Monday, March 27, 2023, UC Berkeley
245 Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

8:45-9 AM Pre-function Social
9-9:10 AM  Welcome
9:10-9:55 AM Rui Costa, DMV, PhD
Columbia University
Talk Title: "Basal ganglia control of movement in health and disease"
10:00-10:45 AM Virginia Lee, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Talk Title: "Transmission of Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders"
10:45-11:00 AM Break
11-11:45 AM Bruce M. Spiegelman, PhD
Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "The PGC1a/Irisin Pathway: Connecting Exercise with Cognitive Function and Neurodegeneration"
11:50-12:35 PM Craig Blackstone, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Movement Disorders Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "Untangling the Structure and Dynamics of the ER: Insights from the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias"
12:35-1:45 PM Lunch (Not Provided)
1:45-2:30 PM Suzanne Pfeffer, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
Talk Title: "Molecular basis of inherited Parkinson’s disease
2:35-3:20 PM Meng-meng Fu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), UC Berkeley
Talk Title: "Acentrosomal Microtubule Nucleation in Oligodendrocyte Development and Disease
3:25-4:10 PM Ekemini A.U. Riley, PhD, ASAP Managing Director
Coalition for Aligning Science
Talk Title:”Charting a new path with the ASAP Initiative”
4:10-4:20 PM Close
4:20-5:00 PM Social

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