New Paradigms for Exploring Gene–Environment Behavior Relationships
Meeting jointly with members of the Behavioral Toxicology Society
April 28, 2004, 8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Rodbell Auditorium
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Speakers
R. J. Hitzemann, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Behavioral Neuroscience
Oregon Health & Science University Harnessing the Mouse to Unravel the Genetics of Human Disease
Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute Relating Gene Changes to Behavioral Measures of Neurotoxicity: Challenges and Strategies
Jacqueline N. Crawley, Ph.D. Chief, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH How would you model autism in mice?
Eric Richfield, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Heritability and Correlations of Locomotor Behaviors and Neurochemistry in Inbred Strains of Mice
Richard Radcliffe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Denver Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci for Behavioral Responses in the Mouse
Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurobiology and Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine Knockout and conditional transgenic strategies to explore the effects of nicotine on behavior
Edward D. Levin, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medicine Center Use of Transgenic Mice to Determine the Roles of Genes Controlling Oxidative Stress, Metal Metabolism and Nicotinic Receptors in Cognitive Function and Dysfunction Caused by Toxicants
Jonathan Freedman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University The use of alternative species in neurological and behavioral toxicology
Elwood Linney, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Medical Center Chlorpyrifos: embryonic exposure-adult effects, dissecting mechanism with zebrafish
Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D. Wrap-Up and Discussion
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