Epigenetics: Development, Psychopathology, Resilience, and Preventive Intervention Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Inaugural Symposium of the Institute for Translational Research in Children's Mental Health

May 13-15, 2015

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Speakers:

Steven R. H. Beach, Ph.D., University of Georgia, “Effects of childhood experience on young adult outcomes: A look at epigenetic mediation”

Jay Belsky, Ph.D., University of California-Davis

Idan Shalev, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

“The development of human reproductive strategies: Unknowns in the epigenetic equation”

Gene H. Brody, Ph.D., University of Georgia, “Resilience to adversity and the early origins of disease”

Frances A. Champagne, Ph.D., Columbia University, “Transmission of risk and resilience across generations: Epigenetics and parental influences”

Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, “Epigenetic mechanisms of physical disease and mental illness risk: Illustration from the study of child maltreatment”

Irving I. Gottesman, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Moderator, Speaker Panel

Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D., Yale University, TBA

Michael J. Meaney, Ph.D., McGill University, TBA

Greg Miller, Ph.D., Northwestern University, “The biological residue of early adversity: Implications for chronic disease.”

Tania L. Roth, Ph.D., University of Delaware, “Insight from animal models of environmentally-driven epigenetic changes in the developing and adult brain”

Sir Michael L. Rutter, M.D. FRS, FRCPsych., FBA, FAcMed Sci., Kings College London, “Why is the topic of the biological embedding of experiences important for translation?”

Moshe Szyf, Ph.D., M.D., McGill University Medical School, “Epigenetic adaptation of the genome to early life adversity”

Audrey R. Tyrka, M.D. Ph.D., Butler Hospital, Brown Medical School, “Childhood adversity and epigenetic regulation of glucocorticoid signaling genes: Associations in preschool-aged children and adults”