Conference: NOGIN 2020

Talks 

From Pair Bond to Partner Loss: Neuropeptides Are Indispensable

Prof. Dr. Oliver Bosch, The Maternal Group, Department for Behavioural and Molecular Neurobiology

Behavioral Metrics of Bonding and Loss: The Prairie Vole Model

Zoe Donaldson, Ph.D., Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder

Mechanisms Underlying Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among the Spousally Bereaved

Angie LeRoy, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Rice University

Grief: A Multi-Method Approach

Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

Conference Schedule

Kachina Lounge, Level 3, UA Student Union

Friday, January 24

9am: Introduction and welcome, Mary-Frances O’Connor
9:30 – 10:30: Zoe Donaldson (separation distress, attachment behavior in animals)
10:30 – 11: Coffee break and discussion
11:00 – 12: Mary-Frances O’Connor (biomarkers, grief, prolonged grief disorder in humans)
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:15: Data Blitz: 10 min presentations (10 minutes, plus 5 minutes of questions) Saren Seeley, Angie LeRoy, Dora Hopf (human researchers)
2:15 – 2:30: Break
2:30 – 3:00: Josh Wardwell (animal researcher)
3:00 – 4:00: Panel Discussion led by Oliver Bosch (Questions for human grief researchers)
Panel: Mary-Frances O’Connor, Don Robinaugh, Angie LeRoy, Saren Seeley, Noam Schneck, Dora Hopf

Saturday, January 25

9am: Recap and synthesis of Day 1 (Mary-Frances)
9:30 – 10:30: Oliver Bosch (oxytocin, vasopressin, cortisol in animal neurobiology)
10:30 – 11: Coffee break and discussion
11:00 – 11:30: Beate Ditzen via Zoom (Couples, oxytocin and cortisol)
11:30 – 12: Noam Shneck (human researcher)
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch on your own
1:30 – 2:15: Data Blitz: 15 min presentations (10 minutes, plus 5 minutes of questions) Millie Rincon-Cortes, Tobias Pohl (animal researchers)
2:15 – 2:30: Break
2:30 – 3:00: Adam Smith (animal researcher)
3:00 – 4:00: Panel led by Mary-Frances O’Connor (Questions for animal grief researchers)
Panel: Zoe Donaldson, Oliver Bosch, Josh Wardwell, Millie Rincon-Cortes, Tobias Pohl, Adam Smith