2021 Symposium
Conte Center@UCI 8th Annual Symposium
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry Chief Scientific Officer @Harvard University
Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, is chief scientific officer and James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is also a professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and past-president of the Society for Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Ressler was previously an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ressler’s lab focuses on translational research bridging molecular neurobiology in animal models with human genetic research on emotion, particularly fear and anxiety disorders. He has published over 350 manuscripts ranging from basic molecular mechanisms of fear processing to understanding how emotion is encoded in a region of the brain called the amygdala, in both animal models and human patients.
Agenda
9:00 a.m. - Keynote: Kerry Ressler
10:15 a.m. - Break
10:30 a.m. - Virtual Poster Tour
11:30 a.m. - Break
12:00 p.m. - Data Blitz Session
Virtual Poster Tour
There will be three concurrent poster sessions. Attendees will be randomly assigned to a session with the ability to jump between sessions.
***$100 Gift Card awarded to the three "Best Posters***
Poster Session A: Exploring the Spectrum of Mental Health in Human Participants
| Natasha Bailey | Chapman University | Consistency of Maternal Mood from Pregnancy through Childhood Predicts Healthy Adolescent Development |
| Dewleen Baker | Psychiatry, University of California San Diego | Prospective Examination of Pre-Trauma Anhedonia as a Risk Factor for Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms |
| Marie Gillespie | Psychiatry & Human Behavior, School of Medicine, UCI | Impact of Depression on Executive Functioning in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Unpredictable Parenting |
| Ella-Marie Hennessey | Psychology, University of Denver | Loneliness Increases Risk for Depression in Pregnant and Postpartum Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Kendra Leak | Psychology, Chapman University | Anhedonia in Infancy Predicts Adolescent Depressive Symptoms |
| Melissa Nevarez-Brewster | Psychology, University of Denver | Maternal Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences Predict Infant Sleep Outcomes |
| Samantha Scott | Psychology, University of Denver | Benefit Finding Moderates Associations Between COVID Stress and Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescents and Young Adults |
| Mareyna Simon | Psychology, Chapman University | Development of the QUIC-5: A Valid Measure of Exposure to Childhood Unpredictability |
| Sierra Soto | Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, UCI | Acute Psychosocial Stress and Reward Learning During Adolescence: The Moderating Role of Gender |
| Karla Vinces | Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology | The Role of Sleep and Aging on an Emotional Directed-Forgetting Memory Task |
Poster Session B: Imaging and Systems Approach Across Species
| Joren Adams | Neurobiology & Behavior, School of Biological Sciences, UCI | Enduring Maternal Grief Impacts Cognitive Functioning as Evidenced by Performance Differences on Neuropsychological Testing Measures |
| Hina Arora | Statistics, Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, UCI | Assessing Early Life Unpredictability Through Entropy Across Species |
| Vinicius Duarte | Developmental & Cellular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, UCI | In vivo Temporal Calcium Dynamics Following Neuronal Dendrite Injury |
| Steve Granger | Neurobiology & Behavior, School of Biological Sciences, UCI | Latent Anxiety in Clinical Depression is Related to Impaired Target Recognition of Negative Items in an Emotional Pattern Separation Task |
| Carey Y. L. Huh | Neurobiology & Behavior, School of Biological Sciences, UCI | Retinoid Therapy Restores the Brain's Binocular Circuitry in Adult Mice with Retinal Degeneration |
| Noriko Kamei | Anatomy & Neurobiology/ Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCI | Can Changes in Methylome Profile Inform us About the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Neurodevelopment? |
| Nellie Nelson | Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, UCI | Early-Life Exercise as an Intervention to Preserve Cognition After Early-Life Adversity: Revealing Epigenetic Signatures |
| Yihan Wang | Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, UCI | Clustering Analysis of Functional Neural Circuit Connectivity Across Repeated Drug Exposure and Withdrawal |
| Kara Wendel | Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, UCI | Early Life Adversity Sculpts Reward Circuits and Contributes to Anhedonia in Adulthood |
Poster Session C: Mechanistic Studies
| Matt Birnie | Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCI | A CRH-Specific Projection from the Basolateral Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Depresses Reward-Seeking Behaviors |
| Lulu Chen | Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, UCI | Early Life Adversity Enhances Habit Formation |
| Yuncai Chen | Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCI | A Novel CRH-Expressing Projection from Basolateral Amygdala (BLA) to the Nucleus Accumbens (NAc) |
| Elizabeth Hubbard | Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, UCI | Impact of Early Life Adversity on Nicotine-Dependent Behavior and Circuit Activity |
| Stephanie Min Law | Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCI | Microglia Control Hypothalamic Excitatory Synapse Number and Their Function is Inhibited by Early-Life Adversity |
| Sophia Levis | Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, UCI | Sex-Dependent Consequences of Early Life Adversity on Reward Circuit Development and Opioid Addiction Vulnerability |
| Anthony Raus | Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, UCI | Stable Epigenetic Signatures of Early-Life Exercise and Memory Function May Persist Into Adulthood |
| Annabel Short | Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCI | Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Hypothalamic CRH-expressing Neurons Informs Mechanisms by which Early-Life Adversity Sculpts Stress Responses |
Data Blitz
| Sabrina Liu | Psychology, Chapman University | The Acute and Persisting Impact of COVID-19 on Trajectories of Adolescent Depression: Sex Differences and Social Connectedness |
| Cassandra Kooiker | Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, UCI | The Paraventricular Thalamus: A Sensor and Integrator of Emotionally Salient Early-Life Experiences |
| Sarah Kark | Neurobiology & Behavior, School of Biological Sciences, UCI | The Paraventricular Thalamic Nucleus: Insights from Resting-State fMRI and Applications to Enduring Maternal Grief Following Adult Child Loss |
| Nora Harhen | Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences, UCI | Formalizing the Relationship Between Early Life Adversity and Addiction Vulnerability: The Role of Memory Sampling |
| Rachael Hokenson | Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, UCI | Blocking Estrogen Protects Female and Male Mice from the Memory-Impairing Effects of Multiple Acute Concurrent Stresses |
| Meghan Vinograd | Psychiatry/ Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health,UC San Diego | Associations Between Unpredictable, Fragmented Early Life Experiences and Anhedonia in the Marine Resiliency Study |
| Autumn Ivy | Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCI | Genomic and Epigenetic Signatures of Early-Life Experiences Using the Novel Emx-NuTRAP Mouse |
| Gage Peterson and Crystal Brown | Psychology, Chapman University | A Predictable Home Environment May Protect Child Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
