Nov 5 2020 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Target Audience – Patients who would benefit from understanding how best to navigate the complex health system and be made aware of the supportive services available to help them coordinate care. Providers to understand the challenges that patients face. From disciplines of rare disease such as melanoma, brain cancers, and sarcoma among others.
Goals – In alignment with the Dan McMenamin Endowment (DME) mission, the event strives to foster cooperation among patients, physicians, and...
Oct 30 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
“New Therapeutic Avenues for the Treatment of Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Victor Tapias Molina, PhD, Assistant Professor of Research in Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM
Oct 23 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
“Neurological Complications of Covid-19”
Alexander E. Merkler, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Division of Neurocritical Care & BMRI, Site Director, NY-Presbyterian Neurocritical Care Fellowship, WCM
Oct 22 2020 - 4:00pm
Fenghua Hu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cornell University
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by the degeneration of neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes. Haploinsufficiency of the progranulin (PGRN) protein is one of leading causes of FTD. PGRN is a secreted glycoprotein comprised of 7.5 granulin repeats. Interestingly, we found that PGRN is a lysosome resident protein and accumulating evidence support that PGRN is essential for...
Oct 16 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Loss of Local Axonal Synthesis of Agrin Results in NMJ Failure”
Dianna E. Willis, PhD, Associate Director, Burke Neurological Institute, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM, Director of Research, Burke-Blythedale Pediatric Neuroscience Research Collaboration
Oct 15 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Matthijs Verhage, Ph.D.,
Professor of Neuroscience, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Vrije Universiteit and VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The communication between neurons in the brain depends largely on the secretion of a large variety of chemical signals stored in two secretory organelles, synaptic vesicles (SVs) and dense core vesicles (DCVs). The cocktail of chemical signals released from individual neurons is complex and changes drastically with...
Oct 9 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
“Cell Type-Specific Roles of Accumbens Dopamine D2 Receptors in Motivated Behavior”
Eduardo Gallo, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University
Oct 8 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, Ward Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University The overarching goal of my laboratory has been to define key molecular pathways in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration. We have focused on pathogenic mechanisms that occur in most neurodegenerative disorders such as accumulation and deficient degradation of aggregation-prone proteins and mitochondrial dysfunction. As a general strategy, we are studying rare genetic diseases, in particular those...
Oct 1 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Kenton Swartz, Ph.D.,
Senior Investigator, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, NINDS, NIH
The focus of the laboratory is to understand the mechanisms by which ion channel proteins sense critical biological stimuli, including voltage, temperature, chemical ligands and sound. I will give an overview of our program and then focus on our work on Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels, a large family of ion channel proteins that are structurally related, yet activated by diverse...
Jun 26 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Loss of mitochondrial protein prohibitin leads to adult-onset neurodegeneration in mice"
Ping Zhou, PhD, Associate Professor of Research in Neuroscience, BMRI, WCM
Contact sot2002@med.cornell.edu for Zoom details