ABSTRACTS 29TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM Newport Beach Marriott Newport Beach, California October 24–27, 2018 Preliminary Program WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2018 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Generalist Workshop and UCNS Review Course 5:00–6:30 PM Registration 6:30–9:00 PM Poster Session I and Trainee Poster Competition (cheese and wine) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2018 7:00–8:20 AM Continental Breakfast 8:20–8:30 AM Welcome Remarks William P. Cheshire, M.D President, American Autonomic Society 8:30–9:15 AM Robertson Plenary Lecture The norepinephrine transporter and human cardiovascular disease Jens Jordan, M.D Session 1: Blood Pressure Regulation Chairs: Andre ´ Diedrich and Rasna Sabharwal 9:15–9:30 AM FMS/Penaz Wesseling Travel Fellowship Award Functional brainstem imaging reveals brainstem nuclei governing human baroreflex function D.A. Gerlach, J. Manuel, A. Hoff, H. Kronsbein, F. Hoffmann, K. Heusser, F. Beissner, J. Tank Cologne, Germany 9:30–9:45 AM FMS/Penaz Wesseling Travel Fellowship Award Sex and age differences in sympathetic vascular baroreflex function: insights from neck collar stimulation and an orthostatic stress test M.G. Lloyd, V.E. Claydon Burnaby, BC, Canada 9:45–10:00 AM Sex-differences in the sympathetic neural recruitment and hemodynamic response to head-up tilt in elderly hypertensives M.B. Badrov, Y. Okada, M.M. Galbreath, J.-K. Yoo, W. Vongpatanasin, J.K. Shoemaker, B.D. Levine, Q. Fu Dallas, Texas, USA 10:00–10:15 AM Norepinephrine transporter dysfunction contributes to increased sympathetic tone in a mouse model of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy R.A. Larson, Y. Lu, L.K. Balcziak, M.W. Chapleau Iowa City, IA, USA 10:15–10:30 AM Effects of 60-day head-down tilt bed rest on skeletal muscle-pump baroreflex M.F. Tremblay, D. Xu, R. Ruedl, N. Goswami, A.P. Blaber Burnaby, BC, Canada 10:30–11:00 AM Coffee Break 11:00–11:45 AM Hot Topic Plenary Lecture Neuromodulation focused therapeutics for cardiac disease: structure/function foundations Jeffrey Ardell, Ph.D Los Angeles, CA, USA 11:45–2:00 PM Poster Session II (lunch) 123 Clin Auton Res (2018) 28:453–505 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-018-0565-4 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Institute of Transport Research:Publications