Mini Symposium “Advances in Mind-Brain Research” Tuesday, 25 November 2014 16:00- 18.00 SAHMRI Auditorium, North Terrace, Adelaide Professor Christos Pantelis is an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Foundation Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Scientific Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre at The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health. He holds an Honorary Professorial Fellow position at the Florey Institute for Neuroscience & Mental Health, and heads the Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit at Sunshine Hospital. His work has focused on brain structural and functional changes during the transition to psychosis; recent work focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and adolescence. He has received a number of awards, including a 2011 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (US), and the 2013 Robert-Sommer Award from the Justus Liebig University School of Medicine, Germany. He was recently named in the Thomson Reuters list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014”, representing the top 1% of most highly cited scientists. Julio Licinio, M.D., FRANZCP, is Deputy Director for Translational Medicine and Head, Mind and Brain Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and Strategic Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University in South Australia. Professor Licinio is originally from Brazil and lived previously in the United States, where for over 20 years he had positions of leadership at Yale, NIH, UCLA, and University of Miami. He is founding and Chief Editor of three Nature Publishing Group journals, Molecular Psychiatry (Impact Factor: 15.147. number 1 worldwide), The Pharmacogenomics Journal (Impact Factor 5.5) and Translational Psychiatry (Impact Factor 4.36). His translational and genomics research spans the lab and clinic examining obesity, depression, and their interface. Time Topic Presenter 16.00-16.45 Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) as a new framework Professor Julio Licinio, see bio for research in psychiatric disorders above 16.45-17.15 Drinks & Nibbles 17.15-18.00 “Understanding Brain Changes in Professor Christos Pantelis, see bio Schizophrenia: Impact of Stress, Drugs and above Inflammation on the Developing Brain” Places are limited. Please contact carole.johnson@sahm ri.com for free registration. .