ADRC REC Seminar Series

The USC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Research and Education Component (REC) is resuming its seminar series for the 2024–2025 calendar year. Talks are held via Zoom on Fridays from 1–2 PM PST.

The overall goal of the ADRC REC is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) research, as well as to diversify the workforce.

The seminar series hosts various topics regarding basic science research, clinical research, and career development. With both internal and external speakers, we hope this series will introduce you to exciting Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) research while providing the opportunity to network and collaborate with the ADRC.

Please use this Zoom link to attend the seminars: usc.zoom.us/j/96549031381

Meeting ID: 965 4903 1381 Passcode: 661977

Here is a list of currently scheduled speaker and topics with more to be added soon. Please contact gat_193@usc.edu for any questions.

• 9/13 — Dr. April Shu — Characterizing Autism Risk Gene Functions Through Single-Cell CRISPR Screening in Brain Organoids
• 9/20 — Dr. Robin Jia — An Academic’s Guide to Safely Using AI Language Models
• 9/27 — Dr. Zhanghua Chen — Diabetes and cardiovascular disease
• 10/4 — Dr. Owen Carmichael — Lifespan Cardiometabolic Risks and Midlife Brain Health
• 10/11 — Dr. Dobrin Nedelkovl — ApoE glycosylation and its implications in Alzheimer’s disease
• 10/18 — Dr. Lu Wang — Using stem cell-based organoids model to understand neurological disorders
• 10/25 — Dr. Duke Han — Insights about the editorial process
• 11/1 — Speaker TBD
• 11/8 — Dr. Hua Chai — Astrocytic contributions to neural circuit function
• 11/15 — Dr. Robert Rissman — P-Tau 217
• 11/22 — Dr. Jason Hinman — MarkVCID Biomarkers
• 12/6 — Dr. Soo Borson — Topic TBD
• 12/13 — Dr. Georgina Gyarmati — Topic TBD
• 1/10 — Dr. Maria Casanova — Topic TBD
• 1/17 — Dr. Maria Marquine — Topic TBD
• 1/24 — Dr. Astrid Suchy-Dicey — Assessment of vascular and AD dementias in American Indians
• 1/31 — Dr. Ararat Chakhoyan — Neuroimaging
• 2/7 — Dr. Young-Kwon Hong — Impact of the brain lymphatic vessels to neurodegenerative diseases
• 2/14 — Speaker TBD
• 2/21 — Dr. Anastasiia Sadybekov — Topic TBD
• 2/28 — Dr. Jennifer Ailshire — Topic TBD
• 3/7 — Dr. Miguel Arce Rentería — The role of bilingualism and cognition cross-nationally
• 3/14 — Dr. Ganesh Babulal — Intersectionality and Aging in a Globalized World
• 3/21 — Dr. Laura Germine — Dynamic Cognitive Phenotypes and Scalability
• 3/28 — Dr. Tracy Bastain — Investigation of pregnancy as a susceptible window of exposure to environmental chemicals for long-term maternal psychiatric, metabolic and neurological outcomes
• 4/4 — Speaker TBD
• 4/11 — Dr. Kacie Deters — Aging and dementia risk factors in Black communities
• 4/18 — Speaker TBD
• 4/25 — Dr. Changhan David Lee — Topic TBD
• 5/2 — 6/20 — Speakers and Topics TBD