RSA 2011 DAILY SCHEDULE - Research Society on Alcoholism

<strong>RSA</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>DAILY</strong> <strong>SCHEDULE</strong>
MONDAY, JUNE 27 MONDAY, JUNE 27
9:30am - 11:30am
SYMPOSIUM
***GSK3b, b-CATENIN, AND Wnt SIGNALS AS NOVEL TARGETS OF ETHANOL’S ACTION
Organizers/Chairs: Susan Smith, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
and Jia Luo, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536
9:30 INTRODUCTION
Susan Smith, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
HANOVER C
9:40 ETHANOL’S SUPPRESSION OF b-CATENIN MEDIATES THE APOPTOSIS OF NEURAL CREST PROGENITORS IN THE EARLY EMBRYO
Susan Smith, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
10:05 TARGETED DEREGULATION OF CANONICAL WNT SIGNALING DURING BONE FRACTURE REPAIR CONTRIBUTES TO
ALCOHOL-INDUCED FRACTURE NON-UNION
John Callaci, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Loyola Univ. -Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153
10:30 GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE-3/SHAGGY MEDIATES ETHANOL-INDUCED EXCITOTOXIC CELL DEATH OF DROSOPHILA
OLFACTORY NEURONS
Ulrike Heberlein, Dept. of Anatomy, Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA 94143
10:55 NEUROPROTECTION TARGETING AT GSK3b
Jia Luo, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536
11:30 DISCUSSANT
Jia Luo, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536
9:30am - 11:30am SYMPOSIUM DUNWOODY
***ROLES OF ALDH2 IN ALCOHOL AND NON-ALCOHOL INDUCED ORGAN DAMAGE:
NEW FINDINGS FROM BASIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
Organizers/Chairs: Susumu Higuchi, National Hospital Organization, Kurihama Alcoholism Ctr., Kanagawa 239-0841, Japan
and Daria Mochly-Rosen, Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA 94305
9:30 INTRODUCTION
Susumu Higuchi, National Hospital Organization, Kurihama Alcoholism Ctr., Kanagawa 239-0841, Japan
9:40 MITOCHONRIAL ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE 2, NYTROGLYCERIN, ARRHYTHMIA AND THE RISK TO THE MYOCARDIUM
UNDER OXIDATIVE STRESS
Daria Mochly-Rosen, Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA 94305
10:05 PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS OF ACETALDEHYDE IN ALCOHOLICS CARRYING THE ALDH2*1/*2VARIANT
GENE ALLELE
Yi-Chyan Chen, Dept. of Psychiatry, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei 11490 Taiwan
10:30 EFFECT OF ALDH2 POLYMORPHISM ON BRAIN ATROPHY IN ALCOHOLIC PATIENTS: A MATCHED-PAIR MRI STUDY BY
VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS
Toshifumi Matsui, National Hospital Organization, Kurihama Alcoholism Ctr., Kanagawa 239-0841, Japan
10:55 ALDH2 AND UPPER AERODIGESTIVE TRACT CANCERS
Akira Yokoyama, National Hospital Organization, Kurihama Alcoholism Ctr., Kanagawa 239-0841, Japan
11:30 DISCUSSANT
Samir Zakhari, Div. of Metabolism and Health Effects, NIAAA/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
***Indicates an integrative symposium. We strongly encouraged proposals that bridge different types of research (e.g., preclinical and clinical), to provide the
opportunity for society members with different interests to interact.
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