Mammalian Somatosensation: Mechanisms of Itch, Touch, Pain and Interoception in Health and Disease (Q2)
January 14-17, 2024
| Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Diana Bautista, Rebecca P. Seal and Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor
Scholarship Deadline: Oct. 24, 2023 | Abstract Deadline: Oct. 24, 2023 | Early Registration Deadline: Nov. 14, 2023
| 4:00–8:00 PM |
Registration |
Concourse |
| 6:00–8:00 PM |
Welcome Mixer |
Cava Santa Fe |
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 8:00–9:00 AM |
Welcome and Keynote Address |
Eldorado B |
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* Rebecca P. Seal, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair |
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* Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley
Session Chair |
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* Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor, Columbia University
Session Chair |
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David D. Ginty, HHMI/Harvard Medical School
Touch Sensory Neurons and their Central Circuits |
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| 9:00–11:15 AM |
Somatosensory Molecules and Cells I |
Eldorado B |
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* Yalda Moayedi, NYU
Session Chair |
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Theodore Price, University of Texas at Dallas
Molecular Signatures of Human Nociceptors |
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Theanne N. Griffith, UC Davis
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Mammalian Proprioception |
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Ellen A Lumpkin, UC Berkeley
Short Talk: Short Talk: Epithelial-Neural Crosstalk in Touch Reception |
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Alexander Chesler, National Institutes of Health
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Role of PIEZO2 in Health and Disease |
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Yury Nikolaev, Yale University
Short Talk: Short Talk: 3d Architecture of Meissner and Pacinian Mechanosensory Corpuscles |
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Luke Ziolkowski, Yale University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Lamellar Cells Function as Touch Sensors within Meissner and Pacinian Corpuscles |
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| 9:30–9:50 AM |
Coffee Break |
Concourse |
| 11:15–1:00 PM |
Poster Setup |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 11:15–5:00 PM |
On Own for Lunch |
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| 1:00–2:00 PM |
Career Roundtable (Joint) |
Eldorado A |
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Wolfgang Liedtke, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Chair of Neurology, Psychiatry, Pain Medicine & Sensory Systems; Global Development |
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Theanne N. Griffith, UC Davis
Assistant Professor |
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Romain Barrès, CBMR & CNRS
Associate Professor |
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Karen K. David, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Program Director, NIH BRAIN Initiative |
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| 1:00–10:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 2:30–4:30 PM |
Workshop: Select Talks from Trainees |
Eldorado B |
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* Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley
Session Chair |
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* Rebecca P. Seal, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair |
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* Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor, Columbia University
Session Chair |
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Jessica M. Jones, University of Washington
Neural Substrates of Abdominal Nociceptive Processing in Adult Drosophila Melanogaster |
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Marito Hayashi, Harvard Medical School
Intestinal Sensory Cells that Differentially Regulate Feeding and Gut Motility |
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Laura Seeholzer, UCSF
Functional Role of Neuroendocrine Cells Across the Airway |
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Rasheen Powell, Boston Children's Hospital
Disruption of Sodium-Channel Membrane Scaffolding Attenuates Neuropathic Pain-like Behaviors in Mice |
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Jagat Narayan Prajapati, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
An Intra-Brainstem Circuitry for Pain Inhibition of Itch |
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Olivia Davis, Center for Advanced Pain Studies, UTDallas
Mapping Sensory Circuits in the Human Spinal Cord Using Immunohistochemistry |
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Farin B. Bourojeni, McGill University / IRCM
Neural Basis of Ascending Somatosensory Integration for Control of Movement |
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Alastair Loutit, University of Geneva
Stepwise Transition from Timing to Rate Coding Along the Ascending Somatosensory Axis: Implications for Sensory Neuroprosthetics |
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Concourse |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Somatosensory Molecules and Cells II |
Eldorado B |
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* Katelyn Sadler, University of Texas at Dallas
Session Chair |
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Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute
Piezo Ion Channels in Touch and Itch |
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Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor, Columbia University
Social Touch from Mice to Mole Rats |
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Patrik Ernfors, Karolinska Institutet
A Landscape of Sensory Receptor Cells |
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Rebecca Greenberg, Yale
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cold-induced Mechanosensory Plasticity in the Hibernating Squirrel |
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Lauren L Orefice, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Role of Dorsal Root Ganglia Neurons in Autism-associated Gastrointestinal Dysfunction |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Lite Bites |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 7:30–10:00 PM |
Poster Session 1 |
Anasazi Ballroom |
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 8:00–11:00 AM |
Interoception |
Eldorado B |
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* Victoria Abraira, Rutgers University
Session Chair |
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Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley
Viral-Evoked Pain and Inflammation |
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Ewan Smith, University of Cambridge
Mechanisms Underpinning Joint Pain |
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Rachel Miller, Rush University Medical Center
Short Talk: Short Talk: Role of Piezo2 in Osteoarthritis Pain Development in Mice of Both Sexes |
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Kara Marshall, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: Short Talk: PIEZO-Mediated Mechanosensation in the Urinary Tract |
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Aaron Mickle, University of Florida
Short Talk: Short Talk: Urothelial Cell Contribution to Bladder Interoception |
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Katelyn Sadler, University of Texas at Dallas
Short Talk: Short Talk: Gastrointestinal Chemosensation Drives Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease |
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Chen Ran, Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Short Talk: Functional Architecture of Brainstem Interoceptive Pathways |
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| 9:00–9:20 AM |
Coffee Break |
Concourse |
| 11:00–1:00 PM |
Poster Setup |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 11:00–5:00 PM |
On Own for Lunch |
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| 1:00–10:00 PM |
Poster Viewing |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Concourse |
| 5:00–7:00 PM |
Somatosensory Circuits |
Eldorado B |
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* Lauren L Orefice, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Session Chair |
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Rebecca P. Seal, University of Pittsburgh
Spinal Circuits as Targets for MA Therapies |
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Sarah Ross, University of Pittsburgh
Inhibitory Circuits in Itch and Pain |
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Victoria Abraira, Rutgers University
Molecules and Pathways of the Spinal Cord Affective Touch Circuit |
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David I. Hughes, University of Glasgow
Short Talk: Short Talk: Calretinin-expressing Islet Cells are a Source of Pre- and Post-synaptic Inhibition of Non-peptidergic Nociceptor Input to the Mouse Spinal Cord |
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Allan-Hermann Pool, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cell-type Map of Pain and Non-pain Somatosensory States in the Spinal Cord |
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Andreas R. Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Genomics and Machine Learning Implicate Spinal Cord Neuronal Subtypes in Chronic Pain Disorders |
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| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Lite Bites |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 7:30–10:00 PM |
Poster Session 2 |
Anasazi Ballroom |
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
| 7:00–8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 8:00–11:00 AM |
Pain Mechanisms I: Neuroimmune |
Eldorado B |
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* Peng Li, University of Michigan
Session Chair |
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Vivianne Tawfik, Stanford University
Pro-Resolution or Pro-Inflammatory? Microglia in Chronic Pain |
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Veena Viswanath, Escient Pharmaceuticals
Mrgprs in Immune Cells and Neurons Mediate Itch and Pain |
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Wolfgang Liedtke, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Role of TRPV4 in Pain and Itch – Is There a Connection to Th2-Immunopathies? |
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Francis McGlone, Neuro
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Healthy Brain Needs ‘Vitamin-T' |
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Venetia Zachariou, Chobanian and Avedisian Medical School at Boston Universoty
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Female-specific Signal Transduction Pathway in the Mouse Periaqueductal Gray Modulates Sensory Hypersensitivity in Models of Chronic Pain |
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Sakeen Kashem, University of California - San Francisco
Short Talk: Short Talk: Regulatory T Cell Derived Enkephalin Imparts Pregnancy Induced Analgesia |
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Daniel McGehee, University of Chicago
Short Talk: Short Talk: Acetylcholine: An Important Modulator of Descending Pain Control Pathways |
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Miaomiao Jin, MIT
Short Talk: Short Talk: Identifying Neural Circuit Correlates of Pain Anticipation and Nocebo Hyperalgesia Using a Novel Behavioral Paradigm in Mouse |
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| 9:00–9:20 AM |
Coffee Break |
Concourse |
| 11:00–5:00 PM |
On Own for Lunch |
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| 3:30–4:30 PM |
Panel Discussion on NIH Resources for Somatosensory Research |
Eldorado B |
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Karen K. David, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Panelist |
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James Gnadt, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Panelist |
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Alexander H Tuttle, NCCIH/NIH
Panelist |
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Ellen A Lumpkin, UC Berkeley
Panelist |
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| 4:30–5:00 PM |
Coffee Available |
Concourse |
| 5:00–6:45 PM |
Pain Mechanisms II |
Eldorado B |
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* Aaron Mickle, University of Florida
Session Chair |
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India Morrison, Linköping University
Brain-Hormone Comodulation during Human Social Touch |
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Margarita Calvo, Universidad Católica de Chile
Neuropathic Pain from the Skin, How and Why? |
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Allan I. Basbaum, University of California, San Francisco
Long-term Imaging of Cortical and Spinal Cord Neuronal Activity in the Awake, Behaving Animal |
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| 6:45–7:00 PM |
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) |
Eldorado B |
| 7:00–8:00 PM |
Social Hour with Lite Bites |
Anasazi Ballroom |
| 8:00–10:00 PM |
Cash Bar |
Anasazi Ballroom |
Thursday, January 18, 2024
