RSA 2011 DAILY SCHEDULE - Research Society on Alcoholism

<strong>RSA</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>DAILY</strong> <strong>SCHEDULE</strong>
TUESDAY, JUNE 28 TUESDAY, JUNE 28
4:00pm - 6:30pm POSTER SESSION III CENTENNIAL I-II
POSTER NUMBERS: 1-252 / ABSTRACT NUMBERS: 504-755
three 45-minute periods and 15-minutes for final unmanned viewing
(light refreshments)
6:30pm - 8:00pm SYMPOSIUM HANOVER AB
A TRIBUTE TO ALAN MARLATT: 40 YEARS OF PIONEERING RESEARCH ON ADDICTIONS
Organizers: Helene White, Ctr. for Alcohol Studies, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ 08854
and Mary Larimer, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105
6:30pm - 8:30pm SATELLITE DUNWOODY
Integrative Neurosciences Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) - WEST - closed
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
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 - 2:00pm <strong>RSA</strong> REGISTRATION DESK - Open CENTENNIAL FOYER
8:00am - 9:00am PLENARY SESSION IV REGENCY V-VII
<strong>RSA</strong> YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDEE (2010)
GENES, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING ALCOHOL MISUSE AND RELATED PROBLEMS
Danielle Dick, Ph.D., Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298
Danielle M. Dick, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Human and Molecular
Genetics at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University.
She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from Indiana University, and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the
Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. She was on the faculty at
Washington University, St. Louis from 2003 – 2007 before joining VCU. She is the PI or site PI for multiple NIH grants,
a former recipient of a NA<strong>RSA</strong>D Young Investigator Award, and currently holds a K02 mid-career award from NIAAA.
Alcohol dependence is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, with trajectories of risk behavior that
manifest long before the eventual development of problems. This talk will present findings across complementary
research designs, including twin studies, gene identification projects, and longitudinal, community-based studies.
Twin studies provide important information about how genetic risk unfolds across development, across phenotypes,
and in conjunction with the environment. This information can be used to develop hypotheses about the risk associated
with specific, identified genes. These hypotheses can be tested in longitudinal, community-based samples, in
order to understand the pathways by which identified genes result in the eventual alteration of risk for substance use
problems. Findings from these projects illustrate how, through interdisciplinary research, we are gaining a greater
understanding of how genetic and environmental influences contribute to the risk for alcohol related problems, and
how that risk manifests across development.
9:00am - 9:30am COFFEE BREAK CENTENNIAL FOYER
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