Monday Noon Seminars

• October 3: Carla Yuede (WashU Psychiatry) “Stress as a risk factor for sex-dependent differences in Alzheimer’s disease”
• October 10: Steven Mennerick (WashU Psychiatry) “The impact of neurosteroids on the brain: Where is the therapeutic benefit?”
• October 17: Kristen Zuloaga (Albany Medical College) “Influence of sex and endocrine aging on vascular and metabolic contributions to dementia”

• October 31: Christina Gurnett (WashU Neurology) “High throughput testing of functional variants to improve patient selection for clinical trials”
• November 7: Kristen Brennand (Yale School of Medicine) “Using Stem Cells to Explore the Genetics Underlying Brain Disease”
• November 21: Tychele Turner (WashU Genetics) “Precision genomics as a key component for the future of precision medicine”
• November 28: Carlos Cruchaga (WashU Psychiatry) “Cerebrospinal fluid proteogenomic analyses: Identification of novel proteins and therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease”
• IN-PERSON* – December 5: Kaitlin Samocha (Massachusetts General Hospital) “Contribution of rare variation to developmental disorders”
• December 12: Joseph Dougherty (WashU Genetics) “High throughput assays to understand the function of psychiatric disease variants in the brain”  

• January 9: Xiaoying Chen (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) “Mapping neuro-immune states in Alzheimer’s Disease”
• January 23: David Gate (Northwestern University) “Cerebrospinal fluid immunity in healthy brain aging and neurodegenerative disease”
• January 30: Marco Colonna (WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Different impacts on the CNS of TREM2 deficiencies in human and mouse”
• February 6: Naresha Saligrama (WashU Neurology) “Description of peripheral and central immunological responses to neuronal antigens”

Location: Holden Auditorium (Farrell LTC, Medical Campus) *unless noted

If you can’t be in person, you’re welcome to join us via Zoom. Links are available at the button below (WUSTL Key required).

• February 27: Philip Williams (WashU Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences) “Metabolic and homeostatic predictors of retinal ganglion cell resilience”
• March 6: Ashrafi lab (WashU Cell Biology & Physiology)
  • Marion Stunault: “Unravelling the metabolic changes mediated by ketone body utilization in the nervous system”
  • Anupama Tiwari: “The role of mitochondrial sirtuin 3 in the metabolic plasticity of synaptic transmission”
• March 13: Jasmin Sponagel (Rubin lab, WashU Pediatrics) “Sex differences in brain tumor metabolism reveal sex-specific vulnerabilities to treatment”
• VIRTUAL-only* – March 20: Camila Pulido (Weill Cornell Medicine) “How local metabolic balance defines synaptic strength”

Location: Holden Auditorium (Farrell LTC, Medical Campus)

If you can’t be in person, you’re welcome to join us via Zoom. Links are available at the button below (WUSTL Key required).

• March 27: Shin-Ichiro Imai (WashU Developmental Biology) “Achieving Productive Aging: The Intertissue Communication for Mammalian Aging and Longevity Control and Anti-Aging Intervention”
• April 3: S. Kerry Kornfeld (WashU Developmental Biology)
• April 10: Andrew Yoo (WashU Developmental Biology) “Recapitulation of age-dependent progression of neurodegeneration in directly reprogrammed human neurons”
• April 17: Miranda Orr (Wake Forest University)

Location: Holden Auditorium (Farrell LTC, Medical Campus)

If you can’t be in person, you’re welcome to join us via Zoom. Links will be available at the button below (WUSTL Key required).

• May 1
• May 8
• May 15
• May 22

• Special Hope Center/Neurology Seminar (12p, Holden Auditorium and Zoom)
  • February 20: Jeffrey Savas (Northwestern University) “Harmonizing presynaptic protein dynamics to prevent amyloid pathology in Alzheimer’s disease”
• Date TBA: Presentations by winners of the 2023 Hope Center Awards