Featuring talks by:
Gustavo Turecki, MD PhD FRSC
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University;
Scientific Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Douglas Institute

New Insights on the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Depression and Suicide Risk

Lauren Orefice, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Mass. General Hospital

Understanding Food Texture Aversions in Bipolar Disorder

Abby Finkelstein, PhD
Research Associate, Lab of Venki Murthy, Harvard University

Affective Bias of Ambiguous Cue Representation in Sensory Decision Making

Pascal Kaeser, MD
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Mechanisms and Roles of Neuromodulatory Transmission

Olga Ponomareva, MD, PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry and Postdoctoral Researcher, Lab of Kerry Ressler, McLean Hospital

Foxp2 Controls Key Pathways for Fear Learning in the Mouse Brain

Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School;
Director of Psychology Training, McLean Hospital

Improving Wellbeing in Bipolar Disorder: Collaborative Conversations in a Learning Health Network

Light lunch provided!

Talks followed by a reception and poster session.The reception will feature over 25 posters on basic, translational, and clinical projects, with presenters from Harvard University, McLean Hospital, Mass General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Wyss Institute, and the Broad Institute.

The HBI Bipolar Grants Program is funded through generous donations from the Dauten Family Foundation and Sandra Lee Chen and Sidney Chen. Learn more here.