Picower Institute: Fall 2016 Symposium Agenda
8:00 - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30-8:35 AM Opening Remarks
8:35 -9:10 AM
Li-Huei Tsai
Network level approaches to studying Alzheimer's disease
9:10-9:45 AM
Robert Brown
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Continuing Lessons from Genetics
9:45-10:20 AM
Beth Stevens
Immune Mechanisms of Synapse Loss in Development and Disease
10:20 - 10:40 AM Break
X. William Yang
10:40-11:15 AM Integrated Genetics and Genomics to Dissect Huntington's Disease Pathogenesis
in Mice
11:15 -11:50 PM
Richard Morimoto
Proteostasis and the Biology of Protein Quality Control in Aging and Disease
11:50 -12:25 PM
Myriam Heiman
In vivo Genetic Screening in Mouse Models of Huntington's Disease
12:25 - 1:40 PM Lunch
1:40 -2:15 PM
Susan Ackerman
Translation dysfunction and neurodegeneration
Richard Youle
2:15 -2:50 PM Damage control: function of genes mutated in familial Parkinson's disease in
mitochondrial maintenance
D. James Surmeier
2:50 -3:25 PM What selective neuronal vulnerability tells us about pathogenesis in Parkinson's
disease
3:25 - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 -4:45 PM
Michael E. Greenberg, Keynote Speaker
Signaling Networks that Control Synapse Development and Cognitive Function
4:45 -4:55 PM Q&A
4:55 -5:00 PM Closing Remarks
5:00 - 6:00 PM Reception
6:00 PM Faculty Dinner at Catalyst