Online Seminars

The Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases is hosting a series of online seminars.

If you would like to attend any of these sessions, please contact the center for the meeting link. CAND@utsouthwestern.edu

These seminars are held via Microsoft Teams; you must use a UT Southwestern campus computer or VPN to attend.

Recorded Seminars

Recordings are viewable via Microsoft Stream. A UT Southwestern campus computer or VPN is required unless otherwise indicated.

2022
Pedro Rosa-Neto, M.D., Ph.D.
McGill University
Oct. 28
"Translational Biomarker Research in Alzheimer's Disease"
Bruno Correia, Ph.D.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Mar. 23
"Exploring the functional landscape of proteins by computational design"
Wolfgang Hoyer, Ph.D.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Feb. 3
"Inhibition of fibril elongation and secondary nucleation via protein-protein interactions"
Sandra Encalada, Ph.D.
Scripps Research
Jan. 27
"Endolysosomal Trafficking Pathways that Make or Break Intra-axonal Neurotoxic Aggregates"
2021
Sagar Khare, Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Apr. 22
"Data-driven protein engineering for developing smart therapeutic enzymes"
Edward Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Apr. 8
"Disentangling tau in frontotemporal lobar degeneration"
Alexander Leitner, Ph.D.
ETZ Zürich
Mar. 18
"Structural biology of protein-RNA complexes by cross-linking mass spectrometry"
Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Feb. 25
"Mis-behaving antibodies that mis-fold and pretend to be viruses in light chain amyloidosis"
Sarah Shahmoradian, Ph.D.
University of Basel
Jan. 21
"Crowded Membranes: A New View at Lewy Pathology Using Multi-Modal Imaging and Biophysical Approaches"
Ethan Lippmann, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Jan. 14
"Simple and complex human cell-based models for understanding neurodegeneration"
2020
Matthew Pratt, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Nov. 19
"Investigating the Biology of O-GlcNAc in Neurodegeneration Using Chemistry"
Danny Hatters, Ph.D.
University of Melbourne
Nov. 5
"Probing Proteome Foldedness and Conformational Changes Under Proteostasis Stresses"
Jan Kosinski, Ph.D.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
Oct. 29
"Computing molecular structures directly in cells"
Julie Forman-Kay, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Oct. 15
"Intrinsically Disordered Protein Phase Separation: Implications for Biochemical Regulation, Disease and Bioinformatics"
Jeff Kelly, Ph.D.
Scripps Research Institute
Sept. 30
"Adapting Proteostasis for Disease Amelioration"
Frederic Rousseau, Ph.D.
KU Leuven-VIB Centre for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium
Sept. 24
"Evolutionary Imprints of Protein Aggregation"
Rina Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Sept. 3
"Molecular Chaperones in Protein Disaggregation"
Olivier Lichtarge, M.D., Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Aug. 19
"In Silico Computation of Fitness Landscapes Suggests Rules of Evolution in Genetics of Complex Disease"
Peter Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Kentucky
July 29
"LATE: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How We Might Beat It"
Rijhu Das, Ph.D.
Stanford University
July 23
"Crowdsourcing Intractable Problems in Designing RNA Medicine"
Jose Abisambra
University of Florida,
July 16
"Of Tau, mRNA Translation, and Other Demons: Translational Dysregulation in Tauopathies"
Chris Weihl, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
July 8
"Connecting Myodegeneration and Neurodegeneration: VCP Dysfunction and the Lysosome"
Henrik Zetterberg, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Gothenburg
June 24
"Update on CSF and Blood Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Dementias"
Gareth Morgan, Ph.D.
Boston University
June 17
"Small Molecule Stabilizers of Amyloidogenic Antibody Light Chains"
Christian Haass, Ph.D.
Ludwig-Maximilians University
June 4
"Microglial Modulation in Neurodegenerative Disease – Innovative Therapies or Devilish Gambling?"
William Seeley, M.D.
UC San Francisco
May 27
"Selective Vulnerability in FTD and ALS: Emerging Concepts"
Virginia Lee, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
May 21
"Transmission of Misfolded Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Common Mechanism of Disease Progression"
Harm Kampinga, Ph.D.,
University Medical Center Gronigen
May 7
"DNAJ Proteins and Their Role in Age-Related Degenerative Diseases"
David Sanders, Ph.D.
Princeton
April 29
"Molecular Networks Serve as Blueprints for Intracellular Condensation"