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Agenda
Addiction & Chemical Intolerance
NIEHS Conference - September 19 & 20, 2005
Research Triangle Park, NC
| MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 |
| INTRODUCTION |
| 8:30 am |
Samuel Wilson, Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS/NIH), Research Triangle Park, NC |
| Welcome and Workshop Goals |
| FEATURED SPEAKER |
| 8:45 am |
Ting-Kai Li, Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA/NIH), Bethesda, MD |
| Alcohol Tolerance and Intolerance |
| TOXICANT-INDUCED LOSS OF TOLERANCE |
| 9:20 am |
Claudia Miller, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
| Chemical Intolerance (Abdiction) and Addiction: Mirror Images? |
| ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES |
| 9:45 am |
Richard Corsi, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
| Human Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Environments |
| 10:10 am |
Robin Whyatt, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, NY |
| Pesticides: Assessing Exposures and Health Risks |
| 10:35 am |
Break |
| CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS AND PARALLELS |
| 10:50 am |
William Meggs, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greensville, NC |
| Chemical Intolerance and Addiction: The Longest Five Days |
| 11:15 am |
Iris Bell, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ |
| Individual Differences in Time-Dependent Sensitization: |
| Possible Links between Environmentally-Triggered Illnesses and Addiction |
| 11:40 am |
Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| Caffeine Dependence and Withdrawal |
| 12:05 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00 pm |
Mark Gold, University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, FL |
| Occupational Exposures and Drug Addiction |
| 1:25 pm |
Robert Malcolm, Medical University of South Carolina Institute of Psychiatry, Charleston, SC |
| Consequences of Repeated Alcohol Detoxifications: |
| New Findings with Anticonvulsants to Treat Withdrawal Syndrome |
| 1:50 pm |
Discussion |
| ANIMAL MODELS |
| 2:15 pm |
George Breese, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Multiple Ethanol Withdrawals: A "Kindling"/Stress Hypothesis of Alcoholism |
| 2:40 pm |
Terry Robinson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Persistent Effects of Psychostimulant Drugs on Brain and Behavior |
| 3:05 pm |
Break |
| 3:20 pm |
Scott Bowen, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI |
| Abuse of Inhalants: Implications for Chemical Intolerance |
| 3:45 pm |
Barbara Sorg**, Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Pullman, WA |
| Animal Model for Chemical Intolerance Using Low-level Formaldehyde and Pesticide Exposures |
| 4:10 pm |
David Overstreet**, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Animal Model of Chemical Intolerance with Underlying Cholinergic Hypersensitivity |
| 4:35 pm |
Discussion |
| 5:00 pm |
Reception |
* Conference Chair
** Conference Co-chair
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| TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 |
| GENETICS/GENOMICS/PROTEOMICS |
| 8:30 am |
Cornelia Baines and Gail McKeown-Eyssen, University of Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Case-control Study of Genotypes Associated with Chemical Intolerance: |
| CYP2D6, NAT1, NAT2, PON1, PON2 and MTHFR |
| 8:55 am |
Tamara Phillips, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR |
| Addiction Genetics: Narrowing the Candidates |
| 9:20 am |
Kent Vrana, Penn State University, Hershey, PA |
| Genomics/Proteomics of Alcohol Responses |
| 9:45 am |
William Slikker, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR
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| Understanding the Role of Polymorphisms and Gene Expression in Drug Addiction: A Systems Biology Approach |
| 10:10 am |
Discussion |
| 10:30 am |
Break |
| NEUROINFORMATICS |
| 10:45 am |
Leonid Bunegin, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
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| Cerebral Blood Flow in Addiction, Withdrawal, and Chemical Intolerance |
| 11:10 am |
Howard Hu, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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| SPECT Scans and Chemical Intolerance |
| 11:35 am |
Marc Potenza, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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| Common Neural Correlates Across Addictions |
| 12:00 pm |
Discussion |
| 12:20 pm |
Summation and Future Directions |
| 1:00 pm |
Adjournment |
* Conference Chair
** Conference Co-chair
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