Online Seminars
The Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases hosts a series of online and in-person seminars. If you would like to attend any of these sessions, please CAND@utsouthwestern.edu the center for the meeting link. These seminars are held via Microsoft Teams. You must use a UT Southwestern campus computer or VPN to attend.
Seminars
Any available recordings are linked in the sections below and are viewable via Microsoft Stream. A UT Southwestern campus computer or VPN is required unless otherwise indicated.
- 2026
Date Presenter Presentation Title Host March 25 Carlo Condello, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco"New Approaches to Characterize the Molecular Pathology and Cellular Consequences of ADRDs" Nikolaos Louros, Ph.D. Feb. 25 Kate Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
University of Toronto"Stress Response Organelles and their Role in Neurodegeneration" Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D. - 2025
Date Presenter Presentation Title Host Dec. 17 Aaron Gitler, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Stanford University"Defining Neurodegenerative Disease Mechanisms at Single Cell Resolution" David Sanders, Ph.D. Nov. 19 Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School"Disruption of RNA Metabolism in Neurodegenerative Diseases of Emerging Therapeutic Strategies" Marc Diamond, M.D. Oct. 29 Vijay Rangachari, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Professor of Biophysical Chemistry
University of Southern Mississippi"A-Synuclein is a Co-Amyloid Modulator of TDP-43 Phase Transitions in Neurodegenerative Diseases" Lorena Saelices Gomez, Ph.D. July 9 Bess Frost, Ph.D.
Salame-Feraud Director, Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Professor of Brain Science
Brown University"Targeting Retrotransposon Activation in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Tauopathies" Barbara Stopschinski, M.D. April 8 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader, Head of 4D Cellular Physiology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Research Campus"Periodic ER-Plasma Membrane Junctions in Dendrites Support Long-Range Ca2+ Signal Integration" Sarah Shahmoradian, Ph.D. March 26 Steven Boeynaems, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine"Biomolecular Condensates as Signaling Complexes: From Venoms and Innate Immunity to Neurodegenerative Diseases" David Sanders, Ph.D. Feb. 13 Sheena Radford, OBE, FRS, FMEDSCI, FRSB, MAE
Astbury Professor of Biophysics, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
University of Leeds"Watching the Structural Evolution of a Protein into Amyloid: A Feat of Folding" Nikolaos Louros, Ph.D. - 2024
Date Presenter Presentation Title Host Dec. 18 Juan Del Valle, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame"Tauopathies Through the Lens of Organic Chemistry" Marc Diamond, M.D. Nov. 13 Alex Holehouse, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Washington University School of Medicine"Sequence and Chemical Specificity Define the Functional Landscape of Disordered Regions" David Sanders, Ph.D. Oct. 23 Randal Halfmann, Ph.D.
Associate Investigator
Stowers Institutue for Medical Research"Mutational Mapping of Amyloid Nucleation Landscapes In Vivo" Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D. Oct. 21 Brandon Holmes, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center
Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Unviersity of California San Francisco"Microglial GPC4 Links Amyloid and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease" Marc Diamond, M.D. May 28 Bryan Dickinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
University of Chicago"Accelerating Protein Engineering with Viral-Based In Vivo Screening and Evolution Technologies" Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D. May 10 Javier Oroz, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
Blas Cabrera Institute for Physical Chemistry"On the Structure of Long Protein Homorepeats and their Malignancy in Amino Acid Expansion Diseases" Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D. April 22 Harm Kampinga, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology, Head of Biomedical Science
Faculty of Science, University of Groningen"DNAJB6 - Guardian of the Proteome Against Amyloidogenesis" Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D. April 9 Mikhail Shapiro, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering
Caltech Investigator - Howard Hughes Medical Institute"Talking to Cells: Biomolecular Ultrasound for Deep Tissue Cellular Imaging and Control" Milo Lin, Ph.D. Feb. 27 Sofia Lovestam, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher of MRC-LMB - Scheres Lab
University of Cambridge"Amyloid Assembly of Tau" Peter Kunach, Ph.D. - 2023
Date Presenter Presentation Title Host April 25 David Eliezer, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medicine"Tau and Alpha-Synuclein Membrane Interactions and their Role in Disease" Marc Diamond, M.D. March 20 Christina J. Sigurdson, DVM, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Co-Director, Center for Veterinary Sciences and Comparative Medicine
University of California, San Diego"Uncoupling Prion Aggregation and Neurotoxicity at the Synapse" Haiyang Yu, Ph.D. March 6 Gabor Kovacs, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Professor of Medicine/Division of Neurology
University of Toronto"The Spectrum of Tau-Related Diseases" Rachel Bailey, Ph.D. Feb. 6 Chao Peng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles"Transmission and Conformational Diversity of Pathological Alpa-Synuclein" Haiyang Yu, Ph.D. - 2022
Date Presenter Presentation Title Oct. 28 Pedro Rosa-Neto, M.D., Ph.D.
McGill University"Translational Biomarker Research in Alzheimer's Disease" Mar. 23 Bruno Correia, Ph.D.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland"Exploring the functional landscape of proteins by computational design" Feb. 3 Wolfgang Hoyer, Ph.D.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf"Inhibition of fibril elongation and secondary nucleation via protein-protein interactions" Jan. 27 Sandra Encalada, Ph.D.
Scripps Research"Endolysosomal Trafficking Pathways that Make or Break Intra-axonal Neurotoxic Aggregates" - 2021
Date Presenter Presentation Title Apr. 22 Sagar Khare, Ph.D.
Rutgers University"Data-driven protein engineering for developing smart therapeutic enzymes" Apr. 8 Edward Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania"Disentangling tau in frontotemporal lobar degeneration" Mar. 18 Alexander Leitner, Ph.D.
ETZ Zürich"Structural biology of protein-RNA complexes by cross-linking mass spectrometry" Feb. 25 Marina Ramirez-Alvarado, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic"Mis-behaving antibodies that mis-fold and pretend to be viruses in light chain amyloidosis" Jan. 21 Sarah Shahmoradian, Ph.D.
University of Basel"Crowded Membranes: A New View at Lewy Pathology Using Multi-Modal Imaging and Biophysical Approaches" Jan. 14 Ethan Lippmann, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University"Simple and complex human cell-based models for understanding neurodegeneration" - 2020