Friday, August 14th: Behrakis Room 10
08:30 am Breakfast
08:50 am Opening Remarks: Alexandros Makriyannis
09:00 am The Medicinal Chemistry of Arrestin: Spiro Pavlopolous
09:20 am Focused Metabolomics on the Endocannabinoid System: Jodianne Wood
09:40 am The Metabolism of AM-1241: Dustin Smith
10:00 am Chemistry Magnetic Nanoparticles used for Purification and Enrichment of
the CB2 Receptor: Dennis Szymanski
10:20 am Coffee Break
10:40 am Analysis of Human Endocannabinoid System-Related Proteins by Mass Spectrometry: Katja Melchior
11:00 am Deducing Cannabinoid Receptor Tertiary Structure Using Mutagenized Receptors Probed with Covalent Agonists and Inverse Agonists: Rick Mercier
11:20 am Novel CB1 Receptor Antagonists: Paul LaBeaume
11:40 am Novel Cannabinergic Ligands: Agonist, Partial Agonist, Cannabidiols and Cannabinoids with Modulated Duration of Action: Marsha D’Souza
12:00 noon Lunch (McLeod Suite, 318-320 Curry Student Center)
01:00 pm Cannabinoid Inverse Agonists and Antagonists: Food Intake and Emotion: Patrick Randall
01:20 pm Cannabinoids Prevent HIV-1/Gp120-Induced Damage on Neural Progenitor Cells: Hava Avraham
01:40 pm Cannabinoid Discrimination: Toby Järbe
02:00 pm Tolerance and Dependence in AM-411-Treated Monkeys: Jack Bergman
02:20 pm Estrogen in Membrane Bilayer: Jianxin Guo
02:40 pm NMR Based Strategy for Investigating Ligand Transport Across Membrane: Jianqin Zhuang
03:00 pm Coffee Break
03:20 pm Expression and Characterization of Endocannabinoid Metabolizing Enzymes: Nikolai Zvonok
03:40 pm NMR Structural and Functional Studies of Receptors and Enzymes: Sergiy Tyukhtenko
04:00 pm Novel Endocannabinoid Probes: Kyle Whitten
04:20 pm Closing Remarks: Alexandros Makriyannis
05:00 pm Post-Retreat Social
