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News

New Publication

The Gan lab has published a new study in Neuron, where Carling et al. investigate the mechanistic underpinnings of the strongest Alzheimer's Disease risk factors: APOE4 and TREM2-R47H. Carling et al...

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...

Events

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

Progress in Neuroscience seminar (PINS)

November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Amy Lasek, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University Talk titled: “Sex differences in brain extracellular matrix regulation of compulsive...

Work in Progress Seminar

November 8, 2024 - 12:00pm
"Alpha-synuclein membrane-binding predicts Parkinson’s disease pathology" Virginia Gao, MD, PhD, Instructor in Neurology and Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research...

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