The BPS 2005 meeting was held April 01 - 02, just prior to the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) meeting, at Marriott Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA.

• 7:30AM - Breakfast, time for speakers to load and preview talks.
  
  

• 8:30AM - Charles France, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, BPS President, Welcome and opening remarks.
  
  

• 8:35AM - Michael A. Nader & Paul W. Czoty, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, "Does tolerance develop to the reinforcing effects of cocaine in monkeys?"
  
  

• 9:00AM - Steven I. Dworkin, University of North Carolina Wilmington, "Nicotine and caffeine: self-administration?"
  
  

• 9:25AM - Andrew C. Barrett, Nancy K. Mello, S. Stevens Negus & S. Barak Caine, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, "Effect of GABA agonists and GABA_A receptor modulators on cocaine- and food-maintained responding and cocaine discrimination in rats."
  
  

• 9:50AM - James H. Woods, University of Michigan, "Cocaine esterase."
  
  

• 10:15AM - Dennis K. Miller, John R. Jany, Colin S. Cunningham & James R. Polston, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Interaction of lobeline with the behavioral pharmacology of cocaine and morphine."
  
  

• 10:40AM - Break
  
  

• 11:05AM - Stephen C. Fowler, Greg Osterhaus, Elena Vorontsova & Krittiya Thisayakorn, University of Kansas, "Amphetamine-induced sensitization of focused stereotypy in rats: comparison of presence or absence of an operant contingency."
  
  

• 11:30AM - T. J. Zarcone, T. L. McKerchar, Elena Vorontsova, Greg Osterhause & S. C. Fowler, University of Rochester Medical Center & University of Kansas, "After-effects of amphetamine in C57BL/6J mice."
  
  

• 11:55AM - Han-ting Zhang, Ying Huang, Kathleen Mishler & James M. O’Donnell, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, "Interaction between the antidepressant-like effects of beta drenergic agonists and the PDE4 inhibitor rolipram."
  
  

• 12:20PM - Lunch
  
  

• 1:20PM - Emily Jutkiewicz, University of Michigan, "Behavioral consequences of delta opioid-dopamine interactions."
  
  

• 1:45PM - Nurith Amitai, Jian Liu, & Gery Schulteis, UC San Diego & VA San Diego Healthcare System, "Cue-conditioned morphine withdrawal in acutely dependent rats."
  
  

• 2:10PM - Lance R. McMahon, Maryse R. Amin, Charles P. France & Wouter Koek, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, "Cannabinoid antagonism in monkeys and mice."
  
  

• 2:35PM - Elise M. Weerts, Amy K. Goodwin, Roland R. Griffiths & K. Michael Gibson, Johns Hopkins University, "Characterization of the behavioral effects of chronic gamma-butyric acid lactone (GBL) in baboons."
  
  

• 3:00PM - Wouter Koek, Lawrence P. Carter, Charles P. France, Weibin Chen, Huifang Wu & Andy Coop, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio & University of Maryland at Baltimore, "Discriminative stimulus effects of gamma-hydroxybutyrate and flumazenil."
  
  

• 3:25PM - Break
  
  

• 3:50PM - Nancy Ator, Johns Hopkins Behavioral Biology Research Center, "Behavioral relevance of selective GABA_A a1, a2/3, or a5-subtype receptor occupancy for abuse liability."
  
  

• 4:15PM - Gerry Herrera, Med Associates, Inc., "Preclinical drug screening: in vitro assay for assessing gastrointestinal side effects."
  
  

• 4:40PM - A. Russo-Neustadt, Michael Chen, Danielle Haack, Rochelle Songco & Thomas McNeill, California State Universtiy-Los Angeles & University of Southern California, "The impact of stress and voluntary physical activity on behavior and cellular survival signaling."
  
  

• 5:05PM - Galen Wenger, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, "Learning in the Ts65Dn mouse."
  
  

• 5:30PM - Wrap-up and adjourn
  
  
  
  
  
  

  BPS acknowledges the generous contributions of Med Associates, Inc.
  
  

  and PsychoGenics, Inc.
  
  

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  Last updated 04 Oct 05