7:45 - 8:15 a.m.

Poster mounting and continental breakfast

8:20 - 8:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Allan I. Pack, MB, ChB, PhD

8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Session 1 "Characteristics of Sleep Across Time and Across Species"

Eric Hyder, Psychiatry
"NREM Slow Wave Energy Increases When Sleep is Restricted to 4 Hours for 5 Nights"

Nirinjini Naidoo, Sleep Medicine
"Impairment of Wake Active Neurons with Aging"

Namni Goel, Psychiatry
"PER3 Polymorphism and Response to Chronic Sleep Restriction in Humans"

Denys Volgin, Veterinary Medicine
"Pre-adolescent Rats Exposed to Alcohol During Perinatal Period have Reduced Glutamate Decarboxylase (GAD) Levels in Sleep and Wake-Regulating Hypothalamic Regions"

Annesia Lamb, Neurology
"Developmental Cycling of hsp-4/BiP mRNA during L1 Lethargus in C. elegans"

10:10 - 10:20 a.m.

10:20 - 11:30 a.m.

Session 2 "Clinical Sleep Disorders: Origins and Screening"

Philip Gehrman, Psychiatry
"Heritability of Insomnia in Adolescents: How Much is Just Depression and Anxiety?”

Swaroop J. Pinto, CHOP Pulmonary Medicine
“Genioglossus Activity in Obese, Non-snoring Adolescents During Sleep”

Desiree Fleck, Nursing
“Is there a Better Way to Screen for Sleep Disordered Breathing in Adults with Heart Failure?”

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Poster session and lunch

1:30 - 2:50 p.m.

Session 3 “Sleep and Plasticity”

Sara Aton, Neuroscience
“The Sedating Antidepressant Trazodone Impairs Sleep-Dependent Cortical Plasticity”

Cédrick Florian, Biology
“The Role of glia-derived Adenosine in Deficits in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity Induced by Sleep Deprivation”

Jonathan Raksin, Neuroscience
“Dynamics of Linear Receptive Field Properties Across The Wake-Sleep Boundary in the Songbird Vocal Motor Forebrain”

Michelle Dumoulin, Neuroscience
“The Role of REM Sleep in Ocular Dominance Plasticity Consolidation”

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr. Irene Tobler cannot give the address at this year's Research Retreat. We are fortunate to have Dr. Leslie Griffith give a presentation of her research on sleep in flies.

Leslie C. Griffith, MD, PhD
Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
"Sleep Circuitry in Drosophila"

4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Awards and Reception