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
6:15pm - 7:30pm PAPER SESSION HANOVER DE
6:15 Mark Wood INTRODUCTION
DETERMINANTS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Moderator: Mark Wood
6:20 Tim McQueeny BINGE DRINKING IS ASSOCIATED WITH ABNORMAL CORTICAL ARCHITECTURE
6:34 Tim Bogg EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND COGNITIVE CONTROL: EVIDENCE FOR MEDIAL
PREFRONTAL CORTEX DYSREGULATION DURING THE BALLOON ANALOGUE RISK TASK
6:48 Gillian Bruce COPING MECHANISMS MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ALCOHOL USE AND ALEXITHYMIA
7:02 Christopher Monahan INFLUENCE OF COMBAT VIOLENCE ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN RETURNING OEF/OIF VETERANS
7:16 Walter Roberts DRINKING TO DISTRACTION: AN ACUTE ALCOHOL DOSE BIASES ATTENTION TOWARDS ALCOHOL
RELATED STIMULI IN ADULTS WITH ADHD
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TUESDAY, JUNE 28 TUESDAY, JUNE 28
6:30am - 7:30am MEDITATION SESSION - led by Libby Robinson - open to all AUBURN
6:30am - 8:30am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST - Nametag required. CENTENNIAL FOYER
7:30am - 4:30pm <strong>RSA</strong> REGISTRATION DESK - Open CENTENNIAL FOYER
8:00am - 9:00am PLENARY SESSION III REGENCY V-VII
CONNECTOMICS
Jeff Lichtman, M.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jeff Lichtman is Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard. He received an AB
from Bowdoin (1973), and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University (1980) where he worked for 30 years
before moving to Cambridge in 2004. He is a member of the newly established Center for Brain Science. Lichtman’s
research interest revolves around the question of how mammalian brain circuits are physically altered by
experiences, especially in early life.
He has focused on the dramatic re-wiring of neural connections that takes place in early postnatal development
when animals are doing most of their learning. This work has required development of techniques such as “Brainbow”
transgenic mice to visualize neural connections and monitor how they are altered over time. Recently his
efforts have focused on developing new electron microscopy methods to map the entire wiring diagram of the
developing and adult brain. This “connectomics” approach has as one of its aims uncovering the ways information
is stored in neural networks.
9:00am - 9:30am COFFEE BREAK CENTENNIAL FOYER
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