2018 Klein Symposium – Rutgers Brain Health Institute

8.00 – 8.30 AM	Registration, Breakfast and Welcome
8.30 – 8.45 AM	Gary Aston-Jones, PhD Director, Brain Health Institute Murray and Charlotte Strongwater Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Health Chancellor Brian Strom, MD, MPH Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
8.45 - 9.00 AM	Andrew Thomas, PhD Senior Associate Dean, GSBS, Thomas P. Infusino Endowed Chair, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, RBHS-NJMS. Dean Robert Johnson, MD, FAAP Sharon and Joseph L. Muscarelle Endowed Dean, Professor of Pediatrics, RBHS-NJMS
9.00 –9.15 AM	Hon. Herbert C. Klein, Esq. Rutgers alum, emeritus member of the Rutgers Foundation Board of Overseers, Represented NJ in US Congress, served in NJ General Assembly
9.20 – 10.00 AM	Endowed Chair Lecture: Luciano D’Adamio, MD, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, RBHS-NJMS. Herbert & Jacqueline Krieger Klein Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurodegeneration Research *“Studying AD and Dementia Pathogenesis in Knock-in Animals”*
10.05 – 10.35 AM	Qian Cai, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers-New Brunswick *“Axonal Transport and Autophagy-Lysosomal Regulation in Alzheimer’s Disease”*
10.35 – 10.50 AM	Refreshment Break
10.50 – 11.20 AM	Steven Levison, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Director, Laboratory For Regenerative Neurobiology, RBHS-NJMS *“How Insights from Alzheimer’s Disease Research Inform the Mechanisms of Tertiary Neurodegeneration After a Perinatal Brain Injury”*
11.25 – 11.55 AM	Wilma Friedman, PhD Professor of Cellular Neurobiology, Rutgers-Newark *“The p75 Neurotrophin Receptor Promotes Neurodegeneration After Brain Injury”*
12.00 – 1.00 PM	Keynote: Jie Shen, PhD Professor, Director, Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. *“Lessons from Genetic Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease”*
1.15 – 2.30 PM	Lunch
2.35 – 3.05 PM	Laszlo Zaborszky, MD, PhD, DSc Distinguished Professor, CMBN, Rutgers-Newark “The Cholinergic Basal Forebrain in MCI and Alzheimer’s Disease”
3.10 – 3.40 PM	Maral Mouradian, MD William Dow Lovett Professor of Neurology and Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmunologic Diseases, RBHS-RWJMS “*Novel Disease Modifying Therapeutic Strategies in Parkinson’s Disease”*
3.45 – 4.15 PM	Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RBHS-RWJMS “Enhancing Recovery from a Demyelinating Lesion through the Actions of BDNF: The role of Astrocytes and Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Agonists”
4.20 – 4.50 PM	Teresa Wood, PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rena Warshow Endowed Chair in Multiple Sclerosis “White Matter Vulnerability: Intracellular Signaling Pathways in Oligodendroglia that Regulate Demyelination and Repair