GENE-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN HUMAN BRAIN DISEASES NOVEMBER 8TH AND 9TH, 2004 HELD AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND NEUROGENETICS: INSIGHTS INTO NEURODEGENERATION AND APPROCHES TO SCHIZOPHRENIA Christopher Ross, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE J. Timothy Greenamyre, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory University GENE-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERCTIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES? Preben Mortenson, National Center for Register-based Research, Arhaus, Denmark GENE ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS AND COGNITIVE FUNCTINING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER Faith Dickerson and Robert Yolken, Department of Psychology, Sheppard Pratt Health System; Johns Hopkins University, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology GENES, GERMS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE EPSILON 4 DISEASES AS A MODEL Paul W. Ewald, Department of Biology, Amherst College THE RAT SAT ON THE CAT: THE INFLUENCE OF ANTI-PROTOZOAN AND ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUGS ON THE ABILITY OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII TO ALTER HOST BEHAVIOR Joanne Webster, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER Sabine Bahn, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University, UK GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AND TREATMENT DETERMINANTS IN HIV/AIDS Justin McArthur, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES E. Fuller Torrey, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD DISC-1 MUTATIONS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA Russell Margolis, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine AN APPROACH FOR BIOLOGY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: d-SERINE, PICK1, AND DISC1 Akira Sawa, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine IMAGING OF HERPES SIMPLEX INFECTIONS IN VIVO WITH POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY Hans C Klein, University Hospital Groningen Centre for Mental Health, Winschoten, The Netherlands VIRAL INFECTION AND GENE EXPRESSION Håkan Karlsson, Stanley Laboratory, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm ANIMAL MODELS OF DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR ABNORMALITIES: VIRAL INFECTIONS PERSPECTIVES Misha Pletnikov, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine CMV INFECTION, GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA Vishwajit Nimgaonkar and Brian Shirts, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh MICROARRAYS OF THE GRAY AND WHITE MATTER IN THE FRONTAL AND OCCIPITAL CORTEX IN CONTROLS AND SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS Serge Weis, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD THE KYNURENINE PATHWAY IN PSYCHOSIS Christine Miller, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine GENOMIC MECHANISMS OF NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR DYSFUNCTION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER Emily Severance, Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine GENE-BASED SNP MAPPING OF A PSYCHOTIC BIPOLAR DISORDER LINKAGE REGION ON 22Q12.3 James Potash, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine TROPINS, PEPTIDES AND CYTOKINES IN ELUTED MATERIAL FROM ARCHIVED BLOOD SPOTS OF CONTROL, DOWN SYNDROME AND AUTISTIC CHILDREN Karin Nelson, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD COHORT STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY David Niebuhr, Amy Millikan, David Cowan, Yuanzhang Li, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD