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News

Dr. Constance Zhou, an MD-PhD student in the Orr lab, successfully defended their dissertation!

Dr. Zhou’s research focused on astrocytic nucleocytoplasmic changes and stress granules associated with TDP-43 pathology and neuroimmune signaling. Thank you to the thesis committee, Drs. Li Gan (...

Congratulations to Minwoo

Postdoctoral fellow Minwoo Wendy Jang was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea, “Elucidating the Roles of Astrocytes in Sex-specific Responses to...

New Publication

In the latest study from the Gan Lab, published in Molecular Neurodegeneration, Parra Bravo, Krukowski, and Barker et al. report two newly-generated anti-acetylated-tau-K174 antibodies that...

Events

Progress in Neuroscience Seminar (PINS)

October 17, 2024 - 4:00pm
Ken Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Neurology, UCSF, Investigator, Gladstone Institutes Talk titled: “Energy Homeostasis in Neurodegeneration.” 4-5pm

Work in Progress

October 18, 2024 - 12:00pm
"Modeling pathological Tau propagation in human brain cells in vivo" Wenhui Qu, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Gan lab, Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, BMRI, WCM

Neurology Grand Rounds

November 6, 2024 - 8:30am
Lecture Topic: "Toward an interventional science of coma recovery" Nicholas D. Schiff M.D. Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience Weill Cornell Medical College

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