Neurodegeneration: From Neurocentric to System-Wide Perspectives (N3)
June 22-25, 2026  | Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, BC, Canada
Julia TCW, Christian Haass and Emma Mead
Scholarship Deadline: Mar. 19, 2026 | Abstract Deadline: Jun. 2, 2026 | Early Registration Deadline: Apr. 24, 2026
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of June 25, 2026 11 PM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, June 22, 2026
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Macdonald Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Macdonald Foyer
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac Ballroom
8:00–8:10 AM Welcome Remarks (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  * Julia TCW, Boston University
Session Chair
 
8:10–9:30 AM Keynote Address (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  * Julia TCW, Boston University
Session Chair
 
  Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Modulation of Microglial Function
 
  Astrid Iversen, University of Oxford
Genomic Risk for Neuroinflammation
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
9:50–11:30 AM Integrating Degeneration and Inflammation (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  * Michael V. Sofroniew, University of California, Los Angeles
Session Chair
 
  * Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Session Chair
 
  Maria de Lourdes Gamez G Tansey, Indiana University
Role of Central-Peripheral Neuroimmune Cross-Talk in Neurodegeneration
 
  Bart De Strooper, University College London
Key Inflection Points in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
 
  Naresha Saligrama, Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis
Short Talk: Specificity of CD4 T Cell Response in Parkinson Disease and in a Mouse Model of Synucleinopathy
 
  Pengjiao Wang, Boston University
Short Talk: Unique Progenitor Cells in the APOE3 Christchurch Brain and Their Potential Resilient Roles in Alzheimer’s Disease
 
11:30–1:00 PM Poster Setup Frontenac Ballroom
11:30–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Frontenac Ballroom
2:30–4:30 PM Panel Discussion: From Research to Clinical Practice Macdonald AB
  * Julia TCW, Boston University
 
  Emma Mead, Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
 
  Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
 
  Kathryn Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
 
  Justin Ichida, USC Keck School of Medicine
 
  Haiyan Peng, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
 
  Dennis J. Selkoe, Harvard Medical School
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnostic to Therapeutics Macdonald AB
  * Kathryn Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
Session Chair
 
  * Dennis J. Selkoe, Harvard Medical School
Session Chair
 
  Yimin Zou, University of California, San Diego
Planar Cell Polarity Proteins in Synapse Degeneration
 
  Henne Holstege, Amsterdam UMC
Decoding Natural Resilience against Cognitive Decline: The 100-plus Study
 
  Matthias Brendel, LMU Munich
Molecular Imaging with PET for Translation towards Therapeutics
 
  Sam Gandy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Short Talk: Positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging with novel [64Cu]-NOTA-cyclic D,L-α-peptide ligands: Ab oligomer signals appear in the 5XFAD mouse thalamus before the cortex
 
  Peisheng Xu, University of South Carolina
Short Talk: Brain-Targeted Nano-ERASER Downregulates PD-L1 for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner Frontenac Ballroom
7:05–8:00 PM Women in Science Networking Event Frontenac Ballroom
  * Julia TCW, Boston University
 
  * Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
 
  * Emma Mead, Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
 
  * Robyn S Klein, Western University, London, Ontario
 
  * Maria de Lourdes Gamez G Tansey, Indiana University
 
  * Henne Holstege, Amsterdam UMC
 
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Frontenac Ballroom
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Disease Overarching Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases Macdonald AB
  * Sam Gandy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Session Chair
 
  * Yimin Zou, University of California, San Diego
Session Chair
 
  Julia TCW, Boston University
Astrocytic autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction induces lipid accumulation, tau pathology, and ferroptosis in APOE4 Alzheimer’s brain
 
  Justin Ichida, USC Keck School of Medicine
Using Patient Stem Cells to Identify Therapeutic Targets for Familial and Sporadic ALS
 
  Tae Wan Kim, DGIST
Human Stem Cell-based Cell Replacement Therapy and Dopamine Neuron Senescence in Parkinson's Disease
 
  Mike Gallagher, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Short Talk: Perturb-Seq in Human Microglia-Like Cells Links Neurodegenerative GWAS Variants to Causal Risk Genes and Shared Downstream Pathways
 
  Laura Bott, Northwestern University
Short Talk: Interindividual Variation in Proteostasis Shapes Resilience and Disease Trajectories in Protein Misfolding Disorders
 
  Garrett Fogo, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Short Talk: Multi-omic Profiling of Human iPSC-derived Glial Cells Identifies Genetic and Molecular Drivers of Mitochondrial and Lysosomal Systems
 
  Zhen Yan, State University of New York at Buffalo
Short Talk: Histone Demethylase PHF2 Regulates Inflammatory Genes in Alzheimer's Disease
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Frontenac Ballroom
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Frontenac Ballroom
1:15–2:45 PM Health Equity Panel (Joint) sponsored by The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Macdonald AB
  * Maria de Lourdes Gamez G Tansey, Indiana University
 
  Jennifer Manly, Columbia University
 
  Kathryn Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
 
  Dennis J. Selkoe, Harvard Medical School
 
  Jamaine Davis, Belmont University
 
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Macdonald AB
  Erin E Gray, National Institute on Aging, NIH
Program Director
 
  Gabriella E Martyn, Arc Institute
Senior Scientist
 
  Erin Knock, STEMCELL Technologies Canada Ltd
Associate Director
 
  Sam Rose, Cell Press
Editor
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–7:15 PM Myeloid-Based Disease Mechanisms for Neurodegenerative Diseases Macdonald AB
  * Emma Mead, Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
Session Chair
 
  * David Chambers, University College London
Session Chair
 
  Marco Colonna, Washington University School of Medicine
Remote Presentation: Microglial Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
 
  Zhiqiang An, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Antibodies Targeting the LILRB2/TREM2 Axis in AD
 
  Nalini R Rao, Gladstone Institutes
Physiological Brain Clearance Architecture Revealed by Neuronal Protein Tracing
 
  Jessie Premereur, VIB-CMN
Short Talk: ABCA7 Controls Microglial Activation in Alzheimer’s Disease by Regulating Phosphatidyl Inositol Metabolism
 
  Jean Paul Chadarevian, UC Irvine
Short Talk: Therapeutic Potential of iPSC-derived Microglia Replacement for the Treatment of GRN-related Frontotemporal Dementia
 
  Kimitoshi Kimura, Kyoto University
Short Talk: Immune Checkpoint Molecule Tim-3 Regulates Microglial Function and the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner Frontenac Ballroom
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Frontenac Ballroom
Thursday, June 25, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac Ballroom
8:00–11:00 AM Drug Delivery (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  * Lynette C Foo, F.Hoffman-La Roche
Session Chair
 
  * Haiyan Peng, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Session Chair
 
  Fiona C. Elwood, Janssen R&D
Developing Drugs for CNS Disorders: Considerations for Therapies That Cross the BBB
 
  Kathryn Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
Targeting Co-Pathologies with TransportVehicle Engineered Antibodies for Alzheimer's Disease
 
  Sebastian Boland, Prevail Therapeutics, Eli Lilly
Gene Therapy for Type 2 Gaucher Disease — Interim Results From the PROVIDE Clinical Trial
 
  Christopher J. Barnum, INmune Bio Inc.
Selective Targeting of Soluble TNF to Mitigate Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
  Emily Han, University of Pennsylvania
Short Talk: Understanding the Chemical and Biological Phenomena That Drive mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery to the Brain
 
  Urs Langen, Roche Innovation Center Basel
Short Talk: Beyond the Shuttle: Advances in Brain Delivery of Biologics for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
9:20–9:25 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Macdonald ABCD
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight Macdonald AB
  * Henne Holstege, Amsterdam UMC
Session Chair
 
  * Hankum Park, Seoul National University
Session Chair
 
  Theodore J Zwang, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Short Talk: Tau Drives Cell Specific Functional Isolation of the Hippocampal Formation
 
  Shuo-Chien Ling, National University of Singapore
Short Talk: Horizontal Transfer of Excess Cholesterol from Motor Neurons Enhances Myelination and Preserves Motor Circuit Function
 
  Joshua Samuels, University of Virginia
Short Talk: SHP-1 Loss Enhances Microglial Immune Functions and Reduces Aβ Plaque Burden Via MMP-12-Mediated Degradation in Aβ Amyloidosis
 
  Dominic Acri, National Institute on Aging
Short Talk: Transcriptional Reprogramming Links PIKfyve Inhibition to Microglial Activation
 
  Thomas Marsh, Washington University in St. Louis
Short Talk: Integration of Human ADAD Models Implicates Neuronal β-Oxidation as a Core, Targetable Disease Mechanism
 
  Rebecca L Pinals, Stanford University
Short Talk: Engineering a 3D Human Blood-Brain Barrier-on-Chip to Model Inflammation-Driven Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
 
  Manisha Kunala, UMass Chan Medical School
Short Talk: Metabolic Rewiring Precedes and Predicts Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Progression
 
  Celia McKee, Merck
Short Talk: Automating High-Content Synaptic Imaging to Explore Recovery Potential in Amyloid Beta Immunotherapy
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–6:30 PM Target-Based Therapeutics Macdonald AB
  * Justin Ichida, USC Keck School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  * Jian Feng, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Session Chair
 
  Emma Mead, Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
USP11 Inhibitors and tau Proteostasis
 
  Haiyan Peng, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Mivelsiran (ALN-APP), the First Investigational RNAi Therapeutic in Development for Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
 
  Christiane D Wrann, Massachusetts General Hospital
How Physical Activity Protects the Brain—Cell by Cell—in Alzheimer's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis
 
6:30–7:15 PM Closing Keynote Address Macdonald AB
  * Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Session Chair
 
  Dennis J. Selkoe, Harvard Medical School
A Century of Alzheimer’s Research – Did We Finally Reach Our Goal?
 
7:15–7:30 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions Macdonald AB
  * Julia TCW, Boston University
Session Chair
 
7:30–8:15 PM Social Hour with Dinner Frontenac Ballroom
8:00–9:00 PM Entertainment Frontenac Ballroom
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Frontenac Ballroom
Friday, June 26, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure