NIDCD/NIA Webinar: Sharing our Science: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Event Date: April 07, 2022

Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Location: Virtual

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)

https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44829

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

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