2014 Retreat Agenda
Quadrangle Club; 1155 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637; September 17, 2014
Session 1: ongoing work: the purpose of the morning session is to give your colleagues a flavor for the kind of work you’ve done in the past and your broader interests. Just pick one story: in progress or published.
| 8:30 | Welcome | Abraham Palmer |
| 8:40 | Prior education and outreach activities at UofC (Conte/IGSB) | Barry Aprison |
| 9:00 | A QTL for agenesis of corpus callosum in BTBR mice | Gerald Bothe |
| 9:20 | History and my prior application of N/NIH HS Rats | Leah Solberg Woods |
| 9:40 | GWAS w GBS and eQTL in mice | Abraham Palmer |
| 10:00 | Break (Coffee) | |
| 10:20 | Individual variation in attributing incentive salience to reward cues: a few new developments | Terry Robinson |
| 10:40 | Investigating the neural circuitry underlying sign- and goal-tracking behaviors | Shelly Flagel |
| 11:00 | Socially-acquired nicotine self-administration and the role of carbon disulfite | Hao Chen |
| 11:20 | Cue directed behaviors – nicotine, alcohol, and cocaine | Paul Meyer |
| 11:40 | Measurement, Statistics, Data Management, R, and All That Jazz | Joe Lucke |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
Session 2: P50 related work: here we will just describe each part of the grant to the colleagues. Provides an opportunity to refresh everyone memory, identify possible improvement. Talk can be very pragmatic; we are not trying to impress anyone, so ok to describe problems or ways that you will deviate from what you wrote.
| 1:00 | Core A: Admin Core | Gerald Bothe & Barry Aprison |
| 1:20 | Core B: Breeding the NNIH heterogeneous Stock | Leah Solberg Woods |
| 1:40 | Core C: Genotyping (technology, organization, this grant) | Abraham Palmer and Hao Chen |
| 2:00 | Core D: Pilot Projects | Gerald Bothe & Abraham Palmer |
| 2:20 | Break (Coffee) | |
| 2:40 | Project 1: Incentive Salience | Terry Robinson & Shelly Flagel |
| 3:00 | Project 2: Nicotine Self-Administration | Hao Chen |
| 3:20 | Project 3: Behavioral regulation | Paul Meyer |
| 3:40 | Project 4: Analysis | Abraham Palmer |
| 4:00-6 | Rat training for techs/students/postdocs | |
| 4:00-6 | General discussion and question/answers for center PIs | |
| 6:00 | Reception/dinks at the QuadClub bar | |
| 7:00 | Dinner for those not driving home tonight |
For questions related to this event please contact Oksana Polesskaya ([email protected]).