Program
Preliminary Meeting Program
Welcome to the SSIB 2026 Preliminary Schedule! Please note the schedule is preliminary and will be updated as the program is finalized.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2026
| 9:00 - 10:00 AM | POSTER SESSION 6, EXHIBITS & COFFEE BREAK (click to view)
Millennium Hall |
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| 10:00 - 11:30 AM | SYMPOSIUM 4: INGESTION ON A BUDGET Room 2 |
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10:00 |
The Crunchometer: a low-cost, open-source acoustic analysis of feeding microstructure RANIER GUTIERREZ.CINVESTAV del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico |
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10:30 |
Doing more with less: open-source tools reveal hidden structure in feeding and motivation BRIDGET MATIKAINEN-ANKNEY.Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA |
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11:00 |
Ingestion on a budget: Digital mealtime photography for scalable eating behavior assessment LAURA L BELLOWS.Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
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| 10:00 - 11:30 AM | ORAL SESSION 8: THE 8TH SENSE: INTEROCEPTION AND APPETITE Room 1 |
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10:00 |
A homecage social operant task to investigate diet-induced changes in social motivation YIRU CHEN, SUSAN E.MALONEY, ALEXXAI V.KRAVITZ.Washington University in St.Louis, St.Louis, MO, USA |
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10:15 |
Circuit-specific effects of post-ingestive modulation of Dopamine in food reward TUNG T BUI1, BHASKAR RAY2, BRANDON COX1, ALEC HARTLE1, ALEXANDRIA DIFELICEANTONIO1, SRIJAN SENGUPTA2, WILLIAM M HOWE1.1Virginia Polytechnic Institute a State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.2North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA |
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10:30 |
Prefrontal–hypothalamic dynamics during binge-like eating: feeding microstructure and in vivo neural activity during palatable food consumption ASTRID MUNOZ-PEREZ DE ARCE1, PABLO R.MOYA2, 3, IGNACIO NEGRON-OYARZO2.1PhD Program in Sciences (Neuroscience), Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile.2Institute of Physiology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Valparaiso., Valparaiso, Chile.3Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias (CINV), Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile |
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10:45 |
Differences in the propensity to attribute incentivization of food cues is reflected in the calcium activity of anterior insular cortical neurons KEEGAN H DELAP, KAJOL V SONTATE, GREGORY C LONEY.Department of Psychology, Program in Behavioral Neuroscience, SUNY University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA |
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11:00 |
A pedunculopontine nucleus to ventral tegmental area circuit is required for dopamine responses to food and associative food-cue learning NICHOLAS SMITH1, RUOXI WU1, JAMES BIANCHI1, ALBERT YEUNG1, SEMUS WANG1, MICHELLE AWH1, SUKYA WILLIAMS1, J.NICHOLAS BETLEY1, 2, 3.1Department of Biology, Universtiy of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.2Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.3BrainBodyBiome Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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11:15 |
Lateral hypothalamic circuits integrate threat and food value to drive compulsive eating in obese mice RICHARD O'CONNOR, PAUL KENNY.Icahn School of Medicine/Mount Sina, New York, NY, USA |
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| 11:30 - 1:00 PM | LUNCH ON OWN On Own |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 PM | MARS LECTURE 4: CORBY MARTIN Room 1 |
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1:00 |
Assessment and modification of ingestive behavior as a multi-component construct: Selecting the best method for the population and variable of interest CORBY MARTIN.Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge United States |
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| 2:00 - 2:50 PM | BUSINESS MEETING Room 1 |
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| 3:00 - 4:45 PM | AWARDS SESSION Room 1 |
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1 |
Kevin Williams - Hoebel Prize For Creativity KEVIN WILLIAMS.UT Southwestern |
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2 |
Amber Alhadeff - Alan N.Epstein Research Award AMBER ALHADEFF.Monell Chemical Senses Center |
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3 |
Barbara Rolls - Distinguished Career Award BARBARA ROLLS.The Pennsylvania State University |
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| 6:30 - 10:30 PM | AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING BANQUET Millennium Hall Full registration or ticket required |
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