Organizer: Jason Ulrich

The Neurodegeneration Research Group is the working group for the Hope Center Program on Protein Aggregation & Neurodegeneration (HPAN), the most formalized of the Hope Center Research Groups. HPAN’s goal is to develop better ways to diagnose and treat neurodegenerative diseases through an understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms that lead to protein aggregation and disease. 

2024 Spring Schedule

2nd Wednesday of the month
9:00a – 10:00a
Fort Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) 9101

For inquiries contact the Hope Center.

  • January 10: Aisling Chaney (WashU Radiology) “TREM1-PET imaging of innate immune responses in neuronal injury”
  • February 14: Shreedarshanee Shamulailatpam (Gallardo lab, WashU Neurology) “Glutamine catabolism drives astrogliosis in the Alzheimer’s disease amyloid model”
  • March 13: Nelly Joseph-Mathurin (WashU Radiology) “Evaluation of the neurovascular-unit dysfunction in autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease”
  • April 10: Farzaneh Mirfakhar (Karch lab, WashU Psychiatry)
  • May 8: Yuna Ayala (Saint Louis University)

For previous talks, check out the archives link below.

All meetings are listed on the ONR Calendar of the Office of Neuroscience Research.

Neurodegeneration Group: Affiliated faculty members

Beau Ances (WashU Neurology)
Ghazal Ashrafi (WashU Cell Biology & Physiology)
Yuna Ayala (Saint Louis University)
Randall Bateman (WashU Neurology)
Tammie Benzinger (WashU Radiology)
Kendall Blumer (WashU Cell Biology & Physiology)
Thomas Brett (WashU Medicine)
Anil Cashikar (WashU Psychiatry)
Aisling Chaney (WashU Radiology)
John Cirrito (WashU Neurology)
Marco Colonna (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Carlos Cruchaga (WashU Psychiatry)
Gus Davis (WashU Neurology)
Abhinav Diwan (WashU Medicine)
Gabor Egervari (WashU Genetics and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)
Susan Farr (Saint Louis University)
Liberty Francois-Moutal (Saint Louis University)
Carl Frieden (WashU Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics)
Gilbert Gallardo (WashU Neurology)
Brian Gordon (WashU Radiology)
Dennis Hallahan (WashU Radiation Oncology)
Edward Han (WashU Neuroscience)
Tamara Hershey (WashU Psychiatry)
Keiko Hirose (WashU Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery)
David Holtzman (WashU Neurology)
Song Hu (WashU Biomedical Engineering)
Masatoshi Inoue (WashU Radiology)
Meredith Jackrel (WashU Chemistry)
Sanjay Jain (WashU Medicine)
Celeste Karch (WashU Psychiatry)
Jonathan Kipnis (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Paul Kotzbauer (WashU Neurology)
Lex Kravitz (WashU Psychiatry)
Geraldine Kress (WashU Neurology)
Terrance Kummer (WashU Neurology)
Jin-Moo Lee (WashU Neurology)
Mingjie Li (WashU Neurology)
Tristan Li (WashU Neuroscience)
Yang (Eric) Li (WashU Neurosurgery)
Brendan Lucey (WashU Neurology)
Moe Mahjoub (WashU Medicine)
Soe Soe Mar (WashU Neurology)
Helen McNeill (WashU Developmental Biology)
Steve Mennerick (WashU Psychiatry)
Timothy Miller (WashU Neurology)
John Morris (WashU Neurology)
Erik Musiek (WashU Neurology)
Arash Nazeri (WashU Radiology)
Andrew Nguyen (Saint Louis University)
David Ornitz (WashU Developmental Biology)
Rohit Pappu (WashU Biomedical Engineering)
Steven Paul (WashU Psychiatry)
David Perlmutter (WashU Pediatrics)
Joel Perlmutter (WashU Neurology)
Richard Perrin (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Alan Pestronk (WashU Neurology)
Steve Petersen (WashU Neurology)
Marc Raichle (WashU Radiology)
Naresha Saligrama (WashU Neurology)
Daniela Salvemini (Saint Louis University)
Mark Sands (WashU Medicine)
Anneliese Schaefer (WashU Neurology)
Suzanne Schindler (WashU Neurology)
Robert Schmidt (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
Joy Snider (WashU Neurology)
Amber Stratman (WashU Cell Biology & Physiology)
Heather True (WashU Cell Biology & Physiology)
Jason Ulrich (WashU Neurology)
Fumihiko Urano (WashU Medicine)
Andrei Vlassenko (WashU Radiology)
Yong Wang (WashU Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Chris Weihl (WashU Neurology)
Hiroko Yano (WashU Neurosurgery)
Andrew Yoo (WashU Developmental Biology)
Gregory Zipfel (WashU Neurosurgery)