Since its inception in 2005, the Jungers Center has sponsored lectures on topics related to neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration as listed below. We also sponsor a symposium in May each year.

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Previous Events

2014

Special Seminars

• Louis Ptacek, MD, University of California San Francisco - Episodic disorders of the nervous system

Sixth Annual Jungers Center Symposium: The Genetics and Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Disease (May 2014)

• James Lupski, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine - Personal genomes and clan genomics
• Stephan Züchner, MD, PhD, University of Miami Health System - From new tools to discovery: The contribution of rare genomic variation to disease

2013

Fifth Annual Jungers Center Symposium Neurodegeneration: New Mechanisms and New Insights(May 2013)

• Karen Duff, PhD, Columbia University - Propagation of Alzheimer's pathology through the brain - mechanistic insights and therapeutic opportunities
• Gary Bassell, PhD, Emory University - mRNA traffic, local translation and neurodegenerative disease
• Aaron Gitler, PhD, Stanford University - High-throughput genetic screens to define mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases
• Don Cleveland, PhD, University of California, San Diego - From Charcot to Lou Gehrig: Mechanism and therapy in ALS and beyond

2012

Special Seminars

• Kenneth Kosik, MD, University of California, Santa Barbara -The changing face of Alzheimer's disease: From early onset families in Colombia to rethinking the basics
• Robert Baloh, MD PhD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles - Mitochondrial dynamics and axon degeneration
• Sandra Encalada, PhD, Scripps Research Institute - Axonal transport of prion isoforms: lessons from motor protein regulation

Fourth Annual Jungers Center Symposium (May 2012) - New imaging technologies, new insights into the brain

• Jeff Lichtman, MD, Harvard University - Using connectomics to reveal circuit motifs
• Tim Holy, PhD, Washington University - Getting a feeling for the circuit: Imaging neuronal ensembles with objective-coupled planar illumination microscopy
• Tianyi Mao, PhD, Vollum Institute - Imaging of functional connectivity in cortical and subcortical circuit
• Tim Murphy, PhD, University of British Columbia - In vivo imaging of cortical circuits, before, during and after ischemia

2011

Special Seminars

• Julie Siegenthaler, PhD, University of California, San Francisco - Multi-faceted role of Foxc1 in brain development
• Xinnan Wang, PhD, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School - How mitochondria move and why a neurobiologist cares

Third Annual Jungers Center Symposium (May 2011) - Repairing the nervous system: Lessons from flies, fish and mice

• Michael Coleman, PhD, Babraham Institute - From long-lived axons to a short-lived protein: WldS and Nmnat2
• Christine Beattie, PhD, Ohio State University - Modeling human motoneuron diseases in zebrafish: Approaches and outcomes
• Aaron DiAntonio, PhD, Washington University - The axonal injury response: Lessons from flies and mice
• Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, Stanford University - A novel role for TGF-beta signaling in adult neurogenesis

2010

Special Seminars

• Kelly Monk, PhD, Stanford University - A genetic screen in zebrafish uncovers new regulators of myelination
• Eberhard Fetz, PhD, University of Washington - Prosthetic applications of recurrent brain-computer interfaces
• Mark Humayun, MD, Doheny Retina Institute, UCLA - Retinal implants for the blind
• Allan Basbaum, PhD, FRS, University of California, San Francisco - Molecular approaches to chronic pain
• Andrew Dillin, PhD, Salk Institute - Using aging research to inform new areas of biology
  

Second Annual Jungers Center Symposium (May 2010) - Glial-neuronal interactions: implications for neurologic disease

• Klaus-Armin Nave, PhD, Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine - Myelination and the glial support of axon function
• Elior Peles, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science - How Schwann cells assemble the Nodes of Ranvier
• Will Talbot, PhD, Stanford University - Glial development and myelination in zebrafish
• Jonah Chan, PhD, University of California, San Francisco - Maximizing myelinogenic potential of individual oligodendrocytes for repair

2009

Special Seminars

• Ben Emery, PhD, Stanford University - Transcriptional control of CNS myelination
• Gabriela Alexandru, PhD, California Institute of Technology - From oxygen homeostasis to neurodegenerative diseases via p97 network proteomics
• Alex Whitworth, PhD, MRC, University of Sheffield - Genetic analysis of Parkinson disease gene in Drosophila
• David Holtzman, MD, Washington University - New therapies in Alzheimer's disease
• Donald Cleveland, PhD, University of California, San Diego - Axonal degeneration and motor neuron disease
• Joe Beckman, PhD, Oregon State University - Astrocytes, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration
• Mary Logan, PhD,University of Massachusetts Medical School - Glial phagocytic functions in the developing and mature Drosophila brain
  

First Annual Jungers Center Symposium (May 2009) - Axonal degeneration and regeneration: Towards an understanding of the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and related diseases

• Marc Freeman, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School - 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 - In vivo pathogenesis of immune-mediated axon damage

2008

Special Seminars

• Antonina Roll-Mecak, PhD, National Institutes of Health, NINDS - Molecular dissection of a microtubule severing enzyme defective in hereditary spastic paraplegias
• Jie Shen, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard - 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

2007

Special Seminars

• 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

2006

Special Seminars

• 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

2005

Special Seminars

• 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