October 16-18, 2019

Swissôtel Chicago, Chicago, USA

(On the SfN Hotel Shuttle Route)

& Perinatal Pre-Conference Symposium
Sponsored by the International Perinatal Brain and Behavior Network (IPBBN)

Program Director
Amy Learmonth, William Paterson University

Conference Coordinator
Sonia A. Cavigelli, Pennsylvania State University

Presidential Symposium:

Fathers are parents too! Exploring the psychobiological context of early development

  • The Psychobiology of Father-Infant Relationships, Brenda L. Volling, PhD, Center for Human Growth & Development, University of Michigan, USA Read MoreThis talk will focus on recent findings linking the quality of early father-infant relationships to hormonal changes in father’s testosterone in response to stress, in addition to the role of a secure father-infant attachment relationships for infant stress reactivity.
  • Becoming Dads: How Comparative Perspectives Help Us Understand Men’s Hormones, Behavior, and Health as Fathers, Lee T. Gettler, PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame Read MoreHuman fathers shape their children’s well-being through a range of parenting behaviors. While common for humans, this is rare for mammals. This talk will shed light on how thinking about dads evolutionarily and across cultures helps us understand fathers’ roles, biology as parents, and health.
  • Imaging the neural response to predatory fear in prairie vole fathers, William Kenkel, Ph.D,  Indiana University, Bloomington USA In obligate biparental species mammalian fathers play a complementary role to the mother, and lacking nursing duties, are well-positioned to aid offspring survival by assessing and handling potential threats. This project examines the role of fatherhood in modulating the neural response to predatory life threat in socially monogamous and biparental prairie voles.
  • More than money: Fathers’ contributions to child development in the early years, Natasha J. Cabrera, PhD, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland Read MoreDr. Cabrera will talk about the research she has been doing using observational data of father-child dyads to understand the unique effect that fathers have on their children’s cognitive and social development in the early years

Wiley Distinguished Speaker:

  • Mark Mon Williams:  Professor of Cognitive Psychology- University of Leeds
    Born in Bradford Project Read More

Perinatal Pre-Conference Symposium

Sponsored by the International Perinatal Brain and Behavior Network (IPBBN)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2019, Swissôtel Chicago, Chicago, USA
Preceding ISDP 2019

Pre-Conference Program Director
Marion I. van den Heuvel, Tilburg University

Co-Director
William (Bill) Fifer, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry

PROGRAM:

[12:30-13:30] – Lunch workshops: (pre-registration required ($15), limited to 10 participants per workshop)

Freely available tools related to perinatal research, developed by early career researcher

  • Workshop 1: Saige Rutherford: fetal preprocessing pipeline
  • Workshop 2: Dr. Laurel Gabard-Durnam: infant EEG pre-processing pipeline (HAPPE)

[13:30-15:00] – (open to all participants of ISDP 2019): Mentor-mentee talks: Mentors and their mentee provide a talk together (30 min total). Mentor starts with introducing the project and their mentee (10 minutes), mentee presents their work (10 minutes), then discussion/questions (10 minutes).

[15:00-15:15] – Short coffee break

[15:15-16:15] – Flash talks: Invited talks based on abstract submissions for ISDP 2019, related to perinatal research. Preference will be given to early career researchers.

Announcing the Symposium Sessions for ISDP 2019 in Chicago

 

SYMPOSIUM 1:

SUBSTANCE USE DURING PREGNANCY: IMPACT ON BEHAVIORAL AND NEUROCOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF OFFSPRING FROM INFANCY TO ADULTHOOD

Chairs & Presenters: Chair: Xiaoxue Fu, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, USA

Presenters: Laura Stroud, Brown University, USA; Xiaoxue Fu, USA; Henning Tiemeier, Harvard University, USA; Gale A. Richardson, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Timothy G. Freels, Washington State University, USA

SYMPOSIUM 2:

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR SYMPOSIUM: ENHANCING DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH VIA A CROSS-SPECIES FRAMEWORK

Chairs & Presenters: Chair: Rosemarie Perry, NYU, USA; Moderator/Discussant: Bridget Callaghan, Columbia Univeristy, USA;  Presenters:  Stephen Braren, NYU, USA; Rosemarie Perry, NYU, USA; Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA; Tyson Barker, University of Oregon, USA

SYMPOSIUM 3:

DEVELOPMENTAL EXPOSURE TO STRESS: PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS, RISK AND RESILIENCE PROCESSES

Chairs & Presenters: Alva Tang, University of Maryland, USA (Chair & Presenter); Sonya V. Troller-Renfree, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA (Presenter); Regina M. Sullivan, New York University School of Medicine, USA (Presenter); Camelia E. Hostinar, UC Davis, USA (Presenter)

SYMPOSIUM 4:

STRESS REGULATION FOLLOWING EARLY ADVERSITY: PATHWAYS TO RISK AND RESILIENCE

Chairs & Presenters: Ruth E. Grunau, University of British Columbia, Canada and Livio Provenzi 1Scientific Institute IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italy; Presenter: Mia McLean, University of British Columbia, Canada; Presenter: Susanne Brummelte, Wayne State University, USA; Presenter: Martha G. Welch, Columbia University, USA

Columbia University in the City of New York Sponsored Symposium:

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: PARENTAL INFLUENCES ON AFFECT REGULATION, AND DYSREGULATION, IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD

Chairs & Presenters: Chair: Dr Sam Wass, University of East London https://www.uel.ac.uk/research/developmental-psychology/baby-lab

Presenters: Dr Gina Mason, University of Massachusetts, USA;Dr Sam Wass, University of East London, London, UK; Laura DeLoretta, University of California, USA; Celia Smith, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, UK; Dr Noa Gueron-Sela, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Student/Postdoc Travel Awards for ISDP 2019 in Chicago

Thank you to all of our sponsors, who have generously supported ISDP Student & Postdoc Member Travel Awards as well as selected Symposium Speaker’s travel.  Funding for these awards was generously provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), John Wiley and Sons Publishing, (publishers of the ISDP’s official journal, Developmental Psychobiology, the Division of Developmental Neuroscience in Psychiatry at Columbia University, the Nurture Science Project at Columbia University, as well as our Industry Sponsors: Philips Neuro, Positive Science and Zero to Three and the members of the ISDP. Thanks to all our generous sponsors and exhibitors!