Professional Presentations Archive

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Neurodegeneration Seminar

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2024

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 16, 2024	Dr. Richard Daneman, UC San Diego	The Role of the Blood-brain Barrier in Health and Disease (PDF).
February 20, 2024	Dr. Gopal Thinakaran, University of South Florida	Unraveling the role of BIN1 in Alzheimer’s pathophysiology (PDF)
March 5, 2024	Dr. Diego Sepulveda-Falla, The Institute of Neuropathology, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf -UKE	Pathological Heterogeneity in a Large Familial Alzheimer's Disease Kindred (PDF)
March 19, 2024	Dr. Jessica Mozerzky, Washington University	WeSHARE: A clinical trial to evaluate the impact of returning multiple research results to healthy older adults in a longitudinal cohort of aging (PDF)
*April 2, 2024	Dr. Amantha Thathiah, University of Pittsburgh	From Biased signaling to tau: Insights into Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis
May 14, 2024	Dr. Karl Herrup, University of Pittsburgh	Alzheimer's disease 2024 -- diatribes and data
May 21, 2024	Dr. Adam Boxer, UC San Francisco	Clinical Development of Tau Therapeutics: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
May 28, 2024	Dr. Rena Robinson, Vanderbilt University	High Throughput Omics to Advance Equity in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
June 4, 2024 at 10am*	Dr. Christian Behl, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany	Widening the View on Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis; The Role of Autophagy and Resistance Factors
June 11, 2024	Dr. Cathryn Haigh, National Institutes of Health	Investigation of human prion disease pathogenesis in cerebral organoid models
June 18, 2024	Dr. Rita Sattler, Barrow Neurological Institute	Astrocytes revisited – contribution of astrocytes to cortical synaptic dysfunction in C9orf72 FTD/ALS
**July 16, 2024	Dr. Christina Young, Stanford University	Validation of real-world measures of cognition and functioning with amyloid and tau PET
*September 17, 2024	Dr. Timothy Huang, Sanford Burnham Prebys	Exploring neuroprotective roles for the trafficking receptor, SORLA in Alzheimer's disease
*October 3, 2024	Dr. Russell H. Swerdlow, University of Kansas	Mitochondria and Mitochondrial Cascades in Alzheimer’s Diseases
October 8, 2024	Dr. Sarah Banks, UC San Diego	Sex differences in risk, expression and treatment for Alzheimer's disease
*November 05, 2024	Dr. Don W. Cleveland, UC San Diego	Development of Designer DNA Drug Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disease
*November 19, 2024	Dr. Carlo Ballatore, UC San Diego	Microtubule-Stabilizing 1,2,4-Triazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines as Candidate Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Tauopathies
November 26, 2024	Dr. Kacie Deters, UCLA	Genetic and neuroimaging correlates of aging and AD in Older Black Adults
*December 3, 2024	Drs. David Coughlin and Vanessa Goodwill, UC San Diego	Clinical Pathological Correlation Case Conference
**December 17, 2024	Dr. Nicola Allen, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences	Using astrocytes to target dysfunctional synapses in Alzheimer’s disease
***December 17, 2024	Dr. Bokai Zhu	"Rejuvenating" nuclear speckles to combat aging and neurodegeneration: A story from an ultradian chronobiologist with an interest in the moon

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2023

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 3, 2023	Dr. Augustin Ibaniz, Global Brain Health Institute	Brain health bridges across the US and Latin America: From multicentric research to computational approaches to brain health diplomacy (PDF)
January 17, 2023	Dr. Rachel Whitmer, UC Davis	Lifecourse Contributions to Dementia in Diverse Populations: Looking Back to Move Ahead (PDF).
February 21, 2023	Dr. Michael Grundman, Global R&D Partners, LLC	Recognizing and Managing Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA) (PDF)
March 7, 2023	Dr. Jody Corey-Bloom, UC San Diego	Update on Huntington's Disease (PDF)
March 21, 2023	Drs. Annie Hiniker, Melanie Estrella, and Doug Galasko, UC San Diego	Clinical Pathologic Correlations: “Early onset Alzheimer’s Disease with Movement Abnormalities” (PDF)
April 4, 2023	Dr. John H Morrison, UC Davis	Synaptic Health, Cognitive Aging, and Monkey Models of Alzheimer’s Disease (PDF)
April 18, 2023*	Dr. Jerome Mertens, UC San Diego, Salk Research Institute	Direct neuronal reprogramming to study brain aging and Alzheimer's Disease (PDF)
May 16, 2023	Dr. Melissa Murray, Mayo Clinic	Global neuropathologic severity of Alzheimer’s disease and locus coeruleus vulnerability influences plasma phosphorylated tau levels (PDF)
September 5, 2023*	Dr. Adit Friedberg, UC San Francisco	Neural Circuitry Underlying Visual Creativity: Insights from Frontotemporal Dementia
November 7, 2023	Dr. Edward Lee, University of Pennsylvania	Untangling Dementia: VCP and Neurodegeneration
November 21, 2023	Dr. Alison Goate, Mount Sinai, New York	Genetic risk for Alzheimer’s Disease: What this tells us about disease mechanism?
December 5, 2023	Dr. Kennan Walker, National Institute on Aging (NIA)	Biomarkers and Peripheral Drivers of Dementia Identified Using Plasma Proteomics
December 19, 2023	Dr. Heidi Jacobs, Harvard, Massachusettes General Hospital	Locus Coeruleus Neuroimaging: the Road to Detect the Pre-preclinical Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2022

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 11, 2022	Elizabeth Head, M.A., Ph.D. UC Irvine	What can we learn about Alzheimer disease pathogenesis from people with Down syndrome? (PDF)
February 1, 2022	Guojun Bu, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FLA	Pathobiology of APOE in Alzheimer’s disease (PDF)
February 15, 2022	Erik Musiek, M.D., Ph.D. Washington University	Glial circadian clocks regulate neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration (PDF)
March 8, 2022	Karen Duff, Ph.D. UK Dementia Research Inst. at UCL	Tau in AD and FTD: pathogenic mechanisms and implications for neurodegenerative diseases (PDF).
March 15, 2022	Olivia Okereke, M.D. Harvard University	Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Do They Have Benefits for Late-Life Mood or Cognition? (PDF)
March 22, 2022	Andrew Lim, M.D. University of Toronto	Sleep, Alzheimer's Disease and the Human Brain Transcriptome (PDF).
March 29, 2022	Benjamin Wolozin, M.D., Ph.D. Boston University	Interactions between tau, membraneless organelles and RNA metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease (PDF)
April 5, 2022	Robert Vassar, Ph.D. Northwestern University	Insights into the potential role of angiotensin converting enzyme in Alzheimer’s disease (PDF).
April 12, 2022	Melanie Estrella DO, Alison Headley MD, David Salmon PhD, Annie Hiniker MD, UC San Diego	Clinical Pathologic Correlation Conference: Visuospatial Deficits in AD (PDF).
April 19, 2022	Philip Scheltens, M.D., Ph.D. Amsterdam University Medical Centers	Heterogeneity of AD clinical (trial) consequences (PDF).
April 26, 2022	Cathleen Lutz, Ph.D., M.B.A. The Jackson Laboratory	Precision Medicine and Rare Diseases involving the CNS—How Mouse Models Can Inform Clinical Trials (PDF).
May 3, 2022	Tony Wyss-Coray, Ph.D. Stanford University	Systemic regulation of brain aging and neurodegeneration (PDF).
May 17, 2022	David Borchelt, Ph.D. University of Florida	Modeling the pathology of AD in mice (PDF)
May 24, 2022 Dr. Andrew Israel Memorial Lecture	Sebastian Crutch, Ph.D. University College, London	Am I the right way up? Examples of behavioural research and mechanistic insights inspired by people living with posterior cortical atrophy (PDF)
September 20, 2022	Alex Chavez, M.D., Ph.D.UC San Diego	High-throughput approaches for investigating neurodegeneration (PDF)
October 18, 2022	Dr. Rakez Kayed, University of Texas, Gavelston	Brain Derived Biologically Relevant Tau Aggregates in Alzheimer’s and Tauopathies (PDF)
November 1, 2022	Dr. Thomas Wingo, Emory University	Integrating GWAS with human brain proteomes to find causes of Alzheimer's disease and other brain illnesses (PDF).
December 6, 2022	Dr. Neil Oxtoby, University College, London	Data-Driven Disease Progression Modelling for Research (and Healthcare?) (PDF)
December 6, 2022*Hybrid In-Person/Zoom	Dr. Adriano Aguzzi, Ph.D., M.D., University of Zurich	The Molecular Pathology of Prion Diseases (PDF).
December 20, 2022	Dr. Renaud La Joie, UC San Francisco	Multimodal investigations of brain changes associated with the clinical heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease (PDF).

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2021

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 15, 2021	Todd E. Golde, M.D., Ph.D.University of Florida	New twists on old hypotheses –a “multiomic” informed view of AD and other neurodegenerative proteinopathies (PDF)
February 16, 2021	Li Huei Tsai, Ph.D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Network level approaches to studying Alzheimer’s disease (PDF)
April 6, 2021	Yaakov Stern, Ph.D. Columbia University	Update on Cognitive Reserve (PDF)
April 20, 2021	Fred Schmitt, Ph.D. University of Kentucky	Alzheimer’s Disease Mimics:Clinical Course and Pathologies (PDF)
May 4, 2021	Susan Taylor, Ph.D. UC San Diego	New Frontiers in PKA Signaling (PDF)
May 18, 2021	William Jagust, M.D. UC Berkeley	Human Memory and the Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights from Imaging Normal Aging (PDF)
June 15, 2021	Greg Lemke, Ph.D. Salk Institute	Microglial TAM receptors in Alzheimer’s disease (PDF)
July 6, 2021	Fleur Ferguson, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Developing Targeted Protein Degraders as a New Drug Discovery Approach for Neurodegenerative Disease (PDF)
July 20, 2021	Anne Hiniker, M.D., Ph.D. UC San Diego	Clinical Pathological Correlations (PDF)
August 3, 2021	Jeffrey Kaye, M.D. Oregon Health Sciences University	ADRD Clinical Trials and Digital Technologies (PDF)
August 17, 2021	Subjohit Roy, M.D.UC San Diego	Therapeutic Gene Editing in Neurodegeneration (PDF)
November 16, 2021	Lennert Mucke, M.D. UC San Francisco	Modulators of Neural Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease: From Tau to Microglia (PDF)
November 30, 2021	Gary Wenk, Ph.D.Ohio State University	Reducing the chronic brain neuroinflammation that underlies the progression of AD with nutrients and drugs (PDF).
December 7, 2021	Chris Glass, M.D., Ph.D. UC San Diego	Decoding microglia phenotypes in neurodegenerative disease (PDF)
December 21, 2021	Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis	Brain edges in the center of Alzheimer’s disease (PDF)

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*Supported by SMADRC grant: P30 AG062429 & Training grant: 1T32AG066596-01

Lunch & Learn

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2024

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 09, 2024	Danielle Glorioso, UC San Diego	Understanding Prolonged Grief, it’s Treatment, and Risks for Caregivers of Alzheimer's and Dementia (PDF).
February 6, 2024	Christian LoBue, PhD, UT Southwestern	Synthesizing Biological and Cognitive Outcomes of Traumatic Brain Injury to Understand Risk for ADRD (PDF).
February 13, 2024	Barton Palmer, PhD, UC San Diego	Loneliness as a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia.
March 12, 2024	Anna Chodos, UC San Francisco	The Cognitive Health Assessment basics, a screening approach from Dementia Care Aware
April 09, 2024	Michelle Jackson, PhD, UC San Diego	'A Community’s Voice: The Significance of Building Community Partnership in the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease in Older Black and African American Women.'
May 14, 2024	Eric Granholm, PhD, UC San Diego	Digital detection of social isolation and loneliness markers of risk for Alzheimer's disease
June 11, 2024	Emilie Reas, PhD, UC San Diego	Imaging blood-brain barrier breakdown in early Alzheimer's disease
July 9, 2024	Betsy Hall, For Their Thoughts	reTHINK dementia - reframing what we think, understand, and actions we can take
September 10, 2024*	Robert Loughnan, PhD, UC San Diego	Genes, Brains, and Neurodegeneration
October 8, 2024	Jeffrey Simmons, Kathleen Rickes, & Kacey Pratt, UC San Diego	Consent Audits-Ensuring Compliance and OIA Consenting SOPs-Legally Authorized Representatives
November 11, 2024	Mark Ettenhofer, PhD & Sarka Southern, PhD, UC San Diego	Rapid Saliva Test for Non-invasive Diagnostic Screening of MCI and Dementia
December 10, 2024	Tim Gahagan, MS, UC San Diego	SMADRC Data Management Procedures and Pitfalls

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2023

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 10, 2023	Jonathan Tague, Aging and Independence Services	Mandated Reporting of Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse (PDF)
February 14, 2023	Gabriel Leger, MD, UC San Diego	Frontotemporal Dementia (PDF).
May 9, 2023	Alison Headley, MD, UC San Diego	Alzheimer's Disease and Epilepsy (PDF).
June 13, 2023	Sharon Thompson, PhD, UC San Diego	The MADURA Program: Mentorship for Advancing Diversity in Undergraduate Research on Aging (PDF)
July 11, 2023	Steven Huege, MD, UC San Diego	Management of Behavioral Disturbances in Neurocognitive Disorders (PDF).
August 8, 2023	Special Presentation from the Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion	'Hearing Myself Think'
September 12, 2023	Diane Jacobs, PhD, UC San Diego	Conjunctive Binding as a Cognitive Marker in Preclinical AD (PDF)
October 10, 2023	Anne Neveu, PhD, UC San Diego	What makes a proficient speaker? Testing bilinguals in a clinical setting (PDF)
November 14, 2023	Zvinka Zlatar, PhD, UC San Diego	Ethnic differences in the association of subjective cognitive decline and cognitive performance (PDF)

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2022

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 11, 2022	Robin Knight, Ph.D. UC San Diego	The Role of the Microbiome in Aging and AD: The Alzheimer's Gut Microbiome Project (PDF)
February 8, 2022	Sara Moukarzel, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Healthy Actions and Lifestyles to Avoid Dementia Program or Hispanos y el ALTo a la Demencia (HALT-AD): A Brain Health Education Tool (PDF)
March 8, 2022	Alison Moore, M.D. & Jennifer Reichstadt, M.S. UC San Diego	The San Diego Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) - a Partnership Between UC San Diego and SDSU (PDF)
April 12, 2022	Barbara Mandel, M.B.A.Community Health Improvement Partners Champions for Health	Update on Clinical Response to the Crisis of Alzheimer's Diseas and Related Dementia (PDF)
May 10, 2022	David Johnson, Ph.D. UC Davis	The National Collaborative to Improve Diagnosis of Diverse Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (PDF)
June 14, 2022	Fiza Singh, M.D. UC San Diego	Implementation of a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) to Target Working Memory in Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (PDF)
July 12, 2022	Kathleen Rickes and Jeffrey Simmons, UC San Diego	Research Compliance Refresher and Q&A (PDF).
August 9, 2022	Martha Ranon, Southern Caregiver Resource Center	Southern Caregiver Resource Center Services and Programs; Synergizing with Research Related Outreach and QOL Programs (PDF).
September 13, 2022	Matthew Hussman, Dismas Abelman, and Alyson Hong, UC San Diego	Dealing with Emergencies (PDF).
October 11, 2022	Ronald Ellis, M.D., UC San Diego	Neurological post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (neuroPASC) (PDF).
November 08, 2022	Douglas Galasko, M.D., UC San Diego	New Treatments and Research Opportunities for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (PDF).

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2021

Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic & More Information
January 12, 2021	Amy Abrams, MSW, M.P.H., Eugenia Welch & Michelle Van Hoff Alzheimer's San Diego	Collaborating for Care & Cure: Alzheimer's San Diego (PDF)
February 9, 2021	Erin Sundermann, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Potential of Natural Language Processing as a Low-Cost Non-invasive Marker of Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease (PDF)
March 9, 2021	Ariana Stickel, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Do Common Risk Factors for Neurocognitive Decline Apply to Latinos? (PDF)
April 13, 2021	Christine Smith, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Memories Acquired Across the Lifetime: Behavioral, Genetic, and Brain Correlates in MCI (PDF)
May 11, 2021	Emily Edmunds, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Neuropsychological Subtypes of MCI and Cognitively Normal in the ADRC Dataset (PDF)
June 8, 2021	Dan Sewell, M.D. UC San Diego Lisa Delano-Wood, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Delirium: a Notorious Impersonator. Accurately Identifying Delirum Even Wehn Defining Features Seems Subtle (PDF)
July 13, 2021	Guerry Peavy, Ph.D. UC San Diego	The Goals & Design of the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer's Disease (ACAD) Pilot Study: Seeking Diversity in Research (PDF)
August 10, 2021	Alejandra Morlett, Ph.D. UC San Diego	To Donate or Not to Donate: Attitudes & Perceptions About Brain Donation Among Latinos (PDF)
September 14, 2021	Gabriel Leger, M.D. UC San Diego	Differntial Diagnosis of Dementia: Why the Fuss? (PDF)
October 12, 2021	Fred Schmitt, Ph.D. Derrick Hord Markeda Yarbrough University of Kentucky	Healthy Brain Aging: Faith-Based Outreach in Kentucky (PDF)
November 9, 2021	Dean Ornish, M.D. UC San Francisco	Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse the Progression of Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease? A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial (PDF)
December 14, 2021	Kelsey Thomas, Ph.D. UC San Diego	Using Sensitive Neuropsychological Measures to Identify Subtle Cognitive Decline (PDF)

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*Supported by SMADRC grant: P30 AG062429 & Training grant: 1T32AG066596-01

Professional Presentations Archive

Neurodegeneration Seminar

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2024

Investigation of human prion disease pathogenesis in cerebral organoid models

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2023

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2022

Neurodegeneration Seminar Archive Presentations 2021

Lunch & Learn

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2024

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2023

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2022

July 12, 2022

Kathleen Rickes and Jeffrey Simmons, UC San Diego

Research Compliance Refresher and Q&A (PDF).

August 9, 2022

Martha Ranon, Southern Caregiver Resource Center

Southern Caregiver Resource Center Services and Programs; Synergizing with Research Related Outreach and QOL Programs (PDF).

September 13, 2022

Matthew Hussman, Dismas Abelman, and Alyson Hong, UC San Diego

Dealing with Emergencies (PDF).

October 11, 2022

Ronald Ellis, M.D., UC San Diego

Neurological post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (neuroPASC) (PDF).

November 08, 2022

Douglas Galasko, M.D., UC San Diego

New Treatments and Research Opportunities for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (PDF).

Lunch and Learn Archive Presentations 2021

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