John B. Little Symposium: “Genetic and Environmental Frontiers in Alzheimer’s Disease”

The Symposium will feature talks by leading investigators whose research is focused on Alzheimer’s Disease.

Program:

11:00-11:05 AM
Welcome: John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences Faculty
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:05-11:10 AM
Opening Remarks: Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D.
Dean of the Faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:10-11:20 AM
Overview of the Day and Introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease in Public Health:
John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences Faculty
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:20 AM-12:00 PM
Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D.
The Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The Difficult Molecular Assault on Alzheimer’s Disease: Some Light at the End of the Tunnel

12:00-12:40 PM
Keenan Walker, Ph.D.
Director, Multimodal Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) Unit, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health
Identifying Peripheral Drivers of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Plasma Proteomics

12:40-1:20 PM
Vilhelm Bohr, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institutes of Health
Genome Instability and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Aging and Neurodegeneration

1:20-2:00 PM
Melinda Power, Sc.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
Epidemiology of Air Pollution, Dementia, and Related Outcomes

2:00 PM
Closing Remarks: John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences Faculty
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health