Conference Description
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is highly co-morbid with other CNS disorders that include stress and anxiety disorders, pain, CNS injury and other substance use disorders. Alcohol effects on the CNS also differ according to the age and sex of the affected individual, highlighting the need to understand individual variability in AUDs along with their comorbidities. The program for the 2022 meeting of the Alcohol and the Nervous System Gordon Research Conference will include presentations that focus on basic and clinical research investigating the neurobiology of AUD, especially in the context of these prevalent comorbidities and biological vulnerabilities. The Chairs and Vice Chairs will make it a priority to create a meeting program that includes basic and clinical research, and that is diverse by including presenters stratified across career stage, sex/gender, ethnicity, sexual identity and geographical region. The focus on CNS conditions that are co-morbid with AUD will provide a unique opportunity to create new networking and collaborative opportunities for the Alcohol CNS field.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by October 27, 2021. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Successes and Challenges in Translational Alcohol Research
Discussion Leaders
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Rajita Sinha (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
Speakers
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George Koob (NIH/NIAAA, USA)
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Harriet de Wit (University of Chicago, USA)
Alcohol Interactions with Stress and Brain Stress Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Zoe McElligott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Speakers
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Kerry Ressler (Harvard Medical School, USA)
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Anushree Karkhanis (SUNY Binghamton, USA)
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Marcus Weera (LSU Health New Orleans, USA)
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Danny Winder (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA)
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Laverne Melon (Wesleyan University, USA)
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Marvin Diaz (Binghamton University, USA)
Mechanisms and Pathways Underlying Excessive Alcohol Drinking
Discussion Leaders
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Karla Kaun (Brown University, USA)
Speakers
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Markus Heilig (Linkoping University, Sweden)
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Adrian Rothenfluh (University of Utah, USA)
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Reginald Cannady (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA)
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Angela Ozburn (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
Executive Control and Flexibility in Alcohol Actions
Discussion Leaders
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Cody Siciliano (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA)
Speakers
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Charlotte Boettiger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
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Christina Gremel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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Michael Salling (Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA)
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Christina Perry (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia)
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Rafiq Huda (Rutgers University, USA)
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David Moorman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
New Tools for Biomedical Alcohol Research
Discussion Leaders
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Kevin Bender (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Speakers
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Keri Martinowich (Lieber Institute for Brain Development, USA)
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Jacqueline Barker (Drexel University, USA)
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Daniel Castro (University of Washington, USA)
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Lex Kravitz (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Alcohol Interactions with Pain
Discussion Leaders
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Imad Damaj (Virginia Commonwealth University , USA)
Speakers
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Katie Witkiewitz (University of New Mexico, USA)
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Scott Edwards (LSU Health Sciences Center, USA)
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Yarimar Carrasquillo (National Institutes of Health, USA)
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Thomas Kash (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Co-Morbid Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs
Discussion Leaders
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Leandro Vendruscolo (National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA)
Speakers
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Lara Ray (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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Jibran Khokhar (University of Guelph, Canada)
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Lori Knackstedt (University of Florida, USA)
Motivational and Learned Determinants of Alcohol Self-Administration
Discussion Leaders
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Dorit Ron (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Speakers
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Ravi Das (University College London, United Kingdom)
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Jocelyn Richard (University of Minnesota, USA)
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David Lovinger (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, USA)
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Segev Barak (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Keynote Session: Alcohol Use Disorder Research: Co-Morbidities and Inequities
Discussion Leaders
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Heather Richardson (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Speakers
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Jaideep Bains (University of Calgary, Canada)
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Michael Taffe (UC San Diego, USA)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers:
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Jocelyn Richard (University of Minnesota, USA)
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James Jentsch (Binghamton University, USA)
