8:30 a.m.
Registration Opens
9:00 a.m.
Opening Introduction
9:15 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
9:25 a.m.
I. Keynote Lecture
Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., Children’s National Health System – Environmental influences on developmental myelination after neonatal brain injury
10:25 a.m.
Coffee Break
II. Environmental Effects on Oligodendrocyte: From Social Stress to Viruses and Physical Forces
10:45 a.m.
Anna Jagielska, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Mimicking the mechanical niche of oligodendrocytes
11:15 a.m.
Jia Liu, Ph.D., Advanced Science Research Center at GC/CUNY – Region specific myelin differences define behavioral consequences of chronic social stress in mice
11:45 a.m.
Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center – Herpes in the brain- not a benign resident
12:15 p.m.
Lunch & Poster Session
III. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modulators of Oligodendrocyte Development
2:00 p.m.
Pablo Paez, Ph.D., University at Buffalo – Modulation of oligodendrocyte development by voltage-operated calcium channels
2:30 p.m.
Orna Issler, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – Sex- and cell type-specific roles for long non-coding RNAs in depression
2:50 p.m.
Akiko Nishiyama, M.D., Ph.D., University of Connecticut at Storrs – The role of microglial Neuropilin-1 in oligodendrocyte development and myelin repair
3:20 p.m.
Coffee Break
IV. Astrocytic and Microglial Function in Physiological and Pathological States
3:40 p.m.
Ana Badimon, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – The Role of Microglia in Striatal Neuron Modulation
4:00 p.m.
Shane Liddelow, Ph.D., NYU Langone Medical Center – What do reactive astrocytes do?
4:30 p.m.
Sam Horng, M.D., Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – Bidirectional Regulation of CNS Inflammation by Reactive Astrocytes
5:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks & Poster Session Winners
5:30 p.m.
Reception