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Brain Resilience Symposium: Frontotemporal Dementia

This November, the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience is hosting a half-day symposium on Frontotemoral Dementia.

The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience invites the community to learn about the latest FTD research from renowned experts in the field. Gain valuable insights into this complex neurodegenerative disease and explore the science behind brain resilience.

  • When: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 from 12:30pm – 6:30pm PST
  • Where: Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Paul Berg Hall
  • Registration Deadline: November 27, 2023

Click here to register 

This will be an in-person only event. Registration required.

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Schedule

  • Registration, coffee & cookies

  • Opening

    Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

  • Clinical background & patient presentation w/ Q&A

    Kyan Younes and Sharon Sha, Stanford

  • Studying toxic mechanisms of TDP-43 in human neural networks

    Magdalini Polymenidou, University of Zurich

  • Defining the role of alternative polyadenylation in FTD/ALS

    Yi Zeng, Lab of Aaron Gitler, Stanford

  • Immune Contributions to Frontotemporal Dementia

    Jennifer Yokoyama, UCSF

  • Break, coffee & cookies

  • Transfer learning enables predictions in network biology

    New Technologies: Christina Theodoris, Gladstone/UCSF

  • TDP-43 dysfunction and biomarkers in FTD/ALS

    Leonard Petrucelli, Mayo Clinic

  • Making sense of antisense technology for neurological diseases

    Frank Bennett, Ionis Pharmaceuticals

  • Closing

    Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

  • Celebratory social