Olivier George
Invited talks
70 invited lectures, keynotes, and symposium talks at universities, NIH institutes, and international conferences since 2004.
2026
- Two Lenses, One Biology: Genetic and Network Signatures of Oxycodone Addiction Vulnerability in Genetically Diverse Rats Molecular Psychiatry Association, Kauai, Hawaii
2025
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for Addiction Science School of Behavioral Health Sciences, UTHealth Houston, Texas
- Carving Neural Pathways: The Impact of Drugs on Brain Functional Connectomics Winter Conference on Brain Research, Lake Tahoe, California
2024
- Behavioral and Genetic Predictors of Addiction-like Behaviors in Outbred Rats International Drug Abuse Research Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Identification of gene variants that predict cocaine addiction-like behaviors in heterogeneous stock rats, and what testing more than 1,000 rats taught us about cocaine self-administration NIAAA National Advisory Council / NAGC Conference, Bethesda, Maryland
- From Animal Models to Connectomics and Gene Targets: A Multilevel Framework for the Study of Nicotine Addiction Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Conference, Oakland, California
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for Addiction Leading the Advancement of Underrepresented Neuroscientists for Change (LAUNCH), University of California, San Diego
2023
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for Addiction National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland
- Beyond the Central Amygdala: A Whole-Brain Perspective on Alcohol Withdrawal and the Role of the CRF-CRF1 System College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Boston, Massachusetts
- Identification of genetic variants that contribute to compulsive cocaine and oxycodone intake in rats UCSD Center for GWAS in Rats, NIDA P50, San Diego, California
2022
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for the Dark Side of Addiction Albatros Conference, Paris, France
- The Escalation Model. A Multilevel Framework to Unveil the Mechanisms Underlying Addiction Gordon Research Conference, Neurobiology of Drug Addiction, Newry, Maine
- Hyperconnectivity of long-range cholinergic regions contributes to the reorganization of the brain functional connectivity during nicotine withdrawal IDARS, Nice, France
- Behavioral and Genetic Predictors of Addiction-like Behaviors in Outbred Rats IDARS/SfN, San Diego, California
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for the Dark Side of Addiction Yale University
- Role of the CRF-CRF1 system in the recruitment of whole-brain neuronal ensembles during alcohol abstinence Research Society on Alcoholism
2021
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for the Dark Side of Addiction NIDA Intramural Research Program Seminar Series
- Identification of genetic variants that contribute to compulsive cocaine intake in rats UCSD Center for GWAS in rat NIDA P50
2020
- The escalation model of addiction Gordon Research Conference, Neurobiology of Drug Addiction, Newry, Maine
- What’s driving escalation of alcohol drinking? Evidence in favor of the crystallization hypothesis Gordon Research Conference, Alcohol and the Nervous System, Galveston, Texas
- CBD and addiction: relapse prevention and withdrawal treatment IMPACT CBD Expo, San Diego, California
- The Cocaine and Oxycodone Biobanks: two repositories of biological samples from genetically characterized outbred rats that exhibit compulsive-like escalation of cocaine or oxycodone self-administration NIDA Genetics of Addiction Consortium, Bethesda, Maryland
- Preclinical evidence of efficacy of CBD in addiction models Medical CBD Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Identification of genetic variants that contribute to compulsive cocaine intake in rats UCSD Center for GWAS in rat NIDA P50
- What Makes You Hooked? A Multilevel Framework for the Dark Side of Addiction UT Austin
2019
- Implications for the future of our developing understanding of addictive processes and future therapeutic options: how the neurobiology of addiction can shape future treatments Lisbon Addiction, Lisbon, Portugal
- Brain-wide functional architecture remodeling by alcohol dependence and abstinence provides evidence for the three-stage hypothesis European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, Lille, France
- Brain-wide functional architecture remodeling by alcohol dependence and abstinence provide evidence for the three-stage hypothesis International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Cairns, Australia
- What’s driving escalation of alcohol drinking? Evidence in favor of the crystallization hypothesis International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Cairns, Australia
- From big data to small pathways: multilevel mechanisms of addiction-like behaviors Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowmass, Colorado
- From big data to small pathways: multilevel mechanisms of addiction-like behaviors European Winter Conference on Brain Research, Les Arcs, France
- San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, 50th Anniversary, Identification of new targets for addiction University of California
- Cannabidiol prevents nicotine abstinence syndrome in dependent male and female rats Center for Medical Cannabis Research, San Diego, California
- CRF-dependent amygdalofugal pathways in alcohol addiction: a multilevel framework for the dark side of alcohol addiction Southern California Research Center for ALPD and Cirrhosis, 21st Annual Symposium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- The Addiction Biobanks: two repositories from genetically characterized outbred rats with compulsive-like escalation of cocaine or oxycodone intake Complex Trait Consortium Meeting, San Diego, California
- Brain-wide functional architecture remodeling in animal models of addiction University of California, Irvine, Addiction Symposium, Irvine, California
- What makes you hooked? A multilevel framework for the dark side of addiction Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Neurobiology of nicotine dependence: a multilevel framework for the dark side of addiction Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2018
- Substance abuse: lessons learned and where are we going Nebraska Substance Abuse Center, Omaha, Nebraska
- The neurobiology of nicotine addiction Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum, London, UK
- Plenary Lecture: The neurobiology of addiction Future Leaders in Addiction Medicine, Indivior Inc., Nice, France
- Why should we treat addiction as a chronic illness? University of Alabama, UAB Medicine Addiction Symposium, Birmingham, Alabama
- Evolution of the concept of addiction UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
2017
- From small molecules to BIG data: new leads on nicotine and alcohol addiction Drexel University
- The CRF and dynorphin systems in the central amygdala differentially control escalation of nicotine intake and negative emotional state International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Hiroshima, Japan
- The dynorphin system in the central amygdala dissociates escalation of nicotine intake and negative emotional state International Narcotics Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois
- Small molecules to big data: the role of animal models in addiction Wake Forest University
- Role of the CRF and dynorphin systems in nicotine and alcohol dependence Virginia Commonwealth University
- Chemogenetic and optogenetic control of excessive alcohol drinking through inactivation of a neuronal ensemble in the central amygdala Alcoholism and Stress: A Framework for Future Treatment Strategies, Volterra, Italy
2016
- From small molecules to big data: the role of animal models in addiction University of California, San Diego
- Mood disturbance and addiction: characterizing the "dark side" of drug use in humans and in animal models American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Miami, Florida
- Withdrawal-related central amygdala neuronal ensembles regulate excessive alcohol drinking and somatic withdrawal signs in alcohol-dependent rats ISBRA/ESBRA World Congress on Alcohol, Berlin, Germany
- Symposium Chair: Addiction and corticotropin-releasing factor: from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex and VTA. Talk: Dopaminergic mechanisms of drug withdrawal: a window into addiction therapies Dopamine 2016, Vienna, Austria
- Identification of a neuronal ensemble in the central nucleus of the amygdala that is responsible for alcohol dependence Research Society on Alcoholism, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Pharmacogenetic and optogenetic control of alcohol dependence through inactivation of a withdrawal neuronal ensemble in the central amygdala Gordon Research Conference, Alcohol and the Nervous System, Galveston, Texas
2015
- The dark side within: VTA CRF neurons mediate the negative reinforcing effects of relief from nicotine abstinence Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois
- CRF and addiction: from the CeA, to the PFC, and beyond Winter Conference on Brain Research, Big Sky, Montana
2014
- CRF and addiction: from the CeA, to the PFC, and beyond Alcohol Center for Translational Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
- CRF and addiction: from the CeA, to the PFC, and beyond Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin
2013
- Recruitment of a VTA CRF system mediates the aversive effects of nicotine withdrawal International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Dublin, Ireland
2012
- Alcohol withdrawal activates GABA and CRF neurons in the mPFC that predict cognitive impairment and escalation of intake Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Recruitment of a VTA CRF system mediates the aversive effects of nicotine withdrawal Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Houston, Texas
2011
- Escalation of alcohol and cocaine intake: what is the role of the prefrontal cortex? Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, Utah
2010
- Individual differences in prefrontal cortex function and the transition from drug use to drug dependence Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California
- Activation of the CRF-CRF1R system mediates the motivation for nicotine during abstinence in nicotine-dependent animals American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Miami, Florida
- Alcohol dependence: animal models and recruitment of the extended amygdala NIAAA/Inserm Symposium, Bethesda, Maryland
2009
- Nicotine addiction: beyond the usual suspects—role of CRF system activation in nicotine reinforcement Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Dublin, Ireland
2008
- Prefrontal cortex dysfunction in psychostimulant dependence: consequence of drug exposure or contributing factor to dependence? Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior Conference, Morzine, France
2005
- Steroid concentrations in the pedunculopontine nucleus predict age-associated sleep/memory impairments 3rd International Meeting on Steroids and Nervous System, Torino, Italy
2004
- Association between sleep circadian rhythm and memory disorders in aging: involvement of cholinergic neurons of the pedunculopontine tegmentum nucleus Neuroscience in Sleep and Circadian Biology DataBlitz, San Diego, California