A Distinguished Lecture on, “How is the Human Brain Reprogrammed in Alzheimer’s Disease?”

This is an EMBS Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Shankar Subramaniam of University of California San Diego. Dr. Subramaniam is a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Nano Engineering. The lecture will include metrics of cognition such as dementia provide the first clues to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. What are the early events that presage the onset of dementia? How is the brain reprogrammed in Alzheimer’s disease? Is there a hope of reversing Alzheimer’s disease? Do other neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s show similar reprogramming? Do mechanisms of reprogramming offer a strategy for drug screening? Can we develop human brain models for AD? This talk will address these issues from molecular and cellular perspectives. Speaker(s): Dr. Shankar Subramaniam, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/431942