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