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The ADRC Seminar Series is a monthly series of seminars on the latest research in Alzheimer's disease given by invited speakers from universities and research facilities throughout the country and around the world.

ADRC Seminars 2008-2009

Seminars are held at 12:30 in the Pathology Fenoglio Library on the 15th floor of the Presbyterian Hospital building at the Columbia University Health Sciences campus (unless otherwise indicated).

DATE	SPEAKER and TITLE
Wednesday November 18, 2009 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Dr. Rosa Rademakers Assistant Professor and Senior Associate Consultant Department of Neuroscience Mayo Clinic Jacksonville "The FTD and ALS Disease Spectrum"
Wednesday October 28, 2009 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Dr. Michael Lee Professor, Department of Neuroscience Co-Director, Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuromuscular Diseases Institute for Translational Neuroscience University of Minnesota “Neurodegeneration in Transgenic Mouse Models of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's"
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Suzanne Craft, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Associate Director, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center University of Washington “Insulin Resistance, Brain Aging, and Dementia: Untangling the Web”
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Dr Dennis Dickson Professor of Pathology College of Medicine Mayo Clinic "Neuropathology of Frontotemporal Degeneration"
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Michael Vitek, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Neurology and Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University Medicine Center & CEO, Cognosci, Inc “Translating a Gene to a Therapy: Apolipoprotein-E Mimetic Actions and Mechanisms in Improved Models of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Marcus Raichle, M.D . Professor of Radiology, Neurology, and Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering Washington University "Two Views of Brain Function"
Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Tony Wyss-Coray, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine “The Cellular Communicome as a Tool to Study Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging”
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Claudio Soto, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Neurology, Neuroscience and Cell Biology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch “Alzheimer’s, Prions and Protein Misfolding Diseases”
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Timothy Salthouse, Ph.D. Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia “What Needs to be Explained in Cognitive Aging”
Wednesday, Sept 17, 2008	Robert Vassar, Ph.D. Professor The Feinberg School of Medicine Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology Northwestern University "The Role of BACE1 in Alzheimer’s Disease"

Previous ADRC Seminars:
Schedule for 2007- 08

DATE	SPEAKER and TITLE
June 18, 2008:	Karen Hsiao-Ashe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience University of Minnesota “Human Relevance of a Common Alzheimer Mouse Model”
May 21, 2008:	Berislav V. Zlokovic, M.D., Ph.D. Dean's Professor Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Associate Chair, Neurosurgery Director, F.P. Smith Laboratory for Neuroscience & Neurosurgery Research Scientific Director, Center for Neurodegenerative and Brain Vascular Disorders Director, Socratech, L.L.C. University of Rochester Medical Center “Neurovascular Cascade in Alzheimer’s disease”
April 16, 2008:	Robert Malinow, M.D., Ph.D. Professor University of California, San Diego “Synaptic Transmission and Beta Amyloid”
March 26, 2008:	Larry R. Squire, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology UCSD School of Medicine Research Career Scientist VA Medical Center, San Diego “Conscious and Unconscious Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain”
February 6, 2008:	Dave Morgan, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology Director of Basic Neuroscience Research Director, Alzheimer Research laboratory College of Medicine, University of South Florida "Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s disease"
January 16, 2008:	Bradley T. Hyman, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Alzheimer Disease Research Center John B Penney Jr Professor Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Title TBA
December 19, 2007:	Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D. Alfred E. Mirsky Professor Head, Harold & Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology The Rockefeller University “Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators: Central Role of the Brain”
October 17, 2007:	Dr. Eva-Marie Mandelkow Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology Hamburg, Germany “Role of tau protein in axonal transport and Alzheimer neurodegeneration”
September 19, 2007:	John Hardy, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience Institute of Neurology, UCL London “Whole genome studies for neurologic disease: association and beyond”