Meeting Archives

Lipid Metabolism Group

2023 Summer/Fall Schedule

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”
  • September 8: Priyanka Narayan (NIH/NIDDK) “Understanding the effects of APOE isoforms on glial lipid metabolism”
  • October 13: No meeting. We encourage you to attend the Annual Neuroscience Retreat on October 12-13.
  • November 10: Matheus Victor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “Human Microglial State Dynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease Progression”
  • CANCELLED – December 8: Michael Haney (Stanford University) “APOE4/4 is linked to damaging lipid droplets in Alzheimer’s microglia”
2022/2023 Fall/Spring Schedule

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”
2022 Spring/Summer Schedule

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”