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Developmental Psychobiology
Research Group September 2013 Fall Newsletter
Welcome to the fall DPRG seminar
series.
Welcome to the new DPRG academic
year. We have an exciting line up of
speakers for this coming fall seminar
series and will start the year with a
focus on the postdoctoral fellows research interests. We are
currently
working on additional seminars after those and if any member has
an
interest in presenting, please contact myself or Susan Hepburn,
our
incoming director. On an administrative note, last spring the
Gary pavilion
experienced an outbreak of an extremely contagious
gastrointestinal virus,
forcing us to cancel our seminars as the building had to be
sanitized. This
event was extremely disruptive to the clinical operations at the
Gary
pavilion and many of our members and their patients were
affected. I made
the decision to cancel the seminars in consultation with the
executive
committee as finding alternative space arrangements at a short
notice
proved to be very challenging. As a general rule, although I do
not anticipate
a recurrence of such an event in the future, please check the
website as we
will send out announcements and update the website if unforeseen
events
occur. I anticipate that this year we will have a full schedule
of seminars and
look forward to seeing everyone for a new academic year.
Best
Christian Hopfer
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Message from Director 1
DPRG Seminar Schedule 2
Training Programs 3
Affiliated Seminars 4
Announcements 4
Upcoming Meetings of Interest 4
Papers/Posters Presented 5
Papers/Books Published 6
Recent Conferences Attended 7
Funding 7
Awards Received 7
Newsletter Update Form 8
IN THIS ISSUE:
2013-2014 Small DPEF Grant
Application Schedule:
September 3
November 19
January 21
April 1
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DPRG SEMINAR SCHEDULE Fall 2013
September 10
DPRG KickOff Speaker: Christian Hopfer, M.D., Associate
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, UCD Rocky Mountain High: Research
Challenges and Opportunities Presented by Marijuana
Legalization
September 24
Kat Belendiuk, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD Postdoctoral
Trainees and their Interest
Korey Wylie , PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD Networks and
Regional Communication during Development
(DPRG Executive Committee meeting immediately following the
presentation)
October 8 DPRG Annual Business Meeting
October 22
Heather Caballes, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD Investigation
of the Acute Effects of Early Life Seizures in Hippocampus:
Precursor for an Autistic Phenotype?
Lindsey Weiler, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD
Postdoctoral Trainees and their Interest
November 12 Laxmi Kondapalli, MD MSCE Assistant Professor,
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, UCD TBD
November 26
Doug Novins, M.D., Professor, Dept of Psychiatry/School of
Public Health, UCD Dissemination and Implementation of
Evidence-Based Practices Results from a Systematic Review and form
Native Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
December 10 TBD
(DPRG Executive Committee meeting immediately following the
presentation)
All seminars are on Tuesdays from 10:00-11:45 AM at The
Children's Hospital, Gary Pavilion, in the Denver Room. Prior to
each seminar there is a "coffee hour" from 9:30 - 10:00 AM.
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Undergraduate Students
The DPRG is the home of a new NIMH-supported summer
undergraduate research training
program, Scholarly Trainees Acquiring Research Skills (STARS).
This program brings 7 students
from rural community colleges to the medical school campus to
participate in research programs
each summer. If you are interested in serving as a mentor,
please contact Sharon Hunter,
[email protected], 303-724-6201
NIMH Postdoctoral Trainees
We welcome four new postdoctoral trainees to our NIMH T32
program since the last newsletter:
Kat Belendiuk, PhD, who will work with Paula Riggs, Heather
Caballes, PhD, working with Tim
Benke, Lindsey Weiler, PhD, sponsored by Heather Taussig, and
Korey Wylie, MD, who will work
with Jason Tregellas. We look forward to the seminar
presentations of these trainees this fall.
Continuing postdocs are Lisa Wilson, PhD, sponsored by Don Rojas
and Anita Quintana, PhD, who
is working with Tamim Shaikh and Bruce Appel. Fellows who have
completed training since the
last newsletter include Anthony Cordaro (M. Wamboldt), Nick
Hazel (B. Hankin), Jacob Hines (B.
Appel) and Hannah Snyder (B. Hankin).
Request to Advertise the NIMH Postdoctoral Research Training
Program
Members of DPRG if you are giving a talk and want to inform the
audience that we have training
programs available, there is a PowerPoint slide offered that you
can include at the end of your
presentation. The slide is located on the ANNOUNCEMENTS tab of
the DPRG website. If you have
further questions you can email Linda GrecoSanders.
We are accepting applications for 2014 positions in the Postdoc
Training Program. The deadline is
December 1, 2013 and application information can be found on our
web page,
www.dprgpostdoc.org.
TRAINING PROGRAMS
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AFFILIATED SEMINARS
Affect Seminar September-May, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the
month 1:00-2:30pm, Ben Nighthorse
Campbell Building, 2nd Floor North East Conference Room 241.
BNC: Bob Emde
Perinatal Vulnerability to Psychosis Research Group
4th Tuesday of the month 8:15-9:45 (9:00-10:30 May August), Ben
Nighthorse Campbell Building, Room
304: Randy Ross
Child Grand Rounds
Please visit the DPRG website for an updated schedule.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, September 24th and December 10th
immediately following the seminars.
OTHER NEWS
We are currently working on our Spring 2014 DPRG Seminar
schedule. Please contact Dr. Hepburn if you are
interested in presenting.
UPCOMING MEETINGS OF INTEREST
Seventh Bi-Annual Pediatric Sleep Medicine Conference: Advances
in Research, Patient Care, Policy, and
Education will be held at the Omni-Amelia Island Plantation
Resort in Amelia Island, Florida on November 7-10,
2013. The event is sponsored by Warren Alpert Medical School of
Brown University. Updates can be found at:
http://brown.edu/academics/medical/education/other-programs/continuing-medical-education/
pedsleepmedconference
The 8th International Conference on Brain Monitoring and
Neuroprotection in the Newborn is scheduled for
January 16-18, 2014 in Clearwater Beach, Florida. For more
information, please visit: https://cmetracker.net/USF/
Files/Brochures/225099.pdf
The 27th Annual Gravens Physical and Developmental Environments
of the High Risk Newborn scheduled for
February 5-8, 2014 in Clearwater Beach, Florida. For information
please visit: http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/
pdf/Call_for_Abstracts_Graven_Conference.pdf
SLEEP 2014 28th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional
Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS) scheduled for May 31-
June 4, 2014 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For information please
visit: http://www.sleepmeeting.org
If you are interested in joining any of these groups, contact
the leader. If there is an area not covered that you
think there would be interest in, please contact the DPRG
office.
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PAPERS/POSTERS PRESENTED Agnew, J.A., Gabriels, R.L., Pan, Z.,
Shoffner, A., Mesibov, G.
Therapeutic horseback riding in children and adolescents with
autism
spectrum disorders. Presented as a poster at the APAs
conference;
2013 Aug; Hawaii.
Brown, J. Best Care for the NICU Graduate. Learning video
continuing education: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2012.
Brown, J. Developmental care: Issues and direction. Invited
presentation and workshop. Gravens Down UnderRedux.
Australian
Association of Neonatal Nurses. September, 2012.
Brown, J. Hot topics in developmental care. Invited plenary
address.
Infant Development under Neonatal Intensive Care. Dublin,
Ireland.
November, 2012.
Brown, J. Issues in Newborn Feeding. Invited Plenary Address
P.O.P.S.I.C.L.E conference, Phoenix, AZ, January, 2012.
Brown, J. Regulatory disorders that affect preterm infant
outcomes: Re-
hospitalization, growth and development. Invited plenary.
Colorado
Prematurity Outcomes Conference. Denver, Colorado.
September,
2012.
Brown, J. Voices for systems change: Yours, mine, theirs and
ours.
Invited plenary address NIDCAP Trainers meeting. St. Albans,
Great
Britain. September, 2012.
Gabriels R. CME presentation as part of an all day workshop
for
CHCO staff: Introduction to understanding issues underlying the
tip of
the iceberg crisis behaviors in ASDs; 2013 May 6; Aurora,
CO.
Gabriels, R. Autism diagnostic observation schedule-2nd ed.
assessment training for clinical administration. Trained Child
Find
school assessment teams from Boulder Valley Schools, Cherry
Creek
Schools, Morgan County Schools, and Adams 14 Schools;
Workshop
sponsored by Colorado Dept of Education; 2012 Dec 4 & 13,
2013 Jan
8 & 17; CO.
Gabriels, R. Neuropsychiatric Special Care program: methods
and
outcomes. Presented as part of a 3-hour workshop at the
American
Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, AACAP
Conference
October 2012. Symposium title: Inpatient Psychiatric Care
for
Children with Autism; 2012; San Francisco, CA.
Gabriels, R. Overview of the Neuropsychiatric Special Care
program
and outcome data for 1st Meeting of the Autism and
Developmental
Disorders Inpatient Research Collaborative; 2012 Sep 29;
Portland,
ME.
Gabriels, R. Presentation at the Colorado Society of
Osteopathic
Medicine Summer CME Conference; by invitation from the
Colorado
Society of Osteopathic Medicine; 2012 Aug 9; Breckenridge,
CO.
Gabriels, R. Provided ADOS-2 clinical and research training
to
providers at the University of Oklahoma Early Foundations
Center;
2013 Feb 13-15; Oklahoma City, OK.
Gabriels, R. Understanding and working with children on the
autism
spectrum in hospital and community-based research settings.
Presented to faculty and graduate students at the University of
Denver
School of Professional Psychology at University of Denver; 2013
Apr
23; Denver, CO.
Gabriels, R. Understanding individuals with autism spectrum
disorders:
from research to clinical practice in the THR setting. Presented
at the
PATH International Region 3 Conference; 2013 Mar 2-3; Bluffton,
SC.
Gabriels, R.L., Agnew, J.A., Pan, Z. Aberrant behavior
changes
resulting from therapeutic horseback riding in children with
autism
spectrum disorders. Presented as a poster at the Society for
Research
and Child Developments conference; 2013 Apr; Seattle, WA.
Gabriels, R.L., Agnew, J.A., Pan, Z. Changes in aberrant
behaviors
and attitudes toward household pets following 10-week
involvements
in therapeutic horseback riding in children and adolescents with
ASDs.
Presented as a poster at the International Association of
Human
Animal Interaction Organizations conference; 2013 Jul; Chicago,
IL.
Hunter, S. April, P50 auditory sensory gating from infancy to 4
years of
age during sleep. International Congress for Schizophrenia
Research;
2013; Orlando, FL.
Karlsson, C. T. Schreiner, C.T., Kim, C., Levine, H., Barnes,
J., Binder,
J., Gabriels, R., Beresford, C. Neuromyelitis optica with
severe
behavioral dysregulation: A case report. Poster presented at
24th
Annual Meeting American Neuropsychiatric Association; 2013
Apr;
Boston, MA.
Montague, R. Then What? Life Course Issues Following Early
Parental Loss. Poster presented at the International Conference
on
Death, Grief, and Bereavement, University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse, La
Crosse, Wisconsin, June 2013.
S Carroll, H., Agnew, J. A., Pan, Z., Gabriels, R. L. Functional
health
outcomes of an outdoor sport for children with an autism
spectrum
disorder. Presented as a poster at the May 2012 International
Meeting
for Autism Research in Toronto, 2012 May; also presented at
Colorado
Psychological Association annual conference 2012 Sep 21,
Denver,
CO.
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PAPERS/BOOKS PUBLISHED
Auerbach SR, Smith JK, Gralla J, Mitchell MB, Campbell DN,
Jaggers
J, Pietra BA, Miyamoto SD. Graft Survival is Better in Primary
Cardiac
Transplantation Without Prior Cardiac Surgery for Single
Ventricle
Physiology. J Heart Lung Transplant 2012; 31(9): 987-995.
Bernard, P.B., Castano, A. M., OLeary, H., Simpson, K. Browning,
M.D.
and Benke, T.A., Phosphorylation of FMRP and alterations of
FMRP
complex underlie enhanced mLTD in adult rats triggered by early
life
seizures, Neurobiology of Disease, 59:1-17, 2013.
Biggins SW, Bambha KM, Terrault NA, Inadomi J, Shiboski S,
Dodge
JL, Gralla J, Rosen HR, Roberts JP. Projected Future Increase in
Aging
HCV-Infected Liver Transplant Candidates: A Potential Effect of
HCC.
Liver Transpl 2012; 18: 1471-1478 (chosen for front cover of
journal
and a Media release).
Biggins SW, Trotter J, Gralla J, Burton J, Bambha KM, Dodge
J,
Brocato M, Cheng L, McQueen M, Forman L, Chang M, Kam I,
Everson
G, Spritz R, Klintmalm G, Rosen HR. Differential Effects of
Donor and
Recipient IL28B and DDX58 SNPs on Severity of HCV after
Liver
Transplantation. J Hepatology 2013; 58: 969-976.
Browne, JV. and Talmi, A. (2012). Developmental supports for
newborns and young infants with special health and
developmental
needs and their families: The BABIES model Newborn and
Infant
Nursing Reviews. Vol 12 (4) pages 239-247.
Colin T. Shearn, Rebecca L. Smathers, David J. Orlicky, Kenneth
N.
Maclean, and Dennis R. Petersen. Increased dietary fat leads
to
dysregulation of the LKB1/AMPK pathway and increased damage in
an
early mouse model of ethanol-mediated steatosis. Journal of
Nutritional
Biochemistry 2013 Mar 1.
Gabriels, R, Agnew, J.A., Beresford, C., Morrow, M., Mesibov,
G.,
Wamboldt, M. Improving psychiatric hospital care for pediatric
patients
with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disabilities.
Autism
Research and Treatment: Special issue, Identification and
intervention
of complex behavior problems in adolescents and adults with
autism
spectrum disorders", vol. 2012, Article ID 685053, 7 pages,
2012.
doi:10.1155/2012/685053.
Gabriels, R., Agnew, J.A., Pan, Z., Holt, K.D., Reynolds,
A.,
Laudenslager, M.L. Elevated repetitive behaviors are associated
with
lower diurnal salivary cortisol levels in autism
spectrum disorder. Biological Psychology,
2013; (93), 262-268.
Gazi S Hossain, Ji Zhou, Kenneth N. Maclean, Bernardo
Trigatti,
Stephen Colgan, Srka Lhotk, Jeffrey G. Dickhout, Ira Tabas,
Tracie
A. Seimon, Hansa Patel, John Capone, Jaerang Rho, Damu Tang
and
Richard C Austin. Deficiency of TDAG51 Attenuates Atherogenesis
by
Negatively Regulating PPAR Expression. Journal of the
American
Heart Association. May 17;2(3):e000134
Gralla J, Huskey J, Wiseman A. Trends in Immune Function
Assay
(ImmuKnow, Cylex TM) Results in the First Year Post-Transplant
and
Relationship to BK Virus Infection. Nephrol Dial Transplant
2012; 27:
2565-2570.
Gralla J, Tong S, Wiseman AC. The Impact of Human Leukocyte
Antigen Mismatching on Sensitization Rates and Subsequent
Retransplantation After First Graft Failure in Pediatric Renal
Transplant
Recipients. Transplantation 2013; 95: 1218-1224.
Hagman J, Gralla J, Sigel E, Ellert S, Dodge M, Gardner R,
OLonergan
T, Frank G, Wamboldt M. A double-blind placebo controlled study
of
risperidone for the treatment of adolescents and young adults
with
anorexia nervosa: a pilot study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc
Psychiatry
2011; 50(9): 915-924.
Hunter SK, Mendoza JH*, DAnna K, McCarthy L, Freedman R,
Ross
RG (2012). Antidepressants may mitigate the effects of
prenatal
maternal anxiety on infant auditory sensory gating. American
Journal of
Psychiatry, 169, 616-624. PMC3640273
Mullin, B.C., Phillips, M.L., Siegle, G., Buysse, D.J., Forbes,
E.E.,
Franzen, P. (2013). Sleep deprivation amplifies striatal
reactivity to
reward in healthy young adults. Psychological Medicine,
(advanced
Epub) 1-11.
Reidy RE*, Ross RG, Hunter SK (2013). Theory of Mind development
is
impaired in 4-year-old children with prenatal exposure to
maternal
tobacco smoking. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal,
1
(1):24-34.
Ross, ES and Browne, JV. (2013). Feeding outcomes in Preterm
infants after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(NICU): A
Systematic Review. Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews. Vol
13
Pages 87-93.
Ross, R.G., Hunter, S.K., McCarthy, L., Beuler, J., Hutchinson,
A.K.,
Wagner, B.D., Leonard, S., Stevens, K.E., Freedman, R.
(2013).
Perinatal choline effects on neonatal pathophysiology related to
later
schizophrenia risk. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170,
290-298.
PMC3640283
Ross, R.G., Hunter, S.K., Zerbe, G.O. & Hanna, K. (2012).
Mothers
and fathers do not accurately report each others
psychopathology.
Mental Illness, 4(2):e14 DOI:10.4081/mi.2012.e14.
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Sana Basseri, rka Lhotk, Morgan D. Fullerton, Rengasamy
Palanivel, Hua Jiang, Edward G. Lynn, Rebecca J. Ford, Kenneth
N.
Maclean, Gregory R. Steinberg, Richard C. Austin. Loss of
TDAG51
results in mature-onset obesity, hepatic steatosis, and
insulin
resistance by regulating adipogenesis and lipogenesis. Diabetes.
2013
Jan;62(1):158-69. (Cover Article)
Sinkus ML, Adams C, Logel J, and Leonard, S: Expression of
Immune
Genes on Chromosome 6p21.3-22.1 in Schizophrenia. Brain,
Behavior, and Immunity: 32, 51-62 (2013). PMID: 23395714
Wiseman AC, Gralla J. Outcomes of Simultaneous Pancreas
Kidney
Transplant versus other Kidney Transplant Options in Patients
with
Type 2 Diabetes. Clin J Amer Soc Nephrol 2012; 7(4):
656-664.
RECENT CONFERENCES ATTENDED
1st Meeting of the Autism and Developmental Disorders
Inpatient
Research Collaborative (ADDIRC), Portland, ME, September
2012.
American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, AACAP
Conference, San Francisco, CA, October 2012.
American Psychological Association conference, Honolulu, HI,
August
2013.
Colorado Society of Osteopathic Medicine Summer CME
Conference,
Breckenridge, CO, August 2012
International Association of Human Animal Interaction
Organizations
conference, Chicago, IL, July 2013.
Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH)
International Region 3 Conference, Bluffton, SC, March 2013.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, International Conference on
Death,
Grief, and Bereavement, La Crosse, Wisconsin, June 2013.
FUNDING
Robin Gabriels received:
The Simons Foundation and The Lurie Foundation (Subcontract
site CO-PI: Robin Gabriels)
Project Aim: 2 year, 6 site collaborative research project
to
phenotype at least 500 children with ASD in ASD-ID specialty
psychiatric inpatient units.
Awarded Aug 2013
Jane Gralla received:
Pediatric heart transplant AHA 13CRP16970024 (PI: Auerbach,
S)
NCRP Winter 2013 Clinical Research Program
Circulating miRNAs as a Biomarker to Predict Cardiac
Allograft
Vasculopathy in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
7/1/2013-6/30/2015
Sharon Hunter received:
NOHR Research Award (Co PI, Kristin Uhler, PhD)
Relationship between acoustic change complex and mismatched
negativity in normal and heart-of-hearing infants.
$20000, 9/2013-9/2014
Ken Maclean received:
April 2013 William Hummel HCU research fund
Pathogenic mechanisms in HCU
$30,000
May 2013 Haley's Heroes
Novel treatment strategies for HCU
$20,000
Benjamin Mullin received:
Research Scholar Award from the Childrens Hospital Colorado
Research Institute
Insomnia and Neural Processing of Threat among Adolescents
with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
$100,000/year for 2 years. Aug, 2013-July 2015
AWARDS RECEIVED
Joy Browne recognition as Board of Directors for Parent
Organized Partnerships Supporting Infants and Children Learning to
Eat. Phoenix, Arizona, 2011-2013 Robin Gabriels received the 2013
Alumni Master Scholar Award for the University of Denvers Graduate
School of Professional Psychology, awarded by the University of
Denver (April 2013) Mark Laudenslager received The Norman Cousins
Award presented by the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society
(PNIRS) for contributions to the field of psychoneuroimmunology
which includes a keynote presentation at the 2013 annual meeting in
Stockholm, Sweden and a topical paper in Brain Behavior and
Immunity.
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DPRG NEWSLETTER UPDATE FORM
In order to keep information in our newsletter and our records
current, it is important to hear of the activities of our DPRG
community members. To make that task easier, please use this form
(attach additional sheets if necessary). We will include this
information in an upcoming issue of the Newsletter. Name: Phone
#(s): Title/Affiliation: Address: E-mail: 1. Since the last issue
of the newsletter was published, have you: a. Presented
posters/papers at any meetings, conferences, etc.? (Please give
date, location, name of
conference, presentation title.) b. Published any papers? (NOTE:
Please list full citation. "In press" citations will not be printed
in the
Newsletter. Please include ONLY published material.) c. Attended
any conferences of interest to DPRG members? (Please give date,
location, and name of
meeting.) d. Received any awards, honors, recognition for your
work? (Please give title of award, awarding agency
and date that the award was given.) 2. Have you received funding
for any research? (Please list sources, amount, dates and title of
project.) 3. Do you know of any upcoming meetings that would be of
interest to DPRG members and should be listed
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