Current

Program Director
Amy Learmonth, William Paterson University

Co-Chair
Peter Gerhardstein, Binghamton University-SUNY

Conference Coordinator
Julie Campbell, Psychology Department, Illinois State University

Perinatal Pre-Conference Symposium Program Director
Marion I. van den Heuvel
Sponsored by the International Perinatal Brain and Behavior Network (IPBBN)

Announcing the Symposium Sessions:

Please click on the Symposium Titles Below for full details:

• EARLY LIFE STRESS EXPOSURE YIELDS PERSISTENT PHYSIOLOGICAL, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN PRECLINICAL RODENT MODELS, Chair: Dr Jennifer Quinn, Miami University, Oxford, United States
• CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO STUDYING EARLY LIFE STRESS AND THE DEVELOPING BRAIN, Chair: Ms Morgan Botdorf, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
• EMERGENCE OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN FUNCTIONAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK & RESILIENCE, Chair: Dr Sonya Troller-Renfree, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, United States
• STRESS AND THE DEVELOPING BRAIN: A CROSS-SPECIES EXAMINATION OF THE NEURODEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS OF EARLY ADVERSITY, Chair: Dr Heidi Meyer, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States
• EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY, INFLAMMATORY BURDEN, AND VULNERABILITY: A TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH, Chair: Dr Joanne Weinberg, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

• Perinatal Pre-Conference: NEURAL CORRELATES OF MOTHER-CHILD INTERACTION: SHAPING EARLY SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Chair: Dr Mia Mclean, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada

Due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic developments, we are monitoring the situation closely, with knowledge that despite areas beginning to reopen, COVID-19 cases are rising in many places, with several states in the U.S. and some countries continuing to experience new peaks in daily infections. We wanted to let you know that the meeting will happen, one way or the other.

Because the ISDP 2020 is an official Satellite meeting of the SfN, we must wait to decide whether it will be virtual or in-person until SfN makes its decision.

We have been examining various ways of making the meeting an interactive and engaging virtual meeting. The meeting may end up being even more interactive if we turn it into a Virtual Meeting, with the content from the sessions becoming available a week in advance so people can start discussing them even before, during and after the actual dates. We can keep the content alive and moving even after the meeting, and most importantly, expand access to the content to more people, those who are very far away, or have other reasons that keep them from attending the in person meeting annually.

We hope you are planning on joining us at ISDP 2020, whether that will be in person (hopefully) or virtually. The Abstract Deadline has been extended to August 1, 2020