The overall goal of the USC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Research and Education Component (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.
Talks are held via Zoom on Fridays from 1–2 PM PST. Please use this Zoom link to attend the seminars: usc.zoom.us/j/96549031381
Meeting ID: 965 4903 1381 Passcode: 661977
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Approaches for the scalable and dynamic measurement of human cognition
Laura Germine, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Brain and Cognitive Health Technology at McLean Hospital, and Founder/President of the technology nonprofit, the Many Brains Project.
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Investigation of pregnancy as a susceptible window of exposure to environmental toxicants for long-term maternal health outcomes
Tracy Bastain, PhD
Visiting Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC
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Cerebral microvascular dysfunction in aging and cognitive decline
Daniel Nation, PhD
Professor of Gerontology and Medicine, USC
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Aging and dementia risk factors in Black communities
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Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA
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Cognition work at the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR)
Arie Kapteyn, PhD
Professor of Economics and the Executive Director of the Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), USC
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Mitochondrial-Encoded Microproteins, Aging, and AD
Changhan David Lee, PhD
Associate Professor of Gerontology, USC
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Incorporating prognosis in the care of older adults with dementia
James Deardorff, MD
Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics, UCSF
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Neuroimaging
Ararat Chakhoyan
Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, USC
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Identifying potential new AD therapeutics by investigating the efficacy of already approved drugs in a lab model and through Medicare claims
Rachel Litke, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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The role of bilingualism and cognition cross-nationally
Miguel Arce Rentería, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University
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Delirium and Dementia in the Geriatric Emergency Department
Rachel Skains, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor at Birmingham, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama
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Functional genomics to understand APOE common variants and mRNA transcripts in Alzheimer’s disease
Liang Ma, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor at Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio