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Knight Initiative Symposium: Progress in Huntington's Disease

Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Fall Symposium

The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford invites the community to a symposium highlighting recent progress in Huntington’s Disease research. In addition to talks, the event will include a clinical presentation and a poster session featuring recent findings by researchers supported by the Knight Initiative awards, fellowships, and Stanford affiliates of all career stages.

Join us for the science and celebratory social after the symposium!

Symposium: Progress in Huntington's Disease

Renowned experts in the field will share their latest research and help us better understand the remarkable resilience of the human brain:

Schedule

  • Registration

  • Opening Remarks

    Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

  • Clinical background & patient presentation with Q&A

    Kyan Younes, Stanford University

  • Huntington disease: Looking back, looking forward

    Michael Hayden, PhD, MD, University Killam Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Founding Director Emeritus, Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), University of British Columbia

  • Inhibition of IDO1 restores hippocampal glucose metabolism across Alzheimer’s disease pathologies

    Travis Conley, Postdoc Fellow, Andreasson Lab, Stanford University

  • tRNAs as modifiers of neurological diseases

    Susan Ackerman, Steven Kuffler Chair in Biology, Distinguished Professor, Department of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, UCSD, Distinguished Professor, Department. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UCSD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, University of California, San Diego; HHMI

  • Break & Topics in Neuro Poster Session

  • The ticking DNA clock: Somatic DNA-repeat expansion underlies Huntington's disease

    Steve McCarroll, PhD, Flier Professor of Biomedical Science and Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, HHMI

  • Huntington's disease mechanisms and translational strategies

    Leslie M Thompson, PhD, Bren Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine

  • Closing

    Natasha Hussain, PhD, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Associate Director

  • Topics in Neuro Poster Session & Celebratory Social

  • Symposium Adjourned

  • Contact

    brainresilience@stanford.edu

  • Sponsor

    Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience