EBPS-CANBIND Virtual Workshop:

Behaviour to Biomarkers – Reverse Translation in 2021

5-6 March 2021 – Toronto, Canada

Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression

European Behavioural Pharmacology Society

We are delighted to announce that the 2021 EBPS-CANBIND Virtual Workshop with the exciting theme of ‘Behaviour to Biomarkers: Reverse Translation in 2021.’ Featuring special plenaries by Gustavo Turecki and Sheena Josselyn plus talks by a range of other eminent researchers in this field, it will be of significant interest to both preclinical and clinical researchers, from graduate students through to investigators.

We will have Gustavo Turecki and Sheena Josselyn as our plenary speakers at this workshop.Gustavo Turecki – Multiomic approaches to biomarker discovery for antidepressant responseSheena Josselyn – Making Memories in Mice

11:00 am EST

Welcome Address

Louk Vanderschuren

11:10 AM – 12:50 PM EST

Strategies for Biomarker Discovery

Chair: Claudio Soares

Sidney Kennedy, Project Lead, Canadian Biomarker Integration Network for Depression
	Clinical Overview of Depression Biomarker field referencing CANBIND
Gayle Wittenberg, Director of Neuroscience – Johnson & Johnson
	Effects of Immunomodulatory Drugs on Anhedonia and Reward Circuitry
Evdokia Anagnostou, Project Lead, Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Network (POND)
	Neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental disorders: what is the biomarker for?
Faranak Farzan, Chair, Technology Innovations for Youth Mental Health, Simon Fraser Univ
	A Neuroengineering Lens into Treatment of Mental Health and Addiction
PANEL DISCUSSION – Q & A

1:00 – 2:00 PM EST

Keynote Address

Chair: Jane Foster

Gustavo Turecki, Scientific Director, Douglas Research Centre
	Multiomic approaches to biomarker discovery for antidepressant response

2:00 – 3:40 PM EST

Biomarkers of Addiction and Relapse

Chair: Yavin Shaham

Christelle Baunez, Institut de Neuroscience de la Timone, CNRS, Marseille, France
	Very low frequency oscillations in the subthalamic nucleus as a predictive marker of vulnerability to addiction
Jennifer Bossert, Behavioural Neuroscience Branch, NIDA
	Reverse-Translational Models of Drug Relapse: Behavior, Pharmacology, Circuits, and Implications for Treatment
Lee Hogarth, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter
	Human drug dependence severity is marked by negative affect driven drug choice, but not habit learning or compulsivity
PANEL DISCUSSION – Q & A

3:50 – 5:00 PM EST

Trainee Data Blitz

8:00 – 9:40 AM EST

Reverse Translation to novel therapeutics and mechanisms of action

Chair: Mohammed Shoaib

Tim Bussey, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,Western University
	Bridging the translational divide in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disease: Identical cognitive touchscreen testing in mice and humans
Caroline Menard, Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Université Laval
	Chronic stress induces vascular changes leading to depression vs resilience: opportunities for novel therapeutic approaches and biomarkers
Markus Heilig, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linkoping University
	Maybe some things do translate? The case of FAAH inhibition to potentiate fear extinction
PANEL DISCUSSION – Q & A

9:50 – 11:00 AM EST

Trainee Data Blitz

11:00 AM – 12:40 PM EST

Emerging Role of the Microbiome in Mental Health

Chair: Jane Foster

John Cryan, Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork
	Gut feelings- Microbiome and Mental Illness
Mary Kimmel, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Stress reactivity and the microbiota-gut-brain axis: Guide to maternal-child mental health
Jonathan Swann, University of South Hampton
	The application of metabolomics to study the biochemical language of the gut-brain axis
PANEL DISCUSSION – Q & A

12:45 – 1:45 PM EST

Keynote Address:

Chair: Mohammed Shoaib

Sheena Josselyn, University of Toronto
	Making memories in mice