Tuesday, August 29th

Early Career Day

12:00 - 5:00 pm

Lunch: 12:00 - 12:45 pm

Room:  Wheatley

Early Career Scholar Workshop - ISPNE's Early Career Scholars Committee Workshop and Webinar Series Presents: Dr. Emma Adam's "Preparing Diurnal Hormone Data for Statistical Analysis"

5:30 pm

Room:  Wheatley

Social event for Early Career Scholar

Wednesday, August 30th

Conference Day 1

07:30-18:00

Room: Auchi Foyer

Registration

09:00-09.15

Room: Guy Whittle Auditorium

Presidential Welcome: Opening, Early Career Scholar Award: Carmine Pariante

09:15-10:30

Parallel symposia -

Rooms:

#1:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

#2:  Wheatley

#3:  Max Rayne Auditorium

1. Stress mindsets matter: An overview of how individuals think about stress, its effect on biopsychosocial processes, and what we can do about it - Audrey-Ann Journault, Cameron Hecht, Félix Duplessis-Marcotte, Karishma Singh

2. Love and stress: the neuroendocrine impact of maternal caregiving - Peter Bos, Lisa Loheide-Niesmann, Nina Bruinhof, Madelon Hendricx-Riem, Karen Yirmiya

3. Measuring the impact of the environment in developing mental health disorders: highlighting innovation in methodology - Rachel Upthegrove, Paola Dazzan, Zuzanna Zajkowska, David Ryan, Alex Murray

 10:30-11:00

Room: Atrium

Coffee break

11:00-12:15

Parallel symposia

Rooms:

#4.  Wheatley

#5.  Max Rayne Auditorium

#6.   Guy Whittle Auditorium

4. Stress-responsive Psychobiological Markers During Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Outcomes Across Countries - Özlü Aran, Elif Aysimi Duman, Sameera Abuaish

5. The long-term impact of stress exposure at central and peripheral level: novel biomarkers to identify intervention strategies in major depression - Nadia Cattane, Henning Grosskopf, Naguib Mechawar, Andreas Menke

6. Empathic abilities as risk and protective factors in the context of stress and health - Veronika Engert, Katja Wingenfeld, Ruth Marheinecke, Christiane Wesarg, Lara Puhlmann

12:15-13:15

Room:  Cavendish

 Lunch

13:15-13:50

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Dirk Hellhammer Award: Robert (Luxembourg) and Elisabeth (Birdie) Shirtcliff (USA)

13:50-14:00

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

ISPNE Service Award: Clemens Kirschbaum (Germany) – presented by Nic Rohleder

14:00-15:00

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Bruce McEwen Lifetime Achievement Award: Jonathan Seckl (UK)

15:00-15:30

Room: Atrium

Coffee Break

1530-16:30

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

ISPNE Business Meeting

16:30-18:30

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

• Presidential Symposium: Has targeting the HPA axis delivered translational impact?Chairs: Valeria Mondelli (UK), Alan Schatzberg (USA)

• Valeria Mondelli (UK): Where are we with personalised intervention in psychiatry?
• Stuart Watson (UK): Why have Mifepristone trials failed?
• Alan Schaztzberg (USA): What have we learnt from our experience with RU486 and with blocking the glucocorticoid receptor?
• Christian Otte (Germany): Translational impact of mineralocorticoid receptor manipulation in major depression

18:30-20:00

Room: Atrium

Poster Session 1 - with drinks

19:30-22:00

Room: Atrium/Cavendish

Welcome Reception

Thursday, August 31st

Conference Day 2

07:30-18:00

Room: Auchi Foyer

Registration

08:30-9.45

Parallel symposia

Rooms: 

#7.   Max Rayne Auditorium

#8.   Guy Whittle Auditorium

#9.    Wheatley

7. Understanding puberty and its measurement: Ideas for a maturing field - Natasha Chaku, Niamh MacSweeney, Anne-Lise Goddings, Lindsay Till Hoyt

8. Understanding the Causal Relationship Between Inflammation and Cognition: Data From Randomized Controlled Trials, Mendelian Randomization, and Observational Studies - Andrew H. Miller, Naoise Mac Giollabhui, Susan Murray, Chloe Slaney, Kate Kuhlman

9. Testing Pathways from Stress Exposure to Physiology in Marginalized Populations -  Katherine Knauft, Amina Ramadan, Evelyn Sarsar, Stephanie Cook

09:45-10:15

Room: Atrium

Coffee break

10:15-11:15

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Keynote Lecture 1:  Charles Nemeroff (USA): Lessons learnt from CRF research

11:15-12:45

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Plenary symposium 1: The impact of psychoneuroendocrinology on the health of women and babies

• Annamaria Cattaneo (Italy): Molecular and biological understanding of perinatal mental health
• Samantha Meltzer-Brody (USA): Neurosteroid therapeutics (Brexanolone and Zuranolone)-- psychoneuroendocrinology in maternal mental health
• Sonja Entringer (Germany): The role of cortisol and inflammation in the intergenerational transmission of risk

12:45-13:45

Room: Cavendish

Lunch

12:45-13:45
Room: Wheatly

12:45-13:45

Room: Henrietta

Early Career Scholar Committee and Meeting

All early career scholars (undergraduate through early faculty) attending ISPNE are welcome to attend for networking with other early career scholars, brief overview of what the early career committee has accomplished this past year, and a chance to join the committee board. 

PNEC-CPNEC Editorial Board, by invitation only

13:45-15:00

Parallel symposia

 Rooms: 

#10.   Max Rayne Auditorium

#11.   Guy Whittle Auditorium

#12.    Wheatley

#13.    Suites 1-3

10. What rodent models can tell us about the mechanisms and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders in the peripartum period and beyond - Bronwyn Graham, Joseph Lonstein, Jodi Pawluski, Jodie Pestana

11. The bidirectional interplay between stress and cognitive emotion regulation - Katja Langer, Valerie L. Jentsch, Sophie A. Bögemann, Nicolas Rohleder

12. The Contagiousness of Stress: How It Affects Our Brains and Bodies - Anett Müller-Alcazar, Veronika Engert, Petra H. Wirtz

13. Mechanisms of inflammation in psychosis - Edward Palmer, Declan McKernan, Maria Dauvermann

15:00-15:30

Room: Atrium

Coffee break

15:30-16:30

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Keynote Lecture 2:  Elisabeth Binder (Germany): FKBP5, from molecular discovery to translational impact

16:30-18:00

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Plenary symposium 2: Improving the health of society through psychoneuroendocrinology

• Shannon Gourley (USA): How we can improve resilience in young people?
• Robert Kumsta (Luxembourg): How early psychosocial risk is ‘biologically embedded’ and increases the risk of long term health problems
• Elisabeth (Birdie) Shirtcliff (USA): Stress impact on puberty and youth health

18:30-20:00

Room: Atrium

Poster session 2 with drinks

20:00-23:00

Room: Cavendish

10:30 pm to 2:30 am

Gala Dinner

After Dinner Event:

ALL ARE WELCOME! 10:30 pm to 2:30 am
Simmons Oxford Street, 203 Wardour St, London W1F 8ZH, United Kingdom
Join us as we close the 2nd day of the ISPNE Annual Meeting with a fun time at Simmons Oxford Street!

Located a few minutes walk from Oxford Circus station and Tottenham Court Road Station, Simmons has a notoriously eclectic musical taste; ranging from disco to funk to 80's to hip-hop, live DJs playing Simmons bangers. 

All attendees get one free drink ticket to come and mingle, dance and spend the evening in one of London's hottest spots!

Friday, September 1st

Conference Day 3

08:30-12:00

Room: Auchi Foyer

Registration

09:00-10:00

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Keynote Lecture 3:  Andrew H Miller (USA): Inflammation and the Development of Targeted Treatments in Psychiatry

10:00-10:30

Room: Cavendish

Coffee break

10:30-11:45

Parallel symposia

 Rooms: 

#14.   Guy Whittle Auditorium

#15.   Max Rayne Auditorium

#16.    Wheatley

14. Early life adversities in the etiology of mental illness: the role of immune mechanisms - Marco Andrea Riva,  Anthony C. Vernon, Livia  De Picker, Jennifer C. Felger

15. Hormonal Contraceptives and the Brain - Implications for Women's Mental Health - Ann-Christin Kimmig, Esmeralda Hidalgo-Lopez, Vibe Frokjaer, Belinda Pletzer 

16. Refining the allostatic load model in biological psychiatry - Robert-Paul Juster, Philippe Kerr, Enzo Cipriani, Blazej Misiak

11:45-12:00

Break to move between symposia, no coffee!

12:00-13:15

Parallel symposia

Rooms: 

#17.   Guy Whittle Auditorium

#18.    Wheatley

#19.    Max Rayne Auditorium

17. Immuno-NeuroPsychiatry on the Path to Clinical Application - Livia De Picker, Dominique Endres, Michael Benros

18. Contactless measurement of stress, its determinants, and consequences - Robert Richer, Hanna Drimalla, Katharina Schultebraucks

19. Biobehavioral etiology and treatment of reproductive mood disorders across the female reproductive lifespan - Elizabeth Andersen, Danielle Swales, Hannah Klusmann, Elise Bücklein, Serena Lozza-Fiacco

13:15-14:15

Room: Cavendish

Lunch 

13:15-14:15

Room: Seminar Suite

Speed mentoring – Emma Adam (USA)

14:15-15:15

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Oral presentation for selected Early Career Scholar – Sonia Lupien (Canada)

15:15-16:15

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Keynote Lecture 4:  Michael Meaney (Singapore/Canada): Translational Transcriptomics: Seqing the truth from model system and human cohort studies of mood disorders

16:15-17:30

Parallel symposia

Rooms: 

#20.   Guy Whittle Auditorium

#21.   Max Rayne Auditorium

#22.    Wheatley

20. Teasing apart the role of glucocorticoids as mediator or indicator of stress: Recent insights from animal studies - Mariana Pais, Jason Radley, James Herman, Marian Joëls

21. From Womb to Well-being: The Intricate Link between Psychoneuroendocrinology, Metabolism, and Fetal Programming for Optimal Neurodevelopment and Health - Claudia Buss, Lauren Shuffrey, Phu Train, Jenalee Doom

22. Biomarkers of the immune system in panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder and their association with non-pharmacological interventions - Benedict Herhaus, Katja Petrowski, Vanessa Renner

17:30

Room:  Guy Whittle Auditorium

Closing remarks