JBL Symposium XXV – 2022
Friday, October 14th, 2022
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
11AM – 2PM
Virtual Symposium
Theme: “Genetic and Environmental Frontiers in Alzheimer’s Disease”
The Symposium will feature talks by leading investigators whose research is focused on Alzheimer’s Disease.
Symposium Registration
For any questions regarding registration or the symposium in general,
please contact Melissa Curran at macurran@hsph.harvard.edu.
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
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