The Sixth Annual Virtual BHI Symposium will be held on Thursday Nov 19 and Friday Nov 20, 2020.
The virtual symposium will be hosted via Zoom. Separate Zoom links will be used for Thursday and Friday. Please mute your microphones during the talks and unmute only if you have questions to ask during the 5 minute Q&A period after each talk. If your internet connectivity & bandwidth is good we encourage everyone to turn on the camera on your devices.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020 Zoom Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/95188428981?pwd=Zm9GcmZrUkhUVWdxeVBKMmNjVTVoZz09
Thursday Nov 19, 2020 Zoom Meeting ID: 951 8842 8981; Passcode: bhi2020
For printable program (PDF), click here
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title of Talk (Click for Abstracts) |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (11.30 AM – 12.45 PM) | Gary Aston-Jones, PhD Director BHI Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS, RBHS Charlotte and Murray Strongwater Chair in Neuroscience & Brain Health | Welcome, BHI Overview & Town Hall To Discuss BHI Five Year Review |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (1.00 PM – 1.20 PM) | Wayne Fisher, PhD Director RUCARES Professor of Pediatrics, RWJMS, RBHS Henry Rutgers Endowed Chair BHI Core Faculty | Integrating Research And Practice In The Assessment And Treatment Of Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (1.25 PM – 1.45 PM) | Cathleen Piazza, PhD Director Pediatric Feeding Disorders Program at CSH Professor of Psychology, GSAPP, Rutgers-New Brunswick BHI Core Faculty | Integrating Research And Practice: An Intervention For Change-Resistant Behavior In Children With Autism As An Exemplar |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (1.50 PM – 2.10 PM) | Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology, SASN, Rutgers-Newark | The Neural Basis Of Cognitive Strengths In Autism |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (2.15 PM – 2.30 PM) | Zoom Break | Zoom Break |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (2.30 PM – 2.50 PM) | Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom, MD Professor of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, RWJMS & CHINJ, RBHS | Defects In mTOR Signaling Mediate Common Neurite And Cell Migration Defects In Both Idiopathic And 16p11.2 Autism Neural Precursor Cells |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (2.55 PM – 3.15 PM) | Steven Levison, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, NJMS, RBHS, Director, Laboratory For Regenerative Neurobiology | Modeling The Effects Of Prenatal Infections On Neural Development And Behavior |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (3.20 PM – 3.40 PM) | Mladen Roko Rašin, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, RWJMS, RBHS | Making Sense Of mRNA Landscapes: Translation Control In Neurodevelopment |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (3.45 PM – 4.05 PM) | Benjamin Samuels, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS, Rutgers-New Brunswick | Neural Circuits Mediating The Behavioral Effects Of Chronic Stress And Antidepressants In Male And Female Mice |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (4.10 PM – 4.30 PM) | Ozlem Gunal, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, NJMS, RBHS | Cyfip1 Mediates Addiction Relevant Phenotypes In Mice |
| Thurs, Nov 19 (4.35 PM – 4.55 PM) | Todd Mowery, PhD Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, RWJMS, RBHS BHI Core Faculty | Neural Mechanisms That Support Learning In Circuits With Significant Cellular Deficits |