Organizers: Francesca Bartolini (Columbia) and Franck Polleux (Columbia)
This symposium will tackle some of the cellular mechanisms that go awry in neurodegenerative diseases, with special emphasis on how innovative cell biological approaches promise to decipher the pathogenetic events underlying these devastating conditions.
Schedule
9:00 - 9:40 am Registration and Poster Set-up
9:40 - 9:55 am Welcome and Overview: David Freedberg (Italian Academy, Columbia) and Francesca Bartolini (Columbia)
10:00 - 10:30 am Subhoijt Roy (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
10:35 - 11:05 am Casper Hoogenraad (Genentech)
11:10 - 11:30 am Break
11:35 - 12:05 pm Victoria Bolotina (Boston University)
12:10 - 12:40 pm Xiaoyi Qu (graduate student, laboratory of Francesca Bartolini, Columbia)
12:45 - 1:45 pm Break
1:50 - 2:20 pm Erika Holzbaur (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine)
2:25 - 2:55 pm Ana Maria Cuervo "Selective Autophagy in the Fight against Neurodegeneration" (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
3:00 - 3:30 pm Chandana Kondapalli (postdoctoral research scientist, laboratory of Franck Polleux, Columbia)
3:35 - 4:45 pm Break / Posters
4:50 - 5:00 pm Intro to Keynote Speaker and Concluding Remarks: Franck Polleux (Columbia)
5:05 - 5:55 pm Keynote: Pietro De Camilli "Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration" (Yale University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Co-sponsors: Glenn Foundation for Medical Research; Nikon; Parkinson's Foundation; Thermo Scientific
