June 4, 2024

3-5 PM Badge Pickup in the Huntington Foyer.

4:30-6 Opening Reception in the Huntington Foyer and Ballroom

6-7:30 Welcome Remarks & Keynote Presentation by Amy Arnsten in the Huntington Ballroom.

Session chair: Johannes Bohacek, ETH Zurich

How we fall apart: The molecular mechanisms underlying stress-induced prefrontal cortical dysfunction

June 5, 2024

8-9 Breakfast in the Huntington Foyer

9-12:30 Session 1: Lived experiences within minoritized populations: how unique stressors create mental health disparities

Session chairs: Negar Fani, Emory University and Jesse Moreira, Boston University

• Nathaniel Harnett: Neurobiological consequences of racialized traumatic stress

• Robert-Paul Juster: Allostatic load among sexual and gender diverse people

• Deborah Rose, Clin-STAR Lecturer on the Advances in Aging Research: Associations Between Early Life Adversity and Dementia in Diverse Cohorts

• Coffee Break

• Alisha Moreland-Capuia: The fierce urgency of now: Why people and systems must be trauma-informed

• Open Discussion and workshop on trauma-informed stress neurobiology research.

12:30 Lunch (on your own) Poster Presenters put up posters

2-5:30 Session 2: Where worlds collide: finding common ground between physiological and psychosocial stress.

Session chairs: Travis Hodges, Mt. Holyoke University and Georgia Hodes, Virginia Tech

• Erica Glasper: Increased social vigilance and altered central and peripheral immune activity to early-life adversity: adaptation or maladaptive responses?

• Troy Roepke: Comparing the influence of physical and social chronic stressors on behavior, anterodorsal BSNT transcriptome, and CRH neuronal excitability.

• Ritchy Hodebourg: Cannabis use changes conditioned stress responses by altering the tetrapartite synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens core

• Coffee Break

• Mary Kay Lobo: Neuron-microglia interactions in social stressors

• Sam Golden: Leveraging sex-specific mechanisms of operant social reward to promote resiliency following psychological vs physiological social stressors

• Open Discussion

5:30-7:30 Poster Session with refreshments in the Boston Ballroom

June 6, 2024

8-9 Breakfast in the Huntington Foyer

9-12:30 Session 3: The double-edged sword of adolescence: a critical period for both impact and outcomes of stress exposure

Session chairs: Maya Opendak, Johns Hopkins University and Russ Romeo, Barnard College

• Heather Brenhouse: The Forces That Shape Us: Interactions of Early Experience, Sex, and Puberty on the development of threat response circuits

• Mar Sanchez: Impact of Early Life Adversity on Adolescence Stress, Emotional Regulation and Neurocircuitry: A Nonhuman Primate Model

• Raul Andero Gali: Exploring the Potential of Glucocorticoid Administration During Adolescence to Prevent Stress-Induced Effects

• Coffee Break

• Lindsay Sailer: Impacts of paternal deprivation and social stress on patterns of neural activation in the social brain

• Gyorgy Lur: How adolescent stress reorganizes cognitive circuits in the parietal cortex

• Open Discussion

12:30 Lunch (on your own) Poster Presenters put up posters

2-5:30 Session 4: Bruce McEwen Memorial Symposium: Stress, steroid hormones, and a legacy of mentorship

Session chairs: Matthew Hill, University of Calgary and Ilia Karatsoreos, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Victoria Luine: Interactions of stress and sex on cognition, mood and neural function in rodents.

• Liisa Galea: Stress Effects on the Brain – What’s Sex got to do with it?

• Jordan Marrocco: Decoding the stressed genome: allostatic models of steroid hormone actions and epigenetic regulations

• Coffee Break

• Bruce McEwen Early Investigator Award presented to Bianca Jones Marlin by Matthew Hill and Ilia Karatsoreos

  Sensing Trauma: Intergenerational inheritance of olfactory sensory experience

• Open Discussion

5:30-7:30 Poster Session with refreshments in the Boston Ballroom

June 7, 2024

8-9 Breakfast in the Huntington Foyer

9-12:30 Session 5: The future of basic stress research: Novel circuits, networks, and neural ensembles

Session chairs: Austin Coley, UCLA and Jamie Maguire, Tufts University Medical School

• Michael Baratta: Sex- and circuit-specific determinants of stress resilience

• Jom Hammack: Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) circuits in stress and emotion

• Meg Fox: A gut feeling: peripheral peptides act in the midbrain to promote stress susceptibility

• Coffee Break

• Cate Peña: Harnessing single-cell techniques to understand stress across the lifespan

• Zachary Pennington: Dissociable amygdala & hippocampal contributions to stress-induced defensive behaviors

• Open Discussion

12:30-1 Closing Remarks, Introduction of 2026 Workshop Chairs and Location.