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PROGRAM SCHEDULE (Updated  )

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 - DAY 1
 

12:30-5:00	Workshop: Functional Genomics in Behavioral Endocrinology Cochairs: Lique Coolen (University of Cincinnati) and Jessica Mong (Rockefeller University) More info
6:00-8:00	Opening Reception
4:00-8:00	Registration

Evening
 

8:00-10:00

Workshop: The Academic Job Search: When, Where, and How Chair: John Buntin (University of Wisconsin) Pizza provided. More info

THURSDAY, JUNE 26 - DAY 2

Morning
 

8:15	Brief Welcome Members of the Local Organizing Committee
8:30	Keynote Address: Hormones, Experience and Neurogenesis Dr. Elizabeth Gould, Princeton University
9:30-9:50	Coffee Break
9:50-12:00	Symposium: Timing and Mechanisms of Neural and Behavioral Change During Puberty Cochairs: Kim Wallen (Emory University) and Cheryl Sisk (Michigan State University)
10:00-10:30	Prenatal programming of sex differences in the timing of puberty in sheep Leslie M. Jackson*, Theresa M. Lee, Ruth I. Wood, Jane E. Robinson, Vasantha Padmanabhan, Douglas L. Foster
10:30-11:00	Behavior@Puberty.org Cheryl L. Sisk
11:00-11:30	Prenatal hormonal influences on female rhesus monkey behavioral and neuroendocrine Julia L. Zehr
11:30-12:00	Pubertal changes in neurotransmitter systems: implications for human puberty and psychopathology Susan L. Andersen* and Martin H. Teicher
12:00-1:00	Lunch Meet the Professor Lunches

Afternoon
 

1:00-3:30	Poster Session 1. More info
3:30-6:00	Symposium: Social Influences on Hormones and Health Cochairs: Courtney DeVries and Randy Nelson (Ohio State University)
3:30-4:00	Early experience and activity of the HPA axis in children Megan R. Gunnar
4:00-4:30	Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators: allostasis and allostatic overload Bruce S. McEwen
4:30-5:00	Prenatal conditions influence physiological set points in the developing infant Christopher L. Coe
5:00-5:30	Social modulation of stress responses and disease outcomes A. Courtney DeVries
5:30-6:00	Social behavior and hantavirus infection in norway rats: cause or effect? S.L. Klein*, E.R. Hinson, and G.E. Glass

Evening
 

6:30-8:30

Workshop: Strategies for Minority Recruitment in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Cochairs: Kiran Soma (UCLA) and Teresa Horton (Northwestern University) Pizza provided. More info

FRIDAY, JUNE 27 - DAY 3

Morning
 

8:30-9:30	Keynote Address: Causes and Consequences of Individual Differences in Maternal Behavior Michael Meaney (McGill University)
9:30-9:50	Coffee Break
9:50-12:00	Symposium: Vasopressin: Contemporary Thoughts on the Behavioral Role of an Ancient Peptide (followed by panel discussion) Scott Wersinger (National Institutes of Health)
10:00-10:30	Vasopressin (AVP)/oxytocin (OXT) and the central regulation of social behavior H.E. Albers
10:30-10:45	The role of arginine vasotocin in the control of social status in the bluehead wrasse, a sex-changing fish K. Semsar* and J. Godwin
10:45-11:15	Altered social motivation in male mice lacking the vasopressin 1b receptor gene Scott R. Wersinger* and W. Scott Young III
11:15-11:30	Sex, stress and drugs: interactions between vasotocin, corticosteroids, and cannabinoids Emma Coddington*, Christine Lewis, Jim Rose, and Frank L. Moore
11:30-12:00	Panel Discussion
12:00-1:00	Lunch

Afternoon
 

1:15-3:15	Symposium: The Cincinnati Zoo: Endocrinology in Unusual Settings Cochairs: Bill Truitt and Juan Dominguez (University of Cincinnati)  Location: Cincinnati Zoo Safari Room More info
1:15-1:45	Evidence for induced ovulation in Channel Island gray foxes (Urocyon littoralis) Cheryl S. Asa*, Joan E. Bauman, and Tim Coonan
1:45-2:15	Applying noninvasive hormone monitoring and behavioral studies to address management issues in threatened and endangered felids Nadja Wielebnowski* and Janine L. Brown
2:15-2:45	Reproduction and behavior in a herd of Javan banteng (Bosjavanicus javanicus) at the San Diego Wild Animal Park A. Dixson*, N. Povich, and M. Anderson
2:45-3:15	Breeding the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in captivity: behavioral challenges, hormonal solutions Terri L. Roth
3:15-5:00	Zoo Exhibits
5:00-7:30	Poster Session 2. More info

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 - DAY 4:

Morning
 

8:30-9:40	Invited Presidential Address: Evolutionarily labile patterning of brain and social behavior: A tale of two males Andrew Bass (Cornell University)
9:40-10:00	Coffee Break
10:00-12:00	Symposium: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Maternal Effects: Mechanisms and Functions Cochairs: Hubert Schwabl (Washington State University) and Norbert Sachser (University of Muenster)
10:00-10:30	Yolk steroids, behavior, and fitness in birds  Hubert Schwabl, Rosemary Strasser, and Amy Poopatanapong
10:30-11:00	Maternal modulation of early exposure to androgens in avian species and its consequences for individual differentiation  Ton Groothuis, Corinne Eising, Nikolaus von Engelhardt, and Wendt Muller
11:00-11:30	Hormonal orchestration of the sibling competitive hierarchy in birds Keith W. Sockman
11:30-12:00	Social environment, stress, and offspring behavioral differentiation in guinea pigs Norbert Sachser and Sylvia Kaiser
12:00-12:15	Business Meeting
12:00-1:00	Lunch Meet the Professor Lunches

Afternoon
 

1:00-3:30	Poster Session 3. More info
3:30-5:50	Symposium: Nuclear Receptor Coactivator Function in the CNS and Behavior Cochairs: Marc Tetel (Skidmore College) and Cynthia Jordan (Michigan State University)
3:40-4:10	Hierarchies of steroid receptor regulation through coregulators and signaling pathway crosstalk Brian Rowan*, Yatrik Shah, Abeer El-Gharbawy, Mohamed Desouki, Sharif Kershah, Mariam Al-Dhaheri, and Kristen Koterba
4:10-4:40	The role of nuclear receptor coactivators in developing rat brain Anthony P. Auger*
4:40-5:00	Modulation of steroid activity by transcription coactivators in songbirds Charlier*, C.J. Auger, J. Balthazart, and G.F. Ball
5:00-5:20	Nuclear receptor coactivators in an androgen-responsive neuromuscular system  Erin O’Bryant* and Cynthia L. Jordan
5:20-5:50	Nuclear receptor coactivators modulate hormone-dependent female sexual behavior and neural gene expression in rats  M.J. Tetel*, H.A. Molenda, C.P. Kilts, S.D. Murphy, and R.L. Allen
6:00	Conclusion of Scientific Program Local Organizing Committee
7:30	Banquet

* denotes presenting author.

• Poster Titles (by session)
• Preconference Workshops
• Career Development Workshops
• Meet the Professor Lunches