Scientific Memorial Symposium for Steven Goldberg

Organizers: Zuzana Justinová, Yavin Shaham, and Sergi Ferré
Date: March 11, 2015
Location: BRC Atrium (NIDA, Baltimore)

9:00 am – 9:15 am—Introduction by Antonello Bonci

9:15 am – 12:00 pm—Morning Session 

• Jack Bergman: “Nicotine Self-Administration in Monkeys”
• Ian Stolerman: “Adventures with Nicotine”
• Daniele Piomelli: “Steve and I – 15 Years of Scientific Collaboration and Friendship”
• Alexandros Makriyannis: “Neutral CB1 Receptor Antagonists for Nicotine Addiction”
• Robert Schwarcz: “Cannabinoids and Kynurenic Acid: The Goldberg Connection”

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm—Lunch Break 

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm—Afternoon Session 

• Jonathan Katz: “Stimulus-Stimulus Contingencies and the Second Wave of Bringing Behavior Analysis to Bear on Problems of Drug Dependence”
• Charles Schindler: “Physiological Effects of Drugs of Abuse: My Nearly 30-year Journey with Steve Goldberg”
• Tsung-Ping Su: “Methamphetamine Self-Administration and the Molecular Chaperone Sigma-1 Receptor”
• Zuzana Justinová: “There Was Something about Steve: A Story of Cannabinoids as Reinforcers”
• Sergi Ferré: “A Bucket of Caffeine”
• Jean Lud Cadet: “Methamphetamine Self-Administration: From Receptor Autoradiography to Epigenetics”
• Gianluigi Tanda: “Discovering Reinforcing Effects of THC and a Shared Passion for Marijuana Research”

For more information contact Zuzana Justinová at ZJustino@intra.nida.nih.gov