Seminar aimed at: Child neurologists, child psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors.
Speaker: Kathy Sulik, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology and Director of Fetal Toxicology Division, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Seminar aimed at: Child neurologists, child psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors.
REGISTRATION: If you wish to attend this seminar, please email Magnus Landgren magnus.landgren@vgregion.se There are only a limited number of seats available.
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Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and physiology, University of Gothenburg, The child health care developmental neurology Unit, Skaraborg′s Hospital, Mariestad, in collaboration with the Ophthalmology unit for children and the Child Neuropsychiatry Clinic, and the Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital are pleased to invite you to a seminar on August 25, adn a public lecture on August 26, led by Professor Kathy Sulik.
The Sulik laboratory is directed towards better understanding of the mechanisms, pathogenesis and pathology associated with birth defects. This work employs a mouse model and imaging methodologies that allow both qualitative and quantitative analyses (see figures below) such as scanning electron microscopy, high resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in order to identify, characterize, and correlate the craniofacial and CNS dysmorphology. Functional and behavioral correlates are also being explored.
This research is supported by NIAAA and conducted as part of its Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (http://www.cifasd.org) as well as in collaboration with Duke University’s center for in Vivo Microscopy (http://www.civm.duhs.duke.edu/). In addition to training doctoral and postdoctoral students professor Sulik has directed a graduate-level course in Embryology and Teratology (http://www.med.unc.edu/embryo_images/).
Major findings are: – that alcohol can cause permanent damage at very early stages of embryonic development, stages that occur prior to the time that most women know that they are pregnant, – that selected cell populations are specifically vulnerable at specific embryonic developmental stages, – that facial dysmor – phology correlates to aberrations in the brain.
