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Re-watch: Willemieke Kouwenhoven presents on 'Vglut2 expression in dopamine neurons contributes to post-lesional striatal reinnervation' and Benoît Delignat-Lavaud discusses 'Mechanisms of somatodendric dopamine release and its contributions to post-lesional plasticity in a PD model”. Read more
Re-watch: Malu G. Tansey, Professor at the University of Florida, and Anita Corbett, Professor at Emory University, presents on “Crucial Conversations and Self-Awareness – Overcoming Impostor Syndrome and Stereotype Threat in Academia.” Read more
Re-watch: Miguel Aguileta, Postdoc at Van Andel Institute, presenting 'Huntintin (HTT) aggregates trigger an immune response' and Thomas Karikari, University of Gothenburg, discussing 'Blood phosphorylated-tau as Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic markers'. Read more
Re-watch our 'Olfaction in Parkinson’s disease' themed session: Michaela Johnson, presents on 'Deficits in olfactory sensitivity in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease' and Aishwarya Kulkarni discusses 'α-Synuclein perturbs in vivo neural activity following seeding in the olfactory bulb'. Read more
Calling all Postdocs! The Cure Parkinson's Trust, Van Andel Institute and World Parkinson Coalition present:
The Parkinson Postdoc Program seminar series - 3P
We'd like to extend a warm welcome to you and encourage you to take part in these monthly seminars, and continue engaging in professional interaction. We also invite you to present and discuss your research.
Find out more.
If you have taken part and are enjoying the program, take a look at the 3P Blog by Liza Bergkvist Ph.D and Michaela Johnson Ph.D at the Van Andel Institute for more insights and commentary on this great initiative!
Re-watch: Our 'Multiple system atrophy (MSA)' themed session, as Raphaella So presents on 'Studying alpha-synuclein diseases in the context of conformational strains”'' and MSA patient advocate Beverly K. Wilson, discusses 'Extraordinarily Healthy! . . . except for MSA'. Read more
Re-watch: Sound career advice from Dr Malú Tansey, Prof. of Department of Neuroscience, Director for Translation Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Florida, Dr Laura Volpicelli-Daley Assistant Prof. The University of Alabama, Birmingham and Dr Michael Henderson Assistant Prof. Van Andel Institute. Read more
Re-watch: Eric Yu presenting 'Analysis of heterozygous PRKN variants and copy number variations in Parkinson’s disease' and Sara Bandres, discussing 'Genome-wide pathway specific polygenic risk, transcriptomic community networks and functional inferences in Parkinson disease'. Read more
Re-watch: Therapies for synucleinopathies. Join Diptaman (Neil) Chatterjee presenting 'Engineering and Optimizing Delivery of Intracellular Antibody Based therapies for Synucleinopathies' and Liza Bergkvist discusses 'Inhibiting the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier does not ameliorate synucleinopathy in the absence of inflammation metabolic deficits Read more
Re-watch: Our patient led session - Parkinson’s patient advocates Benjamin Stecher presents on 'A Wish List for Neurodegenerative Research' and Hugh Johnston discusses 'Just the Facts – Parkinsons’s Age, Incidence and Prevalence' Read more
Re-watch: Maria Elena Cicardi presents 'The role of the extracellular vesicles in a C9-ALS model' and Sonia George discusses 'Do T cells influence α-synuclein aggregates in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease?' Read more
Re-watch: Nora Bengoa-Vergniory, Research fellow at Oxford University discussed 'CLR01 protects dopaminergic neurons in vitro and in vivo in mouse and human models' and Anke Van der Perren, Postdoc at KU Leuven presented 'In vivo characterization of distinct patient-derived alpha-synuclein strains' Read more
Re-watch: Sara Saez Atienzar discusses 'genetic analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies contributing pathways and cell types' and Nikhil Panicker presents on how Parkin limits priming and activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in dopaminergic neurons Read more
Re-watch this webinar: Lynne Krohn presents on REM Sleep Behavior Disorder genetics for early detection & subtyping of Parkinson and Kariem Ezzat discussed Heterogeneous Nucleation and Loss-Of-Function (HEN-LOF) Mechanisms in Amyloid Pathologies Read more
Re-watch this webinar : Dorien Roosen, former postdoc with the NIH and Leibniz Forschüngsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, NIH, NIA, Laboratory of Neurogenetics; Luis Bonet-Ponce, postdoc with the NIH and Adamantios Mamais, former postdoc at NIH in this inaugural seminar Read more
Re-watch the webinar: Bryan Killinger, Postdoc at Rush Medical Center discussing “Truncation of alpha-synuclein in the human appendix of synucleinopathy patients” and Konstantin Senkevich, Postdoc at McGill University presenting on “Approaches to the treatment of GBA-associated Parkinson’s disease” Read more