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Spring 2025 Symposium: Brain Resilience Research Showcase

Year-end Symposium and Research Showcase

Wednesday, May 7, 2025 from 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM (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 contest, and a reception for the community.

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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. 

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

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Poster Session and Contest

We encourage Stanford-affiliated attendees from all neuroscience disciplines and career stages to present research, including early-stage unpublished work, at the symposium poster session. 

Knight Initiative Awardees (PI & CoPI labs) and Brain Resilience Postdocs are expected to present a poster at the Symposium poster session. 

Event registration and Stanford affiliation are required to sign up to present a poster.

Poster capacity reached — Sign up here for the waitlist

Schedule


  • Registration, coffee & cookies

  • Opening: Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

  • Kathleen Poston, Stanford University

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

  • Patrick Purdon, Stanford University

    The EEG as a marker of brain resilience

  • Jian Xiong, Brain Resilience Postdoc Scholar, Stanford University

    Pla2g15: A novel lysosomal BMP hydrolase with therapeutic potential in neurodegenerative diseases

  • Break and Topics in Neuro Poster Session

  • Elizabeth Mormino, Stanford University

    Deep(er) phenotyping of our local human aging cohorts: A/T/αSyn

  • Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University

    The shingles vaccine and dementia: A causal relationship?

  • Natasha Hussain- Session Close & Introduction to Poster Session & Social

  • Topics in Neuro Poster Session

  • Closing: Alina Isakova, Knight Initiative Lab Director, Poster Awardees Announced

  • Symposium Adjourned

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