29th ANNUAL Winter Conference on Developmental Psychobiology
January 5th-8th, 2014
Exterior EL PRESIDENTE COZUMEL RESORT Cozumel, Mexico
Organizers William Fifer, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute Gordon Barr, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania
Support for this conference provided by: The Sackler Institute of Columbia University in honor of Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. We appreciate the continued generous support of the Sackler Family
Steering Committee Mark Ansorge Katharina Braun BJ Casey Regina Sullivan Schedule of Events Sunday, January 5, 2014
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Reception: Informal Opportunity to Greet and Meet
Monday, January 6, 2014
8:30-10:30 AM
“Your Brain on Adolescence: Why would the brain be programmed this way?”
BJ Casey, Organizer
“Introductory Comments” BJ Casey Cornell University
“Fear learning and memory across adolescent development” Francis Lee Weill Cornell Medical College
“Attentional capture by emotional cues” Jill Grose-Fifer John Jay College, CUNY
“Ontogenetic changes in neural mechanisms underlying motivation and learning” Adriana Galván UCLA
4:30-6:30 PM
The Alan Epstein Symposium
Moderators: Gordon Barr and William Fifer
Favorite new research and/or methodologies: Five minute presentations
Meeting Banquet 7:00-10:00 Tuesday, January 7, 2014
8:30-10:30 AM
“Executive Functions: Working Memory and Inhibitory Control”
Katharina Braun and Megan Gunnar, Organizers
“Early adverse care and the development of attention and executive functions” Megan Gunnar University of Minnesota
“Early experience and the development of executive function” Stephanie Carlson University of Minnesota
“Neural development of non-human primates exposed to infant maltreatment: prefrontal cortex and related cognitive function” Mar Sanchez Emory University School of Medicine
4:30-6:30 PM
“A New and Dynamic View of Basal Ganglia Circuitry"
Christoph Kellendonk, Organizer
"Different inputs to the ventral tegmental area regulate reward and aversion" Stephan Lammel Stanford University School of Medicine
"Dopamine D2 receptors regulate the anatomical and functional balance of basal ganglia circuitry" Christoph Kellendonk Columbia University Medical Center
"Interactive dynamics of cortico-striatal circuits in reinforcement and motor learning" Michael J. Frank Brown University
Reception 6:45-7:45 Wednesday, January 8, 2014
8:30-11:00 AM
“Development of Perception, Action, and Language in Infants”
Karen Adolph, Organizer
"Go with the flow: The development of brain dynamics to complex multi-sensory streams" Rick Gilmore Pennsylvania State University
"Development of visual-motor integration in macaques" Lynne Kiorpes New York University
"Early word learning and children's developing attention to the social world" Michael C. Frank Stanford University
"Crawling, walking, looking, talking" Karen Adolph New York University
4:30-6:30 PM
“Recombinant Inbred Strains and Heritability of Brain and Behavioral Phenotypes”
Pat Levitt, Organizer
"Going from phenotype to a gene for brain and behavioral traits" Dan Goldowitz University of British Columbia
"Understanding heterogeneity in social behavior using factor analysis and QTL mapping in BXD mouse strains" Allison Knoll Children's Hospital, Los Angeles
“It pays to network: Multidimensional profiling of serotonin signaling pathways using RI mouse strains” Randy Blakely Vanderbilt University Medical School
Pat Levitt-Discussant Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Farewell Gathering: 6:45-7:45 PM Attendee list Name Affiliation Email Address Adolph,Karen NYU [email protected] Alberini, Cristina NYU [email protected] Amso, Dima Brown University [email protected] Ansorge, Mark Columbia University/NYSPI [email protected] Balsam, Peter Barnard/Columbia University [email protected] Barr, Gordon Children’s Hospital of Phil./UPenn [email protected] Bath, Kevin Brown University [email protected] Blakely, Randy Vanderbilt University [email protected] Blumberg, Mark University of Iowa [email protected] Braun, Katharina Otto-von-Guericke Univ. Magdeburg [email protected] Carlson, Stephanie University of Minnesota [email protected] Casey, B.J. Weill Cornell Medical College [email protected] Dudek, Edward University of Utah [email protected] Eigsti, Inge-Marie University of Connecticut [email protected] Fifer, William Columbia University/NYSPI [email protected] Fox, Nathan University of Maryland [email protected] Frank, Michael C Stanford University [email protected] Frank, Michael J Brown University [email protected] Galvan, Adriana UCLA [email protected] Gilmore, Rick Penn State University [email protected] Gingrich, Jay Columbia University/NYSPI [email protected] Glanzman, David UCLA [email protected] Goldowitz, Daniel University of British Columbia [email protected] Grose-Fifer, Jill John Jay College, CUNY [email protected] Grunau, Ruth University of British Columbia [email protected] Gunnar, Megan University of Minnesota [email protected] Hennessy, Michael Wright State University [email protected] Kellendonk, Christoph Columbia University/NYSPI [email protected] Kiorpes, Lynne NYU [email protected] Knoll, Alison Children's Hospital Los Angeles [email protected] Kreitzer, Anatol UCSF [email protected] Lammel, Stephan Stanford University [email protected] Lampl, Michelle Emory University [email protected] Lee, Francis Weill Cornell Medical College [email protected] Levitt, Pat USC [email protected] Michel, George University of North Carolina, Greensboro [email protected] Nelson, Charles Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Univ. [email protected] Rankin, Catharine University of British Columbia [email protected] Richards, John University of South Carolina [email protected] Sacktor, Todd Downstate Medical Center [email protected] Sanchez, Mar Emory University [email protected] Schneider, Ken Protravel [email protected] Schroeder, Charles Columbia University/NKI [email protected] Staley, Kevin Mass General/Harvard University [email protected] Sullivan, Regina NYU/NKI [email protected] Weinberg, Joanne University of British Columbia [email protected]