Workforce Development and Collaboration in Addiction Genetics
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Archived Video

Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 16, 2008

Morning Session

8:30-9:00 a.m.	Registration
9:00-9:10 a.m.	Introductions and Welcome Jonathan Pollock, Ph.D. Chief, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Research National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Beth Babecki, M.A. Training Coordinator, Division of Basic Neuroscience and Research NIDA
9:10-10:00 a.m.	Genetics of Addiction - New Opportunities Laura Jean Bierut, M.D. Professor Washington University in St. Louis
10:00-10:40 a.m.	From Proteomics to Chromatin Remodeling: Chasing the Molecular Basis of Drug Addiction Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D. Nash Family Professor and Chair of Neuroscience Mount Sinai School of Medicine
10:40-11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00-11:40 a.m.	Genetics of Addictions: Hypothesis Driven and Discovery Research Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D. Professor and Head of Laboratory Rockefeller University
11:40 a.m.- 12:20 p.m.	Detection of Sharing by Descent, Phasing and Variant Imputation Augustine Kong, Ph.D. Vice President of Statistics deCODE genetics
12:20-1:50 p.m.	Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:50-2:00 p.m.	Continuance Jonathan Pollock, Ph.D. NIDA Beth Babecki, M.A. NIDA
2:00-2:40 p.m.	Mutant Mice and Reference Populations of Mice to Dissect Gene To Phenotype Relationships in Addiction Dan Goldowitz, Ph.D. Professor University of Tennessee
2:40-3:20 p.m.	Informatics of the Allen Brain Atlas and Applications to Addiction Genetics Mike Hawrylycz, Ph.D. Senior Director, Informatics Allen Institute for Brain Science
3:20-3:40 p.m.	Break
3:40-4:20 p.m.	New Mouse Models for Systems Genetics Gary Churchill, Ph.D. Professor The Jackson Laboratory
4:20-5:00 p.m.	The Era of High-Throughput Molecular Genomics of CNS Reward Systems: Examples that Combine GeneNetwork and the Allen Brain Atlas Robert Williams, Ph.D. Dunavant Chair of Excellence and Professor University of Tennessee
5:00-5:30 p.m.	Discussion and Closing Comments Michael Neale, Ph.D. Professor Virginia Commonwealth University
5:30 p.m.	Adjournment