Knight Initiative Symposium: Progress in Huntington's Disease

Date:

Monday, November 4, 2024 (This Event Has Passed)

Time:

12:30pm to 6:00pm PST

Location:

Li Ka Shing Center (LKSC), Paul Berg Hall

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Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Fall Symposium

The Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford invites the community to a symposium highlighting recent progress in Huntington’s Disease research. In addition to talks, the event will include a clinical presentation and a poster session featuring recent findings by researchers supported by the Knight Initiative awards, fellowships, and Stanford affiliates of all career stages.

Join us for the science and celebratory social after the symposium!

Symposium: Progress in Huntington's Disease

Renowned experts in the field will share their latest research and help us better understand the remarkable resilience of the human brain:

Schedule

Monday, November 4, 2024

12:30pm

Registration

01:00pm

Opening Remarks

Tony Wyss-Coray, Knight Initiative Director

01:05pm

Clinical background & patient presentation with Q&A

Kyan Younes, Stanford University

01:50pm

Huntington disease: Looking back, looking forward

Michael Hayden, PhD, MD, University Killam Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Founding Director Emeritus, Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT), University of British Columbia

02:25pm

Inhibition of IDO1 restores hippocampal glucose metabolism across Alzheimer’s disease pathologies

Travis Conley, Postdoc Fellow, Andreasson Lab, Stanford University

02:45pm

tRNAs as modifiers of neurological diseases

Susan Ackerman, Steven Kuffler Chair in Biology, Distinguished Professor, Department of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, UCSD, Distinguished Professor, Department. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UCSD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, University of California, San Diego; HHMI

03:20pm

Break & Topics in Neuro Poster Session

03:50pm

The ticking DNA clock: Somatic DNA-repeat expansion underlies Huntington's disease

Steve McCarroll, PhD, Flier Professor of Biomedical Science and Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, HHMI

04:25pm

Huntington's disease mechanisms and translational strategies

Leslie M Thompson, PhD, Bren Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine

05:00pm

Closing

Natasha Hussain, PhD, Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience Associate Director

05:05pm

Topics in Neuro Poster Session & Celebratory Social

06:00pm

Symposium Adjourned

Contacts

brainresilience@stanford.edu

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