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