9:00 – 9:40 am Registration and Poster Set-up
9:40 – 9:55 am Welcome and Overview: David Freedberg (Italian Academy, Columbia), Francesco Genuardi (Consul General of Italy) and Francesca Bartolini (Columbia)
10:00 – 10:30 am Subhoijt Roy (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
“Physiologic role of alpha-synuclein at synapses”
10:35 – 11:05 am Casper Hoogenraad (Genentech)
“Feedback-driven mechanisms drive axon initial segment assembly and neuronal polarity”
11:10 – 11:30 am Break
11:35 – 12:05 pm Victoria Bolotina (Boston University)
“Novel cellular determinants of Parkinson’s disease”
12:10 – 12:40 pm Xiaoyi Qu (graduate student, laboratory of Francesca Bartolini, Columbia)
“Microtubule dynamics at pre-synaptic contacts are modulated by neuronal activity and affected by synaptic injury”
12:45 – 1:45 pm Break
1:50 – 2:20 pm Erika Holzbaur (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine)
“Trafficking along the axon: mechanisms regulating express shipping and local delivery”
2:25 – 2:55 pm Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
“Selective autophagy in the fight against neurodegeneration”
3:00 – 3:30 pm Chandana Kondapalli (postdoctoral research scientist, laboratory of Franck Polleux, Columbia)
“Aβ42 oligomers trigger synaptic loss through AMPK-dependent activation of mitochondrial fission and mitophagy “
3:35 – 4:45 pm Break / Posters
4:50 – 5:00 pm Intro to Keynote Speaker and Concluding Remarks: Franck Polleux (Columbia)
5:05 – 5:55 pm Keynote: Pietro De Camilli (Yale University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
“Intracellular Membrane Contact Sites, Lipid Dynamics and Neurodegeneration”