RSA/ISBRA-2020: COVID-19 ALERT
The RSA and ISBRA leaderships have made the unprecedented decision to cancel the 2020 annual meetings, including the FASD Study Group. Please refer to the RSA statement for up-to-date information, including information about meeting refunds.
​The annual meeting of the FASD Study Group occurs on the Saturday prior to the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism.
The 2020 meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA on Saturday, June 20.
FASDSG Annual Meeting
June 20, 2020
New Orleans, LA

Theme: The Role of the Placenta in the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

MEETING FORMS AND REGISTRATION
Meeting registration through the RSA website
Coming soon...

FASt Data/Travel and Merit Award Form
Application available here; Deadline: March 27, 2020
Note: abstracts are not required to be related to the meeting theme.

Rosett Award Nominations
​Information available here; Deadline: April 3, 2020

The FASDSG is hosting a happy hour on Monday, June 22 from 6:45 to 7:45 pm (location TBD). Come network with other FASDSG members and enjoy a free drink! All are welcome and trainees are strongly encouraged to attend! 

​Keynote Speakers

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Dr. Rebecca Fry
The Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children’s Environmental Health
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
​University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presentation Title: Placental Origins of Health and Disease
Rebecca Fry is the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor in Children’s Environmental Health and Associate Chair in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.  Dr. Fry is the founding Director of the newly launched Institute for Environmental Health Solutions (IEHS) at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is also the PI of several large NIH-funded grants including a children’s environmental health cohort funded through the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, the UNC Superfund Research Program, an R01 from the National Institute for Child Health Development (NICHD), and three R01s from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). She is the Director of the Environmental Health Sciences training grant (T32) and Director of Graduate Studies in the Curriculum of Toxicology. Dr. Fry’s holds a Ph.D. in biology with post-doctoral training in toxicogenomics and environmental health sciences. A primary goal of Dr. Fry’s research is to increase awareness of the deleterious impacts of toxic exposures during the prenatal period with a focus on the epigenome and developmental origins of health and disease. Her group has identified epigenetic mechanisms that relate toxic substances to children’s health as well as cancer outcomes. She has served on the committee for the National Academies of Science (NAS) National Research Council for the IRIS review of inorganic arsenic, a reviewer for the cancer and non-cancer risk assessment of arsenic in food by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a reviewer for the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
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Dr. Tracy Bale
Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry
Director, Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Presentation Title: At the Intersection of Maternal Stress and Microbiome: Programming Fetal Development
Tracy Bale is a Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development in the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in the Department of Pharmacology, and her postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute with Dr. Wylie Vale. Dr. Bale was Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania for 15 years prior to her move to UMB. Her research focuses on understanding the role of stress dysregulation in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric diseases, and the sex differences that underlie disease vulnerability using mice as the model organism. She is interested in developing models of parental stress and the germ cell involvement in transgenerational epigenetic programming of neurodevelopment. She serves on many internal and external advisory committees, panels, and boards and served as Chair of the NNRS CSR study section and was a Reviewing Editor at the Journal of Neuroscience for the last 6 years. She has been the recipient of several awards for her research in this area including the career development award for early career achievement and promise by the Society for Neuroscience, the Richard E. Weitzman Memorial award as exceptionally promising young investigator award by the Endocrine Society, the Medtronic Award from the Society for Women’s Health Research for outstanding research that has led to the improvement of women’s health, and recently the Daniel H. Efron award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She was recently elected President of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).    ​

New Officer Election

Election of a new FASDSG officer will take place at the annual meeting. The new officer will serve as Secretary for one year, and then serve one year terms as Treasurer, Vice-President, and President over the following three years.

Candidates for the 2020 election: ​Coming soon...

Networking Lunch @ Borgne - 601 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113

FUTURE MEETINGS

June 19, 2021: San Antonio, TX
June 25, 2022: Orlando, FL
June 24, 2023: Bellevue, WA
June 22, 2024: Minneapolis, MN

PAST MEETINGS

2019: Minneapolis, MN. Program (pdf)
2018 : San Diego, CA. Program (pdf) 
2017 : Denver, CO. Program (pdf)
2016 : New Orleans, LA. Program (pdf)
2015 : San Antonio, TX. Program (pdf)