Departmental Seminar – Friday September 25
September 25th – Friday @ 2:00
“Effects of Exercise, Aging and Alzheimer’s-like Mutations on Brain and Behavior”
Christina Tognoni, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Blusztajn Lab, Department of Pathology
Boston University School of Medicine
Refreshments at 1:45 p.m.
670 Albany Street – Lobby Level #107/108
Contact:
Program Director, Barbara Slack, PhD
Program Coordinator: Debra Kiley, 414-7914
Target Audience: Faculty, Students, Residents, Greater Boston Scientific Community (advertised in MIT’s Bulletin).
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to: 1) report that the effects of exercise, aging, and Alzheimer’s-like mutations on cognitive abilities in mice and rats is pertinent and translatable to human patients as well as healthy individuals; 2) repeat that since the remarkable discovery of adult neuro genesis in the mammalian hippocampus, considerable effort has been devoted to unraveling the functional significance of these neurons and 3) recognize that continual turnover of neurons in the DG could contribute to the development of event unique memory traces that act or reduce interference between highly similar inputs