{"id":13802,"date":"2016-03-28T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=13802"},"modified":"2016-03-28T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:43:55","slug":"departmental-seminar-april-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2016\/03\/28\/departmental-seminar-april-1-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental Seminar &#8211; April 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Seminar Series: Spring 2016 ~~ Friday, April 1, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2:00-3:00 PM<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cComplement C3-Deficiency Protects the Mouse Hippocampus Against Aging and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span><span class=\"il\"><b>Cynthia Lemere, PhD<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong>Principal Investigator, Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases,\u00a0Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital<br \/>\nAssociate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School<\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Location &amp; Time:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>670 Albany Street<br \/>\nLobby Level #107\/108<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2:00-3:00 PM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong>Friday, April 1, 2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Target Audience: <\/strong>Faculty, Students, Residents, Greater Boston Scientific Community (advertised in MIT\u2019s Bulletin).<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to<\/strong><span>: 1)\u00a0state that inflammation and innate immunity have been implicated in Alzheimer\u2019s disease; 2) recall that similar to brain development, we found that complement signaling appears to play an important role in synaptic and neuronal health and function during aging and Alzheimer\u2019s disease; and 3) report that\u00a0 more data is needed to better understand how immunity and inflammation contribute to neurodegeneration and\/or rate of progression and to identify new therapies targeting these pathways<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Director: <\/strong>Barbara Slack, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Boston University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a\u00a0maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)\u2122.\u00a0 Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminar Series: Spring 2016 ~~ Friday, April 1, 2016 2:00-3:00 PM \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u201cComplement C3-Deficiency Protects the Mouse Hippocampus Against Aging and Alzheimer\u2019s Disease\u201d \u00a0 Cynthia Lemere, PhD Principal Investigator, Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases,\u00a0Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Location &amp; Time: 670 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16418],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13804,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13802\/revisions\/13804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}