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Neurodegenerative Disease
Neurodegenerative Diseases: are debilitating and incurable conditions that result in progressive degeneration and / or death of nerve cells. These neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide. Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are the most common types.
MAR 05, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: March 5, 2019TIME: 10:00am PSTSingle cell analysis, starting with the earliest low parameter fluorescent experiments, helped define the major cell subsets of human ce...
NOV 15, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Neuronal migration defects, including pachygyria, are among the most severe developmental brain defects in humans. Using human genetics approaches, we recently identified bi-allelic truncatin...
NOV 15, 2018 | 11:00 AM
Generation of robust iPSC-derived neural stem cell cultures and neurons with shorter maturation times provide opportunities for quick and reliable generation of neuronal in vitro models. This...
OCT 30, 2018 | 10:00 AM
DATE: October 30, 2018TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET Identification and quantification of post-translational modifications (PTM) presents a unique challenge to proteomic studies...
OCT 25, 2018 | 7:30 AM
Alzheimer’s disease is becoming a public health crisis as the anticipated number of sufferers is expected to rise to 15 million in the next 30 years, at least in the US. These numbers a...
JUN 21, 2018 | 7:30 AM
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis also known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD, are characterized by chronic, recurrent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which result...
MAY 31, 2018 | 12:00 PM
I will discuss three novel technologies that our laboratory has developed in recent years. In the first part of the talk, I will describe our work on engineering variants of the RNA-guided en...
MAR 15, 2018 | 9:00 AM
The inability of neurons to regenerate damaged axons within the CNS has dire consequences for victims of traumatic or ischemic brain injury and multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Like other...
MAR 14, 2018 | 12:00 PM
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...
JAN 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
My talk shall encompass how the stem cell research field has evolved from embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells and currently induced pluripotent stem cells with special reference to the f...
NOV 14, 2017 | 12:00 PM
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...
NOV 08, 2017 | 6:00 PM
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...
