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SUMMARY:CCNP Seminar: Clara Starkweather\, MD\, PhD (University of California San Francisco)
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/6397147065
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/ccnp-seminar-clara-starkweather-md-phd-university-of-california-san-francisco/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261104T120000
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Translational Work-in-Progress (ADRD-TWIP): Zheng Shi\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“Deciphering Determinants of Condensate Liquid-to-Solid Transitions in Neurodegeneration”\nSpeaker: Zheng Shi\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Chemistry and Chemical\, Biology\, Rutgers-New Brunswick \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, November 4\, 2026\, 12-1 PM \nZoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1\nMeeting code: 947 6980 4345\nPasscode: 454288 \nDr. Shi’s lab pursues two primary directions: 1) Quantitative understanding of the material properties of biomolecular condensates in cells that are relevant to neurodegeneration and cell signaling. 2) Investigating the subcellular behavior of mechanosensitive proteins. Dr. Shi is hoping to discuss specific aims and get feedback for a potential NINDS R01 application. Particularly\, he is trying to develop his research aims\, which currently focus on the material states of biomolecular condensates\, towards understanding the mechanisms of neurodegeneration.
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementia-translational-work-in-progress-adrd-twip-zheng-shi-phd/
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SUMMARY:CBN Really Awesome Data Discussion: Megerditch Kiledjian Lab
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anil Kumar Vijjamarri in Megerditch Kiledjian Lab \nDate and Time: November 6\, 2026\, 12:00 – 1:00 PM \nLocation: Nelson Biology Laboratories\, 604 Allison Rd\, Rm D406\, Piscataway\, NJ 08854\, USA
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/cbn-really-awesome-data-discussion-megerditch-kiledjian-lab/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T120000
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SUMMARY:Department of Genetics and HGINJ Seminar: Dr. Antonina Roll-Mecak
DESCRIPTION:“Track Control: How Neurons Sculpt and Tune their Microtubule Cytoskeletons”\nDate and Time: November 9\, 2026\, 12:00 – 1:00 PM \nLocation: Life Sciences Building Auditorium (LSB) 151 (In person only) \nSpeaker: Dr. Antonina Roll-Mecak is the Senior Investigator and Chief of the Unit of Cell Biology and Biophysics at the National Institutes of Health\, U.S.A. She holds appointments in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Biophysics Center of the National Heart\, Lung and Blood Institute. She received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union in New York City and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Rockefeller University where she worked on translation initiation. As a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow with Ron Vale at the University of California\, San Francisco she identified a new microtubule-severing enzyme and shed light on its mechanism of action. She joined the National Institutes of Health in 2010 as head of the Unit of Cell Biology and Biophysics. Her aim is to uncover the molecular basis for cytoskeleton function. Two main thrusts are to elucidate how cells encode\, through the tubulin code\, temporal and spatial information in their microtubules and regulate complex cytoarchitecture\, and to understand how enzymes catalyze microtubule polymer repair and rejuvenation.Dr. Roll-Mecak is the recipient of numerous awards\, including a Burroughs Wellcome Career Award\, a Searle Scholar Award\, the 2015 Margaret Dayhoff Award from the Biophysical Society and she was the 2017 Keith R. Porter fellow of the American Society of Cell Biology. In 2022 she received a NIH Director’s Challenge Innovation grant to generate a 4D Map of the tubulin code in the human neuron. In 2023 she was the recipient of the International Prize from the Biochemical Society and the NINDS award for mentoring junior faculty\, and in 2025 she was recognized with the Hans Neurath Award from the Protein Society. \nAbstract: Our every movement and thought is brought about by a complex network of neuronal connections precisely patterned through the dynamic organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton. Even subtle perturbation in microtubule regulation leads to cognitive and behavioral deficits. Neuronal processes contain bundles of microtubules that serve as tracks for the large volume of bidirectional cellular traffic necessary for efficient communication between distant neuronal compartments. Molecular motors functioning in this crowded environment encounter a dense mesh of microtubule associated proteins (MAPs) and intrinsically disordered tubulin tails that are modified with abundant and chemically diverse posttranslational modifications. My talk will take a journey across scales\, starting from the atomic structure and mechanism of tubulin code writers and erasers and their interplay to generate complex modification patterns\, to the visualization of microtubule architecture in situ in the human axon and the elucidation of molecular mechanisms of processive and selective cargo transport that arise at the intersection of these two regulatory layers of tubulin modifications and MAPs. By closely integrating imaging-driven in vivo physiological discovery with complex in vitro reconstitution and bridging these approaches through new chemical biology tools we developed\, my lab aims to achieve a multiscale understanding of cytoarchitecture development and adaptation. \nHosts: Drs. Maureen Barr and Karen Schindler\, Department of Genetics
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/department-of-genetics-and-hginj-seminar-dr-antonina-roll-mecak/
LOCATION:Life Sciences Building Auditorium (LSB) 151
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SUMMARY:2026 Annual George & Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture: Jeffrey M. Friedman\, MD\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“On the Causes of Obesity and Its Treatment\, The End of the Beginning”\nDate & Time: November 12\, 2026\, 4:00 PM \nLocation: Location to be announced; reception to follow \nSpeaker: Jeffrey M. Friedman\, MD\, PhD\nMarilyn M. Simpson Professor and Investigator\, Howard Hughes Medical Institute\, The Rockefeller University \nDr. Friedman has won numerous awards for his groundbreaking discovery of leptin\, paving the way for the development of neuropeptide‑based therapies for metabolic diseases and obesity. \nHosted by: Child Health Institute and the Department of Pediatrics\, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School\, Rutgers\, The State University of New Jersey
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/2026-annual-george-lily-boxer-memorial-lecture-jeffrey-m-friedman-md-phd/
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SUMMARY:CCNP Seminar: Franziska Knolle\, PhD (University of Munich)
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/6397147065
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/ccnp-seminar-franziska-knolle-phd-university-of-munich/
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SUMMARY:BHI Plenary Seminar: Alain Dagher\, MD\, PhD (McGill University)
DESCRIPTION:“Computational models of neurodegeneration provide insights into disease mechanisms”\nPlenary Speaker: Alain Dagher\, MD\nProfessor of Neurology and Neurosurgery\, Montreal Neurological Institute\, McGill University Health Centre \nDate and Time: Thursday\, November 19\, 2026\, 12:00 PM \nIn-Person Location: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Aidekman Building\, Room 103\, Rutgers University-Newark \nZoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/s/93519832456\nMeeting ID: 935 1983 2456  |  Passcode: 111926 \nBig data in neuroimaging has allowed us to uncover novel associations between brain measures and disease or behavioural phenotypes. However\, causal mechanisms are not always evident. Confounds\, reverse causation\, and selection bias all limit causal interpretations. Inspired by the new science of causal inference\, Dr. Dagher combines (1) very large MRI and postmortem datasets\, (2) genomics\, and (3) pathophysiology-informed computational models. He will discuss methods for determining causality from observational data and apply these principles to Parkinson’s disease (PD). He will show that PD is likely a propagating proteinopathy with disease epicentres and routes of propagation that determine clinical manifestations. Dr. Dagher will also show that genetically-determined brain features appear to confer vulnerability to the disease\, and speculate on what these tell us about the pathophysiology of PD. \nHosted by Dr. Travis Baker\, Associate Professor\, the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience\, Rutgers University-Newark \nLearn more about the BHI Plenary Seminar Series 
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/bhi-plenary-seminar-alain-dagher-md-phd-mcgill-university/
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SUMMARY:CBN Really Awesome Data Discussion: Santiago Cuesta Lab
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kaitlin Castell in Santiago Cuesta Lab \nDate and Time: November 20\, 2026\, 12:00 – 1:00 PM \nLocation: Nelson Biology Laboratories\, 604 Allison Rd\, Rm D406\, Piscataway\, NJ 08854\, USA
URL:https://brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/event/cbn-really-awesome-data-discussion-santiago-cuesta-lab/
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