Helen & Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute

Events

Bedside to Bench Seminar Series

March 27, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Patient Presentation: "Cervical Artery Dissection" Babak Navi, MD, MS, RPNI, Vice Chair, Neurology Hospital Services, Chief, Division of Stroke and Hospital Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, BMRI, WCM

Work in Progress Seminar

March 20, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Modeling Tissue-Resident Macrophage Development from Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells" Ann K. Baako, PhD candidate in Neuroscience (Vierbuchen/Perry labs), Developmental Biology and Immunology Programs, SKI and MSKCC

Progress in Neuroscience Seminar (PINS)

March 19, 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Tim Ryan, PhD Tri-Institutional Professor Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics Weill Cornell Medicine Talk Title: “Metabolic Vulnerabilities and Opportunities in Brain Function”

Work in Progress Seminar

March 13, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"Synaptic Subtype Identification: a high-content method for analyzing interneuron synapses in health and disease" Edmund Au, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Cortical Interneuron Systems Neuroscience, Burke Neurological Institute

Progress in Neuroscience Seminar (PINS)

March 12, 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Rajiv R. Ratan MD, PhD Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience Brain and Mind Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine CEO, Burke Neurological Institute Title of Talk: Protective and Pathogenic: Forward Pharmacology Reveals the Janus Faces of Stress Signaling in Stroke and Cognitive Aging.

Emerging Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar

March 6, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
"The Dopamine Pedal for Feasting and Friends" Zhenggang Zhu, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, University of California San Diego
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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".

Dr. Palop

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

Dr. Gage

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

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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.

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