Joint with: Exercise Biology: Signaling, Mechanisms and Benefits
Mammalian Somatosensation: Mechanisms of Itch, Touch, Pain and Interoception in Health and Disease

Jan 14–17, 2024 | Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Scientific Organizers: Diana Bautista, Rebecca P. Seal and Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor

  In Person
  On Demand

Jan 14–17, 2024 | Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Scientific Organizers: Diana Bautista, Rebecca P. Seal and Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor

Supported by the  Directors' Fund

***Meeting program subject to change.

Available Formats:   = In Person     = On Demand
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Registration  
4:00–8:00 PM
 Concourse
Welcome Mixer  
6:00–8:00 PM
 Cava Santa Fe
Monday, January 15, 2024
Breakfast  
7:00–8:00 AM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Welcome and Keynote Address  
8:00–9:00 AM
 Eldorado B
* Rebecca P. Seal, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair
* Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley
Session Chair
* Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor, Columbia University
Session Chair
David D. Ginty, HHMI/Harvard Medical School
Touch Sensory Neurons and their Central Circuits
Somatosensory Molecules and Cells I  
9:00–11:15 AM
 Eldorado B
* Yalda Moayedi, NYU
Session Chair
Theodore Price, University of Texas at Dallas
Molecular Signatures of Human Nociceptors
Theanne N. Griffith, UC Davis
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Mammalian Proprioception
Ellen A Lumpkin, UC Berkeley
Short Talk: Short Talk: Epithelial-Neural Crosstalk in Touch Reception
Alexander Chesler, National Institutes of Health
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Role of PIEZO2 in Health and Disease
Yury Nikolaev, Yale University
Short Talk: Short Talk: 3d Architecture of Meissner and Pacinian Mechanosensory Corpuscles
Luke Ziolkowski, Yale University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Lamellar Cells Function as Touch Sensors within Meissner and Pacinian Corpuscles
Coffee Break  
9:30–9:50 AM
 Concourse
Poster Setup  
11:15–1:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
On Own for Lunch  
11:15–5:00 PM
Career Roundtable (Joint)  
1:00–2:00 PM
 Eldorado A
Wolfgang Liedtke, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Chair of Neurology, Psychiatry, Pain Medicine & Sensory Systems; Global Development
Theanne N. Griffith, UC Davis
Assistant Professor
Romain Barrès, CBMR & CNRS
Associate Professor
Karen K. David, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Program Director, NIH BRAIN Initiative
Poster Viewing  
1:00–10:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Workshop: Select Talks from Trainees  
2:30–4:30 PM
 Eldorado B
* Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley
Session Chair
* Rebecca P. Seal, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair
* Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor, Columbia University
Session Chair
Jessica M. Jones, University of Washington
Neural Substrates of Abdominal Nociceptive Processing in Adult Drosophila Melanogaster
Marito Hayashi, Harvard Medical School
Intestinal Sensory Cells that Differentially Regulate Feeding and Gut Motility
Laura Seeholzer, UCSF
Functional Role of Neuroendocrine Cells Across the Airway
Rasheen Powell, Boston Children's Hospital
Disruption of Sodium-Channel Membrane Scaffolding Attenuates Neuropathic Pain-like Behaviors in Mice
Jagat Narayan Prajapati, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
An Intra-Brainstem Circuitry for Pain Inhibition of Itch
Olivia Davis, Center for Advanced Pain Studies, UTDallas
Mapping Sensory Circuits in the Human Spinal Cord Using Immunohistochemistry
Farin B. Bourojeni, McGill University / IRCM
Neural Basis of Ascending Somatosensory Integration for Control of Movement
Alastair Loutit, University of Geneva
Stepwise Transition from Timing to Rate Coding Along the Ascending Somatosensory Axis: Implications for Sensory Neuroprosthetics
Coffee Available  
4:30–5:00 PM
 Concourse
Somatosensory Molecules and Cells II  
5:00–7:00 PM
 Eldorado B
* Katelyn Sadler, University of Texas at Dallas
Session Chair
Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute
Piezo Ion Channels in Touch and Itch
Ishmail John Abdus-Saboor, Columbia University
Social Touch from Mice to Mole Rats
Patrik Ernfors, Karolinska Institutet
A Landscape of Sensory Receptor Cells
Rebecca Greenberg, Yale
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cold-induced Mechanosensory Plasticity in the Hibernating Squirrel
Lauren L Orefice, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Role of Dorsal Root Ganglia Neurons in Autism-associated Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
Social Hour with Lite Bites  
7:00–8:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Poster Session 1  
7:30–10:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Breakfast  
7:00–8:00 AM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Interoception  
8:00–11:00 AM
 Eldorado B
* Victoria Abraira, Rutgers University
Session Chair
Diana Bautista, University of California, Berkeley
Viral-Evoked Pain and Inflammation
Ewan Smith, University of Cambridge
Mechanisms Underpinning Joint Pain
Rachel Miller, Rush University Medical Center
Short Talk: Short Talk: Role of Piezo2 in Osteoarthritis Pain Development in Mice of Both Sexes
Kara Marshall, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: Short Talk: PIEZO-Mediated Mechanosensation in the Urinary Tract
Aaron Mickle, University of Florida
Short Talk: Short Talk: Urothelial Cell Contribution to Bladder Interoception
Katelyn Sadler, University of Texas at Dallas
Short Talk: Short Talk: Gastrointestinal Chemosensation Drives Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
Chen Ran, Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Short Talk: Functional Architecture of Brainstem Interoceptive Pathways
Coffee Break  
9:00–9:20 AM
 Concourse
Poster Setup  
11:00–1:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
On Own for Lunch  
11:00–5:00 PM
Poster Viewing  
1:00–10:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Coffee Available  
4:30–5:00 PM
 Concourse
Somatosensory Circuits  
5:00–7:00 PM
 Eldorado B
* Lauren L Orefice, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Session Chair
Rebecca P. Seal, University of Pittsburgh
Spinal Circuits as Targets for MA Therapies
Sarah Ross, University of Pittsburgh
Inhibitory Circuits in Itch and Pain
Victoria Abraira, Rutgers University
Molecules and Pathways of the Spinal Cord Affective Touch Circuit
David I. Hughes, University of Glasgow
Short Talk: Short Talk: Calretinin-expressing Islet Cells are a Source of Pre- and Post-synaptic Inhibition of Non-peptidergic Nociceptor Input to the Mouse Spinal Cord
Allan-Hermann Pool, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cell-type Map of Pain and Non-pain Somatosensory States in the Spinal Cord
Andreas R. Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Genomics and Machine Learning Implicate Spinal Cord Neuronal Subtypes in Chronic Pain Disorders
Social Hour with Lite Bites  
7:00–8:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Poster Session 2  
7:30–10:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Breakfast  
7:00–8:00 AM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Pain Mechanisms I: Neuroimmune  
8:00–11:00 AM
 Eldorado B
* Peng Li, University of Michigan
Session Chair
Vivianne Tawfik, Stanford University
Pro-Resolution or Pro-Inflammatory? Microglia in Chronic Pain
Veena Viswanath, Escient Pharmaceuticals
Mrgprs in Immune Cells and Neurons Mediate Itch and Pain
Wolfgang Liedtke, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Role of TRPV4 in Pain and Itch – Is There a Connection to Th2-Immunopathies?
Francis McGlone, Neuro
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Healthy Brain Needs ‘Vitamin-T'
Venetia Zachariou, Chobanian and Avedisian Medical School at Boston Universoty
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Female-specific Signal Transduction Pathway in the Mouse Periaqueductal Gray Modulates Sensory Hypersensitivity in Models of Chronic Pain
Sakeen Kashem, University of California - San Francisco
Short Talk: Short Talk: Regulatory T Cell Derived Enkephalin Imparts Pregnancy Induced Analgesia
Daniel McGehee, University of Chicago
Short Talk: Short Talk: Acetylcholine: An Important Modulator of Descending Pain Control Pathways
Miaomiao Jin, MIT
Short Talk: Short Talk: Identifying Neural Circuit Correlates of Pain Anticipation and Nocebo Hyperalgesia Using a Novel Behavioral Paradigm in Mouse
Coffee Break  
9:00–9:20 AM
 Concourse
On Own for Lunch  
11:00–5:00 PM
Panel Discussion on NIH Resources for Somatosensory Research  
3:30–4:30 PM
 Eldorado B
Karen K. David, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Panelist
James Gnadt, NINDS, National Institutes of Health
Panelist
Alexander H Tuttle, NCCIH/NIH
Panelist
Ellen A Lumpkin, UC Berkeley
Panelist
Coffee Available  
4:30–5:00 PM
 Concourse
Pain Mechanisms II  
5:00–6:45 PM
 Eldorado B
* Aaron Mickle, University of Florida
Session Chair
India Morrison, Linköping University
Brain-Hormone Comodulation during Human Social Touch
Margarita Calvo, Universidad Católica de Chile
Neuropathic Pain from the Skin, How and Why?
Allan I. Basbaum, University of California, San Francisco
Long-term Imaging of Cortical and Spinal Cord Neuronal Activity in the Awake, Behaving Animal
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)  
6:45–7:00 PM
 Eldorado B
Social Hour with Lite Bites  
7:00–8:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Cash Bar  
8:00–10:00 PM
 Anasazi Ballroom
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Departure  
12:00–11:59 PM

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