C2S Introductory Conference
Conference Goals | Agenda & Links to Presentations | Related Papers
The introductory conference for C2S was held June 6, 2005 at Northwestern University's Evanston campus.
Conference Goals
- Engage social, life, and biomedical scientists across Northwestern around the C2S research initiatives
- Explore possible collaborations
- Discuss ways in which C2S can develop
Agenda & Links to Presentations
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Overview
Overview Presentation (PPT)
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Director, Cells to Society Center
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. Social Disparities, Stress, and Health
Culture, Social Status, and Physiology: An Integrative Approach to Health Disparities Research 
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Thomas McDade, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
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Neighborhood Poverty and Adolescent Health and Development: A Randomized Social Experiment (pdf)
Greg J. Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor, Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy
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Stress in Biology and Medicine: From Molecules to Protein Misfolding and Dementia (pdf)
Richard I. Morimoto, John Evans Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology
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10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 Developmental Perspectives on Health Disparities from Conception Through Adulthood
Prenatal Influences on Adult Health Disparities (pdf)
Chris Kuzawa, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
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Pre-Term Birth: Evidence of Gene-Environment Interactions (pdf)
Xiaobin Wang, Director and Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Research Professor; Children’s Memorial Research Center
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Risk Factors for Heart Disease (pdf)
Philip Greenland, Harry W. Dingman Professor; Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
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12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Families, Relationships, and Health
Social Relationships and the Regulation of Stress Hormones (pdf)
Emma K. Adam, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy
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The Stress of Caregiving for Ill Family Members: Impact on Health Outcomes (pdf)
Whitney Perkins Witt, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
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Welfare Reform and Preschoolers: Are Certain Children at Risk? (pdf)
Christine Li-Grining, Graduate Student, Human Development and Social Policy and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Professor, Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy
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2:15 - 3:00 p.m. Implications for Research, Ethics, Practice, and Policy
Eva Redei, David Lawrence Stein Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry
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Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland and Ellis Professor, School of Law
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Related Papers
Emma Adam
Social Regulation of the Adrenocortical Response to Stress in Infants, Children and Adolescents: Implications for Psychopathology and Education (pdf)
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Mothers' Transitions from Welfare to Work and the Well-Being of Preschoolers and Adolescents (pdf)
Greg J. Duncan
Residential Mobility Interventions as Treatments for the Sequelae of Neighborhood Violence (pdf)
Philip Greenland
Low Risk-Factor Profile and Long-Term Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Mortality and Life Expectancy (pdf)
Christopher Kuzawa
Lipid Profiles in Adolescent Filipinos: Relation to Birth Weight and Maternal Energy Status During Pregnancy (pdf)
Thomas McDade
Status Incongruity in Samoan Youth: A Biocultural Analysis of Culture Change, Stress, and Immune Function (pdf)
Measuring Immune Function: Markers of Cell-Mediated Immunity and Inflammation in Dried Blood Spots (pdf)
Richard Morimoto
Dynamic Remodeling of Transcription Complexes by Molecular Chaperones (pdf)
Regulation of Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans by Heat Shock Factor and Molecular Chaperones (pdf)
Eva E. Redei
Lineage is an Epigenetic Modifier of QTL Influencing Behavioral Coping with Stress (pdf)
Maternal Behavior Modulates X-Linked Inheritance of Behavioral Coping in the Defensive Burying Test (pdf)
X-Linked and Lineage-Dependent Inheritance of Coping Responses to Stress (pdf)
Sex- and Lineage-Specific Inheritance of Depression-Like Behavior in the Rat (pdf)
Dorothy Roberts
Race and Genetics: Controversies in Biomedical, Behavioral, and Forensic Sciences (pdf) (P. Ossorio, T. Duster)
Measuring Race and Ethnicity: Why and How? (M.A. Winker)
Xiaobin Wang
Maternal Cigarette Smoking, Metabolic Gene Polymorphism, and Infant Birth Weight (pdf)
Whitney P. Witt
Childhood Functional Status, Family Stressors, and Psychosocial Adjustment Among School-Aged Children with Disabilities in the United States (pdf)
