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Sharing our Science: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
April 7, 2022
1-5pm (ET)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Agenda
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | Welcome – Debara Tucci, NIDCD Director |
| 1:05 | Welcome – Rene Etcheberrigaray, Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director, NIA |
| 1:10 | Orientation to the Meeting Format Amy Poremba, Program Officer, NIDCD |
| Session 1: Animal Models Moderator: Amy Poremba, Program Officer Hearing and Balance, NIDCD | |
| 1:15 | C. Ron Yu, Stowers Institute for Medical Research Mechanisms of Developmental Plasticity in the Mammalian Olfactory System |
| 1:20 | Diego Restrepo, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Is Loss of Smell Through Viral Infection Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 1:25 | Daniel Wesson, University of Florida Inter-regional Coding of Odor Valence by Neural Ensembles |
| 1:30 | Patricia White, University of Rochester Sufficiency of ErbB2 Signaling in Murine Inner Ear Supporting Cell Proliferation |
| 1:35 | Mark Rutherford, Washington University in St. Louis AMPA Receptor Expression at Cochlear Synapses in Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 1:40 pm | 5 minute break |
| 1:45 | Leonard Kaczmarek, Yale University Expression of Ion Channels in the Auditory System |
| 1:50 | Hong-Bo Zhao, University of Kentucky The Effect of Hidden Hearing Loss on Alzheimer’s Disease Development and Progression |
| 1:55 | Kibum Lee, University of Rutgers Promoting Hyperphosphorylated Tau Clearance and Lysosomal Biogenesis in Alzheimer’s Neurodegeneration Using Synthetic Transcription Factor EB |
| 2:00 | Anne Luebke, University of Rochester Early Auditory and Imbalance Measures in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease |
| 2:05 | Sriram Jayabal, Stanford University Cerebellum-dependent Learning Over Different Time Scales in an Alzheimer's Disease Model |
| 2:10 | Judy Dubno, Medical University of South Carolina Neuropathologic and Genetic Linkages Between Human Presbyacusis and Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 2:15 | Session 1 Discussion on Animal Models Moderator: Susan Sullivan, Program Officer Taste and Smell, NIDCD |
| 2:35 pm | 10 minute break |
| Session 2: Human Studies Moderator: Kelly King, Program Officer Hearing and Balance, NIDCD | |
| 2:45 | Jay Buckey, Dartmouth University Auditory Brain Function as a Marker for Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 2:50 | Shannon Shepard, Chapman University The Neural Basis of Impaired Affective Prosody in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Degeneration |
| 2:55 | Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University AphasiaBank: A Shared Database for the Study of Aphasic Communication |
| 3:00 | Swathi Kiran, Boston University Computational Modeling of Semantic Decline in Bilingual Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Primary Progressive Aphasia |
| 3:05 | Natalie Busby, University of South Carolina Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR) |
| 3:10 | Jessica Klusek, University of South Carolina The FMR1 Premutation Genotype and Age-Related Cognitive-Linguistic Decline |
| 3:15 pm | 10 minute break |
| 3:25 | Bryan Pfingst, University of Michigan Functionally Important Features of the Electrically Stimulated Cochlea |
| 3:30 | Poorna Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University Quality of Life and Needs of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Caregivers |
| 3:35 | Carrie Nieman, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Community-Delivered Affordable, Accessible Hearing Care to Reduce Symptom Burden in Alzheimer's Disease: Adaptation of HEARS Intervention |
| 3:40 | Helen Cohen, Baylor College of Medicine Epidemiologic Research on Screening for Vestibular and Balance Disorders: Supplement to Include People with Alzheimer's Disease |
| 3:45 | Pamela Souza, Northwestern University Administrative Supplement to Characterizing Variability in Hearing Aid Outcomes Among Older Adults |
| 3:50 | Melanie Fried-Oken, Oregon Health & Science University Brain-Computer Interface to Enhance Attention in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 3:55 | Fan-Gang Zeng, University of California Irvine Characterize and Treat Tinnitus in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) Patients |
| 4:00 | Session 2 Discussion on Human Interactions Moderator: Lana Shekim, Program Officer Voice and Speech, NIDCD |
| 4:20 pm | 10 minute break |
| 4:30 | Discussion on Future Directions Related to AD/RD Research and Communication Disorders Moderators: Judith Cooper, Deputy Director, NIDCD and Coryse St. Hillaire-Clarke, Program Director Sensory and Motor, NIA |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |