Data blitz meetings of MIND: Microbiome, Immunology, Neuroscience Discussions

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MIND Meetings – 2024 Spring Schedule
January 17, 2024

Gwendalyn Randolph (WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Intestinal origins of HDL, role as a microbial lipid carrier and role in cerebral vascular health”

Ashley Steed (WashU Pediatrics) “TBA”

February 21, 2024

Drew Schwartz (WashU Pediatrics) “Death is associated with microbiome-antibiotic combinations in a gnotobiotic mouse model of the NICU”

Jessica Tung (Schwartz lab, WashU Pediatrics) “Maternal vaccination as a strategic intervention against pathogenic gut colonization by Klebsiella pneumoniae in preterm neonates”

March 20, 2024

Henry Schreiber (Hultgren lab, WashU Molecular Microbiology) “The comorbid multiple sclerosis and susceptibility to urinary tract infections”

Wangchao Xu (Kipnis lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “A glia-microbiota-neuron axis that modulates sleep and controls the lifespan”

April 17, 2024

Hana Janova (Diamond lab, WashU Medicine) “Enteric nervous system injury and intestinal dysmotility after West Nile virus infection is mediated by perforin and Fas-ligand dependent T cell effector functions”

Gregory Wu (WashU Neurology) “Transcriptional profiling of CSF to interrogate immune mechanisms of CNS diseases”

May 15, 2024

Aisling Chaney (WashU Radiology) “Approaches for PET imaging of whole body innate immune responses in TBI”

Claudia Han (WashU Pathology & Immunology) “The dynamic genomic landscape of human microglia”

June 19, 2024

Rajeev Aurora (Saint Louis University) “Estrogen loss activates a low grade inflammation that promotes anxiety and to postpartum depression in some individuals”

Daniel Lee (Randolph lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology) “Insights into MIND from a multi-scalar, modular imaging workflow, ADAPT-3D”

MIND Meetings – 2023 Schedule
April 19, 2023

Marta Celorrio (Friess lab, WashU Pediatrics)

May 17, 2023

Jonathan Cooper (WashU Pediatrics)
“Defining and treating enteric nervous system disease in CNS neurodegenerative disorders”

Kirill Shumilov (Friess lab, WashU Pediatrics)
“The Gut Microbiota Modulate Oligodendrogenesis and Remyelination after Traumatic Brain Injury”

June 21, 2023

Maria Garia-Bonilla (Limbrick lab, WashU Neurosurgery)
“Cerebrospinal fluid-based extracellular vesicle signalling and related T-cell activation mediate the pathogenesis of posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus”

Keigo Takahashi (Cooper lab, WashU Pediatrics)
“Defining the contribution of GABAergic interneurons and glia to epileptogenesis in neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorders”

July 19, 2023

Gautam Anand (Steed lab, WashU Pediatrics)
“Aromatic amino acid metabolites alter interferon signaling and influenza pathogenesis”

Regina Clemens (WashU Pediatrics)

August 16, 2023

CANCELLED – Rescheduled to September 20.

September 20, 2023

Ezequiel Valguarnera (Bubeck-Wardenburg lab, WashU Pediatrics)
“Antibacterial toxins from human gut bacteria engender neonatal colonization advantage”

Rene Roy (Bubeck-Wardenburg lab, WashU Pediatrics) “TBA”

October 18, 2023

Jasmin Herz (Kipnis lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology)
“Impact of the microbiota on meningeal immunity”

Wade Self (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology)
“The role of gut microbiota after the onset of amyloidosis in transgenic mouse models”

November 15, 2023

Xiaoying Chen (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology)
“Brain-Immune communication in Alzheimer’s Disease”

Ellen Schill (WashU Pediatrics)
“Early life antibiotic exposure impairs postnatal enteric nervous system maturation”