Topics in Experimental Neuropathology - 2020

MSCMP 3730: Topics in Experimental Neuropathology
9:00 - 10:00 AM 
Room S751 Scaife Hall

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Updated: 11/24/20
YR 2020
Presenter
Responsible PI
Topic
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1/16/20
Not Scheduled
 
 
 
1/23/20
Not Scheduled
 
 
 
1/30/20
Cheng-Ying Ho (NP Faculty Applicant)
Clayton Wiley
The role of skin-derived BDNF in the development of cutaneous sensory system and treatment of diabetic neuropathy
 
2/6/20
Not Scheduled
 
 
 
2/27/20
Clayton Wiley
 
Emerging viral infections of the CNS
 
3/5/20
Not Scheduled
 
 
 
3/12/20
Tom Pearce
Clayton Wiley
tSNE Plus: A dimensionality reduction primer for the age of methylomics
 
3/19/20
Dan Marker
Clayton Wiley
C-IMPACT Now 5
 
3/26/20
Pascal Zinn (Guest Speaker: Neurological Surgery)
Scott Kulich
CANCELED
 
4/2/20
Shawn Sorrells (Guest Speaker)
Clayton Wiley
CANCELED
 
4/9/20
Britney Lizama
Charleen Chu
CANCELED
 
4/16/20
Clayton Wiley
 
Coronavirus infection of the nervous system
 
4/23/20
Bob Garman
 
CANCELED
 
4/30/20
Dan Marker
Clayton Wiley
Review of C-IMPACT-6
 
5/7/20
Clayton Wiley
 
5/21/20
Quasar Padiath (Guest Speaker: Human Genetics)
Julia Kofler
Pathological mechanisms in autosomal dominant leukodystrophy
 
5/28/20
David Peters (Guest Speaker: Magee)
Clayton Wiley
Non-invasive epigenomic molecular phenotyping of the human brain via liquid biopsy of cerebrospinal fluid and next generation sequencing
 
6/4/20
Julia Kofler
 
Zebras from the Brain Bank
7/16/20
Clayton Wiley
 
SARS-CoV-2 Part 2
7/30/20
Clayton Wiley
 
SARS-CoV-2 Part 4: Herd immunity and vaccination
8/6/20
Shawn Sorrells (Guest Speaker)
Clayton Wiley
Positive controls in adults and children support that very few, if any, new neurons are born in the adult human hippocampus
8/20/20
Dan Marker & Tom Pearce
 
Manuscript Review
 
8/27/20
Paul Gardner (Guest Speaker: Neurosurgery)
Clayton Wiley
Proposed Clinical Trials
 
9/3/20
Raymond Sekula (Neurosurgery) & Michael Gold (Neurobiology)
Julia Kofler
Towards a Greater Understanding of Facial Pain
9/10/20
Mike Modo (Professor of Radiology & Bioengineering, McGowan Institute)
Clayton Wiley
Mesoscale DTI of surgically-excised epileptic tissues
 
10/8/20
Pascal Zinn (Guest Speaker: Neurosurgery)
Scott Kulich
Towards Patient-Less Glioblastoma Trials
 
10/15/20
Clayton Wiley
 
Digital Spatial Profiling: Part 1
 
10/22/20
 
 
 
 
10/29/20
Andreas Pfenning (Guest Speaker: Department of Computational Biology (CMU)
Julia Kofler
Towards regulatory interpretation and fine-mapping of Alzheimer's disease-associated genetic variants
 
11/5/20
Tom Pearce
 
Manuscript Review
 
11/12/20
Osorio Lopes Abath Neto
Clayton Wiley
Characterization of a cohort of FGFR3-TACC3 fusion-positive glioblastomas
 
11/19/20
Kent Wang
Charleen Chu
Neurodegeneration of VCP(T262A) mutation linked to dysregulation of mitochondrial functions and ER associated protein degradation
 
12/3/20
Wen Zhong
Clayton Wiley
Assessment of Treatment Response in High Grade Gliomas: RANO Criteria, Pseudoprogression and Pathophysiologic Characteristics