| 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 |