9:15 am – 9:35 AM
Check in and Coffee

9:35 – 9:45 AM
Welcome and introduction to DE Neuroscience - Melissa Harrington (DSU)

9:45 - 10:45 AM
From mice to humans: how to improve disease modeling to develop neuroprotective treatments for Parkinson's disease
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, MD, Ph.D.
Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology
Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (more)

10:50 - 11:50 AM
Basal ganglia plasticity in Parkinson's Disease therapy: the good and the bad
Un Jung Kang, MD
H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology, Chief of Movement Disorders Division,
Columbia University Medical School (more)

11:50 – 1:50 PM
Lunch break/ Poster session (UD, DSU and Drexel University)

1:55 – 2:55 PM
PARsing Cell Death in Parkinson’s disease
Valina Dawson, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Director, Neuroregeneration and Stell Cell Programs, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution (more)

3:00 – 4:00 PM
Convergent protein degradation disruption in PD may lead to antigen presentation by SN neurons
David Sulzer, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, & Pharmacology
Columbia University School of Medicine, Columbia University (more)

4:00 – 4:10 PM
Closing Comments (Dr. Hwan Kim, DSU & Dr. Hakeem Lawal, DSU)

4:10 - 5:30 PM
Light Refreshments

REGISTRATION FORM (email copy will go to Dr. Hwan Kim, to Dr. Hakeem Lawal, & to Ms. Shonda Poe, all at DSU.)

(We respectfully request that you register if planning to attend and/or present during the poster session so that we can assure appropriate accommodations for all. Thanks in advance for your interest in this event.)

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