More than 40 students, trainees, postdocs, fellows, and junior faculty members from across the UW-Madison campus submitted scientific abstracts to the poster session held in conjunction with the 2018 Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders Research Day. The event took place March 23, 2018, at the Discovery Building on the UW-Madison campus. Three top abstracts were chosen for oral presentations, and the top three poster presenters were selected for Best Poster awards.
The following authors offered podium presentations on their abstracts:
- Andrew Merluzzi, BA, a doctoral student in the Neuroscience and Public Policy Program and a trainee with Dr. Barbara Bendlin, presented “Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers Are Associated with Altered White Matter Microstructure.”
- Jichao Sun, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the UW Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a member of the Subhojit Roy lab, presented “A CRISPR/Cas9 Based Strategy to Attenuate the Beta-Amyloid Pathway.”
- Jeffrey Zemla, PhD, as assistant scientist in the lab of Dr. Joe Austerweil in the UW Department of Psychology, presented “Modeling Semantic Fluency Data in Alzheimer’s Patients.”
The following awards were presented to three poster authors after the poster abstract judging competition:
- Best Fellow, Post Doc, or Research Scientist Poster: Samantha Allison, PhD, for “The Relationship Between Amyloid Deposition and Both Global and Hippocampal Atrophy”
- Best Graduate Student/Research Specialist Poster: Justin McKetney, for “Proteomoic Atlas of the Human Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease”
- Best Undergraduate Student Poster: Matthew Beilfuss for “Increased Plasma Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is Associated with Lower Hippocampal Blood Flow”
The abstracts competition was sponsored by the Asthana Family Alzheimer’s Disease Memorial Fund. Each podium presenter and poster session winner received a monetary award from the fund.
The Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Disorders Research Day is an annual event designed to encourage collaboration and promote scientific thought among faculty, students, and researchers from a wide range of disciplines across the UW-Madison campus. This year’s program welcomed featured speakers Dr. Howard Federoff, professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine, and Dr. John Denu, professor of biomolecular chemistry at UW-Madison and epigenetics theme leader at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. About 170 people attended the event.
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