GENE


GENE-ENVIROMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN HUMAN BRAIN
DISEASES


NOVEMBER 8 AND 9TH, 2004


JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE


STANLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE


TURNER BUILDING


TILGMAN ROOM

  

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2004

 Morning Session Chaired by
Dr. Christopher Ross

 8:30    WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

            J. Raymond DePaulo, Michael Knable, E. Fuller
Torrey

            Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine

            Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda MD

 8:45     NEUROGENETICS: INSIGHTS INTO NEURODEGENERATION
AND APPROACHES TO    SCHIZOPHRENIA

           
Christopher  Ross, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 9:30    
GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

           
J. Timothy Greenamyre, Center for Neurodegnerative Disease, Emory University

 10:15  
EPISODIC NEUROLOGIC DISEASES: FROM RARE MENDELIAN DISORDERS TO MIGRANE AND
EPILEPSY

           
Louis Ptacek, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San
Francisco, Department of Neurology

 11:00  
GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND TREATMENT DETERMINANTS IN HIV/AIDS

           
Justin McArthur, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 11:45  
GENE ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR  DISORDER

           
Faith Dickerson, Department of Psychology, Sheppard Pratt Health System,
Baltimore, MD

 12:30
– 1:30                            L U N C H    B R E A K

 


P.M. Session Chaired by Dr. Robert Yolken

 1:30    
EVOLUTION OF MICROORGANISMS

           
Paul W. Ewald, Department of Biology, Amherst College

 

2:15    
THE RAT SAT ON THE CAT; THE INFLUENCE OF ANTI-PROTOZOAN AND ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUGS
ON THE ABILITY OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII TO ALTER HOST BEHAVIOR

           
Joanne Webster, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College,
London

 3:00    
GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR
DISORDER

           
Sabine Bahn, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University, UK

 3:45    
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER

           
Preben Mortenson, National Center for Register-based Research, Arhaus, Denmark

 4:30    
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

           
E. Fuller Torrey, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

 Tuesday,
November 9, 2004

 Chaired
by Dr. Christopher Ross and Dr. Robert Yolken

 8:30    
DISC-1 MUTATIONS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

           
Russell Margolis, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 9:00    
DISC-1 AND PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES

           
Akira Sawa, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 9:30    
NETHERLANDS IMAGING OF HERPES SIMPLEX INFECTIONS I VIVO WITH POSITRON EMISSIN
TOMOGRAPHY

           
Hans C. Klein, University Hospital Groningen Centre for Mental Health,
Winschoten, The Netherlands

 10:00  
VIRAL INFECTION AND GENE EXPRESSION

           
Håkan Karlsson, Stanley Laboratory, Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm

 10:30   ANIMAL MODELS OF DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN AND
BEHAVIOR ABNORMALITIES: VIRAL INFECTIONS PERSPECTIVES


           
Misha Pletnikov, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine

 11:00  
CMV INFECTION, GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

           
Vishwajit Nimgaonkar and Brian Sheets, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh

 11:30  
MICROARRAYS OF THE GRAY AND WHITE MATTER IN THE FRONTAL AND OCCIPITAL CORTEX IN
CONTROLS AND SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

           
SergeWeiss, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

 12:00                                      
L U N C H   B R E A K

  1:00   
GENE EXPRESSION ALTERATION IN POSTMORTEM BRAINS FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA SUBJECTS

           
Haiming Chen, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 1:30    
THE KYNURENINE PATHWAY IN PSYCHOSIS

           
Christine Miller, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine

 2:00    
METHYLATION PATHWAYS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

           
Sarven Sabunciyan, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine

 2:30    
GENE-BASED SNP MAPPING OF A PSYCHOTIC BIPOLAR DISORDER LINKAGE REGION ON 22Q12.3

           
James Potash, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine

 3:00    
NEONATAL CYTOKINES, DOWN’S SYNDROME, AND AUTISM


           
Phil Nelson and Karin Nelson, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD

 3:30    
COHORT STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY

           
David Niebuhr, Amy Millikan, David Cowan, Yuanzhang Li, Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD

 4:00    
COHORT STUDIES AND PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES

           
William Eaton, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health