2007 - 2008 Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Seminar Schedule

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Time: 12pm – 1pm
Location: Whitehead Conference Room 500
(unless otherwise noted below)

9/13/2007
Cathy Andorfer, PhD
Instructor
Department Neuroscience
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville

 “Reversible dendritic spine degeneration and compensatory filopodial extension in a conditional mutant tauopathy model”

10/04/2007

Tom Wisniewski, MD
Professor of Neurology, Pathology and Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine
Dept. of Neurology, Psychiatry and Pathology

"Preventing misfolded proteins in the brain"

(Note: Special start time 4 p.m.)

10/11/2007
Sidney Strickland, PhD
Research Professor
Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies, Vice President
The Rockefeller University

“The role of the extracellular matrix
protein laminin in the nervous system”

11/08/2007
Sudha Seshadri, MD
Associate Professor & Co-Director of Medical Education for Residency Program
Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine

 “What determines brain aging? Genes, environment
and their interactions in the Framingham Study”

1/10/2008
Clive Svendsen, PhD
Professor
Departments of Anatomy and Neurology
The Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin at Madison

“Combining gene and stem cell therapy for
neurological diseases”

2/14/2008
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
Marion Bessin Liver Research Center
Institute for Aging Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

 “Utophagy and neurodegeneration: Who is harming whom”

 3/13/2008
Judith Frydman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences and BioX Program
James H. Clark Center
Stanford University

“Molecular origami: Protein folding and
 misfolding in the eukaryotic cytosol”

4/10/2008
Leo Pallanck, PhD
Associate Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

“Using Fruit Flies to Explore the Pathogenesis
and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease”

5/8/2008

David Park, PhD
Associate Professor
Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI)

“Pathways of dopaminergic loss in PD”

6/2/2008

Ana Recober, MD
Associate
Department of Neurology         
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

“Migraine: Developing potential mouse models”