Topics in Experimental Neuropathology - 2021

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

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Updated: 12/6/21
YR 2021 Presenter Topic View Video
1/7/21 Clayton Wiley Viral infections & dementia Viral Infections & Dementia
1/21/21 Charleen Chu Multiple roles for PINK1 in neuroprotection  
1/28/21 Hilda Mirbaha (NP Fellowship Applicant) Formation of seed-competent tau monomer precedes aggregation in vivo  
2/4/21 Tom Pearce How to train your computer: Promise and pitfalls of deep learning for histologic pattern recognition How to train your computer: Promise and pitfalls of deep learning for histologic pattern recognition
2/11/21 Wen Zhong Ependymal Tumors: Something Old and Something New Ependymal Tumors: Something Old and Something New
2/18/21 Marta Couce (Guest Speaker: Case Western - Martinez Lectureship) C-IMPACT Now and the Practice of Blue Collar Neuropathology C-IMPACT Now and the Practice of Blue Collar Neuropathology
3/4/21 Dan Marker Paper: Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization across Major Histological Types of Pediatric Brain Cancer (PMID: 33242424) - Click here to download paper Paper: Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization across Major Histological Types of Pediatric Brain Cancer
3/18/21 Scott Kulich Mismatch repair protein assessment in the era of immunotherapy.  Download Paper 1 and Paper 2.  Click here to join the meeting.  Click here to complete survey/evaluation. Mismatch repair protein assessment in the era of immunotherapy
3/25/21 Osorio Lopes Abath Neto Medulloblastoma: review and updates Medulloblastoma: review and updates
4/8/21 Qingde Wang & Clayton Wiley An Animal Model of Aicardi-Gouiteres Syndrome An Animal Model of Aicardi-Gouiteres Syndrome
4/22/21 Clayton Wiley  Viral infections of the brain: What every Neuropathologist needs to know Viral infections of the brain: What every Neuropathologist needs to know
4/29/21 Kenneth Aldape (Guest Speaker: NIH - Martinez Lectureship) DNA methylation to resolve diagnostically difficult CNS tumors and understand their microenvironment DNA methylation to resolve diagnostically difficult CNS tumors and understand their microenvironment
5/6/21 Or Shemesh (Guest Speaker: Department of Neurobiology) Studying Alzheimer's Disease at Biologically Relevant Resolutions  
5/27/21 Clayton Wiley Review of 2021 DSS cases  
6/3/21 Devon Jackson (NP Fellowship Applicant) Rare Neuropathologic Complication of Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia  
6/17/21 Marwan Majeed (NP Fellowship Applicant) Visual Field Deficit as Presenting Symptom for Non-Stroke Intracranial Disease: Low Threshold for Brain Imaging Is Necessary to Prevent or Minimize Irreversible Vision Loss  
7/8/21 Sharika Rajan (NP Fellowship Applicant) Epithelioid Glioblastoma and Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma: Molecular classification of two morphologically similar glial neoplasms  
7/15/21 Jeremy Rich (Guest Speaker: Department of Neurology) Killing Brain Tumor Stem Cells  
7/22/21 Shawn Sorrells & Chloe Page (Guest Speakers: Department of Neuroscience) Molecular and morphological heterogeneity of immature neurons within the human paralaminar amygdala  
7/29/21 Nabil Tabish (NP Fellowship Applicant) Studying the association between Appendectomy and Parkinson's Disease (PD) in a cohort with Essential tremor (ET)  
9/23/21 Adriana May (NP Fellowship Applicant) Anaplastic Transformation in Myxopapillary Ependymoma: A Report of 2 Cases  
10/14/21 Wen Zhong Overview of the 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System  
10/21/21 Jan Drappatz & Megan Mantica (Neuro-Oncology) Neuro-oncology clinical trials and precision neuropathology  
10/28/21 Osorio Lopes Abath Neto Digital spatial profiling to investigate the molecular bases of epileptogenicity: a proof of concept  
11/4/21 Christi Kolarcik Investigating motor network vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis  
11/11/21 Cheyanne Cassidy (AP/NP Applicant) Pediatric case of CNS tumor with BCOR internal tandem duplication: a new WHO entity  
11/18/21 Kent Wang Dysregulation of the ER-Golgi secretory path and autophagic flux in VCP(T262A) mutation  
12/9/21 Seemaab Ali (AP/NP Applicant) - CANCELED Environmental enrichment and hypothalamic aging in mice - CANCELED CANCELED
12/16/21 Kevin Yang Zhang (AP/NP Applicant) Structural engraftment of transplanted human stem cell derived retinal ganglion cells  

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