Annual Hope Center Retreat: Guoping Feng (MIT), Sally Temple (Neural Stem Cell Institute)

April 16, 2019
8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (975 North Warson Road, St. Louis)

Guoping Feng: “Dissecting synaptic and circuitry mechanisms of psychiatric disorders”
Sally Temple: “Neural stem cells in aging and modeling neurodegenerative disease”


The Ninth Annual Hope Center Retreat will be held at the Danforth Plant Science Center.

For inquiries contact Jan Konrad.

2019 Retreat Program Summary

8:00a     Shuttle departs from the Farrell LTC (660 S. Euclid)

8:30 a     Continental Breakfast

9:00 a     Welcome and Opening Remarks by David Holtzman and Anneliese Schaefer

9:05 a     Lysosome Processing & TransportGroup

9:35a     Protein Aggregation & Neurodegeneration Group

10:05a     Neurogenetics & Transcriptomics Group

10:35a     Break

11:00a     Hope Center Lecture: Guoping Feng, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:00p     Lunch

1:15p     Hope Center Lecture: Sally Temple, PhD (Neural Stem Cell Institute)

2:15p     Clocks & Sleep Club and NeuroRestorative Therapy Group

2:45p     Neurovascular Injury & Repair and Axon Injury & Repair Groups

3:15p     Poster Set up

3:30p     Poster Session

5:45p     Shuttle to WUSM