UCLA Easton-BRI Dementia Colloquium

Easton-BRI Dementia Colloquium is a monthly academic conference held jointly by the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Research and Care at UCLA (Easton Center) and the UCLA Brain Research Institute (BRI).  

Easton-BRI Dementia Colloquium

Presents:

[Part A]

Title: “Transmission and Conformational Diversity of Pathological Protein in Neurodegenerative Disease”

Chao Peng, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

and

Title: “Modeling Strain-Specific Tau Aggregation Dynamics”

William P. Flavin, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Resident Physician at UCLA Health

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[Part B]

Title: “Development of A Small-Molecule Drug to Disassemble Pathological Fibrils of Tau Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease - In Vitro Studies”

David S. Eisenberg, PhD, Paul D. Boyer Chair of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine

and

Title: “Development of A Small-Molecule Drug to Disassemble Pathological Fibrils of Tau Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease - In Vivo Studies”

Hope Pan, PhD, Medical Student, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA