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

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