Events

Knight Initiative Winter 2025 Symposium

Graphic design of a silhouette of a person's side profile with a space representing the brain, featuring three abstract representations of properly functioning proteins in pink with a prion (protein infection) circled on top. Text: Winter 2025 Symposium; February 6, 2025; Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience
Julia Diaz

We invite the community to a symposium highlighting recent progress in brain resilience and aging research. This event will also include a clinical presentation and select talks on prion disease. A topics in neuroscience poster session will follow the talks, and showcase the latest research from Stanford community members.   

Registration is required to attend this in-person only event. 

Register here by February 3

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

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

Schedule

  • Registration, coffee & cookies

  • Opening: Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

  • Sonia Vallabh, Broad Institute
    Prion Disease clinical background & patient presentation with Q&A

  • Adriano Aguzzi, University of Zurich
    Exploring the prion life cycle by forward genetics

  • Break & Topics in Neuro Poster Session (coffee/cookies)

  • Alina Isakova, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Lab, Stanford University
    Towards understanding brain aging: molecular studies and technological innovations

  • Randall Bateman, Washington University
    Tracking pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s to approach fundamental brain aging processes & how generative AI can help

  • Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University

  • James Zou, Stanford University

  • Closing: Natasha Hussain, Knight Initiative Associate Director

  • Topics in Neuro Poster Session & Celebratory Social

  • Symposium Adjourned

  • Contact

    brainresilience@stanford.edu

  • Sponsor

    Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience