PROGRAM
Days: Monday, May 10th Tuesday, May 11th Wednesday, May 12th Thursday, May 13th Friday, May 14th Saturday, May 15th
Monday, May 10th
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11:00-16:45 Session 1: Workshop Trainee Day
Workshop Trainee Day (EDT) Conference Floor, Presenation Room D
Tuesday, May 11th
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11:00-16:00 Session 2: Workshop Machine Learning
Workshop Machine Learning (EDT) Conference Floor, Presenation Room A
19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception and Tech Test
Social and Tech Test (EDT) IBANGS Exec Offices, Patio
Wednesday, May 12th
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08:00-10:00 Welcome Reception and Tech Test
Social and Tech Test (EDT) IBANGS Exec Offices, Patio
10:00-11:45 Session 3: Symposium: Sleep regulation and function during early developmental periods, Chair Matthew Kayser
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Symp 1 Zoom
| 10:00 | Using fruit flies to study sleep regulation and function during development (abstract) |
| 10:23 | Genetic basis of sleep regulation in humans (abstract) |
| 10:46 | Disturbed redox regulation in mutants for circadian genes in Drosophila melanogaster (abstract) |
| 11:09 | A screen of human orthologs for loci involved in sleep and circadian behavior identifies PIG-Q as a conserved regulator of sleep (abstract) |
| 11:21 | Improving reliability and phenotyping in mouse behaviour with machine learning. (abstract) |
| 11:33 | P8 Assessment of circadian rhythms of striatal dopamine signaling via optical imaging. (abstract) |
11:45-13:00Break
13:00-14:15 Session 4: Travel Awardees, Chair Mark Rutledge-Gorman
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
| 13:00 | Sex-specific Reward Modulation and Inflammatory Impact of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Developing Brain (abstract) |
| 13:03 | Determining the role of CHD7 in brain development and behavioral phenotypes using a novel charge syndrome zebrafish model (abstract) |
| 13:26 | BALB/c substrain differences in whole brain concentrations of the highly potent oxycodone metabolite oxymorphone map to chromosome 15 in a reduced complexity cross. (abstract) |
| 13:49 | Sex Differences in Aversion Resistant Ethanol Intake: Divergent Roles Of Perineural Nets (abstract) |
14:30-16:00 Session 5: Selected Talks I, Chair Karla Kaun
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
| 14:30 | Characterizing drinking behavior in genetic mouse models of novel human GWAS hits for problematic alcohol use (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Thirst neurons that promote water seeking and limit feeding encode positive valence when searching for water (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Reduced Intake When Drugs Make You Cold (abstract) |
| 15:15 | A forward genetic screen of ENU-mutagenised zebrafish identifies lines showing deficits in impulse control (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Ankk1 regulates dopamine signaling in zebrafish (abstract) |
| 15:45 | Characterization of Behavior and Neurochemistry Following Social Stimulation in Oxytocin-Receptor-Mutants (abstract) |
19:00-21:00 Session 6: Poster Session I
Poster Session I (EDT) Poster Hall Floor
| 19:00 | P6 A breeding strategy to identify modifiers of high genetic risk for methamphetamine intake and its impact on other phenotypes. (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P16 Inheritance of behavioral and neuroanatomical phenotypical variance (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P28 Transsynaptic mapping of Drosophila mushroom 1 body output neurons (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P9 Wnt Signaling Connects DCX, COMT and FMR1 in Hippocampal Neurogenesis, Social Behavior and Intellectual Disability (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P22 Huang-Pu-Tong-Qiao Formula reduces neuron apoptosis in diabetic cognitive dysfunction mouse model via Bax/Bcl-2 and caspase-3 pathway based on molecular docking (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P23 Evaluation of Taar1 as a candidate gene influencing aversion circuitry in mice selectively bred for voluntary methamphetamine consumption (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P24 Novelty exposure enhanced the extinction of naltrexone-precipitated conditioned place aversion (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P21 SrGAP3 as a regulator of voluntary cocaine abuse in mice (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P17 Sub-chronic stress induces similar behavioral effects in male and female mice despite sex-specific molecular adaptations in the nucleus accumbens (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P25 Targeted Integration of Zebrafish pbx1a and diaph1 for Understanding Stress and Disease (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P10 ARHGAP35, a clinical gene of unknown significance; examining its role in zebrafish stress response signaling (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P26 Individual differences in gambling strategies and associations to sexual behavior, voluntary alcohol intake and response to naltrexone in male Lister Hooded rat (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P3 Genome-Wide Association Study in 3,228 Outbred Heterogeneous Stock Rats Identifies Multiple Loci for a Pavlovian Conditioned Approach Task (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P43 A SNP-by-gene interaction analysis of rs16969968 and genome-wide loci on cigarettes per day in the UK Biobank (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P29 A machine vision-based frailty index for mice (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P33 Massive Diallel Crosses (DAX) as a tool for gene-by-environment interactions, epistasis, and experimental precision medicine (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P36 DETERMINING THE ROLE OF CHD7 IN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIORAL PHENOTYPES USING A NOVEL CHARGE SYNDROME ZEBRAFISH MODEL (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P40 Sex-Specific Behavioral and Cognitive Correlates of Peer Victimization (“Bullying”) (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P34 Hypothalamic RNAseq highlights lysosomal gene Laptm5 as a potential driver of cognitive and metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P44 Hippocampal RNA Sequencing in Mice Selectively Bred for High and Low Activity (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P42 Reduced Intake When Drugs Make You Cold (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P41 Prolonged partner separation erodes transcriptional signatures of pair bonding in prairie voles (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P31 The antidepressant L-acetylcarnitine (LAC) mitigates posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-like behavior and confers metabolic resilience to trauma exposure in male mice. (abstract) |
| 19:00 | P35 NCK1 modulates neuronal actin dynamics and promotes dendritic spine, synapse, and memory formation (abstract) |
21:00-22:00 Session 7: Presidential Speaker 2021: Hitoshi Okamoto, Chair Karl Clark
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Presidential Speaker Okamoto
| 21:00 | Habenula as the experience-dependent controlling switchboard of behavior and attention in social conflict and learning (abstract) |
Thursday, May 13th
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09:15-10:45 Session 8: Symposium: Neurodegenerative and Neuropsychiatric disorders, Chair Peter Ash
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
| 09:15 | Cross-species analyses identify Dlgap2 as a regulator of age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s dementia (abstract) |
| 09:35 | Functional Genomics of the Lysosome in Parkinson’s disease (abstract) |
| 09:55 | Macromolecular connectivity landscape of mammalian brain identifies novel ALS-relevant complex (abstract) |
| 10:08 | Patterns of brain asymmetry associated with polygenic risks for autism and schizophrenia implicate language and executive functions but not brain masculinization (abstract) |
| 10:21 | Hypothalamic RNAseq highlights lysosomal gene Laptm5 as a potential driver of cognitive and metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (abstract) |
| 10:34 | Modality specific taste deficits associated with aging in the fruit fly (abstract) |
10:45-11:45 Session 9: Early Career Achievement Award: Ryan Logan, Chair Camron Bryant
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
| 10:45 | Novel sleep and circadian mechanisms linking rodents and humans in opioid addiction (abstract) |
11:45-13:00Break
13:00-14:00 Session 10: Keynote Speaker: Hopi Hoekstra, Chair Camron Bryant
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Hoekstra Keynote and Symp 3 Zoom
14:00-15:45 Session 11: Symposium: Alternate transcript usage and RNA splicing in alcohol and substance use disorders, Chair Amy Lasek
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Hoekstra Keynote and Symp 3 Zoom
| 14:00 | Ethanol and Rapid Antidepressants share Differentially Expressed Exons as a Common Mechanism to mediate Antidepressant-like Behaviors (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Regulation of cocaine-induced behavior, transcription, and alternative splicing by E2F3 proteins in male mice (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Chronic alcohol drinking and withdrawal increases the expression of the RNA splicing machinery in the rat hippocampus (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Alternative Splicing in Memory Circuits (abstract) |
| 15:20 | Impact of Repeated Binge Alcohol Consumption on Corticostriatal Splicing and Polyadenylation (abstract) |
16:00-17:00 Meet Up
(EDT) Conference Floor, Garden
Scavenger Hunt
Friday, May 14th
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09:00-11:00 Session 13: Poster Session II
Poster Session II (EDT) Poster Hall Floor
| 09:00 | P20 Old data and friends improve with age: Advancements with the updated tools of GeneNetwork (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P5 High-fat diet generally exacerbates, but is sometimes protective against, cognitive dysfunction in female AD mice depending on genetic background (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P15 Mapping the genetic basis of trait evolution in the Mexican cavefish (Poster) (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P12 Selection of mice for high and low scores of the object-permanence “puzzle-box” test (abstract) PRESENTER: Inga Poletaeva |
| 09:00 | P2 Social preference and locomotion in a zebrafish model of Rett syndrome (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P11 Genetic Disruption of Circadian Nuclear Receptor REV-ERBα Reduces Alcohol Preference in Mice (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P14 Genetic contributions to social, anxiety, and fear behaviors in a mouse model of Williams Syndrome (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P13 Proposing a new vibration-based paradigm for studying the role of stress-related genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio) (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P27 Profiling individual behavioral differences in zebrafish using the novel tank test. (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P18 Identifying novel molecules targeting BKCa channels as treatment for auditory processing impairments (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P19 Gene Report Cards–Integrative Tool to Summarize Gene Information for Nicotine Behaviors (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P4 Network-based functional prediction identifies candidate modifier genes from a mapping population of multiple mouse models of absence epilepsy (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P7 The impact of genetic and non-genetic factors on cocaine locomotor sensitivity in behaviorally divergent inbred mouse substrains: assessing the role of the gut microbiome (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P30 Identification of lines showing altered sensitivity to rewarding effects of nicotine using a self-administration assay in zebrafish (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P38 Improving reliability and phenotyping in mouse behaviour with machine learning. (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P39 Characterization of Behavior and Neurochemistry Following Social Stimulation in Oxytocin-Receptor-Mutants (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P32 Disturbed redox regulation in mutants for circadian genes in Drosophila melanogaster (abstract) |
| 09:00 | P37 A forward genetic screen of ENU-mutagenised zebrafish identifies lines showing deficits in impulse control (abstract) |
11:00-12:00 Session 14: Presidential Speaker 2020: Jonathan Mill, Chair Cathy Fernandes
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Presidential Speaker Mill
| 11:00 | Epigenomic trajectories to neuropsychiatric disease (abstract) |
12:00-13:00Break
13:00-14:45 Session 15: Symposium: Emergent systems for genetic studies of behavior, Chairs Alex Keene & Yehuda Ben-Shahar
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Symp 4 and Selected Talks II
| 13:00 | Advances in broadening genetic and neuronal approaches to animal behavior research (abstract) |
| 13:20 | Neuropeptide regulation of Aedes aegypti mosquito attraction to humans (abstract) |
| 13:40 | The evolution of sleep loss in Mexican cavefish (abstract) |
| 14:00 | CRYPTOCHROME 1 mediates light-dependent inclination magnetosensing in monarch butterflies (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Mapping the genetic basis of trait evolution in the Mexican cavefish (abstract) |
| 14:25 | Prolonged partner separation erodes transcriptional signatures of pair bonding in prairie voles (abstract) |
14:45-15:00Break
15:00-16:15 Session 16: Selected Talks II, Chair Vivek Kumar
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Symp 4 and Selected Talks II
| 15:00 | Massive Diallel Crosses (DAX) as a tool for gene-by-environment interactions, epistasis, and experimental precision medicine (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Sex-Specific Behavioral and Cognitive Correlates of Peer Victimization (“Bullying”) (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Integrated, machine learning based advanced phenotyping platform for the laboratory mouse (abstract) |
| 15:45 | A machine vision-based frailty index for mice (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Hippocampal RNA Sequencing in Mice Selectively Bred for High and Low Activity (abstract) |
16:15-17:15 Meet Up
(EDT) Conference Floor, Pub
Scattergories
Saturday, May 15th
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04:00-06:00 Session 17: Selected Talks IIIa Early Bird Special, Chair Gang Chen
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Selected Talks - Early Bird
| 04:00 | Co-susceptibility to depression-like and fatigue-like behaviors following chronic stress: a behavioral, pharmacological and transcriptomic study in two mouse strains (abstract) |
| 04:15 | Synergism of two natural compounds elicited rapid antidepressant activity via upregulation of hippocampal PACAP (abstract) |
| 04:30 | Characterising the ontogeny of numerosity and the role of CYFIP in zebrafish reveals use of multiple, numerical and non- numerical mechanisms (abstract) |
| 04:45 | Identification of lines showing altered sensitivity to rewarding effects of nicotine using a self-administration assay in zebrafish (abstract) |
| 05:00 | Dissecting cocaine-induced group behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster adult males by applying social interaction network analysis and deep learning methods (abstract) |
09:00-10:45 Session 18: Symposium: Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome in mice and humans, Chair Camron Bryant
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
Location: Symp 5 and Business Meeting
| 09:00 | Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: The Changing Landscape of Care and Role of Genetics in Predicting Outcomes (abstract) |
| 09:20 | Sex-specific Reward Modulation and Inflammatory Impact of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Developing Brain (abstract) |
| 09:40 | Molecular and Behavioral Consequences of Neonatal Opioid Exposure in Mice (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Neonatal morphine (P1-14) in CFW mice induces behavioral signs of withdrawal, sex-dependent transcriptomic profiles in brainstem (P15), and altered affective and psychostimulant-induced locomotor phenotypes in adolescence (abstract) |
| 10:15 | Differential gene expression responses to oxycodone self-administration in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex of inbred rat strains (abstract) |
| 10:30 | The causal effects of Cyfip2 S968F mutation on cocaine-induced behavioral and neurophysiological outcomes (abstract) |
10:45-13:00 Session 19: IBANGS Business Meeting
Business Meeting (EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
IBANGS Fellow Awards Presentation: Fellow of the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society appointment is given to individuals that have demonstrated scientific excellence, and support of the society through service on committees and continuous membership for a number of years. Award recipients John Crabbe, Jacqueline Crawley, Wim Crusio, Abraham Palmer, Catharine Rankin, and Robert Williams will be attending the ceremony.
Committee Reports
Society Business
Location: Symp 5 and Business Meeting
13:00-14:00Break
14:00-15:00 Session 20: Distinguished Investigator Award: Abraham Palmer, Chair Camron Bryant
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
| 14:00 | Abstract for Abraham Palmer’s IBANGS Distinguished Investigator Award talk (abstract) |
15:00-15:45 Session 21: Selected Talks IIIb, Antonia Savarese
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium
| 15:00 | Characterizing locomotion that is independent of the HPA axis and canonical glucocorticoid receptor (abstract) |
| 15:15 | The antidepressant L-acetylcarnitine (LAC) mitigates posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-like behavior and confers metabolic resilience to trauma exposure in male mice. (abstract) |
| 15:30 | NCK1 modulates neuronal actin dynamics and promotes dendritic spine, synapse, and memory formation (abstract) |
15:45-16:00 Session 22: Closing Remarks
(EDT) Conference Floor, Auditorium