Preliminary speakers
Wed, May 28
- Educational Short Course
- Elissa Epel (UCSF) Neuroendocrine measurement and beyond in PNI studies
- Steve Cole (UCLA) Genomic approaches in PNI
- Anil Sood (MD Anderson Cancer Center) Impact of microenvironment on tumor growth: Mechanisms and targets
Thursday, May 29
- Norman Cousins lecture
- Andrew Miller (Emory University) Cytokines sing the blues: PNI at the translational interface
- Roundtable luncheon with NIH staff
- Presidential Symposium
- Richard Davidson (University of Wisconsin) Interactions between the brain and the periphery in the regulation and dysregulation of emotion
- Tor Wager (Columbia University) Neuroimaging of autonomic responses to social evaluative threat: localizing cortical-subcortical-peripheral pathways
- Avgusta Shestyuk (UC-Berkeley) Brain regulation of stress reactivity: higher cortical regulation of peripheral activation in response to social threat
- Naomi Eisenberger (UCLA) Social pain: Neurocognitive, neuroendocrine, and immunological correlates
Friday, May 30
- Dynamic innervation of lymphoid tissue: Mechanisms and impact
- Dwight Nance (UC-Irvine) Neuroanatomy of lymphoid innervation: Recent advances and insights
- Erica Sloan (UCLA) Psychosocial and viral modulation of lymphoid innervation
- Dianne Lorton (Sun Health Research Institute) Injury and sprouting responses of sympathetic nerves in lymphoid organs: Impact on altered immunity in rheumatoid arthritis and potential therapeutic target
- Denise Bellinger (Loma Linda University) Sympathetic innervation across the life span: Implications for immune function
Saturday, May 31
- Individual responses to the environment: Immune and health correlates
- Nicolas Rohleder (UBC) Role of acute vs. long-term depressive mood in systemic inflammatory activity
- Suzanne Segerstrom (University of Kentucky) Caregiving, repetitive thought, and serum IL-6 in older adults
- Anna Marsland (University of Pittsburh) Antagonistic characteristics are positively associated with inflammatory markers independently of train negative emotionality
- Sonia Cavigelli (Pennsylvania State University) Female temperament, tumor development and life span: Relation to glucocorticoid and TNF-α levels in rats
- The impact of inflammation on the vulnerable brain
- Stuart Allan (University of Manchester) Systemic inflammation and stroke
- Daniel Anthony (University of Oxford) Functional consequences of the systemic response to brain injury and disease
- Rodney Johnson (University of Urbana) Neuroinflammation and cognitive and motor impairment in the aged
- Marina Lynch (Trinity College) Modulating microglial activation modulates age-related Neuroinflammation
- HIV and the brain: Models and treatment approaches (NIMH-sponsored symposium)
- Chair: Keith W. Kelley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Ian P. Everall (University of California at San Diego): Genetic and epigenetic factors in neuroAIDS
- Mary Jeanne Kreek (Rockefeller University): Interactions between substance abuse and AIDS in progression of psychiatric comorbid disease
- Janice E. Clements (John Hopkins University School of Medicine): Role of innate immune responses in the neuropathogenesis induced by SIV in macaques.
- Howard E. Gendelman (University of Nebraska Medical Center): Biomarkers, laboratory, and animal models for the design and development of adjunctive therapies for HIV-1 dementia and other neuroinflammatory disorders
- Lynnae M. Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine): Neural progenitors and HIV neuropathogenesis.