Michelle M. Sidor, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
"Rapid mood-cycling in an animal model of mania driven by altered circadian control of dopaminergic activity"
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Kenneth N. Fish, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
"Differential distribution of GAD65 and GAD67 in boutons arising from different subtypes of GABAergic neurons--implications for schizophrenia"
Monday, May 6, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
4th Floor Conference Room (402)
Bridgeside Point II
Queena Li-Chun Lin, M.S.
Pre-Doctoral Scholar
"Role of somatostatin in affect dysregulation"
Monday, April 29, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Samantha Fung, PhD
Research Officer
Neuroscience Research Australia
"Inflammation overload: Can white matter neurons inform us about cortical pathology in schizophrenia?"
Friday, April 26, 2013
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Nathan Yates, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
University of Pittsburgh
"Application of an Unbiased Proteomic Platform for the Identification of Protein Markers in Cerebrospinal Fluid"
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Maura Boldrini, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University
Research Scientist
Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Division
New York State Psychiatric Institute
"Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Major Depression"
Monday, April 8, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Gil D. Hoftman, BS
MD, PhD Graduate Student Researcher
"Maturation of Cortical Parvalbumin GABA Neurons"
Monday, April 1st, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Igor Ponomarev, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
"Systems Neurogenomics of Alcohol"
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Angela R. Ozburn, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Texas at Austin
"The Role of the Circadian Gene, Npas2, in Cocaine Reward and Anxiety-like Behaviors"
Monday, March 25th, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
George C. Tseng, ScD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Biostatistics, Human Genetics, and Computational & Systems Biology
Etienne L. Sibille, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Lun-Ching Chang, MS
Graduate Student Researcher
Department of Psychiatry
"Molecular Aging of the Brain Modulates Diseases Risk and Functional Outcomes"
Monday, March 18, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Mary Torregrossa, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
"Manipulating Memories to Prevent Relapse to Drug Addiction"
Monday, March 4, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Nicole M. Edgar, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
"Dissecting Circadian Disruptions in Mood Disorders"
Monday, February 25, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Minae Niwa, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
"Developmental trajectory of brain maturation and adult behavior: relevance to mental illness"
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Shin-ichi Kano, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins University
"Brain disorders in a dish: toward a mechanistic understanding of mental illness"
Monday, February 18th, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Jason Newman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Principal
"Altered Immunostaining of Microtubule Associated Protein 2 in Deep Layer 3 of the Auditory Cortex in Schizophrenia Subjects"
and
Micah Shelton, B.A.
CNUP Graduate Student
"Investigating MAP2 in Schizophrenia: In Vitro Methods to Understand Disease Interactions"
Monday, February 11, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Colleen McClung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
"Messing Around with the SCN and Other Fun in the McClung Lab"
Monday, February 4, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Daniel B. Kay, M.S.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Applicant
University of Florida
"Translational Sleep Medicine: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Aging"
Thursday, January 31, 2013
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Etienne Sibille, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Clinical and Translational Science
"Recent Updates on Molecular Investigations of Depression"
Monday, January 28, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
"GABAA Receptor-Mediated Synaptic Inhibition Develops Post-natally in Primate Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex"
Monday, January 14, 2013
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Gina D'Angelo, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Neurology
Washington University
"Statistical Approaches to Evaluate Groupwise Resting-state fMRI Data"
Monday, December 17th, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Takanori Hashimoto, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry
"Expression of Cortical Parvalbumin Neuron-Selective Gene KCNS3 in Schizophrenia and Postnatal Development"
Monday, December 10, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Nicole M. Carrier, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship Applicant
Florida State University College of Medicine
"The Anti-depressive Effects of Testosterone are Mediated by ERK2 Signaling in the Hippocampus"
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Ellen Frank, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Holly Swartz, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Mary Phillips, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
"Rhythms and Blues: Circadian Rhythms and Mood Disorders"
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
4:00 to 5:30 PM
4th Floor Conference Room (402)
Bridgeside Point II
Dominique Arion, PhD
Senior Research Principal
"Transcriptional Alterations in Layers 3 and 5 Pyramidal Cells in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Schizophrenia"
Monday, November 26, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Amelie Soumier, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
"The Role of Frontal Cortex SST-Positive Cells in Adult Behavioral Emotionality:
A Viral Vector-Mediated Approach"
and
Queena Li-Chun Lin, M.S.
Graduate Student Researcher
"A Role of Somatostatin in Affect Regulation"
Monday, November 19, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
5th Floor Conference Room (503)
Bridgeside Point II
Valur Olafsson, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Radiology
University of California, San Diego
"High Performance fMRI with Multiecho Multiband Acquisitions"
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Susan Carnell, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Columbia University
"Fat brains, greedy genes and parent power: a biobehavioral susceptibility approach to understanding child and adult obesity"
Monday, November 5th, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Jazmin Acosta, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Applicant
University of Michigan
"Menopause, Hormone Therapy, and Cognition: Optimizing Treatments Based on Insights from Animal Models"
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Adriana Di Martino, MD
Leon Levy Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
New York University Child Study Center
"Using intrinsic brain function to dissect neurodevelopmental disorders"
Monday, October 22, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
David Volk, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
"Elevated Viral Restriction Factor Levels in Cortical Endothelial Cells in Schizophrenia"
Monday, October 1, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Dibyadeep Datta, B.S.
Graduate Student Researcher
"Developmental Trajectories of Molecular Transcripts Regulating GABA and Glutamate Inputs to Pyramidal Cells in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex"
and
Gil Hoftman, B.S.
MSTP Graduate Student Researcher
"Selective Loss of Chandelier Cell Appositions in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Between Infancy and Adulthood"
September 24, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (Rm 1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Hyunjung Oh, M.S.
Pre-doctoral Scholar
"BDNF- and GABA-Related Gene Dysregulation in Major Depressive Disorder"
and
Jenna Parrish, B.S.
Graduate Student Researcher
"Reduced GABAergic Dendritic Inhibition in Major Depression"
September 10, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
5th Floor Conference, Room 503
Bridgeside Point II
Antonio Convit, MD
Director of the BODyLab and the BODY Project
Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
"Impact of Diabesity on Brain: Mechanisms and Interventions"
Monday, September 10th, 2012
3:00-4:00 PM
Scaife Conference Center, Room 1103
Hyunjung Oh, M.S.
Pre-doctoral Scholar
"BDNF- and GABA-Related Gene Dysregulation in Major Depressive Disorder"
and
Jenna Parrish, B.S.
Graduate Student Researcher
"Reduced GABAergic Dendritic Inhibition in Major Depression"
September 10, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
5th Floor Conference, Room 503
Bridgeside Point II
Tobias Teichert, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Neuroscience
Columbia University
"Neural Basis of Adaptive Decision-Making in the Macaque"
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
Biomedical Science Tower
16th Floor Conference Room (Rm 1695)
Trey Williams, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
"Regulation of Dopamine by CLOCK:
Potential Mechanisms Underlying the Circadian Control of Mood and Reward"
and
Michelle Sidor, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
"A Combined Optogenetic and Pharmacogenetic Approach to Neuromodulation of Mesolimbic Dopamine Activity in a Mouse Model of Mania."
Monday, July 30, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
4th Floor Conference Room (402)
Bridgeside Point II
Michael E. Talkowski, Ph.D
Instructor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
"Chromosomal Aberrations, Chromothripsis, and Insight into the Genetic Architecture of Neuropsychiatric Disorders"
Friday, July 27th, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
Biomedical Science Tower
16th Floor Conference Room (Rm 1695)
Adam Tripp, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
"Somatostatin, the sgACC, and Major Depression"
and
Marianne Seney, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
"Opposing Actions of Genetic and Gonadal Sex on Affect Regulation"
Monday, July 23, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Andrea Gillman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
"Drugs of Abuse Entrain Circadian Rhythms: Evidence and Potential Mechanisms"
and
Angela Ozburn, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
"The Role of Clock in Drug-Related Behaviors"
Monday, July 16, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Luke Clark, Ph.D.
University Lecturer
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
"Neural Substrates of Distorted Cognition in Gambling Addiction"
Monday, July 9, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Guillermo González-Burgos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
"Current Models of the Mechanisms of Cortical Gamma Oscillations"
and
Diego Pafundo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
"Cholinergic Modulation of Inhibitory and Excitatory Synaptic Transmission: Implications for Gamma Oscillations"
Monday, July 2, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Etienne Sibille, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Clinical and Translational Science
"Molecular Bases of Depression"
Monday, June 25, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Patrick Murray, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
"Shedding Light on Alzheimer Disease with Psychosis"
and
Caitlin Kirkwood, B.S.
Graduate Student Researcher
"VILIP-1 in Alzheimer Disease with Psychosis"
Monday, June 18, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Susan Perlman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
"Functional Neuroimaging of Child Emotional Development"
Monday, June 11, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Gary D. Foster, PhD
Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Temple University
"Prevention and Treatment of Obesity: From the Schools to the Clinic"
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012
9:00-10:00 AM
14th Floor Conference Room (1495)
Biomedical Science Tower
Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
"Neural Circuits: The New Frontier of Neuropsychiatric Diagnostics and Therapeutics"
Monday, June 4th, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
University of Pittsburgh
Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar Series
Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
"Circadian Genes, Dopamine, and the Biology of Psychiatric Disorders"
Friday, June 1, 2012
12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
Auditorium 6, Scaife Hall
For more information on Dr. Colleen McClung's presentation and the Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar Series, please click here.
Marianne Seney, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Dorothy Sit, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Jill Cyranowski, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Bea Luna, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Etienne Sibille, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
"Gender/Sex and Depression"
Thursday, May 22, 2012
4:00 to 5:30 PM
4th Floor Conference, Room 402
Bridgeside Point II
Robert Sweet, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
"Lost (and Found) in Translation: Auditory Cortex Pathology in Schizophrenia"
Monday, May 21, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Services for the Treatment of Early Psychosis (STEP) Clinic
Mental Health Conference Planning
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences
Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
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SEARCH FOR TREATMENTS IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS (STEP)
Seventh Biennial Symposium
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May 18, 2012
Sheraton Station Square
300 West Station Square Drive
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Course Director:
Raymond Y. Cho, MD, MSc
Faculty:
David A. Lewis, MD
Beatriz Luna, PhD
Anthony Grace, PhD
Judith L. Rapoport, MD
Konasale Prasad, MD
Vaibhav A. Diwadkar, PhD
Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MD
Scott Schobel, MD, MSc
For more information, please click here and look for the STEP symposium link.
Sharyl Fyffe-Maricich, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Case Western Reserve University
"ERK MAP Kinase Regulation of Myelination: New Mouse Models for the Study of White Matter Perturbations in Human Disease"
Thursday, May 17, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Bea Luna, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Howard Aizenstein, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bioengineering, and
Clinical and Translational Science
Ed Friedman, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Etienne Sibille, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
"Life-time Trajectories and Depression"
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:00 to 5:30 PM
4th Floor Conference, Room 402
Bridgeside Point II
Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
"Using Optogenetics and Translatable Neurocognitive Tasks to Dissect OCD Circuits in Mice and Humans"
Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Bita Moghaddam, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Tony Grace, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Psychology
Colleen McClung, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Mary Phillips, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
"Dopamine and Depression"
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
4:00 to 5:30 PM
4th Floor Conference, Room 402
Bridgeside Point II
Dean Salisbury, PhD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
"Mismatch Negativity: A Potential Probe of Glu-GABA Imbalance in Schizophrenia"
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Ellen Frank, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Judy Cameron, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Cell Biology Physiology, Obstetrics-Gynecology Reproductive Sciences, and Clinical and Translational Science
Etienne Sibille, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh
"Phenotyping in Depression: Of Mice, Monkeys and Humans"
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:00 to 5:30 PM
4th Floor Conference, Room 402
Bridgeside Point II
Joshua G. Hunsberger, PhD
Julius Axelrod Post Doctoral Fellow
National Institute of Mental Health
"miRNAs in Psychiatry: From Biomarkers to Novel Targets"
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
5th Floor Conference, Room 503
Bridgeside Point II
Xiang Yang Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
"Smoking and Schizophrenia"
Monday, February 20, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
David Leitman, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
"The Brain and Social Communication: Implications for Psychiatry"
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
David J. Kupfer, MD
Thomas Detre Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Clinical and Translational Science University of Pittsburgh
"Issues of Dimensionality in Depression, in Light of DSM-V and RDoC"
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:00 to 5:30 PM
4th Floor Conference, Room 402
Bridgeside Point II
Michael Halassa, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Thalamo-Cortical State Dynamics:
Opto-Molecular Investigation of Glial and Neural Substrates"
Monday, January 30, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
David E. Moorman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
"Characterizing the Neural Circuitry Underlying Motivated Decision-Making and its Collapse in Addiction"
Thursday, January 26, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
"Cortical Control of Neuromodulatory Systems in Motivated Behavior"
Thursday, January 19, 2012
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Kenneth Mackie, MD
Professor
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Mechanisms of CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Desensitization"
Monday, November 21, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Dost Ongur, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
"Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia:
New Uses for an Old Technique"
Monday, November 7, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Colleen A. McClung, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
"Rhythms and Blues, How Circadian Genes Regulate Reward Circuitry"
Monday, October 31, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
5th Floor Conference, Room 503
Bridgeside Point II
Yanhua Huang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington State University
"From Silent Synapse to Sleep and Reward"
Thursday, October 20, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Nelly Alia-Klein, PhD
Scientist
Brookhaven National Laboratories
"Genes, Brain and Behavior in Human Aggression"
Thursday, October 13, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
"People Say I'm Crazy"
by John Cadigan
The only film about schizophrenia ever made by someone with schizophrenia.
We will watch a portion of this compelling documentary about the life of a man with schizophrenia followed by a Q&A session with a panel of experts.
With Panel of Experts:
Kevin D. Eklund, BSN
Debra M. Montrose, PhD
David W. Volk, MD, PhD
Monday, September 19, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
Marianne Seney, P.D
Postdoctoral Associate
"Using Mouse Models to Study Mechanisms Underlying
Sex Differences in Major Depression Susceptibility"
Monday, September 12, 2011
12:00-1:00 PM
16th Floor Conference Room (1695)
Biomedical Science Tower
David A. Lewis, M.D. | Department of Psychiatry | University of Pittsburgh
3811 O'Hara Street, Biomedical Science Tower W1654
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2593
Phone: (412) 383-8548 - Fax: (412) 624-9910