INIA News
Dan Goldowitz
Dan Goldowitz has been appointed Associate Editor of Genes, Brain, and Behavior Organizer
4th Annual UT/ORNL/Kentucky Bioinformatics Summit Plenary Speaker
Kathy Grant
President for the Research Society on Alcoholism
Ad Hoc Expert for the Extramural Advisory Board of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Chair of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Board of Scientific Councilors
Congressional Testimony on issues of Alcohol Abuse
Michael Langston
Invited speaker, XXV Congress of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Vienna, Austria, June 2006
Invited speaker, SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June, 2006
Associate Editor, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems
Associate Editor, Parallel Processing Letters
Special Issues Editor, The Computer Journal
Special Issues Editor, Theoretical Computer Science
Program Chair, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March, 2006
Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation, Zürich, Switzerland, September, 2006
Brian McCool
Brian McCool has been appointed to the editorial board of Alcohol for a three-year term beginning in July 2006.
Leslie Morrow
Dr. A. Leslie Morrow delivered a Frontier of Science Lecture at the 2006 American Psychiatric Association meeting in Toronto, Canada entitled "High on Neuroactive Steroids: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Relevance".
Research Highlight -- Collaborative studies between the Grant and Morrow Labs have demonstrated a neurosteroid marker for risk of developing heavy drinking and binge drinking in cynomolgus monkeys. Dexamethasone suppression of neurosteroid deoxycorticosterone levels in plasma of ethanol-naïve monkeys was highly correlated with subsequent voluntary alcohol drinking following scheduled induction of drinking. Weak suppression of DOC levels following dexamethasone infusion also predicted the development of binge drinking - defined as heavy drinking within a short period of time.