Thursday, January 20th

 8:15 am

Registration/Breakfast

Moderator:  Dr. Patrick Cadet

8:45 – 9:30

Dr. George B. Stefano - SUNY College at Old Westbury

Morphine: Receptors to Presence and Function

9:30 – 10:15

Dr. Enrica Bianchi - University of Siena, Italy

Role and Function of Endogenous Morphine in Mammalian CNS

10:15 – 11:00

Dr. Dario Sonetti - University of Modena, Italy

Immunocytochemical Localization of Endogenous Morphine-like Material in Invertebrate Tissues

(Break)

11:15 – Noon

Dr. Yannick Goumon - Physiopathology of the Nervous System, Strasbourg, France

Characterization of a Morphine-like Molecule in Secretory Granules of Chromaffin Cells.  A New Insight for the Physiological Role of Endogenous Morphine-6-glucuronide

Noon- 1:15 pm

LUNCH

Moderator: Dr. Wei Zhu

1:15 – 2:00

Dr. Else Tonneson - Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Endogenous Morphine and Carcinogenesis: Current Status and Clinical Perspectives

2:00 – 2:45

Chotima Poeaknapo - Biozentrum, Germany

Endogenous Formation of Morphine in Human Cells

(Break)

3:00 - 5:30

Poster Session

Dr. Fernando Nieto-Fernandez - SUNY College at Old Westbury
Environmental Exposure to Heavy Metals Elicits a Stress-like Response

Kirk Mantione - SUNY College at Old Westbury
Morphine-6β-glucuronide: Fortuitous Morphine Metabolite or Preferred Regulatory Opiate

Federico Casares – Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY Stony Brook
Endogenous Morphine in Homarus americanus

Dolisha Jones - SUNY College at Old Westbury
TNF-a Upregulates the m Opiate Receptors in Human B-lymphocytes and Endothelial Cells, and Invertebrate Neuronal Cells

Lisette Garcia - SUNY College at Old Westbury
Absence of Morphine in the Mammalian gut: A Hormonal Role for Endogenous Opiate

Theodore Pak – Neuroscience Research Institute HS Honors Program
Relational Roles of β-amyloid and Nitric Oxide in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Novel Pathological Mechanism

Suraj Rambhia – Neuroscience Research Institute HS Honors Program
Modulation of Ubiquitin-Proteasome Complex via Morphine Induced Nitric Oxide: A Possible Mechanism for the Prevention of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Friday, January 21st

8:30- 9:00

Breakfast

Moderator: Kirk Mantione

9:00 – 9:45

Dr. Patrick Cadet - SUNY College at Old Westbury

Gene Regulation in Human Leukocytes Acutely Exposed to Morphine: Expression Microarray Analysis

9:45 – 10:30

Dr. Thomas Bilfinger - University Hospital at Stony Brook

Morphine and the Heart: What Do We Know?

10:30 – 11:15

Dr. Stephen C. Pryor - SUNY College at Old Westbury

Endogenous Morphine and Parasitic Helminthes

(Break)

11:30 – 12:15

Dr. Gregory Fricchione - Massachusetts General Hospital

Morphine, Nitric Oxide, and Placebo Brain Circuitry

12:15 – 1:30

LUNCH

Moderator: Dolisha Jones

1:30 – 2:45

Dr. Wei Zhu - Neuroscience Research Institute

Reticuline Identification: Endogenous Morphine Synthesis in Ganglionic Tissue

2:45- 3:30

Dr. Geert Baggerman - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Q-Tof Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Morphine and its Derivatives

3:30 – 4:15

Dr. Tobias Esch - Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

Clinical Implications of Limbic Morphine Signaling: Stress, Pleasure and Health

4:15 – 5:00

Discussions