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14th WORLD CONGRESS ON NEUROHYPOPHYSIAL HORMONES
Sunday, May 19
8:30 - 9:15 a.m.
Plenary lecture (Theater):
Rob Froemke New York University, USA
Love, Death and Oxytocin
Chair: Gil Levkowitz The Weizmann Institute, Israel
9:15 - 9:30 a.m.
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee break (Rotunda and Crystal Dinning Room)
Symposium 8 (Theater):
Emerging Roles of AVP and OXT on the Neurovascular Unit and Brain Microvessels
Chairs: Maurice Manning University of Toledo, USA &
Bice Chini Milan Center for Neuroscience, Italy
9:30 - 9:55 a.m.
Marta Busnelli Consiglio Nazionale delle Reserche, Italy
The Oxytocin System Plays a Key Role in Brain Microvascular Development
9:55 - 10:20 a.m.
Gil Levkowitz The Weizmann Institute, Israel
Oxytocin May Facilitate its Own Peripheral Uptake by Regulating Blood Flow Dynamics
10:20 - 10:45 a.m.
Ranjan Roy Georgia State University, USA
Vasopressin-mediated Neurovascular Coupling in Health and Disease States
10:45 - 11:10 a.m.
Special Talk: Larry Young's Scientific Contributions (Theater)
Arjen Boender Emory University, USA
Natural Variation in Oxytocin Receptor Signalling Causes Widespread Changes in Neural Gene Expression: A Link to the Natural Killer Gene Complex
11:10 - 11:30 a.m.
Coffee break (Rotunda and Crystal Dinning Room)
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Symposium 9 (Theater):
Neurohypophysial Hormones and Sensory Processing
Chair: Quentin Pittman University of Calgary, Canada
11:30 - 11:55 a.m.
Elizabeth Hammock Florida State University, USA
Oxytocin in Sensory-Dependent Social Development
11:55 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Eric Krause Georgia State University, USA
Studying Mechanosensitive Vagal Afferents that Express Oxytocin Receptors: Gut Feelings are Also Matters of the Hear
12:20 - 12:45 p.m.
Michael Perkinson Otago University, New Zealand
Unveiling the Dynamics of Oxytocin Activity and Somatodendritic Release in Freely Behaving Rodents
12:45 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (Rotunda and Crystal Dinning Room)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Poster Session 2 (Magnolia/Sugarberry/Cottonwood)
3:00 - 4:40 p.m.
Symposium 10 (Theater): The Hal Gainer Memorial Symposium
Emerging Areas in the Neurohypophysial Hormones Field
Chair: Masha Prager-Khoutorsky McGill University, Canada
3:00 - 3:25 p.m.
James Blevins University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health care System, USA
Efficacy of Oxytocin as a Monotherapy and Combination Therapy to Treat Obesity
3:25 - 3:50 p.m.
Michael Greenwood University of Bristol, UK
Using Quantitative Phosphoproteomics to Explore Hypothalamo-neurohypophysial System Cellular Signalling
3:50 - 4:15 p.m.
Andre Mecawi Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Single-cell Transcriptomics of Hypothalamic Magnocellular Neurons: Unraveling Cellular Diversity, Activity-Associated Genes, and Interspecies Integration
4:15 - 4:40 p.m.
Tian Xue University of Science and Technology of China, China
Light Promoted Brain Development: ipRGC, Oxytocin and Synaptogenesis
4:40 - 5:15 p.m
Coffee break (Rotunda and Crystal Dinning Room)
5:15 - 6:55 p.m.
Symposium 11 (Theater):
Neurohypophysial Hormones Control Social and Defensive Behaviors in a Sex-, Age-, and Receptor-specific Manner
Chairs: Hala Harony-Nicholas Icahn School of Medicine, &
Joanna Dabrowska Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, USA
5:15 - 5:35 p.m.
Alice Sanson University of Regensburg, Germany
Neuropeptides Trigger Maternal Care and Aggression in Lactating Rats: Influence of the Stress System
5:35 - 5 :55 p.m.
Joanna Dabrowska Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, USA
The Integration of Interoceptive Signals and Defensive Behaviors via Neurohypophysial Hormones in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis (BNST)
5:55 - 6:15 p.m.
Aras Petrulis Georgia State University, USA
Sex-specific Regulation of Social Motivation by Extrahypothalamic Vasopressin
6:15 - 6:35 p.m.
Brian Trainor University of California, Davis, USA
Transcriptional Effects of Social Stress on Oxytocin Neurons in Female California Mice
6:35 - 6:55 p.m.
Samantha Bowden Michigan State University, USA
Regulation of Juvenile Social Behaviors by Oxytocin and Vasopressin Systems in the Brain
7:00 - 9:00 p.m
Award Ceremony and Closing Banquet (Magnolia)
9:00 - 11:00 p.m
Post-meeting party
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