CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND TUTORIALS PLANNED

Are you interested in participating as a speaker? To be clear, these are not intended to be your standard research talks about your own research. Rather, we seek from each speaker a contribution to the continuing education of other attendees from different fields (and also for the non-scientists attending). If you are interested, next step would be for you email gluck@rutgers.edu to suggest some topic (or topics) you could cover in 15 minutes at an accessible non-technical level that would be of interest to a wide interdisciplinary audience (80% scientists, 20% well-educated non-scientist members of the public). See the current list of speakers and topics already confirmed for the January 2025 meeting.

Partial List of 13 Currently Confirmed Speakers and Topics (as of July, 2024); 6 Additional Speakers and Topics to Be Added Later

Henrik Zetterberg (U. of Gothenburg, Sweden). “Plasma Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease: Latest Updates”

Adesola Ogunnyi (U. of Ibadan, Nigeria).“Epidemiology and Clinical Care for Alzheimer’s Disease Across Africa”

Dario Dieguez (NIH/NIA, Scientific Review Office, Maryland). “Top Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Writing an NIH Grant Proposal”

Fanny Elahi (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York). “Proteomics and the Aging Brain”

Jean-Francois Daneault (Rutgers U., New Jersey). “Digital Monitoring of Gate and Movement in the Elderly”

Ida Pesämaa (Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden). “The Role of Microglia in Healthy Aging and Disease”

Rebecca Spencer (U. Mass, Amherst, Massachusetts), “How Physical Activity and Circadian Rhythms Change as We Age”

Natalie Ebner (Univ. of Florida, Florida). “Oxytocin in Socio-emotional and Cognitive Aging.”

Kristine Wilkins (Univ. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).“Slow-Wave Sleep Enhancement to Improve Cognitive Aging”.

Mara Mather (Univ. Southern California, California),“The Locus Coeruleus-Noradrenergic System in Aging and Alzheimer’s disease.”

Gregory Samanez-Larkin (Duke Univ., North Carolina), “Changes in Dopaminergic Function and Decision Making in Aging”

Sharon Sanz Simon (Rutgers Univ., New Jersey). “Benefits of Cognitive Training on Memory and Multitasking in Aging”

Jennifer Bizon (Univ. of Florida, Florida). “Therapeutic Potential of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Cognitive Aging”

CAVEAT RE FINANCES: All speakers are expected to pay for their own travel and hotel costs (usually four nights) and a registration fee of $350 that covers the event catering and space rental costs. The whole meeting is self-funded (other than student travel fellowships) and there is no external support for the meeting. Note that some people bring along their kids or partners for family winter mountain vacations and we encourage that.

LAST YEAR’S PROGRAM:

Here for context is this past January’s 2024 program (when we had only two days of talks): https://brainhealth.rutgers.edu/workshop/conference-program-and-speakers/