Lipid Metabolism Group
Organizer: Anil Cashikar
- June 9: Jiyeon Lee (Musiek lab, WashU Neurology) “Microglial REV-ERBα regulates inflammation and lipid droplet formation to drive tauopathy”
- July 14: Yun Chen (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) “APOE3ch influences the microglial response to Aβ plaques which suppresses Aβ-induced tau seeding and spreading”
- August 11: Travis Tabor (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) “Elucidating roles of microglial lipid droplets in neurodegeneration”
Organizer: Anil Cashikar
- September 9, 2022: Irfan Lodhi (WashU Medicine) “Peroxisome-Mitochondria Crosstalk Regulating Energy Homeostasis”
- CANCELLED – October 14, 2022: Alexandra Litvinchuk (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology)
- November 11, 2022: David Ford (Saint Louis University) “Roles for Plasmalogens and Chlorolipids in Inflammation”
- December 9, 2022: Alexandra Litvinchuk (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) “The role of ApoE4 in lipid dysregulation in glia in tauopathy and Alzheimer’s disease”
- CANCELLED – January 13: Angel Baldan (Saint Louis University)
- February 10: Lance Johnson (University of Kentucky) “APOE, immunometabolism, and lipid droplet dynamics”
- March 10: Danira Toral (Paul/Cashikar lab, WashU Psychiatry) “Oxysterol control of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration”
- April 14: Tiago Gil Oliveira (University of Minho) “The role of the phospholipase D pathway in hippocampal functioning and Alzheimer’s disease”
- May 12: Hongjun (Harry) Fu (The Ohio State University) “Lipid Dyshomeostasis in Frontotemporal Dementia”
Organizer: Anil Cashikar
- January 14, 2022: Gwendalyn Randolph (WashU Pathology & Immunology) – WiP, JC “Macrophage membrane cholesterol and lipidome in inflammation and host defense”
- February 11, 2022: Michael Strickland (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – WiP “ApoE-Trem2 Axis Impacts Cholesterol Metabolism”
- March 11, 2022: Victoria Ismail (Kast lab, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology) – WiP “The GTPase activity of DFCP1 modulates lipid droplet metabolism”
- April 8, 2022: Clay Semenkovich (WashU Medicine) – WiP “Palmitoylation Cycling and Metabolic Disease”
- May 13, 2022: Yun Chen (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – WiP “Preliminary characterization of the impacts of ApoE3 Christchurch mutation on lipid metabolism and pathology for Alzheimer’s Disease”
- June 10, 2022: Pallavi Chandra (Philips lab, WashU Medicine) “Host-pathogen lipid metabolism during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection”
- July 8, 2022: Nada Abumrad (WashU Medicine) “Fatty Acids and Cognition”