IMFAR 2007

THURSDAY, MAY 3 / FRIDAY, MAY 4 / SATURDAY, MAY 5
7:30-8:15 / Breakfast / Breakfast / Breakfast
8:00 / Opening Comments: Geri Dawson
8:10 / Poster 1 / ADVOCACY GROUP INTRODUCTION
ASA: Cathy Pratt / Poster 3 / ADVOCACY GROUP INTRODUCTION Autism Speaks: Andy Shih? / Poster 5 / ADVOCACY GROUP INTRODUCTION
Cure Autism Now: Peter Bell
8:30-9:30 / Introduction: Geri Dawson
Keynote Address: Anthony Bailey / Introduction: Elizabeth Aylward
Keynote Address: Pat Kuhl
Language Learning and the 'Social Brain': Implications for Children With Autism / Introduction: Susan Bookheimer
Keynote Address: Daniel Geschwind
Tackling Genetic Heterogeneity in Autism:
An Array of Approaches
930-9:50 / Coffee Break / Coffee Break / Coffee Break
9:50-11:45 / Invited Educational Symposium / Invited Educational Symposium / Invited Educational Symposium
Infants with autism symptoms: detection and treatment

Geri Dawson

/ Brain Models of Autism
Manny Dicicco-Bloom / “Medical Aspects of Autism”

Margaret Bauman

/ Genetics and Endophenotypes
Gerry Schellenberg, John Constantino / New approaches for Neuroimaging in autism
Declan Murphy, Tom Conturo / “Adolescent and adult interventions and outcomes”
Fred Frankel, Cathy Lord / Developing a world view of autism epidemiology
Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp
11:45-1:00 / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch
Poster session 1 / Poster session 3 / Poster session 5
1:00-2:20 / Poster 2 / Oral Session 1,2,3 / Poster 4 / Oral Session 7,8,9 / Poster 6 / AWARDS
1:00-1:15 Dissertation Awards
1:15-1:45 Lifetime Achievement Award
Brain Structure

Joe Piven

/ Cognition
Dermot Bowler / Treatment and outcome
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum / Functional Imaging
Nancy Minshew / Autism Epidemiology

Rita Cantor

/ Autism Phenotypes
Rebecca Landa
Presentation: Uta Frith “Autism and the absent self”
1:45-2:00 Coffee Break
2:20-2:50 / Coffee Break / Coffee Break / 2:00- 3:20 Oral Session 13,14,15
2:50-4:10 / Oral session 4,5,6 / Oral Session 10,11,12 / Emotions and Social Interactions
Ami Klin
/ Repetitive Behavior
Stewart Mostofsky / Education, community-based services & treatment

David Mandell

Genetics
Jim Sutcliff / Neurophysiology & Neuro-psychology

Sara Webb

/ Diagnosis & screening
Wendy Stone / Neuropathology immunology and toxicology
Gene Blatt
/ Innovative technologies for diagnosis & treatment
Greg Abowd
/ Cognitive models of Autism
Mirella Dapretto / Poster Session 6 3:20-4:30
3:30 IMFAR 2008 Announcements Geri to Open and Close
4:30-5:15 / Special Presentation: Introduced by Geri dawsopn
Allen Jones: "The Mouse
Transcriptome in 3D: The Allen Brain Atlas Project" Introducer: Geri Dawson / Special Presentation Introduced by Susan Bookheimer
Tom Insel, NIMH
“The Combating Autism Act”
Introducer: Susan Bookheimer / 4:30 Meeting Close
5:15-6:15 / Poster session 2 / Poster Session 4
4:30-5:30
Business Meeting
5:15-6:45 / Reception - Sponsored by INSAR / Reception – Sponsored by Autism Speaks

A: Grand Ballroom AB: Grand Ballroom BC: Grand Ballroom CPosters: Ballroom D

Poster Session 1 Keywords: Clinical Evaluation, Comorbid Psychopathology, Developmental Trajectory, Epilepsy, Immunology, Language, Medical General, Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Services Delivery

Poster Session 2 Keywords: Functional Neuroimaging, Genetic Disorders, Genetic Family Genetic Studies, Neurophysiology

Poster Session 3 Keywords: Diagnosis, Early Detection, Education, Instruments, Law Motor Development, Perception, Psychometrics, Screening

Poster Session 4 Keywords: Brain Structure, Cognition, Emotions/Faces, Neuropathology, Structural Imaging

Poster Session 5 Keywords: Adult Life, Behavioral Intervention, Outcome, Social Behavior

Poster Session 6 Keywords: Animal Models Neurotransmitters and Neurochemistry, Early Development Nonverbal Communication, Epidemiology, Repetitive Behavior