Carol and Gene Ludwig Annual Research Symposium

During the Ludwig annual Research Symposium, awardees from Cycle 1 of the Carol and Gene Ludwig Pilot Grant Program (PGP) will deliver short presentations to share progress and discuss future directions of their funded work with the Yale neuroimmune community. The symposium also includes Keynote speaker Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, and invited speaker Dr. Noah Wolcott Palm.

1:00 PM - Akiko Iwasaki, PhD "Science behind failure to recover from infections.”

2:00 PM - Emilia Favuzzi, PhD "Impact of peripheral immune challenges on microglia and neurons across aging: Inhibitory circuit plasticity promotes immune encoding in the cortex and fails with age”

2:30 PM - Shawn Ferguson, PhD "Intersection of Innate Immunity with Lysosome Quality Control in ALS-FTD”

3:00 PM - Le Zhang, PhD "Elucidating Neuroimmune Interactions in Parkinson's Disease Using a Novel Humanized Mouse Model”

3:30 PM Break with refreshments

4:00 PM - David Martinez, PhD "Interferon treatment disrupts West Nile virus inflammatory cell death in microglia”

4:30 PM - Yifei Cai, PhD "Investigating axonal-myelin pathology in Alzheimer’s disease using iPSC models”

5:00 PM - Noah Wolcott Palm, PhD "Commensal-derived acetylcholine enhances mucosal immune education”