Journal Club of the WRIISC & MIRECC Translational Laboratory

The relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000

This will be a webinar on Alzforum.org led by William Mobley, with our very own Ahmad Salehi as one of the speakers. You can check out more details and register here.

Epigenetic oxidative redox shifts (EORS) theory of aging and its role in neuropsychiatric disorders

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:00:06 +0000

Professor Gregory Brewer is the Chair in Alzheimer Research at the Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University.

The roles of DNA-PKcs phosphorylation in facilitating DNA double strand break repair

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:00:45 +0000

Van Dang is a WRIISC fellow candidate from Michigan State.

Brainstem, a neglected locus on neurodegenerative diseases

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:00:46 +0000

Lea T. Grinberg, M.D., PhD. is from the Memory and Aging Center at the Department of Neurology, UCSF.

Novel Translational Regulation of the Proapoptotic BCL-2 member PUMA

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:00:55 +0000

Dr. Atossa Shaltouki is from Stanford Medical School and a WRIISC fellow candidate.

The Effect of Mood on Sleep Onset Latency and REM Sleep in Interepisode Bipolar Disorder

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:30:28 +0000

Lisa Talbot is a doctoral candidate at University of California, Berkeley.

Fluorescence Biosensors for Rab5 and BACE1 Activity

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:30:37 +0000

Ke Zhan, Ph.D is from the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford.

Aging and Cellular Degeneration Seminar

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:30:16 +0000

We will have two distinguished guest speakers from the School of Optometry and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
University of California, Berkeley:

“Effects of Acetylcholine on Human Visual Cortex”

by Michael Silver, Ph.D.

“Effects of Acetylcholine on Learning and Attention”

by Ariel Rokem, Ph.D.

Transsynaptic Progression of Amyloid-β-Induced Neuronal Dysfunction within the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Network

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:00:51 +0000

The role of locus coeruleus in Alzheimer’s disease and possible future therapies for AD and DS

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:00:14 +0000

This will be an international webinar organized by Alzforum. You can register here.