Calendar

Influence of sex and endocrine aging on vascular and metabolic contributions to dementia

‍4:00 p.m., SOM 6001

‍Kristen Zuloaga, PhD

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics

Albany Medical College

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Monthly Peer Mentoring Luncheon, Downtown BI Conference Room

Monthly Peer Mentoring Luncheon, Uptown BI Conf room (201 Flower Hall).

PPG mentoring luncheons held in the downtown Brain Institute Conf Rm (2014 Hutchinson) and the uptown Paul Hall 2nd floor Conf Rm (220 Paul Hall).

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PPG researchers (postdocs, technicians, students, research professors) are invited to a peer mentoring luncheon in the downtown Brain Institute Conf Rm (2014 Hutchinson), or the uptown Paul Hall 2ndfloor Conf Rm (220 Paul Hall). More details to follow! 

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PPG Program-Wide Symposium to review progress and discuss interim conclusions at the halfway point of the Program Project Grant. The symposium will be held in the Diboll Gallery at the Newcomb Institute, and will begin at 9:00 am and end around 1:00 pm. Lunch will be provided. The Gallery is located on the Uptown Campus in the Commons, on the 3rd floor.

The Commons, 43 Newcomb Place, Newcomb Institute,Diboll Gallery, third floor

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PPG team member Dr. Lucie Desmoulins (Project 4) presents a poster entitled "Pre-existing metabolic conditions impair the beneficial effects of estrogen on memory and cognition in ovariectomized mice" at the 2024 American Physiological Society Summit held in Long Beach, California.

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PPG Executive Committee meeting to be held from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, Hutchinson 2014 (brain institute conference room).

PPG Program-wide meeting to be held from 3:00 to 4:30 pm, Hutchinson 4001

The PPG team joined members of the External and Internal Advisory Committees to hear Project updates that were presented at the second annual meeting of the PPG Advisory Committees held on the Tulane campus on January 12, 2024.

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Congratulations to Project 3 Lead Dr. Sarah Lindsey and graduate student and Project 3 Team member Mr. Chase Richard on the awarding of an NIA Diversity Supplement to the P01.

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PPG Team member Ms. Ariane Imulinde-Sugi (Project 3) presented "Impact of the Timing of Hypertension on the Cardiovascular Response to Estrogen" at the 2023 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), held in Phoenix, Arizona in November, 2023.

PPG Team members Dr. Christian Montanari (Project 1) and Mr. Chase Richard (Project 3) presented posters at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held in Washington, DC in November 2023. Dr. Montanari's poster presentation was entitled "Relationship between estrogens, cardiometabolic health, and spatial memory in a rat model of menopause" and Mr. Richard's was entitled "Interaction of estrogen loss and carodiovascular disease on neurovascular coupling."

2:00 - 4:30, 5001 Tulane School of Medicine. Presented by Cores B and C for all PPG personnel. The aim of the workshop is to facilitate understanding of Core procedures and data analyses and interpretation.

240 Lindy Boggs Building, Uptown Campus