Events | Helen & Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute

Work in Progress Seminar

October 31, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

“Dual roles of microglia in Alzheimer's disease” Pinar Ayata, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY

Progress in Neuroscience Seminar (PINS)

October 30, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Albert Lee, PhD Associate Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School Investigator, HHMI Talk titled: “Hippocampal representations and their uses.”

“Perceptual spaces and neural transformations“ Jonathan Victor, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, and Professor of Computational Neuroscience in Systems and Computational Biomedicine, Systems and Computational Biomedicine, WCM

Progress in Neuroscience Seminar (PINS)

October 23, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Alison Goate, D.Phil. Jean C. & James W. Crystal Professor and Chair Director, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's disease Dept. of Genetics & Genomic Sciences Talk titled: “Novel therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s disease derived from human genetics.”

Bedside to Bench Seminar

October 17, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Patient Presentation “Dystonia” Andrea Yoo, MD, Assistant Professor Clinical Neurology, Department of Neurology, WCM

Work in Progress Seminar

June 11, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: Belfer Research Building, (3rd Floor) BB 302-A, BB 302-B

Dr. Aryeh Zolin, Burre & Sharma Labs. "Mechanisms of Trans-Neuronal Propagation of alpha-Synuclein Agregation: developing an in vivo model using genetically defined neuronal supopulations".

Adytia Rao, Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate, Sharma lab. "Post-translational changes of tau following traumatic brain injury".

Appel Institute Forum on Neurodegeneration

May 28, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: Belfer Research Building, (3rd Floor) BB 302-A, BB 302-B

Dr. Jorge J. Palop, Ph.D. Associate Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease. Associate Professor, Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco.

Talk: Dynamic dysregulation of parvalbumin cell states underlies altered gamma oscillations and brain hyperexcitability in Alzheimer’s disease

Special Seminar Appel Institute

May 20, 2025 - 12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: Belfer Research Building

Rusty Gage, Ph.D., Salk Institute

Talk: Cellular Modeling of Neuronal Aging and Age-related AD Dementia

Appel Poster Symposium

May 19, 2025 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: Griffis Faculty Club

The Appel Symposium highlights groundbreaking research discoveries by leading investigators and provides a platform for discussing the advances being made in the research of Alzheimer's disease and other related neurodegenerative disorders.

Scientific presentations by:

Dr. Li Gan, Appel Institute.

Dr. Manu Sharma, Appel Institute.

Dr. Valina Dawson, Johns Hopkins University.

Appel Poster Event

May 19, 2025 - 12:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: Griffis Faculty Club

Appel Poster Event Over 30 posters will be presented with the latest findings in neuroscience, neurodegeneration, 3D imaging, ML/AI, glial biology and drug discovery.

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