7th Annual International Meeting For Autism Research ... - Confex

Program
Thursday 15 th May – AM
8.00 – 8.30 am Breakfast + Registration (Chablis)
8.30 – 8.35 am Introduction: Prof Tony Charman (Meeting Organiser: Institute of Child Health, London) (Cremant)
8.35 – 8.45 am The Role of the Medical Research Council in Supporting Autism Research in the UK (Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Chief Executive, MRC,
London) (Cremant)
8.45 – 9.45 am Keynote speaker: Francesca Happé
Time to give up on a single explanation for autism?
(Cremant)
9.45 – 10.15 am Coffee (Chablis) Poster Presentations
10.15 am
– 12.15 pm
Invited Educational Symposium
“Immunity in Autism: A New Page with Fresh Insights”
Organizer: Glenn Rall
(Avize-Morangis)
Oral Presentations
Cognition 1
(Mancy)
Oral Presentations
Intervention
(Bourgogne)
(8.30 am – 1.00 pm)
Communication Posters 1
Human Genetics Posters 1
Clinical Phenotype Posters 1
Brain Imaging Posters 1
Sensory Systems Posters
(Champagne Terr/Bordeaux)
Breakfast and Registration
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM - Chablis
Keynote Address
100 Time to give up on a single explanation for autism?
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM - Cremant
Speaker: F. HappéInstitute of Psychiatry, KCL
In this talk I will suggest that we should abandon the
search for a single unifying cause for the diverse symptoms
defining autism. I will present recent evidence of behavioural
fractionation of social impairment, communication difficulties
and rigid and repetitive behaviours in a population-based
sample. Twin analyses in the same sample suggest largely
nonoverlapping genes acting on each of these traits. At the
cognitive level, too, attempts at a single explanation for the
symptoms of autism appear to have failed. Instead, different
cognitive accounts are needed for the different aspects of
autism, and distinct neural systems appear to be involved.
Implications and future research directions will be discussed.
8:30 100.1
Introduction by Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Chief Executive Medical
Research Council).
8:45 100.2
Keynote Address.
Coffee 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM - Chablis
Invited Educational Symposia
101 Immunity in Autism: A New Page with Fresh Insights
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM - Avize-Morangis
Organizer: G. RallFox Chase Cancer Center
Speakers: L. Boulanger 1 P. Patterson 2 C. A. Pardo 3 R. S.
Fujinami 4 (1)University of California, San Diego, (2)Biology
Division, (3)Jonhs Hopkins University School of Medicine, (4)
University of Utah
What role, if any, the host immune response plays in the
etiology of autism has been a controversial and understudied
aspect of autism research. Recently, the advent of novel mouse
models, powerful cell culture systems, and creative humanbased
studies has substantiated a critical role for the immune
response in autism. The goal of this session is to highlight some
of these recent and diverse contributions.
10:15 101.1
Introductory Remarks.
10:30 101.2
Regulation of Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission and
Plasticity by MHC class I. L. M. Boulanger*, University of
California, San Diego
10:50 101.3
The Mechanism Of Pathogenesis Of An Autism Risk Factor:
Activation Of The Maternal Immune System Alters Fetal Brain
Development Via IL-6. P. Patterson*, Biology Division
11:10 101.4
The Roles Of Neuroglia And Neuroimmune Modulators In
Pathogenesis Of ASD. C. A. Pardo*, Jonhs Hopkins University
School of Medicine
11:30 101.5
Immune Responses To Central Nervous System Proteins And
Viruses In Individuals With Autism. R. S. Fujinami*, J. E. Libbey,
H. H. Coon, N. J. Kirkman, T. L. Sweeten, J. N. Miller, J. E.
Lainhart and W. M. McMahon, University of Utah
Oral Presentations
102 Cognition 1
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM - Mancy
10:15 102.1
“I know that face” – A comparison of face learning and
recognition abilities in children with Autistic Spectrum
Disorders, Developmental Delay, and Typical Development. R.
Wilson*, M. Blades and O. Pascalis, University of Sheffield
10:30 102.2
Investigating the cognitive phenotype of autism: a 3-year
prospective longitudinal study. E. Pellicano*, University of Bristol
10:45 102.3
ATTENUATED BINDING OF FEATURAL INFORMATION IN
INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. D. M.
Bowler*, J. M. Gardiner and S. B. Gaigg, City University, London
11:00 102.4
Pre-Conceptual Self-Awareness of own Agency in Autism
Spectrum Disorder. D. Williams* 1 and F. Happé 2 , (1)University
College London, (2)Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London
11:15 102.5
CHILDREN WITH AUTISM DISENGAGE FROM A SOCIAL
STIMULUS SLOWER THAN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CONTROLS.
J. T. Elison* 1 , J. S. Reznick 1 , T. N. Holtzclaw 1 , J. Piven 2 and J.
W. Bodfish 1 , (1)University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, (2)
University of North Carolina
12 7 th Annual International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR) 2008