Meeting Program
Wednesday, April 11, 20078:00am - 6:00pm
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The conference will begin at 6:30am with a continental breakfast served at the Broad Institute. Breaks will be taken during the day for lunch, and for morning and afternoon snacks. The formal program will conclude at 6pm after the panel discussion.
A program of speakers is shown below:
| 8:00am |
Edward Scolnick, M.D. Director, Psychiatric Disease Initiative Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 8:15am |
Eric Nestler, M.D.,Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Molecular Mechanisms of Depression and Antidepressant Action [video] |
| 9:00am | Marc Caron, Ph.D. James B. Duke Professor, Department of Cell Biology Duke University Medical Center |
Tryptophan Hydroxylase 2 (Tph2) Regulation of the Central Serotonin System: Behavioral and Psychopharmacological Implications [video] |
| 9:45am |
Break |
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| 10:15am |
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D. |
Dopamine Signaling and Mood Disorders [video] |
| 11:00am |
Paul Greengard, Ph.D. Vincent Astor Professor, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience The Rockefeller University |
Biochemical Studies of Depression [video] |
| 11:45am |
Lunch | |
| 1:30pm |
Rene Hen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Psychiatry Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons |
Neurogenesis and Depression [video] |
| 2:15pm |
Stephen Heinemann, Ph.D. Salk Institute Council Professor in Genetics Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory The Salk Institute |
Kainate Receptors and Mental Disease [video] |
| 3:00pm |
Break |
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| 3:30pm |
A. John Rush, M.D. Vice Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences Professor, Department of Psychiatry The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
The STAR-D Trial: Implications for Practice and Challenge for Researchers [video] |
| 4:15pm |
Jordan Smoller, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School |
Phenotypic and Genetic Insights from the STEP-BD Study of Bipolar Disorder [video] |
| 5:00pm | Panel Discussion | Caron, Greengard, Heineman, Hen, Nestler, Perlis, Tsai, Rush |