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2026 Annual Neuroscience Retreat

Friday, April 24th

Keynote Speaker: Anne Hart, PhD, Prof and Chair of Neuroscience, Brown University

Programme of Events

TimeEvent
9:00amContinental Breakfast
Parlor
9:30amWelcome & Land Acknowledgment - Archan Ganguly, PhD
Auditorium
9:40amGraduate Student Featured Speaker - Michael Giannetto, MS

“Tiny Tubes: Perivascular spaces surround brain capillaries”
Nedergaard Lab
Auditorium

10:10amSfN Chapter Meeting - Frank Garcea, PhD
Auditorium
10:20amState of Neuroscience Graduate Program - Chris Holt, Ph.D.
Auditorium
10:25amCoffee Break
Parlor
10:45am

Award Presentations - Shrager Award and Doty Award
Ballroom

11:00amOverview of the Neuroscience Department -  John Foxe, Ph.D.
Ballroom
11:15amGroup Photograph      
Pavilion
11:20amPost-Doctoral Fellow Featured Speaker - Amy Bucklaew, PhD

“Developing AOSLO imaging in the marmoset to study transsynaptic 
retrograde degeneration”
Patterson Lab
Auditorium

11:50amLunch Break
Ballroom
1:05pmFaculty Featured Speaker -  Gail Johnson, PhD
"BAG3 as a mediator of vacuolar processes and tau clearance: implications

for Alzheimer’s disease"
Professor of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, 
and Pharmacology & Physiology
Auditorium

1:40pmPoster Session
Ballroom
3:15pmKeynote Lecture - Anne Hart, PhD
"A C. elegans double header: sleep and neurological disease"
Professor & Chair Dept. Neuroscience
Brown University
Auditorium
4:20pmPoster Award Presentation
Auditorium
4:25pmCocktail Reception
Parlor