Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

  

 Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Tenth Annual Meeting, June 17-20, 2006 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh

 

 Program Schedule

2006 Meeting Home Page 

 

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 17 - DAY 1
ALL EVENTS HELD AT THE PITTSBURGH MARRIOTT CITY CENTER

1:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Preconference Workshop: Sexual Function and Dysfunction in Humans
Chair: Emilie Rissman; Opening remarks 1:00 – 1:10 (GRAND BALLROOM)

1:10

The epidemiology of human sexual dysfunction: Prevalence and risk factors from the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) and the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behavior (GSSAB)
Edward O. Laumann (University of Chicago)

1:35

Sexuality after Cancer: Lessons in understanding sexual function and dysfunction
Leslie Schover (MD Anderson Cancer Research Center)

2:00

Bremelanotide (PT-141): A melanocortin agonist for the treatment of male and female sexual dysfunction
Annette M Shadiack (Palatin Technologies)

2:25 – 2:50 

Coffee Break

2:50

Control of ejaculation: What the rat's brain tells the clinician
Elaine Hull (Florida State University)

3:15

Animal models of sexual arousal
Benjamin Sachs (University of Connecticut)

3:40

The role of androgen and estrogen in female sexual desire
Kim Wallen (Emory University)

4:05 – 5:00

Break into small groups for discussion

Determinants of Sexual Arousal : Sachs and Schover

Male Sexual Dysfunction : Hull and Laumann

Female Sexual Function : Wallen and Shadiack

5:00 – 5:30

Reconvene for small group reports

 

6:00 – 8:00

 

Opening Reception (FOYER)

 

 

 

1:00 – 8:00 p.m.

REGISTRATION

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 18 - DAY 2
ALL EVENTS HELD AT THE PITTSBURGH MARRIOTT CITY CENTER

Morning

 

7:30 – 8:15

Continental Breakfast (FOYER)

8:15

Brief Welcome, SBN President and Members of the Local Organizing Committee

(GRAND BALLROOM)

8:30 – 9:30

Keynote Address: Daring to Research Human Sexuality
Julia Heiman, Director, Kinsey Institute

9:30 – 9:50

Coffee Break

9:50 – 12:00

Presidential Symposium: Sex Differences in the Brain; When Different Becomes the Same
Chair
: Geert de Vries

9:50

Introduction
Geert de Vries, University of Massachusetts

10:00

Sex differences research in the age of genetics
Arthur Arnold (UCLA)

10:30

Regional laws, local ordinances: How, why and where sex differences are established in the brain
Margaret McCarthy (University of Maryland)

11:00

Convergence in the sexually dimorphic regulation of social bonding: A case of feminized masculinity?
Larry Young (Emory University)

11:30

Sex and Hemisphere Influences on Emotional Memory
Lawrence Cahill (University of California, Irvine)

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch
Meet the Professor Lunches (PITTSBURGH ROOM)

Afternoon

 

1:30 – 3:40

Young Investigators Symposium: (GRAND BALLROOM)
Chairs:
Nancy Forger and Diane Witt, Opening remarks 1:30-1:40

1:40

Here, there, and everywhere: Sex differences in the prepubertal medial amygdala

Bradley M. Cooke (Northwestern University)

2:00

Pubertal shifts in stress reactivity and circadian modulation of post-stress behavior

Russel D. Romeo (Rockefeller University)

2:20

Rhythms in reproduction in diurnal and nocturnal animals

Megan M. Mahoney (University of Michigan)

2:40

Fatherhood and the primate brain

Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy (Princeton University)

3:00

Sex hormones, sociality and sex ratio: Environmental variation drives breeding roles and reproductive investment in a plural cooperative breeder

Dustin R. Rubenstein (Cornell University)

 

3:20

 

Neural-endocrine interactions in the circadian timekeeping system

Ilia N. Karatsoreos (Columbia University)

4:00 – 6:30

Poster Session 1 (MARQUIS BALLROOM)

7:00 - 9:00

Grantsmanship workshop:  Students and post-docs  (GRAND BALLROOM)

9:00

Social for Graduate Students and Post docs  (FOYER)

 

 

 

MONDAY, JUNE 19 - DAY 3
ALL EVENTS HELD AT THE PITTSBURGH MARRIOTT CITY CENTER

Morning

 

7:30 – 8:30

7:45 – 8:30

Continental Breakfast (FOYER)

NIH eSubmission: Tips for Smooth Sailing (GRAND BALLROOM)

Nancy Desmond, NIH/NIMH

8:30 – 9:30

Elsevier Keynote Address: Sex and the Spotted Hyena: Costs, Benefits (?), and Limits of Female Androgenization
Stephen Glickman, University of California, Berkeley

9:30 – 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00–12:00

Symposium: Post-partum Regulation of Emotion: Causes and Consequences
Chairs: Joseph Lonstein and Alison Fleming

10:00

Stress, Hormones and Maternal Behaviour
Meir Steiner (McMaster University)

10:30

Social support and postpartum cortisol levels in adolescent mothers
Dario Maestripieri (University of Chicago)

11:00

Regulation of emotionality peripartum by oxytocin and prolactin
Inga Neumann (University of Regensberg)

11:30

Infant cues, oxytocin, and GABA regulation of postpartum emotionality
Joseph Lonstein (Michigan State University)

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch
Meet the Professor Lunches (PITTSBURGH ROOM)

Afternoon

 

1:30 – 3:30

Symposium: Do Hormone-induced changes in Perception explain Behavioral Effects of Hormones?  (GRAND BALLROOM)
Chair: Christina Williams

1:30

Introduction: Hormonal modulation of space, time and social perception.
Christina L. Williams (Duke University)

1:45

Organizational and activational actions of steroids on perception of playthings, partners, and faces.
Kim Wallen (Emory University)

2:15

Endocrine regulation of visuospatial perception in males and females
Elizabeth Hampson (University of Western Ontario)

2:45

Hormonal influences on human perception and preferences for potential mates
David I. Perrett, Miriam Law Smith, Ben Jones, David Feinberg, Jamie Lawson, Lisa deBruine (University of St. Andrews, UK)

3:15 – 3:30

SBN Annual Business Meeting – All are welcomed

3:30 – 6:00

Poster Session 2 (MARQUIS BALLROOM)

6:30 - 7:30 
7:30

ICN Meeting (SBN meeting registrants invited)
The Harris Memorial Lecture:
Robert P. Millar, "Identification of Novel Ligands for the GnRH Receptor" (PITTSBURGH CONVENTION CENTER)
 John A. Russell, Chair
Post-Lecture reception at the Andy Warhol Museum


Tuesday, JUNE 20 - DAY 4:
ALL EVENTS HELD AT THE PITTSBURGH CONVENTION CENTER

Morning

 

7:50 – 10:00

Symposium: Epigenetics and Gene Networks in Behavior
Chair: Barry Keverne, (7:50-8:00 Introduction, Barry Keverne)

8:00

Gene/gene and gene/environment interactions underlying hormone-dependent behaviors
Donald Pfaff (Rockefeller University)

8:30

From genotype to phenotype in the rat: That intervening variable called life
Darlene Francis (University of California, Berkeley)

9:00

Parent-of-origin effects on behavior across generation
James Curley (University of Cambridge)

9:30

The role of epigenetic modification in mediating natural variations in reproductive behavior
Frances Champagne (Columbia University)

10:00

Coffee Break

10:45–11:45

Plenary Lecture: Control of growth hormone secretion and hormone deficiency

 (Sponsored by the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh)

Kazuo Chihara, Japan

Chair: Iain J. Clarke

11:45 – 1:15

Workshop: Gene Silencing

James B. Uney, UK

Scott Q. Harper, USA
(Anyone can attend. Lunch available for purchase)

Afternoon

 

1:15 – 3:15

Symposium: Genes, Hormones and Aggression
Chair: Randy Nelson (1:15-1:30 Introduction, Randy Nelson)

1:30

How gene-environment interactions can influence the development and expression of aggression in macaque monkeys.
Stephen Suomi (National Institute of Child Health & Human Development)

2:00

Genetics of monoamines and aggression
Stephen Manuck (University of Pittsburgh)

2:30

Photoperiod determines the effect of estrogen on aggressive behavior
Brian Trainor (Ohio State University)

3:15 – 5:15

Poster Session

5:15 - 6:15

Plenary Lecture: How the brain responds to stress

James P. Herman, USA

Chair: Greti Aguilera

6:30 – 7:00

Board cruise ship for banquet (Convention Center)

7:00 – 10:00

Banquet and Presentation of the First Danny Lehrman Award (congratulations, Jay Rosenblatt!)