Neurodegeneration: The continuous loss of neuronal structure or function of neurons, including death of neurons. This loss can ultimately lead to cognitive disability and dementia. Usally, neurodegeneration is linked to a disease such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Huntington's disease.
DATE: December 3, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PST Microglia are the brain's resident immune cells and play key roles in normal development, maintenance of homeostasis, and disease. Using a combina...
DATE: November 19, 2019TIME: 10:00am PSTMicroglial cells are the resident innate immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS) and are responsible for regulating inflammatory activati...
Neuroinflammation has been implicated as a factor in alcohol-induced neurodegeneration, but the role of the neuroimmune system in alcohol consumption has only recently come to the forefront....
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
DATE: June 20, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDTRetinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are projection neurons that process and transmit visual information from the retina to the brain. In a group of disea...
Monitoring protein biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been highly beneficial to understanding disease progression. While several...
Some of the most significant hurdles faced by neuroscientists in the field of neurodegenerative disease research when seeking to acquire genetic information include sample accessibility, repr...
Clathrin mediated endocytosis (CME) at pre-synaptic terminals is functionally coupled to neuro-transmitter release. Like other cytosolic proteins, clathrin is synthesized in cell-bodies and c...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 12:00pm PST, 03:00pm ESTLearning Objectives: How to maximise RNA yield and extraction from exosomes and biological fluids How to construct small RNA...
Regulatory non coding RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and long non coding RNAs (lncRNAs), have shown to be essential for animal development and viability, yet dissecting the relevance of i...
I will present my lab’s effort on studying and manipulating RNA processing, with particular emphasis on using CRISPR/Cas systems for targeting RNA in living cells in diseases such as my...
To study cell metabolism, our laboratory has found it exceedingly informative to integrate Agilent Seahorse XF Analyzers with mass spectrometry-based measurements of metabolomics and stable i...
Mitochondrial defects represent a common pathogenetic mechanism associated with neurodegeneration. At the same time, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations frequently cause neurological diseases...
Massive parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies have paved the way into new areas of research including individualized medicine. However, sequencing of trace amounts of nucleic acids still rem...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
Cell death is involved in diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration, and also has a natural role in the development of multicellular organisms. Although apoptosis has been well defined, a...
Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2015Time: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDT, 03:00PM BST Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with nearly 44 million people affected worldwide. Chara...
Dr. Oliver Kepp will be presenting on:Immunogenic cell death fingerprinting utilizing a high-throughput screening approachThe strategy of immunogenic cell death fingerprinting has been design...
Professor Stockwell will discuss the discovery of ferroptosis, a novel model of regulated but non-apoptotic cell death. He will describe how some tumors are sensitized to ferroptosis and may...
The therapeutic utility of stem cells is rooted in an understanding -- and exploitation -- of their natural role from earliest development to lifes end. Their job is first to participate in o...
The therapeutic utility of stem cells is rooted in an understanding -- and exploitation -- of their natural role from earliest development to lifes end. Their job is first to participate in o...
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, inherited, degenerative brain disorder that produces physical, mental and emotional changes. Named for George Huntington, the physician who fi...
Neuron-glial interactions are increasingly recognized as being key for physiological and pathological processes in the central nervous system. Microglia have been found to play a causal role...
DATE: December 3, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PST Microglia are the brain's resident immune cells and play key roles in normal development, maintenance of homeostasis, and disease. Using a combina...
DATE: November 19, 2019TIME: 10:00am PSTMicroglial cells are the resident innate immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS) and are responsible for regulating inflammatory activati...
Neuroinflammation has been implicated as a factor in alcohol-induced neurodegeneration, but the role of the neuroimmune system in alcohol consumption has only recently come to the forefront....
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
DATE: June 20, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDTRetinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are projection neurons that process and transmit visual information from the retina to the brain. In a group of disea...
Monitoring protein biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been highly beneficial to understanding disease progression. While several...
Some of the most significant hurdles faced by neuroscientists in the field of neurodegenerative disease research when seeking to acquire genetic information include sample accessibility, repr...
Clathrin mediated endocytosis (CME) at pre-synaptic terminals is functionally coupled to neuro-transmitter release. Like other cytosolic proteins, clathrin is synthesized in cell-bodies and c...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 12:00pm PST, 03:00pm ESTLearning Objectives: How to maximise RNA yield and extraction from exosomes and biological fluids How to construct small RNA...
Regulatory non coding RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and long non coding RNAs (lncRNAs), have shown to be essential for animal development and viability, yet dissecting the relevance of i...
I will present my lab’s effort on studying and manipulating RNA processing, with particular emphasis on using CRISPR/Cas systems for targeting RNA in living cells in diseases such as my...
To study cell metabolism, our laboratory has found it exceedingly informative to integrate Agilent Seahorse XF Analyzers with mass spectrometry-based measurements of metabolomics and stable i...
Mitochondrial defects represent a common pathogenetic mechanism associated with neurodegeneration. At the same time, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations frequently cause neurological diseases...
Massive parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies have paved the way into new areas of research including individualized medicine. However, sequencing of trace amounts of nucleic acids still rem...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
Cell death is involved in diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration, and also has a natural role in the development of multicellular organisms. Although apoptosis has been well defined, a...
Date: Thursday, June 11th, 2015Time: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDT, 03:00PM BST Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with nearly 44 million people affected worldwide. Chara...
Dr. Oliver Kepp will be presenting on:Immunogenic cell death fingerprinting utilizing a high-throughput screening approachThe strategy of immunogenic cell death fingerprinting has been design...
Professor Stockwell will discuss the discovery of ferroptosis, a novel model of regulated but non-apoptotic cell death. He will describe how some tumors are sensitized to ferroptosis and may...
The therapeutic utility of stem cells is rooted in an understanding -- and exploitation -- of their natural role from earliest development to lifes end. Their job is first to participate in o...
The therapeutic utility of stem cells is rooted in an understanding -- and exploitation -- of their natural role from earliest development to lifes end. Their job is first to participate in o...
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, inherited, degenerative brain disorder that produces physical, mental and emotional changes. Named for George Huntington, the physician who fi...
Neuron-glial interactions are increasingly recognized as being key for physiological and pathological processes in the central nervous system. Microglia have been found to play a causal role...