2026 Symposium Program and Agenda

8:00AM - 9:00AM

Registration

Hallway Outside Auditorium

8:00AM – 9:00AM

BREAKFAST

Heritage Room

9:00AM – 9:30AM

Welcome and Introductions  

Opening remarks from Interim Chancellor Katherine Ankerson

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

9:30AM – 10:15AM

The Role of Interoception in Emotion

Dr. Kristen Lindquist

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

10:15AM – 10:30AM

Discussion

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

10:30AM – 11:00AM

BREAK 

Heritage Room

11:00AM - 11:15AM

Data Blitz

Mallory Feldman and Shihui Huang

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

11:15AM – 12:00PM

The Role of Interoceptive Signals in Motivation

Dr. Karen Quigley

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

12:00PM – 12:15PM

Discussion  

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

12:15PM – 1:45PM

LUNCH ON OWN

1:45PM - 2:30PM

Feeling the Buzz: Alcohol Interoceptive Effects and Peripheral Responses

Dr. Joyce Besheer 

Blowing Smoke: What We're Missing About Nicotine

Dr. Rick Bevins

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

2:30PM - 2:45PM

Discussion 

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

2:50PM – 3:05PM  

Data Blitz

Dylan Laux and Ria Vootla

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

3:15PM - 5:30PM

Poster Session and Awards Ceremony

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Regency Suite

8:00AM - 9:00AM

Registration                                 

Hallway Outside Auditorium  

8:00AM – 8:30AM

BREAKFAST

Heritage Room

8:30AM – 9:15AM

Inside & Insight: Metacognition and Interoception - A Computational Approach

Dr. Martin Paulus

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

9:15AM – 9:25AM   

Discussion

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

9:25AM - 9:40AM

Data Blitz

Alisha Schaefer and Kaitlyn Steck

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

9:40AM - 10:00AM

BREAK

Heritage Room

10:00AM – 10:45AM

The Role of Interoception in Regulated and Dysregulated Drug Intake

Dr. Anthony Riley                                 

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

10:45AM – 10:55AM

Discussion

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

11:00AM – 11:30AM

Panel Discussion

L-NU Swanson Auditorium

11:30AM

Closing Remarks 

L-NU Swanson Auditorium