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Knight Initiative Symposium: Brain Resilience Research Showcase

Year-end Symposium and Research Showcase

Thursday, May 23, 2024 from 11:00am – 6:30pm PT

The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford invites the community to a symposium showcasing our award recipients’ trailblazing research, featuring trailblazing research supported by the Initiative, a neuroscience poster session, and a reception for the community.

Anyone interested in learning about the latest research on aging, neurodegeneration, and brain resilience is encouraged to attend. This is an in-person-only event.

Registration required, register here

Featuring the following distinguished speakers

Download the symposium agenda here

Schedule

  • Poster Session & Registration

  • Opening Remarks

    Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

  • Clinical background & Neuro-Healthy Elder Participant presentation w/ Q&A

    Beth Mormino (Stanford)

  • Lightning Talks (Knight Initiative Funded Research)

    Jonathan Long (Stanford), "Exercise, metformin, and gut-brain crosstalk"
    Julia Belk (Stanford), "Clonal hematopoiesis and the aging brain"
    Katrin Andreasson, (Stanford), "Peripheral macrophages promote age-associated cognitive decline"

  • Break, coffee & cookies

  • Featured Speaker

    Mark Schnitzer (Stanford), "Imaging neural activity signatures of healthy, diseased, and treated brains"

  • Lightning Talks (Knight Initiative Funded Research)

    Judith Frydman (Stanford), "Understanding the proteostasis decline during aging and
    neurodegeneration"
    Aaron Gitler (Stanford), "Unleashing engineered T cells as disease sensors and therapeutic actuators for neurodegenerative disease"
    Anne Brunet, (Stanford), "Quenching inflammation in the aged brain"

  • Closing Remarks

    Natasha Hussain, Knight Initiative Associate Director
    Poster awardees announced

  • Celebratory Social