2013 Jungers Center Symposium

Neurodegenerative Disease;
New Mechanisms and New Insights

The 5th Annual Jungers Center Symposium will be held on Monday, May 6, 2013 in the Vey Conference Center at OHSU
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Featured Speakers

Propagation of Alzheimer's pathology through the brain - mechanistic insights and therapeutic opportunities

Karen Duff, Ph.D.
Columbia University

mRNA traffic, local translation and neurodegenerative disease

Gary Bassell, Ph.D.
Emory University

High-throughput genetic screens to define mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases

Aaron Gitler, Ph.D.
Stanford University

From Charcot to Lou Gehrig: Mechanism and therapy in ALS and beyond

Don Cleveland, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego