NOV/DEC 2006
Volume 12 - No. 4
SRNT Newsletter
November/December 2006, Volume 12, Number 4
The 13th Annual SRNT Meeting
Austin, TX
Feb. 21 - 24, 2007
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) which will be held February 21-24, 2007 at the Hilton Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas, USA.
We have made a couple of scheduling changes this year. The meeting will begin with opening remarks, the Awards Ceremony, and the Ferno Award lecture on Wednesday evening at 5:30 PM with a reception to follow. As a consequence of this change, the conference will conclude earlier on Saturday (2:00 PM). Please make every effort to arrive in time for the opening plenary session and to stay until the conference concludes on Saturday, as the presenters at the start and end of the conference deserve our attention.
We have an outstanding scientific program developing. Featured aspects of the program are as follows:
Keynote Address: On Thursday, February 22nd, Dr. Jean-Pierre Changeux, Department of Neuroscience, Pasteur Institute will deliver the keynote address entitled Brain Nicotinic Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition and Addiction.
Clinical Theme Lecture: On Thursday, February 22nd, Dr. Kenneth Perkins, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, will deliver a lecture entitled Sex Differences in Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Reinforcement and Reward: Implications for Smoking Cessation Treatment.
Pre-Clinical Theme Lecture: On Friday, February 23rd, Dr. Anthony Caggiula, Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, will deliver a lecture entitled What is the Role of Nicotine in Smoking? A Perspective from Animal Research.
Public Health/Epidemiology Theme Lecture: Also, on Friday, February 23rd, Dr. Ron Borland, Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention, VicHealth Center for Tobacco Control, Cancer Control Research Institute, The Cancer Council Victoria, will deliver a lecture entitled Integrating Tobacco Industry and Tobacco Use Control: Tackling Harm and Dependence in a Culture of Consumption.
Awards Addresses: As recipient of the 2007 Ove Ferno Award, which honors a scientist who has made groundbreaking advances in clinical research related to nicotine and tobacco, Dr. Sharon Hall, of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, will deliver an address entitled Treating Tobacco Dependence as a Chronic, Relapsing Disorder: Co-morbidities and Complexities. As recipient of the SRNT 2007 Jarvik-Russell Young Investigator Award, Dr. Judith Prochaska, of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, will deliver an address entitled Treating Nicotine Dependence in Psychiatry.
Other Meeting Events: As in previous SRNT meetings, the program will feature symposia, paper sessions, and poster presentations that represent three primary conference tracks: pre-clinical, clinical, and public health/epidemiology. A major aim of this meeting is to facilitate connections and communication among these three disciplinary approaches, within the scientific program and during informal networking and poster sessions. There will also be a Members' Meeting, and exhibitors will be on hand throughout the conference.
In addition to the main scientific program, there will be pre-conference satellite meetings on Wednesday, February 21st. We will send additional information about these meetings via the listserv as soon as it becomes available.
Finally, there will also be several workshops and panel discussions offered between 6 and 7 PM on Thursday, February 22nd. Workshop proposals are being solicited and will be announced prior to the meeting. If you would like to organize a workshop for the annual meeting, please contact the Program Chair, Eric Donny, at edonny@pitt.edu.
Visit the SRNT website (http://www.srnt.org/meeting/2007/index.html ) for a preliminary meeting schedule, as well as information about accommodations, meeting registration, and traveling to Austin. The SRNT conference aims to bring you the most cutting-edge research in the nicotine and tobacco field. It is not too late to be a part of the scientific program. Submit your latest (and greatest) research findings in time for our Rapid Response Abstract Submission. The submission deadline is Friday, January 12, 2007. More information about rapid response submissions is available on the SRNT website.
We look forward to seeing everyone in Austin!