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 May 16, 2026 7 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 Macdonald EF
8:00–8:10 AM Welcome Remarks (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
8:10–9:30 AM Keynote Address (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  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
  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 Macdonald EF
11:30–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Macdonald EF
3:30–4:30 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
 
  Kate 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
  Yimin Zou, University of California, San Diego
Planar Cell Polarity Proteins in Synapse Degeneration
 
  Henne Holstege, Amsterdam UMC
Biomarker for Centenarians
 
  Matthias Brendel, LMU Munich
Molecular Imaging with PET for Translation towards Therapeutics
 
  Sam Gandy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Short Talk: Endogenously generated Alzheimer's Nonfibrillar Oligomeric Aβ: Association with Dysfunctional Presynaptic Cytoplasmic Organelles And Visualization In Vivo with a Novel PET Ligand
 
  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 Macdonald EF
7:05–8:00 PM Women in Science Networking Event Macdonald EF
  * 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
 
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Macdonald EF
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Macdonald EF
8:00–11:00 AM Disease Overarching Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases Macdonald AB
  Julia TCW, Boston University
Lipophagic Defect by APOE4 in AD Glia
 
  Justin Ichida, USC Keck School of Medicine
Using Patient Stem Cells to Identify Therapeutic Targets for Familial and Sporadic ALS
 
  Aaron D. Gitler, Stanford University School of Medicine
Single Cell Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration
 
  Michael D 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 Macdonald EF
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Macdonald EF
1:15–2:45 PM Health Equity Panel (Joint) sponsored by The Burroughs Wellcome Fund MacDonald CD
  Jennifer Manly, Columbia University
 
  Maria de Lourdes Gamez G Tansey, Indiana University
 
  Kate Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
 
  Dennis J. Selkoe, Harvard Medical School
 
  Jamaine Davis, Belmont University
 
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Macdonald AB
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Myeloid-Based Disease Mechanisms for Neurodegenerative Diseases Macdonald AB
  Donna M. Wilcock, Indiana University School of Medicine
Therapeutic Trem2 Activation Ameliorates Amyloid-beta Deposition and Improves Cognition in the 5XFAD Model of Amyloid Deposition
 
  Zhiqiang An, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Antibodies Targeting the LILRB2/TREM2 Axis in AD
 
  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
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner Macdonald EF
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Macdonald EF
Thursday, June 25, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Macdonald EF
8:00–11:00 AM Drug Delivery (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
  Fiona C. Elwood, Janssen R&D
Developing Drugs for CNS Disorders: Considerations for Therapies That Cross the BBB
 
  Kate Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
Human Genetics Identifies Novel Microglial Targeting Therapeutic Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease
 
  Sebastian Boland, Prevail Therapeutics, Eli Lilly
Talk Title to be Announced
 
  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 Macdonald EF
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight Macdonald AB
  Tae Wan Kim, DGIST
Next Generation of hPSC-Based Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
 
  Theodore J Zwang, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Tau Drives Cell Specific Functional Isolation of the Hippocampal Formation
 
  Shuo-Chien Ling, National University of Singapore
Horizontal Transfer of Excess Cholesterol from Motor Neurons Enhances Myelination and Preserves Motor Circuit Function
 
  Joshua Samuels, University of Virginia
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
Transcriptional Reprogramming Links PIKfyve Inhibition to Microglial Activation
 
  Thomas Marsh, Washington University in St. Louis
Discovery of Genes Robustly Associated with ADAD Through Integration of Three Human Model Systems
 
  Rebecca L Pinals, Stanford University
Engineering a 3D Human Blood-Brain Barrier-on-Chip to Model Inflammation-Driven Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00–6:30 PM Target-Based Therapeutics Macdonald AB
  Emma Mead, Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
USP11 Inhibitors and tau Proteostasis
 
  Haiyan Peng, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
The Application of RNAi Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
  Christiane D Wrann, Massachusetts General Hospital
How Physical Activity Protects the Brain—Cell by Cell—in Alzheimer's Disease
 
6:30–7:15 PM Closing Keynote Address Macdonald AB
  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
7:30–8:30 PM Social Hour with Dinner Macdonald EF
8:30–9:30 PM Entertainment MacDonald CD
8:30–9:30 PM Cash Bar Macdonald EF
Friday, June 26, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure