Program Schedule

May 7th 2019
Session 1
  • 09:00-09:15 - STEFANO PARMIGIANI (Parma, IT) : Introduction to the Erice Center for Scientific Culture
  • 09:15-09:45 - ANDREA SGOIFO (Parma, IT) : Introduction to the Workshop on “Social Stress: psychological and psychsomatic implications”
  • 09:45-10:30 - JAMES CURLEY (Austin, USA) : Behavioral and physiological plasticity in mouse social hierarchies
  • 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:45 - SIETSE DE BOER (Groningen, NL) : Individual susceptibility to social challenge
  • 11:45-12:30 - NORBERT SACHSER (Muenster, GER) : Effects of the early social environment on adult behavioural phenotype: mechanisms and function
  • 12:30-14:30 - Lunch
Session 2
  • 14:30-15:15 - MELISSA HOLMES (Toronto, Canada) : Social regulation of adult neurogenesis: a comparative approach
  • 15:15-16:00 - ANNALIESE BEERY (Northampton, USA) : Stress, social behavior, and resilience: insights from rodents
  • 16:00-16:30 - Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:15 - LUCA CARNEVALI (Parma, IT) : Depression-CVD comorbidity in socially-stressed rodents: is social stress contagious?
May 8th 2019
Session 3
  • 09:00-09:45 - BRENDA PENNINX (Amsterdam, NL) : Social stress induced psychopathologies
  • 09:45-10:30 - CLEMENS KIRSCHBAUM (Dresden, GER) : Cultures under stress: a cross-national analysis of biological responses to psychosocial stress
  • 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:45 - MARTIEN KAS (Groningen, NL) : Social withdrawal as an early indicator of mental disorders
  • 11:45-12:30 - ALFONSO TROISI (Roma, IT) : The Darwinian psychiatry view on social stress induced psychopathology
  • 12:30-14:30 - Lunch
Session 4
  • 14:30-15:15 - JOHN F. CRYAN (Cork, IRL) : Social stress and the gut microbiota-immune-brain axis
  • 15:15-16:00 - STEFAN REBER (Ulm, GER) : "Old friends”, immunoregulation and stress resilience
  • 16:00-16:30 - Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:30 - SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (N=4)
May 9th 2019
ARCHEOLOGICAL TOUR
May 10th 2019
Session 5
  • 09:00-09:45 - JULIAN THAYER (Columbus, USA) : Resting parasympathetic activity as a marker of vulnerability/resilience to social stress
  • 09:45-10:30 - NICOLA MONTANO (Milano, IT) : Cardiac autonomic control in anxiety and depression
  • 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:45 - CRISTINA OTTAVIANI (Roma, IT) : Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in the study of mind-body pathways to social stress
  • 11:45-14:30 - Lunch
Session 6
  • 14:30-15:15 - SUSAN WOOD (Columbia, USA) : Neuroinflammation at the interface of stress-induced depression and cardiovascular dysfunction
  • 15:15-16:00 - ALESSANDRO BARTOLOMUCCI (Minneapolis, USA) : Social stress, senescence and aging-associated diseases
  • 16:00-16:30 - Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:30 - SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (N=4)
Social Event
  • 20:00 - Dinner
May 11th
Departures