The Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration

List of Invited Speakers

Craig Blackstone, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Movement Disorders Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
"Untangling the Structure and Dynamics of the ER: Insights from the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias"

Rui Costa
Columbia University
"Basal ganglia control of movement in health and disease"

Meng-meng Fu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), UC Berkeley
"Acentrosomal Microtubule Nucleation in Oligodendrocyte Development and Disease"

Virginia Lee, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
"Transmission of Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders"

Suzanne Pfeffer, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Molecular basis of inherited Parkinson’s disease"

Ekemini A.U. Riley, PhD
ASAP Managing Director
Coalition for Aligning Science
"Charting a new path with the ASAP Initiative"

Bruce Spiegelman, PhD
Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
"The PGC1a/Irisin Pathway: Connecting Exercise with Cognitive Function and Neurodegeneration"

 

Symposium Faculty Co-Chairs

Randy Schekman, Faculty Member in the CDP Division

Yang Dan, Faculty Member in the NEU Division