savell	katherine.savell@nih.gov	Transcriptional profiling of cocaine relapse ensembles in the rat medial prefrontal cortex to inform drug repurposing strategies
21	Vijay Shankar	vshanka@clemson.edu	Genetic background-dependent variation in cocaine-modulated gene regulatory networks in the Drosophila brain
22	Whitney Ortiz	wortiz@txbiomed.org	Gut dysbiosis during methamphetamine exposure in SIV-infected, ART-treated rhesus macaques impacts metabolites associated with neurodysfunction via the microbiota-gut-brain axis
23	Xiaolong Wang	xiaolong.wang0002@temple.edu	Methamphetamine Enhances HIV Infection in Human iPSC-Derived Microglia
24	Marcus Kaul	marcus.kaul@medsch.ucr.edu	Methamphetamine modulates neurotoxicity of HIV-infected iPSC-derived microglia separately from viral production
25	Nicola Micali	nicola.micali@yale.edu	Multimodal Characterization of the Impact of Prenatal THC Exposure on Primate Brain Development
26	Pejman Mohammadi	pejmanm@uw.edu	Data-driven RNA phenotyping captures genetically regulated dimensions of the transcriptome

Poster Session D

June 5, 2026 – 2:30 – 4:00 pm

#	Name	Email	Abstract Title
1	Gbadebo Ogungbade	debogungbade@gmail.com	Surrogate Aberrant Epigenomic Modulations in Mental Health with Transporter Gene Receptors: Unequal Burden of Addiction and Mental/Behavioral Disorders among Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Underserved Whites, Quantitative Evidence Synthesis
2	Michael Sheldon	Michael.sheldon@sampled.com	The NIDA Biorepositories Provide Biospecimen Processing, Multiomic Analyses and Genetic Data for the Addiction Research Community
3	Aliaksandra Sikirzhytskaya	sikirzha@mailbox.sc.edu	Drug Repurposing for the Treatment of NeuroAIDS: AI-Driven Discovery, Retrospective Analyses, and Experimental Validation
4	Gabriella Silva	silva@uab.edu	Exploiting Orbitofrontal Cortex Enhancer Dynamics in Cocaine Use Disorder for Cell Type–Specific Epigenetic Targeting
5	Kenneth Smith	smithkp@ornl.gov	A Multiplex Molecular Digital Twin of the Brain for Tracking Evolutionary Conservation in Substance Use Disorders
6	Kellyn Spychala	kellyns@wustl.edu	A Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis of Any Substance Use Disorder
7	Jeran Stratford	jstratford@rti.org	RealOmics-Centered Translational Pipeline for Drug Repurposing in Methamphetamine Use Disorder
8	Amy Stringer	Amy.Stringer@temple.edu	Psilocybin Reduces Opioid Seeking Behavior and Impacts mRNA Expression in the Prefrontal Cortex in a Pre-Clinical Model of Fentanyl Self-Administration
9	Lisa Tarantino	lisat@med.unc.edu	Repeated Cocaine Exposure Alters Behavioral but Not Incentive Sensitization in Collaborative Cross Mice
10	Nathaniel Thomas	nt464@rwjms.rutgers.edu	Orexin system genetic variation moderates developmental change in substance use frequency
11	Lierni Ugartemendia	Lierni.UgartemendiaUgalde@uth.tmc.edu	Shared alterations in miRNA expression between Perinatal Cannabis Exposure and Risk of Attention Deficit Disorder
12	Alp Ummet	aummet@g.clemson.edu	Variation in Gene Expression and Brain Morphology among 48 Drosophila Lines that Vary in Cocaine Preference
13	Charles Wang	chwang@llu.edu	Epigenetic and Spatial Transcriptomic Reprogramming of the Developing Brain Following Prenatal E-Cigarette Exposure
14	Junshi Wang	junshi.wang@mssm.edu	Connectome- and Transcriptome-based Approaches to Decode Circuit-Specific Mechanisms of Addiction
15	Xiaolong Wang	xiaolong.wang0002@temple.edu	Cryopreservation Preserves Cellular Integrity and Innate Immunity in Human iPSC-Derived Brain Organoids
16	Zijun Wang	zjwang@ku.edu	Early life adversity-induced vulnerability for opioid addiction: from circuit regulation to epigenetic modification
17	Bradley Webb	btwebb1@geisinger.edu	Assembling a large genetically informed cohort for longitudinal analysis of smoking behavior
18	Julie White	jdwhite@rti.org	Smoking and alcohol interaction effects on postmortem human brain DNA methylation and RNA expression
19	Zheng-Xiong Xi	zxi@intra.nida.nih.gov	Neuronal Versus Glial CB2 Receptor: Insights From a New Strain of CB2-KO-EGFP Reporter Mice
20	Jiye Yi	jiye@wustl.edu	Systematic Functional Mapping of Transcription Factor Variants Relevant to Substance Use Disorders Using Deep Mutational Scanning
21	Anastasia Williams	awill57@gmu.edu	Cannabinoid modulation of P13K/mTOR pathway to decrease NLRP3 activation and viral transcription in HIV-1 infected monocytes.
22	Julia Winter	julia.winter@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Epigenetic editing of Cartpt promotes acquisition and extinction of cocaine memory
23	Chen Fu	chen.fu@umassmed.edu	A Spectra-Based Framework Identifies Transcriptionally Defined Neuronal Subpopulations Enriched for Somatic Mutations in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
24	Francesca Telese	ftelese@ucsd.edu	Nucleus accumbens Drd3 medium spiny neuron abundance is associated with oxycodone intake in outbred rats
25	Mudit Tyagi	mudit.tyagi@jefferson.edu	HIV and cocaine converge on RSK1 to induce GSK3β-independent tauopathy during HAND
26	Dmitry Velmeshev	dmitry.velmeshev@duke.edu	Dissecting and modulating cell type and circuit-specific epigenetic mechanisms of cocaine addiction
27	Mingrui Li	mingrui.li@yale.edu	A single-nucleus multiome analysis of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility reveals cell-type-specific immune modulation for chronic cannabis use among people with HIV infection
28	Chan Zhou	chan.zhou@umassmed.edu	Integrative analysis identifies long noncoding RNA dysregulation and circadian disruption in reward and executive circuits of opioid use disorder