8:00 a.m. | Badge pick-up and poster set-up

Badge pick-up in rotunda ; poster presenters set-up in Connally Ballroom

8:15 a.m. | Breakfast

Open breakfast buffet in Connally Ballroom

9:15 a.m. | Robert O. Messing, MD

Director's Opening Remarks

9:30 a.m. | Dayne Mayfield, PhD

INIA-COGA collaboration: defining genes and pathways in alcoholism

9:50 a.m. | Bryan Davies, PhD

Neuropeptide delivery by nasal bacteria

10:10 a.m. | Anna Warden

Importance of microglia for escalation of drinking

10:30 a.m. | Morning Break

10:50 a.m. | Mary Velasquez, PhD

CHOICES4Health: Using technology to prevent alcohol-, tobacco-, and marijuana-exposed pregnancies

11:10 a.m. | Esther Melamed, MD, PhD

The inebriated microbiome: A role in neurological disease?

11:30 a.m. | John Nguyen, MD

Current approaches in addiction treatment

11:50 a.m. | Lunch and Poster Session

1:00 p.m. | Thomas Kash, PhD - Featured Speaker

Probing role of neuromodulation in alcohol abuse

2:10 p.m. | Afternoon Break

2:30 p.m. | Regina Mangieri, PhD

Genetic deletion of an alcohol-responsive long non-coding RNA, "TX1", has complex effects on NMDA receptor-mediated phenomena

2:50 p.m. | Alfire Sidik

Genetic and bioinformatic approaches to characterize ethanol teratogenesis

3:10 p.m. | Robert O. Messing, MD

Two birds with one stone: Inhibiting PKC epsilon to treat chronic pain and opioid addiction

3:30 p.m. | Adjourn