2011-08-03

[DIV28SUPER] NIDA Neuroscience Update August 3, 2011

Table of Contents:

I. Request for Information (RFI): Proposed Funding Priorities for Neuroscience Research, Resources and Tools (NIH Neuroscience Blueprint)

 

II. Online Registration Now Open:  The Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse: NIDA/NIAAA Satellite Symposium at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

 

III. NIAAA/NIDA Next generation sequencing technologies and Medical sequencing approaches for complex disorders. 

 

V. Online Registration Now Open: NIDA Mini-Convention at the Society for Neuroscience

 

V. Genetics of Substance Abuse and Addiction Consortia seeking Collaborators and Research Participants

 

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I. Request for Information (RFI): Proposed Funding Priorities for Neuroscience Research, Resources and Tools (NIH Neuroscience Blueprint)

 

This is a time-sensitive Request for Information (RFI) soliciting ideas from the neuroscience research community on how best to support or accelerate neuroscience research. Responses to this RFI should be pertinent to the interests of more than one of the NIH Neuroscience Blueprint Institutes that comprise the NIH Blueprint.  Responses to this RFI will be accepted through September 9, 2011. For more details on how to submit your response please refer to http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-11-016.html

 

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II. Online Registration Now Open:  The Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Abuse: NIDA/NIAAA Satellite Symposium at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

Friday, September 9, 2011

Omni Shoreham Hotel

2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC

Seating is limited.  Please Register online: http://www.seiservices.com/nida/1014096/Default.aspx

 

This satellite symposium to the World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism on Friday, September 9, 2011 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC highlights recent advances in the field of the genetics and epigenetics of substance abuse. The impact of co-morbid psychiatric disorders on the genetics of substance abuse will also be discussed. The invited speakers are Ken Kendler, Kari Stefansson, Laura Bierut, Howard Edenberg, Joel Gelernter, Paul Kenny, and Eric Nestler. Eric Green, the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute will be the keynote speaker. Eric Green will speak about future directions for genetic and genomic research at NIH.  An invited poster session will also be held.

 

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III. NIAAA/NIDA Next generation sequencing technologies and Medical sequencing approaches for complex disorders.  (No registration necessary)

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Omni Shoreham Hotel

2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC

 

The purpose of this workshop is to develop consensus research strategy based on new developments in sequencing technologies or next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. The production of large numbers of low cost sequence data makes the NGS platform useful for many applications especially human genomics. The application of NGS technologies to the identification of genes conferring vulnerability to alcohol dependence and substance abuse will be discussed.

 

For more information contact:
Abbas Parsian, Ph.D.
Program Director, Human Genetics/Genomics
Division of Neuroscience & Behavior
NIAAA/NIH
5635 Fishers Lane, RM 2063
Bethesda, MD 20892-9304
Phone: 301-443-5733
Fax: 301-443-1650
E-mail: parsiana@mail.nih.gov
Federal Express mail delivery:
Rockville, MD 20852-1705

 

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IV. Online Registration Now Open: NIDA Mini-Convention at the Society for Neuroscience

National Institute on Drug Abuse Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention

Friday November 11, 2011

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Washington, DC

Seating is limited. Please register online: https://seiservices.com/nida/frontiers2011/

 

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Mini-Convention, Frontiers in Addiction Research, will feature cutting-edge presentations and discussion of future directions in the neurobiology of drug abuse and addiction. The NIDA Mini-Convention includes four symposia, the SfN Jacob Waletzky Memorial Lecture and a poster session for early career investigators.  The agenda this year includes:

 

8:00 – 8:15         Welcome: NIDA Director

 

8:15 – 9:35          Autism, Addiction, and MeCP2

 

9:35-10:10          Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Lecture

 

10:30-12:15       Synapse Organization and Plasticity in Drug Addiction

 

12:15- 2:15         Early Career Investigators Poster Session

 

2:15-4:10            Using Optogenetic Tools to Shed Light on the Neural Mechanisms of Addiction

 

4:20-5:40            Neurobiology of Behavioral and Emotional Regulation/Dysregulation

 

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V. Genetics of Substance Abuse and Addiction Consortia seeking Collaborators and Research Participants

A number of consortia working on the genetics of addiction and substance abuse are seeking collaborators and research participants.  For more information see  http://www.drugabuse.gov/about/organization/genetics/geneticsconsortia/index.php

 

 The National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to listserv@list.nih.gov, Copy and paste UNSUBSCRIBE NIDA_NEURO_SCIENCE-L   in the message body of the email

- You will receive a confirmation email if successful. If you have problems contact jpollock@mail.nih.gov 301-435-1309

 

 

 

 

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