IBANGS Annual Plenary Addresses and Annual Scientist Award Lectures
2016 – Bar Harbor, United States
Plenary Address: Tim Tully, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President of R&D & Chief Science Officer, Dart Neuroscience LLC, San Diego, California, USA
Genetic dissection of Pavlovian memory: the psychologists got it right!
Plenary Address: David Goldman, M.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
The genetics of addiction: The interface of genes, environment and choice
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Guoping Feng, Ph.D.
Investigator, McGovern Institute, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Dissecting Synaptic and Circuitry Mechanisms of Autism
Young Scientist Award and Lecture: Alex Keene, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Florida Atlantic University Genetic and evolutionary dissection of the sleep-feeding conflict
2015 – Uppsala, Sweden
Plenary Address: Kerstin Lindblad-Tho Professor in Comparative Genomics, Uppsala University, Sweden; Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology, Broad Institute, USA. Evolution, comparative genetics and disease
Plenary Address: Patrick Sullivan, MD Professor of Genetics, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, USA. Where we are and where we need to be in psychiatric genomics
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Dai Stephens University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom.
Young Scientist Award and Lecture: Yehuda Ben-Shahar Washington University, USA. The genetics of neuronal and behavioral homeostasis
2014 – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Plenary Address: Laura Jean Bierut, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA. How Genetic Risk for Nicotine Dependence Translates into Successful Smoking Cessation
Plenary Address: Antonello Bonci, MD Scientific Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Optogenetic approaches to understanding synaptic plasticity and substance use disorders
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Marla Sokolowski Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada. Gene-environment interplay and behavior
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Cameron Bryant Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Genes, brain and addiction traits: Moving from discovery toward validation and mechanism
2013 – Leuven, Belgium
Plenary Address: Scot Waddell Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK Bending the not so simple mind of the fly
Plenary Address: Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg/Medical Faculty Mannheim, Germany Neural mechanisms of genetic and environmental risk for mental disorders
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Robert Gerlai Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Alcohol, dopamine and social behaviour: The first steps towards a neurobehavioural genetic analysis
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Judith Homberg Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Dept Cognitive, Neuroscience, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Serotonin transporter gene variation in rats: for better and for worse
2012 – Boulder, Colorado, USA
Plenary Address: Marla Sokolowski Department of Ecology and Evolutionar Biology, University of Toronto, Canada Gene-environment interplay in behavior
Plenary Address: Lisa Monteggia UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA NMDA Receptor Blockade and Rapid Behavioral Antidepressant Responses
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Joe Z. Tsien Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Neurology, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, USA Genetic and Neural analyses of Dopaminergic Circuits in Habit Learning
2011 – Rome, Italy
Plenary Address: Zoltan Molnar Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK Development of the cerebral cortex and cognitive disorders
Plenary Address: Jonathan Flint Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK How to find quantitatitive trait genes in the mouse
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Jacqueline Crawley Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Mouse Models of Autism to Test Hypotheses about Causes and to Discover Effective Treatments
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Stephen Boehm II Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Subunit selectivity of GABAA receptor modulation of limited-access alcohol intake in a mouse model.
2010 – Halifax, Canada
Plenary Address: Mary-Anne Enoch Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA A multi-directional approach to the detection of genetic risk for alcohol dependence
Plenary Address: Ann-Shyn Chiang Institute of Biotechnology and Brain Research Center, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu Taiwan, ROC Neural circuitry governing CO2 avoidance behavior in the Drosophila brain
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Tamara Phillips Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Portland Alcohol Research Center, Methamphetamine Abuse Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA Cool! I can breed for this!
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Hiroki Ishiguro University of Yamanashi , Nakakoma, Yamanashi, Japan; IRP-NIDA NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Analysis of NrCAM related molecular pathway underlying addiction
2009 – Dresden, Germany
Plenary Address: Eric B. Keverne SubDepartment of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Evolutionary coadaptation of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus and placenta in foetal programming
Plenary Address: Ralph Greenspan The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California, USA Sleep and Arousal in Drosophila
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Hans-Peter Lipp Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Natura enim simplex est (Isaac Newton, 1713)
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Abraham Palmer Departments of Human Genetics, and Psychiatry/Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, USA Recombination happens: my personal journey towards unorthodoxy and self realization
2008 – Portland, Oregon, USA
Plenary Address: Alcino Silva Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology, and the Brain Research Institute,University of California at Los Angeles, USA Molecular and cellular cognition: from memory mechanisms to treatments
Plenary Address: Ulrike Heberlein Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, Program in Neuroscience, & Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco, USA Of flies and mice: what have flies taught us about drug addiction?
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: John Belknap (co-recipient) and John Crabbe (co-recipient) Dept of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science Univ, and Portland VA Medical Center, USA A tale of two Johns: Common environmental determinants of behavior genetics investigations
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Justin Rhodes Dept of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Mouse genetic differences in exercise-induced adult hippocampal neurogenesis & learning
2007 – Doorwerth, The Netherlands
Plenary Address: CP Kyriacou Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Natural genetic variation in circadian behaviour
Plenary Address: SDM Brown MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell, OX11 ORD, UK The functional annotation of the mouse genome - the challenge of phenotyping
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Robert Williams Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA Systems genetics of brain structure and function: a jigsaw puzzle
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Elissa Chesler Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA Ontological discovery from genes to behavior
2006 – Vancouver, Canada
Plenary Address: Susumu Tonegawa Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms for hippocampal memory
Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture: Douglas Wahlsten University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Genetic heritability: an old bottle for some 21st century wine
Distinguished Scientist Award (posthumously): Lorraine Flaherty Genomics Institute, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York and Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, New York, USA
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Andrew Holmes National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, USA The ascent of mouse: using mice to understand the causes and cures of neuropsychiatric disease
2005 – Sitges, Spain
Plenary Address: Susan Alberts Duke University and the Institute for Primate Research at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi Kin recognition in animals: insights about modes and mechanisms
Plenary Address: Gerald McClearn Center for Developmental and Health Genetics at The Pennsylvania State University, USA The genetics of behavioural aging
2003 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Plenary Address: Christopher L. Cunningham Portland Alcohol Research Center, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA Genetics of rewarding and aversive effects of ethanol
2002 – Tours, France
Symposia sessions only
2001 – Tours, France
Symposia sessions only
2000 – Brighton, UK
Plenary Address: Jacqueline N. Crawley NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA What’s wrong with my mouse? Behavioral phenotyping strategies and applications
Plenary Address: Mario de Bono Cambridge, UK The genetics of food-induced social foraging in C. elegans
Plenary Address: R. Bourtchouladze Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA Genes important for long-term memory and synaptic plasticity
Plenary Address: Peter McGuffin London, UK Heredity, hazards and the origins of Depressive Disorder
1999 – Key Largo, Florida, USA
Plenary Address: S. Tonegawa Center for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Studies on learning and memory, and activity-dependent development of the visual system with genetically engineered mice
Plenary Address: Richard J. Rose Depts. Psychology and Medical Genetics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Behavior-genetics of use and abuse of alcohol
Plenary Address: T. Tully Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA Genetic basis of memory
Plenary Address: H.-P. Lipp Institut für Anatomie, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Genes, brain and behavior: bottom-up and top-down approaches
Hnrnph1 is a quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity. Neema Yazdani - Boston University School of Medicine, USA.
Genetic dissection of extended amygdala circuitry linking anxiety, aversion, and behavioral arousal. William J. Giardino - Stanford University, USA.
Validation of the candidate risk gene for neuropsychiatric disease CACNA1C using a mouse ENU mutagenesis screen. Eleanor Hobbs - MRC Harwell, UK.
GABAB(1) receptor subunit isoforms differentially regulate stress resilience. Olivia O'Leary - University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
2014 – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genotypicand sex-differences in anxiety-like behavior and anxiolytic response to alcohol in High Drinking in the Dark mice. A. M. Barkley-Levenson - Oregon Health & Science University, USA, and Portland Alcohol Research Center, VA Medical Center, USA.
Developing zebrafish methodology to model genetic and environmental modifiers of the vertebrate stress response system (SRS). Karl J. Clark - Mayo Addiction Research Center, Mayo Clinic., Rochester,Minnesota, USA.
New neurons are not necessary for exercise to abolish conditioned place preference for cocaine. M. L. Mustroph - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Genetic susceptibility to comorbid psychiatric phenotypes in a panel of mice deficient for the human type 2 diabetes gene TCF7L2. Laura J. Sittig – University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2013 – Leuven, Belgium
Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol’s positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA
2012 – Boulder, Colorado, USA
The role of αCaMKII autophosphorylation in the establishment of alcohol addiction Alanna Easton, King’s College, UK
Novel age-dependent learning deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease: implications for translational research Karienn Montgomery, University of Florida, USA
Microsatellite regions upstream of the vole Avpr1a gene contribute to both individual and species differences in receptor expression Zoe Donaldson, Columbia University, USA
Per Genes and Addiction Stephanie Perreau-Lenz, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
2011 – Rome, Italy
TTC12-ANKK1-DRD2 and CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 influences different pathways leading to smoking behavior from adolescence to mid-adulthood Francesca Ducci, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UNITED KINGDOM
A drosophila model for alcohol reward Karla Kaun, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Genome-wide association study to identify variants associated with amphetamine sensitivity in humans Amy Hart, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Maternal separation is associated with an altered response to stress and epigenetic alterations Rachel Kember, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UNITED KINGDOM
2010 – Halifax, Canada
TIP39 signaling as a modulator of the effects of emotional arousal on memory performance Laurence Coutellier, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, USA
Genetic dissection of the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) system reveals a role for the CRF type-2 receptor in locomotor sensitivity to methamphetamine William Giardino, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA
Maternal genotype moderates the relationship between recent stress and maternal behavior Viara Mileva-Seitz, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Functional insertion of B2 SINE in Comt controls 3’ UTR length and generates widespread expression and behavioral differences among inbred strains of mice Megan Mulligan, University of Tennessee at Memphis , USA
2009 – Dresden, Germany
The contribution of neural stem cells and their lineages to the adult hippocampus Alyssa Picchini, Dept of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, USA
A role for brain insulin receptors in the locomotor stimulant response to ethanol in Drosophila melanogaster Christopher Kliethermes, Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center, Univ of California, San Francisco, USA
Amygdala transcriptome hints at cellular mechanisms underlying stress- enhanced fear learning, a rat model of posttraumatic stress disorder Igor Ponomarev, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Univ of Texas at Austin, USA
Digging for the evolutionary and genetic basis of burrowing behavior in deer mice Jesse Weber, Dept of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA (talk given in Symposium Session II)
2008 – Portland, Oregon, USA
A novel model for depressive and motivated behavior based on selective breeding Roman Gersner, Dept of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Kir3.3 (GIRK3) null mutation attenuates alcohol and pentobarbital withdrawal convulsion severity in mice Lauren Milner, Dept of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, and Portland VA Medical Center, USA
Confirmation of quantitative trait loci influencing methamphetamine- and opioid-induced locomotor stimulation using B6.D2 congenic strains Camron Bryant, Dept of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, USA
miRNA regulation of gene expression underlies tolerance to alcohol Andrzej Pietrzykowski, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts, USA
2007 – Doorwerth, The Netherlands
Expression of neuropeptide Y and somatostatin in fear conditioned mice Anne Albrecht, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Genetics of basal plasma corticosterone levels in the LXS Recombinant Inbred mouse strains Clarissa Parker, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Amygdala PKC epsilon regulates corticotrophin releasing factor, anxiety-like behavior and alcohol consumption Heidi Lesscher, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Is there a genetic correlation between innate anxiety and learned fear? Abraham Palmer, University of Chicago, USA (talk given in Symposium Session II)
2006 – Vancouver, Canada
Decreased glycine affinity at the NMDA receptor results in impaired switching behaviors in mice that are reversed by D-Serine Viviane Labrie, Mt. Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Short-term selected lines for fear conditioning: QTL and gene expression analysis Christine Ponder – Columbia University, New York, USA
Localized expression of Beta2-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in dopaminergic neurons in mice supports locomotor activating, but not rewarding effects of nicotine Yann Mineur, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA
The human GABAA Receptor α2 Gene (GABRA2): findings from an alcohol endophenotype study and post-mortem brain expression analyses Heather Haughey, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
2005 – Sitges, Spain
Resistance to ethanol intoxication in mice lacking protein kinase C delta Doo-Sup Choi - University of California, San Francisco, USA
Identifying consistent and informative behaviours in mouse exploration tasks Michael Galsworthy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mice selectively bred for high and low acute locomotor response to methamphetamine do not differ in ethanol-induced stimulation, sensitization or metabolism Helen Kamens, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Serotonin N-acetyltransferase (Aanat) as a candidate gene for mouse baseline locomotor activity measured in the home cage Lin Liu, King's College London, UK
2003 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Functional variation in vasopressin 1a receptor gene structure within and between vole species predicts behavior Elizabeth Hammock, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Emory University, Atlanta, Georga, USA
Novelty seeking and dopamine receptor polymorphisms in adolescence Noa Heiman, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Novelty-seeking behaviors and alcohol preference in mice lacking alpha1G T-type Ca2+ channels Daesoo Kim, National CRI Centre for Calcium and Learning, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
A glutamatergic basis for impaired ethanol-induced plasticity in Homer2 null mutant mice Karen Szumlinski, Physiology and Neuroscience, Medical Univ of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
