Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Stress, Trauma, and Negative Emotional States in Alcohol Use
Discussion Leader: Laura Ornelas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Nicholas Petersen (Vanderbilt University, United States)
"Ethanol Utilizes Multimodal Noradrenergic-Dependent and Direct Pathways to Engage a Ventral Periaqueductal Gray Arousal Circuit"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Kati Healey (Duke University, United States)
"Adolescent Intermittent Ethanol-Induced Effects on Activity, Anxiety, Memory & Biological Markers: Sex-Specificity and Prevention by Dietary Choline"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm
Conner Wallace (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, United States)
"Impact of Stimulus Intensity and Ethanol Consumption on Real Time Dopamine Signaling in the Nucleus Accumbens Versus Basolateral Amygdala"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Impairments in Executive Function Associated with Alcohol Consumption
Discussion Leader: David Haggerty (National Institutes of Health, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
John Hernandez (Brown University, United States)
"The Circuit Basis of Individuality in Motivated Operant Response for Ethanol"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Marie Doyle (UMass Chan Medical School, United States)
"Aversion Resistant Ethanol Intake and Seeking: Potential Roles of Activity in the BNST"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Zahra Farahbakhsh (Vanderbilt University, United States)
"Forward Phenotypic Screening of Kappa Opioid Receptor Ligands in a Preclinical Model of Alcohol Use Disorder"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Maya Bluitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
"Prefrontal Mechanisms Underlying Individual Differences in Aversion-Resistant Alcohol Drinking"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Zhenbo Huang (Texas A&M University, United States)
"Cognitive Flexibility Impairment in Alcohol Use Disorder: Striatal Cholinergic Mechanisms"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Yifeng Cheng (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Chronic Ethanol Vapor Exposure in Adult Rats Reduces Behavioral Flexibility in Protracted Withdrawal"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Alcohol Consumption
Discussion Leader: Sema Quadir (Northwestern University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Todd Nentwig (Medical University of South Carolina, United States)
"The Role of Central Amygdala Astrocytes in Ethanol Dependence"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Andrea Liss (Binghamton University - SUNY, United States)
"Cortical Astrocytes Sex-Dependently Regulate Glutamate Synapses to Alter Ethanol Consumption and Anxiety-Like Behaviors"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Bryan Mackowiak (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH), United States)
"Coordinated Action of a Gut-Liver Pathway Drives Alcohol Detoxication and Consumption"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Matilde Castro (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Central Amygdala Activity During an Ethanol Self-Administration Task Dynamically Tracks Motivation State"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Siara Rouzer (Texas A&M School of Medicine, United States)
"Prenatal Alcohol and Cannabinoid Exposures Impose Distinct, Sex-Specific Behavioral Phenotypes for Coordination and Alcohol-Seeking in Adult Mouse Offspring"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Rachel Rice (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Cross-Generational Transcriptomic Effects of Chronic Alcohol Exposure and Cancer Risk: A Translational Study"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Navigating Mental Health Challenges in Scientific Research
Discussion Leader: Jessica Hoffman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Sharon Milgram (NIH, United States)
"Becoming a Resilient Scientist"
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes