Neurodegenerative Diseases: Biology & Therapeutics
November 28 - December 1, 2018

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Program information: An electronic version of the program abstract book will be sent three working days prior to the first day of the meeting, and hard copies will be available for collection upon your arrival at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. First night and keynote speakers are informed of their session date and time, otherwise program information is only available upon release of the electronic version of the abstract book. The reason we do this is to try and maximize interactions by encouraging participants to stay for the duration of the meeting.

Please check your email for talk length, poster instructions, and how to have your poster printed at CSHL for collection upon arrival. 

Abstract Status

Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Ajit, Deepa

A conformationally distinct tau mutant alleviates toxicity in mice

poster

An, Disi

Stem cell-derived cranial and spinal motor neurons reveal proteostatic differences between ALS resistant and sensitive motor neurons

poster

Ansari, Aseem Z.

Designing a new class of SynTF-based therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases

poster

Apicco, Daniel

Activity-dependent secretion of α-synuclein protects against neuropathology in primary neurons

poster

Baekelandt, Veerle

In vivo characterization of distinct patient-derived α-synuclein assemblies/strains

poster

Balasundaram, Padmanabhan

Discovery of the oxidation inhibitors of human superoxide dismutase I (hSOD1) by rational approach—A potential therapeutic target for ALS

poster

Bennett, Frank

Antisense oligonucleotide based therapies for neurological diseases

talk

Boland, Sebastian

Progranulin deficiency results in cellular accumulation of acidic glycosphingolipids

talk

Borbolla Jimenez, Fabiola V

Design and characterization of rapamycin-loaded-PLGA nanoparticles for potential treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia type 7

poster

Borchelt, David

Prion-like characteristics of ALS caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase 1

talk

Brennan, Melanie S

APOE4-dependent cellular phenotypes in hIPSC-derived astrocytes

poster

Cahn-Hidalgo, Diego

Comparison of the Cognivue® quantitative assessment tool and SLUMS to classify the risk of cognitive impairment

poster

Cahn-Hidalgo, Diego

Validity, reliability, and psychometric properties of Cognivue®, a quantitative assessment of cognitive impairment

poster

Cai, Yifei

Decoding competing endogenous RNA regulations in Alzheimer’s disease

poster

Chang, Yung-Heng

Glial retrotransposon activation contributes to non-cell autonomous neurodegeneration in a Drosophila TDP-43 model of ALS

poster

Chen, Ping-Chung

Neuronal expression of Alzheimer’s disease-associated U1-70K cleavage product causes splicing dysfunction and cognitive impairment in mice

poster

Cho, Yoonsuk

Characterization of TG as a BACE1 inhibitor in Alzheimer’s disease

poster

D'Abramo, Cristina

AAV-mediated peripheral administration of recombinant scFv anti-tau antibody MC1 reduces insoluble tau phosphorylation in a transgenic model of tauopathy

poster

Daniel, Dianne

Effects of Pur-alpha and a Pur-based peptide upon G-quadruplex structure in expanded polynucleotide repeats of a neurological disease spectrum, ALS/FTD

poster

Das, Arupratan

Human RGCs and their precursor stem cells differ in how they degrade their mitochondria using proteasomal and the lysosomal pathways

poster

Das, Sromona

Bromelain derived peptides—A novel agent in amyloidal fibril destabilization

poster

Dawson, Ted M.

Poly (ADP-ribose) (PAR) drives the pathogenesis of PD

talk

Deb, Bipan K

Septin modulate neuronal Ca2+ homeostasis

poster

Dieriks, Victor B

α-synuclein transmission by non-neuronal cells in the human Parkinson’s disease brain

poster

Duff, Karen

Accumulation and propagation of tauopathy—-Mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

talk

El gaamouch, Farida

VGF and its C-terminal peptide TLQP-21 modulate Alzheimer's disease phenotype via C3aR1 activation in the 5XFAD mouse

poster

Eliasova, Barbora

Pin1 regulates stability and solubility of CDK5 phosphorylated CRMP2A

poster

Fares, Mohamed Bilal

Assessment of potential neuroprotective effects of nicotine in a human dopaminergic in vitro model of Parkinson’s disease

poster

Farsi, Zohreh

Functional mapping of spontaneous and evoked neurotransmission reveals intersynaptic heterogeneity

poster

Ferguson, Shawn M

Pleiotropic requirements for human TDP-43 in the regulation of organelle homeostasis

poster

Fernandes, Alinda

Identifying targets for enhancing TDP-43 clearance in ALS and FTD

poster

Fernandez, Uxoa

Insights into ALS from the silencing of TDP43, FUS and SOD1

poster

Fernandopulle, Michael S

Annexin A11 mediates axonal trafficking of RNP granules via endolysosomal hitchhiking

talk

Fishilevich, Elane

Intrathecally-delivered siRNA conjugates lead to robust and durable silencing in the central nervous system

poster

Foley, Kate E

Preventing cerebrovascular decline in humanized APOEε4 mice

poster

Fowler, Stephanie L

Investigating regional and disease-specific tau strains in human AD and CBD post-mortem brain tissue

poster

Friedman, Brad

The transcriptional landscape of brain myeloid cells reveals gene expression responses associated with diverse myeloid cell types and cellular states

talk

Gale Hammell, Molly

Awakening old foes—Transposon de-silencing in ALS patient tissues

talk

Gilch, Sabine

Prion-induced membrane cholesterol accumulation and impaired endocytic vesicle trafficking—New targets for treatment of prion disease

poster

Gitler, Aaron

RPS25 regulates RAN translation of C9orf72 repeat expansions

talk

Grima, Jonathan C

Specific components of nucleocytoplasmic transport are disrupted in C9orf72-ALS/FTD and can be rescued with antisense therapy

poster

Grubman, Alexandra

Distinct microglial subtypes in Alzheimer’s disease are controlled by plaque phagocytosis

poster

Guzman-Ramos, Kioko R

Serum levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein in elderly patients with cognitive decline

poster

Haure-Mirande, Jean-Vianney

Integrative approach to sporadic Alzheimer’s disease—Deficiency of driver Tyrobp in cerebral Aβ amyloidosis and tauopathy mouse models normalizes clinical phenotype and complement subnetwork molecular pathology  despite a paradoxical evolution

poster

Havrda, Matthew C

Clinical manifestations of inflammasome activity in Parkinson’s disease

talk

Heneka, Michael T

NLRP3 mediated innate immune mechanism in neurodegenerative disease

talk

Hopkins, Paul

The TMCC2/Dementin protein family—A potential route to a better understanding of the contribution of apolipoprotein E to Alzheimer’s disease

poster

Hu, Fenghua

The role of C9orf72 complex in AKT/MTORC1 signaling, lysosome biogenesis and tissue homeostasis

talk

Huang, Shih-Ling

Distinct ALS-TDP pathogenesis in knock-in mouse models with different ALS-associated TDP-43 mutations

poster

Ibrahim, Fadia F

Ribothrypsis—Unveiling a novel RNA decay process and implications for gene expression profiling

poster

Jiang, Ke

Mitochondria defects represent an early step in retinal degeneration

poster

Joachimiak, Lukasz A

Native tau structure is disrupted by disease-associated mutations that promote aggregation

poster

Johansson, Jan

Bri2 BRICHOS passes the blood brain barrier and efficiently reduces Aβ42 neurotoxicity

poster

Kampmann, Martin

Elucidating cellular mechanisms controlling tau aggregation and spreading using CRISPRi and CRISPRa functional genomics in human iPSC-derived neurons

talk

Kashikar, Nachiket D

Screening of synaptic modulators with a novel high-throughput imaging platform

poster

Kastanenka, Ksenia V

Aberrant circuit dynamics in an Alzheimer’s animal model

talk

Klenerman, David

The role of Prion-like spreading in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease

poster

Kocovski, Pece

Platelet targeting alleviates anxiety-like-behavior in the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model of multiple sclerosis

poster

Kour, Sukhleen

MicroRNA processing factor Drosha modulates FUS-mediated neurodegeneration via GSK3beta

poster

Kraus, Allison

Seeding selectivity and ultrasensitive detection of tau aggregate conformers of Alzheimer’s disease

talk

Kuo, Szu-Yu

Novel cellular model for the characterization of mechanisms regulating free tau homeostasis

poster

Kwon, Sunkuk

Imaging CSF outflow into the lymphatic system in mice and swine

poster

La Spada, Albert

Nicotinamide pathway dependent Sirt1 inactivation underlies neurodegeneration in spinocerebellar ataxia type 7

talk

Lapierre, Louis

Give me a SINE—How Selective Inhibitors of Nuclear Export modulate autophagy and aging

poster

Lee, Virginia

Transmission of misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative disorders—A common mechanism of disease progression

talk

Li, Emmy

Elucidating Alzheimer’s disease progression by examining cell-type specific transcriptional changes at single-cell resolution

poster

Li, Jixi

Structural basis of cell necrosis and implications in neurodegenerative diseases

poster

Lie, Pearl

Restriction of functionally active lysosomes from anterograde axonal transport limits clearance capability of axons and may underlie their susceptibility to neuritic dystrophy

poster

Liu, Yuanjing

The investigational stereopure antisense oligonucleotide WVE-3972-01 preferentially reduces G4C2 repeat-containing C9ORF72 transcripts—A potential therapeutic approach for the treatment of frontotemporal dementia

poster

Luo, Wenjie

A dual effect of the retromer chemical chaperone R33 in promoting Aβ degradation and attenuating inflammasome activation in microglia

poster

Ma, Chao

Tauopathies reveal uncoupling of arginine sensing pathways and mTORC1 activation

poster

Ma, Dongrui

Generation of isogenic human TMEM230 Parkinson’s disease model

poster

Ma, Keran

Enhancing inhibitory interneuron function improves EEG abnormalities, brain pathology and cognitive function in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease

poster

Mallucci, Giovanna

UPR activation in astrocytes induces non-cell autonomous neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease

talk

Marcogliese, Paul C

Loss-of-function variants in IRF2BPL are associated with neurological phenotypes

poster

Marcora, Edoardo

Genome-wide integration of Alzheimer’s disease genetics and myeloid cell genomics identifies novel risk genes expressed in microglia

poster

Marcus, Jacob

Administration of intracranial alpha-synuclein fibrils into an A30P synuclein transgenic mouse

poster

Margolin, Richard A

Therapeutics for tauopathies—Linking molecular hypotheses and clinical benefit

poster

Marques, Rita

Identification of potential disease-driving molecules in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by mutant TDP-43

poster

Mordes, Daniel A

A chemical screen in human neurons identifies potential targets for C9ORF72-ALS/FTD

poster

Mourelatos, Zissimos

Ribothrypsis—Implications for gene expression regulation and analysis

talk

Munoz, Mikel

Rearrangements in the ATAD3 gene cluster cause neurodevelopmental disorders owing to perturbed mitochondrial and cholesterol metabolism

poster

Myeku, Natura

Receptor-mediated clearance of synaptic tau as a therapeutic strategy to attenuate trans-synaptic propagation of tauopathy

poster

Naito, Yusuke

Role of synaptic organizer Neurexin on amyloid β-induced synaptic pathology

poster

Nathanson, Pierce

TDP-43 is a genome-wide DNA-binding protein and regulator of snRNA expression

poster

Nezich, Catherine L

Investigation of how TFEB upregulation affects Parkinson’s disease-associated genes

poster

Nguyen, Lien

Antibody therapy targeting RAN proteins rescues ALS/FTD in C9orf72 mouse model

poster

Nilsson, Per

Somatostatin receptor 1 and 4 redundantly regulate the major amyloid β-degrading enzyme neprilysin

poster

Nuriel, Tal

Utilizing systems biology approaches to elucidate the effects of APOE4 expression in an AD-vulnerable brain region

poster

Oddo, Salvatore

Necroptosis activation in Alzheimer's disease

poster

Onos, Kristen D

Genetically distinct mouse strains exhibit differences in amyloid-induced neuroinflammation and cerebral amyloid angiopathy

poster

Palop, Jorge

Network abnormalities and interneuron dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease

talk

Park, Jin Su

XHC restores cognition of Alzheimer’s disease mice and reduces amyloid-beta burden via repressing BACE1 promoter activity

poster

Pehar, Mariana

RAGE signaling as a pharmacological target in ALS models

poster

Pensalfini, Anna

Over-activating neuronal Rab5 in mice by itself causes AD-related endosomal, synaptic, cholinergic, and cognitive deficits and, in APP-models of AD, accelerates disease

poster

Porta, Sílvia

Intracerebral injection of pathological TDP-43 extracted from frontotemporal lobar degeneration human brains induces seeding and spreading of TDP-43 pathology in vivo

talk

Pourshafie, Naemeh

RNA-seq of human iPSC derived motor neurons implicates mitochondrial dysfunction in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

poster

Ramalingam, Nagendran

The strong neurotoxicity of membrane-associated monomeric αS variants is accompanied, but not mediated by S129 hyperphosphorylation

poster

Ramesh, Nandini

The RRM domain of Matrin 3 mediates neuromuscular degeneration in ALS models

poster

Reed, Robin

The neurodegenerative diseases ALS and SMA are linked at the molecular level via the ASC-1 complex

poster

Reed, Robin

The RNAP II/U1 snRNP machinery is a central hub for multiple ALS and SMA-causative proteins

poster

Russell, Kristi L

TP73 functions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathology

poster

Shalem, Ophir H

Unbiased mapping of the regulatory network that controls alpha synuclein levels in human cells

poster

Shaw, Timothy I

A case study of RNA sequencing protocols and their ability to detect splice junctions and intron retention events in Alzheimer disease

poster

Shorter, James

Therapeutic dissolution of aberrant phases by nuclear-import receptors

talk

Siew, Jian Jing

The pro-inflammatory role of Galectin-3 in Huntington’s disease

poster

Small, Scott A

Endosomal traffic jams represent a pathogenic hub and therapeutic target in Alzheimer’s disease

talk

Sohre, Selina

Excitatory insufficiency as origin of Alzheimer's disease

poster

Stanaszek, Luiza

Global glia replacement as a strategy for treatment of demyelinating and neurodegenerative diseases

poster

Taylor, Paul

Disturbance of phase transitions in neurological disease

talk

Trojanowski, John

Tau strains may account for heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD)

talk

Trzeciakiewicz, Hanna

The deacetylase HDAC6 modulates tau mediated neurodegeneration

poster

Valdez Vargas, Claudia

Circulating miRNAs as potential biomarkers for spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7)

poster

van der Kant, Rik

Phenotypic screening in iPSC-Alzheimer’s disease neurons identifies a druggable CYP46A1-cholesteryl metabolic-Tau axis

poster

Varela, Juan A

Optical structural characterisation of individual protein aggregates

poster

Volpicelli-Daley, Laura A

Membrane trafficking of α-synuclein in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementias

talk

von Herrmann, Katharine M

Characterizing neuroinflammation resulting from expression of constitutively activated NLRP3 under the control of the dopamine transporter

poster

Warren, Lee

Development of a high throughput assay to detect tau aggregation in human iPSC-derived neurons to model neurodegenerative diseases

poster

Wu, Haifan

A 31-residue fragment of tau shows prion-like behavior in cells

poster

Xu, Xiao

Cell-type specific profiling of human brain for novel therapeutic development

poster

Yamanaka, Tomoyuki

Biochemical characterization of pathological ER domain isolated from cultured cells

poster

Yousef, Hanadie

Aged blood activates microglia and inhibits adult hippocampal neural precursor cells through brain endothelial VCAM1

talk

Zariwala, Hatim

Evaluation of progressive neurodegeneration and pharmacological effects in preclinical models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

poster