Organizers: Francesca Bartolini and Franck Polleux

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.

Call for Posters

Faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students are encouraged to present a poster. Display space is limited, so please act soon. The deadline is October 26.
Submit your poster or draft to [email protected] with this subject line: "Poster Submission Nov. 27 [YourLastName]".
Dimensions: 48" wide x 36" tall.
Presenters are welcome to use existing posters.

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 student, 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