About this Event
The Tufts Neuroscience Symposium is a day-long event featuring diverse speakers from around the country, and consistently brings together many from Neuroscience disciplines in the Boston area for a day of educational talks and discussions. It is concluded by a lecture that honors Dr. William Shucart, former professor and chair of Neurosurgery at Tufts University School of Medicine.
This year’s theme, "Neural Metabolism Across Scales: From Cellular Bioenergetics to Systemic Energy Homeostasis," will explore how metabolic mechanisms shape nervous system function in health and disease.
Registration is free but required. Please RSVP by October 2nd if you plan to attend. Lunch will be provided for attendees registered by October 2nd.
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Check-in & Breakfast Refreshments
🕑: 09:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Info: Maribel Rios, PhD, Neuroscience Symposium Director
🕑: 09:05 AM - 10:35 AM
SESSION 1: Cellular Bioenergetics
Sankhanil Saha, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dulla Lab, Tufts University
Info: "Collagen XIX can be a therapeutic intervention for dysfunctional inhibitory neurons post traumatic brain injury"
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD, University of California, San Diego
Info: "Metabolic Control of Neuronal Function through Mitochondrial Plasticity"
Mark Andermann, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Info: "Fluorescence lifetime cellular imaging of activity, metabolism, and metabolic therapies in awake mice"
🕑: 10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SESSION 2: Brain Circuits Regulating Systemic Metabolism
Gabriella Hinojosa, Graduate Student, Rios Lab, Tufts University
Info: "BDNF Control of the VMH Extracellular Matrix and Metabolism"
Sabrina Diano, Ph.D, Columbia University
Info: "Fuel for thought: nutrient-sensing pathways shaping metabolism"
Bradford Lowell, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Info: "Top-down Control of AgRP Hunger Neurons"
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
SESSION 3: Metabolic Dysregulation and Brain Function
Jonathan Hacker, Graduate Student, Yang Lab, Tufts University
Info: "Disease-induced CD63 regulates microglia tau clearance and spreading in tauopathy"
Joshua Meisel, PhD, Brandeis University
Info: "Hypoxia and genetic suppressor mutations rescue frataxin deficiency"
Juan Song, PhD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Info: "Diet-Mediated Metabolic Control of Memory Processing"
🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
Break
🕑: 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
SHUCART LECTURE
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Introduction to the Shucart Lecture
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Dana Small, PhD, McGill University
Host: Shucart Lecturer
Info: "Gut-brain Learning and Memory in Humans"
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Reception
Event venue & nearby stays
Tufts University School of Medicine, Behrakis Auditorium, Jaharis Building, Boston, United States
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