Program at a Glance

Tuesday 21 September
08.30 – 15.30	Satellite Workshop
Genetics and Schizophrenia
18.00 – 20.00	Public Forum
Has research been of benefit to people with schizophrenia?

Wednesday 22 September
09.00 – 09.30	Welcome	Vaughan Carr, Conference Chair, ASC2010
Opening	Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales
Special Address	Lynn DeLisi, Secretary, Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)
09.30 – 10.30	Plenary	Understanding impaired cognition and emotion in schizophrenia
	Cameron Carter, University of California at Davis, USA
10.30 – 11.10	Plenary	Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia: Does developmental vitamin D deficiency play a role?
	John McGrath, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
11.10 – 11.30	MORNING TEA
11.30 – 13.00	Symposium Session 1	Symposium Session 2	Symposium Session 3
Timing of frontal cortex development and demise in schizophrenia	Social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia	Dissecting and treating the syndrome of schizophrenia
Chair: Cynthia Shannon Weickert	Chair: Cali Bartholomeusz	Chair: Brian Dean
13.00 – 14.00	LUNCH POSTER SESSION 1 – CLINICAL RESEARCH
14.00 – 15.00	Chair	Ulrich Schall
Plenary	Neuroimaging of schizophrenia: From maps to mechanisms
	Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany
15.00 – 15.20	AFTERNOON TEA
15.20 – 16.20	Oral Session 1	Oral Session 2
Animal models	Psychosis phenotypes
Chair: Maarten van den Buuse	Chair: Melissa Green
16.25 – 17.40	Oral Session 3	Oral Session 4	Oral Session 5
Epidemiology	Ultra-High Risk	Pharmacology
Chair: Vera Morgan	Chair: Philip Ward	Chair: Cherrie Galletly
17.40 – 19.10	WELCOME RECEPTION

Thursday 23 September
08.00 – 08.45	AUSTRALASIAN SCHIZOPHRENIA CONFERENCE BUSINESS MEETING
09.00 – 10.00	Chair	Melissa Green
Plenary	Social cognition in schizophrenia
	David Penn, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
10.00 – 10.40	Plenary	Functional recovery in early psychosis: Something old somewhere new
	Eóin Killackey, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
10.40 – 11.00	MORNING TEA
11.00 – 12.45	Symposium Session 4	Symposium Session 5	Symposium Session 6
Asia-Pacific Forum	How animal models assist research into schizophrenia	Brain stimulation studies to understand function and treat symptoms of schizophrenia
Chair: Stan Catts	Chair: Tim Karl	Chair: Thomas Weickert
12.45 – 13.45	LUNCH POSTER SESSION 2 – BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH		SURVEY OF HIGH IMPACT PSYCHOSIS (SHIP) MEETING
13.45 – 14.25	Chair	John McGrath
Plenary	The nosological entity in psychiatry: An historical illusion or a real moving target?
	Assen Jablensky, University of Western Australia
14.25 – 14.40	Special	Update on the Australian National Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP)
Update	Vera Morgan, University of Western Australia
14.40 – 15.00	AFTERNOON TEA
15.00 – 16.00	Oral Session 6	Oral Session 7	Oral Session 8
Clinical research	Event-related potentials	Biology to behaviour
Chair: Helen Stain	Chair: Pat Michie	Chair: Ken Kirkby
16.05 – 17.20	Oral Session 9	Oral Session 10	Oral Session 11
Genetics	Neuropsychology	Rehabilitation
Chair: Murray Cairns	Chair: Robyn Langdon	Chair: Carmel Loughland
19.00	CONFERENCE DINNER

Friday 24 September
09.00 – 10.00	Chair	Cherrie Galletly
Plenary	Schizophrenia, psychosis and cognition: Back to the future
	Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, King 's College, UK
10.00 – 10.40	Plenary	The path to developing better schizophrenia treatments
	Cynthia Shannon Weickert, Schizophrenia Research Institute
10.40 – 11.00	MORNING TEA
11.00 – 12.30	Symposium Session 7	Symposium Session 8	Symposium Session 9
Understanding the association between cannabis use and psychosis	Hot Topics: Late-breaking reports	Oxidative stress and schizophrenia
Chair: Nadia Solowij	Chair: Cynthia Shannon Weickert	Chair: Vibeke Catts
12.30 – 13.30	LUNCH POSTER SESSION 3 – IMAGING, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND RESEARCH RESOURCES
13.30 – 14.45	Oral Session 12	Oral Session 13	Oral Session 14
Neuro-Imaging	Schizotypy, sub-phenotypes and social cognition	GABA mechanisms and brain synchrony
Chair: Christos Pantelis	Chair: Carmel Loughland	Chair: Anthony Harris
14.45	CONFERENCE CLOSE