Academics & Training
Since its inception in 2005, the Jungers Center has sponsored lectures on topics related to neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration as listed below. We will be sponsoring our first symposium in May 2009.
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Previous Events
2005
Ji Ying Sze, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Genetic, physiological and pharmacological characterization of serotonin signaling.
Karl Herrup, PhD
Rutgers University
Paved with good intentions: the role of cell cycle events in neurodegenerative disease.
Krishna M. Bhat, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Axon guidance and neurological diseases: tales of two signaling pathways involved in axon regeneration and development.
Nancy M. Bonini, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Drosophila as a model for human neurodegenerative disease.
2006
Fred Gage, PhD
Salk Institute
Epigenetic regulation of neurogenesis.
Henry L. Paulson, MD,PhD
University of Michigan
Toward understanding polyglutamine neurodegeneration.
James Shorter, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Making and breaking prions.
Amie Jo McClellan, PhD
Bennington College
Two-fold tale of chaperones.
Ben A. Barres, MD, PhD
Stanford University
How are CNS synapses eliminated?
Thomas C. Sudhof, PhD
Stanford University
Neurotransmitter release: molecules, plasticity and disease.
Stephen Waxman
Yale University School of Medicine
Heroes or hooligans: the multiple roles of sodium channels in neurological disease.
2007
Jeffery Noebels, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Epilepsy genes.
Valina Dawson, PhD
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Genes and Parkinson’s Disease.
Robert H. Miller, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Oligodendrocytes and myelin repair.
Marc Hammarlund, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
A genetic model of neuronal degeneration and regeneration.
Katerina Akassoglou. PhD
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (UCSF)
Molecular determinants of neurovascular communication.
2008
Antonina Roll-Mecak. PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Molecular dissection of a microtubule severing enzyme defective in hereditary spastic paraplegias.
Jie Shen, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
A presynaptic mechanism for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Karen Hsiao Ashe, PhD
University of Minnesota
Molecular basis of memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease.
John T. Povlishock, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Mechanisms of traumatic brain injury.
Oswald Steward, PhD
Reeve-Irvine Research Center, University of California, Irvine
Regeneration and repair after spinal cord injury.
Gang Yu, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Biochemistry of gamma-secretase complex.
Fred L. Robinson, PhD
University of California, San Diego
The myotubularin family of phosphoinositide-3-phosphatases: Regulators of membrane traffic with critical functions in the PNS
2009
Ben Emery, PhD
Stanford University
Transcriptional control of CNS myelination
January 2009
Gabriela Alexandru, PhD
California Institute of Technology
From oxygen homeostatis to neurodegenerative diseases via p97 network proteomics
February 2009
Alex Whitworth, PhD
MRC, University of Sheffield, UK
Genetic analysis of Parkinson Disease gene in Drosophila
February 2009
David Holtzman, MD
Washington University, St. Louis
New therapies in Alzheimer’s disease
April 2009
Donald Cleveland, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Axonal degeneration and motor neuron disease April 2009
First Annual Jungers Center Symposium
Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration: Towards an Understanding of the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, and Related Diseases May 2009
Marc Freeman, PhD
University of Massachusetts
Axon auto-destruction and glial immune functions during Wallerian degeneration
Julie Pinkston-Gosse, PhD
Genentech
Common mechanisms of axonal degeneration and regeneration block
Marie Filbin, PhD
Hunter College
Signaling axonal regeneration in the adult CNS
Martin Kerschensteiner, MD
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
In vivo pathogenesis of immune-mediated axon damage
