SUNDAY JUNE 27th
Environment and Hormone-Behavior Interactions
Chair: John C. Wingfield
8:30 David Crews (University of Texas) Endocrine disruptors:
present issues, future problems.
9:00 Hubert Schwabl (Washington State University) Maternal
steroids in the avian egg
9:30 Cathy Marler (University of Wisconsin) Interactions
between social environment and arginine vasopressin and arginine vasotocin.
10:00 Mike Moore (Arizona State University) Evolution of
the neuroendocrine basis of reproductive tactics.
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Keynote Speaker: Sergio Ojeda (Oregon Health Sciences University) Glia-to-neuron signaling contributes to the neuroendocrine control of mammalian puberty.
12:00-1:30pm Lunch (Student/Faculty lunches)
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 David Lyons (Stanford University) Postnatal experiences,
genetic risks, and social stress induced hypercortisolism in squirrel monkeys.
3:30 Alison Fleming (University of Toronto) Glucocorticoids
and maternal responsiveness in human mothers.
4-7pm Posters
7:30-11pm Student's Career Workshop (includes dinner for students
and post-docs only)
Presidential Symposium: Hormonal and Non-hormonal Mechanisms of Sexual
Differentiation of Brain and Behavior
Chair: Art Arnold
8:30 Art Arnold (UCLA) Introduction: Hormonal and non-hormonal
mechanisms of zebra finch sexual differentiation
8:50 Marilyn Renfree (University of Melbourne) Extra-gonadal
control of sexual differentiation in a marsupial.
9:20 Ingrid Reisert (University of Ulm) Sex, hormones, and
neuronal differentiation.
9:50 Geert De Vries (University of Massachusetts) Mechanism
and functional significance of sexual differentiation of neuropeptide systems
10:10 Emilie Rissman (University of Virginia) Hormonal and
genetic determination of mouse masculine sexual behavior
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Special Address: Irving Zucker (University of California, Berkeley) Human and hamster seasonal reproductive rhythms: evolution, culture and physiology.
12:00-1:30pm Lunch (Student/Faculty lunches)
Monday Afternoon:
Seasonal Changes in the Brain
Chair: Gregory Ball
1:30 Gregory Ball (Johns Hopkins University) Seasonal changes
in brain and behavior in songbirds: steroid-dependent and -independent
effects.
2:00 Eric Bittman (University of Massachusetts) The seasonally
plastic brain: effects of photoperiod and androgens on neuroendocrine structure
and function in hamsters.
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 Marc Breedlove (University of California, Berkeley) Seasonality
in a neuromuscular system.
3:30 Tom Smulders (Wake Forest University) Seasonal variation
in the brain of a food hoarding bird, the black-capped chickadee.
4-7pm Posters
7-8:30pm Grants Workshop
Neural Substrates of Behavior: The Use of Molecular Neuroanatomy
to Map Functional Neurocircuits
Chairs: Lique Coolen and Michael Numan
8:30 Michael Numan (Boston College) Fos genes: A window to
the neural circuitry and molecular neurobiology of maternal behavior.
9:00 Alan Watts (University of Southern California) Feast
or Famine? Characterizing a potential hypothalamic-brainstem network that
can stimulate, inhibit, and disinhibit eating.
9:30 Paul Micevych (UCLA) Regulation of sexual receptivity:
Differential actions of estrogen and progesterone on the expression and
activation of opioid and nociceptin receptors in the hypothalamus.
10:00 Lique Coolen (University of Cincinnati) Pathways that
relay sensory stimuli mediating sexual behavior revealed by combined tract
tracing and Fos-studies
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Special Address: Richard Green (UCLA and Imperial College) Transsexualism: A Model for Sex Differences, Sexual Orientation, Neither or Both?
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
(12:30-1:15 Business meeting)
Tuesday Afternoon:
Estrogen & Aging: Is it Beneficial and How?
Chairs: Nancy L. Desmond and Margaret M. McCarthy
1:30 David J. Stone (Harvard University) The effects of estrogen
and aging on gene expression and synaptic sprouting.
2:00 James W. Simpkins (University of Florida) Estrogens
and non-feminizing phenolic A ring estratrienes are potent neuroprotective
compounds.
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 Gillian Einstein (Duke University) Hippocampal granule
cells are sexually dimorphic in their response to estradiol.
3:30 Susan M. Resnick (NIA/NIH) Estrogen replacement therapy
influences cognitive performance and cerebral blood flow in aging women.
4-7pm-Posters
8-12 BANQUET