Neuroscience of Sex Differences

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Larry Cahill, Ph.D.
Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
University of California, Irvine
"Sex influences on brain and body: An issue whose time has come"

Dena Dubal, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
"Why do women live longer? Dissecting sex differences in aging and neurodegenerative diseases"

Charles Roselli, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology & Pharmacology
Oregon Health & Science University
"Nature's choice: How brain differentiation influences sexual partner preferences"

Sarah DuBrow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
University of Oregon
"Memories, Together and Apart: How the Brain Segments and Connects our Experiences"

Mei-Ching Lien, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Oregon State University
"Make You Look: An Electrophysiological Study of Attention Capture in the Aging Brain"

Frederick Gallun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology
Oregon Health & Science University
"Assessing Auditory Processing Abilities in Human Listeners: Lessons from Auditory Neuroscience"

Friday, April 12

1 p.m.
Charles Roselli, Ph.D.
Oregon Health & Science University
"Nature's choice: How brain differentiation influences sexual partner preferences"

1:30 p.m.
Dena Dubal, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
"Why do women live longer? Dissecting sex differences in aging and neurodegenerative diseases"

2:00 p.m.
Matthew Ford, Ph.D.
Oregon National Primate Research Center

2:20 p.m.
Brie Paddock, Ph.D.
Southern Oregon University
"Sexual dimorphism in curcumin's effectiveness as an antioxidant in Drosophila melanogaster"

2:40 p.m.
Break

4:45 p.m.
Appetizers and Poster Session I

6:00 p.m.
Dinner

7:00 p.m.
Larry Cahill, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
"Sex influences on brain and body: An issue whose time has come"

Saturday, April 13

7:30 a.m.
Breakfast

9:00 a.m. 
Sarah DuBrow, Ph.D.
University of Oregon
"Memories, together and apart: How the brain segments and connects our experiences"

Submit abstract to Dr. Larry Sherman at shermanl@ohsu.edu. 

• Submission deadline is April 8, 2019.
• In the body of the email text, indicate presentation preference (poster or oral) and if you are a faculty member, post-doc, or student.
  
• Abstracts must be submitted as Microsoft Word documents.
• Please write your title in sentence case (first letter is capitalized; remaining letters are lower case). Do not bold or italicize your full title.
• List all authors who contributed to the work discussed in the abstract. The presenting author must be listed in the first author slot of the list. Include contact information for each author listed.
• The body of your abstract should be no more than 2,300 characters, including punctuation (not spaces).
• Use standard abbreviations. When using abbreviations for chemical compounds, spell out full for the first mention, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Do not abbreviate compounds in the abstract title.
• Enter the source(s) of contributed support to the research conducted within the abstract. Grant numbers may be listed here.

Hotel information

A room block has been arranged for attendees of this meeting. To make a hotel room reservation, please call McMenamins Edgefield directly at 800 669-8610 and reference “OHSU Brain Institute.” Rooms in the block will be released March 13, 2019; please make your reservation before this date.

Meals

Please note that the cost of this conference covers all meals.

Awards will be presented for best student and post-doc posters and oral presentations.

Registration and abstract submission deadline: April 8, 2019.