***A detailed program for the 2025 UF CARE Annual Symposium can be found here***
Event Location: Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, DeWeese Auditorium (Directions)
Event Program:
8:00 am Coffee & Registration: MBI Foyer
8:30 am Welcome: DeWeese Auditorium (LG-101) Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D. Director, UF CARE
8:45 am Concurrent Panels: Session 1
10:10 am Concurrent Panels: Session 2
11:35 am Lunch & Round Table Discussions (Boxed lunches, if reserved, outside of LG-101.)
12:45 pm Overview of the UF Center for Addiction Research & Education: DeWeese Auditorium (LG-101) Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D. Director, UF CARE
1:00 pm Keynotes: DeWeese Auditorium (LG-101)
Paul Kenny, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neuroscience
Director, Drug Discovery Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Talk Title: Cellular Mechanisms of Drug Craving
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.
Professor and Chief or Psychology Section
Department of Psychiatry Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center
Yale School of Medicine
Talk Title: How Does Stress and Trauma Promote Addiction Risk and Relapse? Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutics to Improve Treatment Outcomes
***A Zoom link is available for the Keynote Speakers only, register for the Zoom link here***
3:30 pm Poster session: HPNP Atrium
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