| 8:00-8:30am |
Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30-9:00am |
Opening Remarks |
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David Standaert, MD, PhD, and Erik Roberson, Center Directors |
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
Longitudinal Data Analysis in PD Study
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Lloyd Edwards, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UAB |
| 9:30-9:50 am |
CryoEM Analysis of Alpha-synuclein Structures in Dementia |
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Arpine Sokratian, Graduate Student, West Lab, Duke University |
| 9:50-10:10 am |
Metagenomics of Parkinson's Disease Implicates the Gut Microbiome in Multiple Disease Mechanisms |
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Zachary Wallen, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Payami Lab, UAB |
| 10:10-10:40 am |
Break |
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| 10:40-11:10 am |
Retinal Biomarker Development for AD
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Edmund Arthur, OD, PhD, FAAO, Assistant Professor, Department of Optometry and Vision Science, UAB |
| 11:10-11:30 am |
Environmental Exposures Influence Inflammation and Accelerate Parkinson’s Disease Pathology |
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Ashley Adamson, Graduate Student, De Miranda lab, Neurology, UAB |
| 11:30 am-12:30 pm |
T Cell Responses to Alpha-synuclein in Parksinson's Disease |
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David Sulzer, PhD, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pharmacology |
| 12:30 -1:30 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 1:30-1:50 pm |
Dynamic Amyloid PET as a Biomarker in AD |
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Fabio Raman, MD, PhD, Transitional Year Resident, Brookwood Baptist Health |
| 1:50 -2:10 pm |
Variations in CDR Scoring by Race |
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Giovanna Pilonieta, PhD, DDS, MPH, Scientist I, Department of Neurology, UAB |
| 2:10-2:40 pm |
Systemic and Brain Inflammation in Early Parkinson’s Disease |
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Talene Yacoubian, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurology, UAB |
| 3:00 pm |
Adjourn |