Shaping the Developing Brain: Prenatal through Early Childhood
November 11 – 13, 2014
The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY |
Day 1: Tuesday, November 11, Public Lecture |
5:00 PM |
Registration |
5:45 PM |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
6:00 PM |
Keynote Lecture — Open to the Public
Parent Outreach, Tools, and Policy to Close the Word Gap
Speakers Forthcoming |
6:45 PM |
Reception |
7:45 PM |
Day 1 Concludes |
Day 2: Wednesday, November 12, Scientific Sessions |
7:45 AM |
Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Poster Setup |
8:30 AM |
Opening Remarks |
8:45 AM |
Keynote Address
Thomas R. Insel, MD, National Institute of Mental Health |
Session IA: Overview Lectures on Neural Development |
9:30 AM |
Sensitive Periods in Brain Development
Takao Hensch, PhD, Harvard University |
10:00 AM |
Structural and Molecular Changes in the Developing Brain
Ed Lein, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Science |
10:30 AM |
New Tools to Investigate Brain Development
Speaker Forthcoming |
11:00 AM |
Networking Coffee Break |
Session IB: Overview Lectures on Cognitive Development |
11:30 AM |
Language Development
Patricia Kuhl, PhD, University of Washington |
12:00 PM |
Early Attachment, Emotional Development and Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences
Jay Belsky, PhD, University of California, Davis |
12:30 PM |
Social Learning and Development
Andrew Meltzoff, PhD, University of Washington |
1:00 PM |
Networking Lunch |
Session II: Social and Environmental Influences on Brain Development
Moderator: Catherine Monk, PhD, Columbia University |
2:30 PM |
Effects of a Stressful Environment on the Developing Brain and Behavior: Prenatal through Early Life
Tracy L. Bale, PhD, University of Pennsylvania |
2:55 PM |
Role of Early Experience in Neuro-Affective Development
Nim Tottenham, PhD, UCLA |
3:20 PM |
Impact of Poverty on the Developing Brain
Martha Farah, PhD, University of Pennsylvania |
3:45 PM |
Networking Coffee Break |
4:15 PM |
Can We Apply the Basic Principles of How Stress Affects Development to More Complex Childhood Psychopathologies?
Charles Nelson, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University |
4:40 PM |
Panel Discussion |
Session III: Hot Topic Talks from Submitted Abstracts |
5:05 PM |
Hot Topic Talk 1 from Submitted Abstracts |
5:20 PM |
Hot Topic Talk 2 from Submitted Abstracts |
5:35 PM |
Networking Reception and Poster Session |
7:00 PM |
Day 2 Concludes |
Day 3: Thursday, November 13, Scientific Sessions |
8:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
Session IV: Spotlight on Nutrition and Brain Development
This session is co-presented with The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences
Moderator: Mandana Arabi, MD, PhD, The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science |
9:00 AM |
An Overview on Nutritional Status and Brain Development: The Importance of Timing in Determining the Right Intervention and Brain Assessment
Michael Georgieff, MD, University of Minnesota |
9:25 AM |
Standardizing Growth and Nutritional Status Biomarkers And The Tools To Assess Their Effects On Early Childhood Development
Edward Frongillo, PhD, University of South Carolina |
9:50 AM |
The Role of Micronutrients in Brain Development: The Most Useful Biomarkers that Relate to Optimal Childhood Development
Maureen M. Black, PhD, University of Maryland |
10:15 AM |
Networking Coffee Break |
10:45 AM |
Iron Deficiency and the Developing Brain: a Paradigm for Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nutritional Neuroscience
Betsy Lozoff, MD, University of Michigan |
11:10 AM |
Panel Discussion |
Session V: Hot Topic Talks from Submitted Abstracts |
11:35 AM |
Hot Topic Talk 3 from Submitted Abstracts |
11:50 AM |
Hot Topic Talk 4 from Submitted Abstracts |
12:05 PM |
Networking Lunch |
Session VI: Translating Research into Intervention, Education, and Policy
Moderator: Susan Magsamen, MS Johns Hopkins University |
1:30 PM |
Leveraging Science to Improve Early Childhood Developmental Intervention
Joseph Piven, MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities |
1:55 PM |
Minding the Baby, an Intervention to Improve Early Childhood Development Outcomes in At-Risk Mothers and Infants
Linda C. Mayes, MD, Yale School of Medicine |
2:20 PM |
Intervention to Help Close the Word Gap
Dana Suskind, MD, University of Chicago, 30 Million Words Initiative |
2:45 PM |
Building Early Childhood Learning Systems: Early Head Start to the Classroom
Sharon Lynn Kagan, EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University |
3:10 PM |
Panel Discussion |
3:35 PM |
Networking Coffee Break |
Panel and Audience Discussion |
4:05 PM |
How to Shape Policy to Address Different Critical Periods and Multiple Adversities
Moderator: Pia Britto, PhD, UNICEF |
4:45 PM |
Closing Remarks |
5:00 PM |
Conference Concludes |
