Selected Presentations & Appearances
Neural-glial interactions in opioid abuse: modulation by early-life experience.
· December 1, 2013
Lecture
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina
Neural-Glial interactions in opioid abuse: modulation by early-life experience.
· December 1, 2013
Lecture
Center for Addiction and Behavioral Change, Duke University
Participation in Duke Forward Campaign
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
Chicago, IL
Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, Title “Microglial colonization of developing brain: Implications for long-term neural function
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
San Diego, CA
Neural-glial interactions shape brain development and cognition throughout the lifespan.
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
University of New Mexico Department of Neuroscience Colloquium
Neural-glial interactions in opioid abuse: modulation by early-life experience.
· December 1, 2013
Lecture
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina
Neural-Glial interactions in opioid abuse: modulation by early-life experience.
· December 1, 2013
Lecture
Center for Addiction and Behavioral Change, Duke University
Participation in Duke Forward Campaign
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
Chicago, IL
Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, Title “Microglial colonization of developing brain: Implications for long-term neural function
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
San Diego, CA
Neural-glial interactions shape brain development and cognition throughout the lifespan.
· November 1, 2013
Lecture
University of New Mexico Department of Neuroscience Colloquium
Duke University Department of Immunology Annual Retreat
· October 1, 2013
Lecture
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Duke University Department of Neurobiology Annual Retreat
· October 1, 2013
Lecture
Wilmington, NC
Early-life programming of adult neural function and Behavior: Spotlight on Microglia
· October 1, 2013
Lecture
Ocular immunology and inflammation group seminar, Duke University
European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Symposium Chair on “Glial Cells in Memory, Neural Plasticity and Neurogenesis”, Title: “Early-Life Infection, Microglia, and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan”
· July 1, 2013
Lecture
Berlin, Germany
Development, brain and behavior: Interactions of Diet and the Neuroimmune Link
· May 1, 2013
Lecture
UNC Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Neural-Glial Interactions in the Reward Circuitry of The Brain: Modification by Early-Life Experienc
· April 1, 2013
Lecture
University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Neuroscience Colloquium
Neural-Glial Interactions in the Reward Circuitry of The Brain: Modification by Early-Life Experienc
· March 1, 2013
Lecture
West Virginia University, Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy Colloquium
UC Riverside Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions Annual Symposium Speaker on “Glial- Neuronal Interactions in Health and Disease”, Title: Neural-Glial Interactions within the Reward Circuitry”
· January 1, 2013
Lecture
UC Riverside
Department of Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Title: "Programming innate immunity: Implications for Neural and Behavioral Development"
· November 1, 2012
Lecture
Vanderbilt University
Department of Neuroscience, Title: "Programming innate immunity: Implications for Neural and Behavioral Development"
· November 1, 2012
Lecture
University of Virginia
Department of Biology, Title: "Programming innate immunity: Implications for Neural and Behavioral Development"
· November 1, 2012
Lecture
NC State University
Mini-Symposium on “Brain Immunology: Peripheral Triggers of CNS Disease”. Title: “Development, Brain, and Behavior: Interactions of Diet and the Neuroimmune Link”
· October 1, 2012
Lecture
Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA
Symposium on “Brain-Body Communication: Function and Dysfunction and the Critical Role of the Immune System”; Title: “Early Immune Activation and Adult Cognitive Dysfunction”
· October 1, 2012
Lecture
Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA
Symposium on “Central Nervous System Immune Signaling and Addiction”, Title: “Early-Life Experience Modulates Glial Function and the Risk of Relapse in a Model of Drug Addiction”
· October 1, 2012
Lecture
NIDA Mini-Convention, Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA
Department of Physiology, Title: Early-Life Experience Modulates Glial Function and the Risk of Relapse in a Model of Drug Addiction
· September 1, 2012
Lecture
Emory University
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Title: Early-Life Experience Modulates Glial Function and the Risk of Relapse in a Model of Drug Addiction
· September 1, 2012
Lecture
New Jersey Medical School
Symposium on “Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms in Autism”, Title: "Programming innate immunity: Implications for Neural and Behavioral Development".
· June 1, 2012
Lecture
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Kona, HI
Invited Address, Presidential Symposium on Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions, Title: Programming innate immunity by the early life environment.
· June 1, 2012
Lecture
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Annual Meeting, Madison, WI
7th Annual Women’s Health Research Day, “Does Mom Matter? Mechanisms of Maternal Contributions to Offspring Health”, Title: "Maternal stress and maternal care: programming neuroendocrine-immune interactions in offspring".
· May 1, 2012
Lecture
Wake Forest University
Symposium on "Sex, Stress, and Environmental Modulation of Neurodevelopment and Adult Behavioral Susceptibilities", Title: “Sex differences in early-life programming of neuroinflammation and behavioral abnormalities by high fat diet.”
· May 1, 2012
Lecture
Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Department of Pharmacology, Title: Early-Life Experience Modulates Glial Function and the Risk of Relapse in a Model of Drug Addiction
· May 1, 2012
Lecture
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Psychology, Title: Glia, brain development, and programming innate immunity: Implications for cognition throughout the lifespan.
· March 1, 2012
Lecture
Rutgers University
Environmental Health Sciences Seminar Series, Title: "Programming innate immunity: Implications for brain and behavior throughout the lifespan"
· March 1, 2012
Lecture
NIEHS
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Title: Programming innate immunity: Implications for brain and behavior
· February 1, 2012
Lecture
The Johns Hopkins University
Duke University Integrated Toxicology Spring Symposium, “The Social Context of Environmental Exposures in Children”, Title: Maternal stress may mediate the impact of environmental pollutants on brain and behavioral outcomes”.
· December 8, 2011
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Duke University
University of Southern California, Air Pollution and Brain Health Research Group Seminar
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
Los Angeles, CA
Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities Seminar Series
· October 1, 2011
Lecture
UNC
Developmental Origins of Health & Disease 7th World Congress, Symposium on “Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, & Programming”, Title: Programming the innate immune system”
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
Portland, OR
NICHD/Wayne State University Conference on Fetal Origins of Autism
· August 1, 2011
Lecture
Detroit, MI
American Aging Association Annual Meeting, Title: “Implications of Early-life Experience for Cognitive Function throughout the Lifespan”
· June 1, 2011
Lecture
Raleigh, NC
University of Texas at Austin Toxicology Departmental Colloquium, Title: “Programming innate immunity: implications for brain & behavior throughout the lifespan”
· April 1, 2011
Lecture
University of Texas at Austin
Duke Brain Awareness Week Public Talk, “The Mind-Body Connection: The Secret Life of Your Immune System”
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
West End Wine Bar
University of North Carolina Center for Developmental Science Spring Consortium on Human Development, Seminar series “Getting the Social ‘Under the Skin:’ Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment”.
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
UNC
University of Illinois Nutritional Sciences Departmental Colloquium
· February 1, 2011
Lecture
University of Illinois
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Symposium on "Sex, Stress, and Environmental Modulation of Neurodevelopment and Adult Behavioral Susceptibilities", Title: “Enduring consequences of maternal obesity for brain inflammation and behavior"
· December 1, 2010
Lecture
Miami, FL
Schmitt Symposium on “Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Dysfunction in Aging and Chronic Disease”, Title “Enduring consequences of early-life infection for neuroinflammation and cognition throughout the lifespan”
· October 1, 2010
Lecture
University of Rochester
Neuroscience Institute
· September 1, 2010
Lecture
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Robert Ader New Investigator Award Lecture
· June 1, 2010
Lecture
PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, & Medical Genetics
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
The Ohio State University
“Brain Awareness Week” Public Symposium, Keynote Address, Title “Brain & Body: How the Immune System Makes a Smarter Brain”
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the Urban Child Institute
Department of Psychology
· February 1, 2010
Lecture
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Symposium on “Behavioral Neuroimmunology: Linking the Immune System to Emotionality and Cognition”, Title: “Neural development and adult cognition: a critical role for the immune system”.
· October 1, 2009
Lecture
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
“Early-life programming of later-life brain and behavior: A critical role for innate immunity”.
· July 1, 2009
Lecture
Early Life Programming and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
“Neural development and adult cognition: A critical role for the immune system”.
· May 1, 2009
Lecture
Duke University, Dept. of Neurobiology Annual Retreat
Symposium on “PNI, Plasticity, and Mechanisms of Cytokine-Induced Sickness”, Title: “Learning-induced increases in immune and plasticity-related genes: modulation by cytokines and early-life infection”.
· May 1, 2009
Lecture
PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Annual Meeting, Breckenridge, CO
“Neural development and adult cognition: A critical role for the immune system”.
· March 1, 2009
Lecture
Duke University, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series
Symposium on “Psychoneuroimmunology Meets Integrative Biology”, Title: “Early life environment influences on neuroimmune interactions and behavior in adulthood”.
· January 1, 2009
Lecture
The Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Neonatal infection alters brain development and cognition in adulthood
· August 1, 2008
Lecture
American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Rats infected early in life with bacteria exhibit exaggerated fever and lack of endotoxin tolerance in adulthood.
· May 1, 2008
Lecture
PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Annual Meeting, Madison, WI
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Summer Neuroscience Program Mentor - Summer Neuroscience Program
· 2021
- 2022
Projects & Field Work
Brain & Society
Summer Neuroscience Program Mentor - Summer Neuroscience Program
· 2020
Projects & Field Work
Brain & Society
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Maternal Nutrition and the Developing Brain
· August 2014
- May 2015
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Environmental Justice and the Early-life Origin of Health Disparities: Why Mom Matters
· August 2013
- May 2014
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Grant Reviewer: National Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
·
December 2012
Other
Grant Reviewer: Canadian Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
·
December 2012
Other
Invited Reviews Editor : Brain Behavior and Immunity
·
December 2012
Editorial Activities
Grant Reviewer: National Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
·
October 2011
Other
Special Issue Guest Editor : Hormones and Behavior
·
2011
- 2012
Editorial Activities
Grant Reviewer: National Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
·
December 2012
Other
Grant Reviewer: Canadian Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
·
December 2012
Other
Invited Reviews Editor : Brain Behavior and Immunity
·
December 2012
Editorial Activities
Grant Reviewer: National Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
·
October 2011
Other
Special Issue Guest Editor : Hormones and Behavior
·
2011
- 2012
Editorial Activities
Board of Directors : Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society
·
2011
Other
Editorial Board Member : Brain Behavior and Immunity
·
2011
Editorial Activities