Agenda: Biological Markers for Healthy Development
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE / NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
Biological Markers for Healthy Development:
A Seminar on Recent Findings from Mental Health and Obesity Studies
May 13, 2010
The Keck Center – Room 100
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC
“A biomarker is any biological index capable of being measured that is associated with or indicative of a defined biological end point such as a developmental or disease stage.” (Rockett et al., 2004, Biomarkers for Assessing Reproductive Development and Health: Part 1-Pubertal Development, Environmental Health Perspectives, Jan., 2004).
8:30 am
Coffee and registration
9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Bernard Guyer, Johns Hopkins University and Chair, IOM-NRC Board on Children, Youth, and Families
9:15 am
Interactions among Biology and Social Environments – Biological Markers for Mental Health Consequences
Gary Evans, Cornell University (moderator)
Charles Nelson, Harvard University
The search for an endophenotype for autism
Emma Adam, Northwestern University
Diurnal cortisol rhythms: Social determinants and role as a risk, state or scar marker for major depressive disorder in youth
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Staci Bilbo, Duke University
The role of the immune system in translating early-life experience to later-life brain and behavior
Discussants:
BJ Casey, Cornell University
Bruce McEwen, Rockefeller University
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
The Role of Early Life Experience in the Regulation of Immune and Metabolic Functions
Fred Rivara, University of Washington (moderator)
Elissa Epel, University of California at San Francisco
Biological embedding of life stress? Telomeres and Telomerase
Sebastien G. Bouret, The Saban Institute and Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles
Early life origins of obesity: role of hypothalamic programming
Kevin Grove, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University
The role of early metabolic imprinting in escalating obesity rates in children and the link to childhood anxiety and depression
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Paul Taylor, Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, Department of Women’s Health, St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK
Developmental origins of obesity and the metabolic syndrome
Mandy Brown Belfort, Children’s Hospital and Harvard University
Maternal iron status in pregnancy and offspring blood pressure in childhood
Discussant:
Dennis Bier, Baylor College of Medicine
5:00 pm
Closing Remarks and Adjourn
Bernard Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
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