Neurodegenerative Diseases (Z3)
June 3-6, 2024  | Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Leonard Petrucelli, Stacie Weninger and Soyon Hong
Scholarship Deadline: Feb. 29, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Feb. 29, 2024 | Early Registration Deadline: Apr. 4, 2024
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, June 3, 2024
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Lobby
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Sweeney F, Main Level Breakouts
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Sweeney Ballroom F
8:00–9:30 AM Welcome and Keynote Session (Joint) Sweeney Ballroom A-E
  Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University School of Medicine
Aging, the Immune System and Neurodegeneration
 
  Beth Stevens, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Connecting Human Microglia States to Function in Health and Disease
 
8:00–7:00 PM Poster Viewing Sweeney Ballroom F
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
9:50–11:15 AM Immune-CNS Interactions in Neurodegeneration (Joint) Sweeney Ballroom A-E
  Christopher K. Glass, University of California, San Diego
Transcriptional Regulation of Macrophage Development
 
  S. Pablo Sardi, Sanofi
Therapeutic Development for Neurodegenerative Disorders
 
  Anne Schaefer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, MPI Ageing
Epigenetic Regulation of Microglia
 
11:15–12:15 PM Lunch Sweeney F, Main Level Breakouts
11:45–2:30 PM Poster Session 1 Sweeney Ballroom F
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop 1: Immune-CNS Interactions in Neurodegeneration Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Lynn van Olst, Northwestern University
Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Aβ Clearance in Immunized Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
 
  Georg Werner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Single Cell Analysis Reveals a Neurodegeneration Specific Microglia Population Resistant to CSF1R Inhibition in a Mouse Model with FTLD-like Pathology
 
  Urs Langen, Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Beyond the Shuttle: Advances in Brain Delivery of Biologics for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
  Ravi Jagasia, Pharma Research and Early Development
Genome-Wide CRISPR-Cas9 Based Screening for Modifiers of Lysosomal GCase Activity Uncovers Candidate Risk Factors for Parkinson Disease
 
  Kyle J Travaglini, Allen Institute for Brain Science
An Integrated Multimodal Cell Atlas of Alzheimer's Disease
 
  Maylin Fu, Stanford University
Controlling Endogenous mRNA Localization in the Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems in vivo
 
  Philip L. De Jager, Columbia University Medical Center
Human Microglia Expressing High Levels of CD74 Expression are Associated with Activation and Cognitive Decline
 
  Ian Peikon, Cajal Neuroscience
Dire Straits: Loss of Translational Regulation of SNCA by Iron Unifies the Genetics of PD and LBD at the SNCA Locus
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Neuroimmune Interactions Relevant to NDD Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Kate Monroe, Denali Therapeutics
Leveraging Human Genetics for Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease
 
  Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
PGRN/ApoE
 
  David M. Holtzman, Washington University
Role of APOE in Modulating the Innate and Adaptive Immune Response in Neurodegeneration
 
  August Yue Huang, Boston Children's Hospital
Short Talk: Short Talk: Alzheimer’s Disease Microglia Exhibit Enriched Proliferation-related Clonal Somatic Mutations Associated with Inflammatory States
 
  John D. Fryer, Mayo Clinic
Short Talk: Short Talk: Anti-amyloid Immunotherapy Induces Sustained Microglial and Immune Alterations
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Sweeney F, Main Level Breakouts
8:00–11:00 AM Molecular Mechanisms in NDD Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Soyon Hong, University College London
Neuroimmune Signaling Across Gut-Brain Axis Modulates Brain Synucleinopathy
 
  Nicholas T. Seyfried, Emory University School of Medicine
Integrated Proteomics for Therapeutic Target and Biomarker Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease
 
  Leonard Petrucelli, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Tmem/PGRN
 
  Bakhos Tadros, Baylor College of Medicine
Short Talk: Short Talk: LMO7 Modulates Tau Levels by Regulating CHIP-BAG5 Interplay: Novel Insights into Tauopathy Mechanisms
 
  Alexi Nott, Imperial College London
Short Talk: Short Talk: Vascular–immune Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Age-related Brain Disorders
 
  Dalya Rosner, Alector
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Alzheimer’s Risk Genes MS4A4A and MS4A6A Cooperate to Regulate Key Microglial Functions 
 
  Roy R. Parker, HHMI/University of Colorado
Short Talk: Short Talk: Polyserine Domain RNA-binding Proteins as Cellular Factors Enhancing Tau Aggregation
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Sweeney Ballroom F
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Sweeney Ballroom F
2:30–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Sweeney Ballroom D-E
  Francesca Odoardi, University Medical Center Göttingen
Group Leader & Professor
 
  Suman Jayadev, University of Washington
Associate Professor, Director and Neurogeneticist
 
  Arya Biragyn, NIA, National Institutes of Health
Senior Investigator
 
  Sarah DeVos, Curie.Bio
Drug Maker in Residence
 
  Tim Spencer, Journal of Cell Biology
Executive Editor
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Susceptibility vs. Resilience: Understanding Region Vulnerability in NDD Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Cagla Eroglu, Duke University Medical Center
In vivo Proteomic Tools TurboID
 
  Henne Holstege, Amsterdam UMC
Cognitively Healthy Centenarians are Genetically Protected Against Alzheimer’s Disease
 
  James Gorman, Wyss Institute
Targeting Known and Novel Receptors to Deliver Drugs for Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
  Guoyan Zhao, Washington University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Transcriptomic Changes in Lewy Body Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Linked to Selective Regional and Neuronal Vulnerability
 
  Mohammad Abbasi, Arizona State University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Unveiling Microglial Heterogeneity in Spatial Context
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Sweeney F, Main Level Breakouts
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Sweeney Ballroom F
Thursday, June 6, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Sweeney F, Main Level Breakouts
8:00–11:00 AM Modelling Human NDD in a Dish Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Tarja Malm, University of Eastern Finland
Modeling Early Alzheimer’s Disease in Human Context
 
  Irene Faravelli, Harvard University
Chimeroids as Avatars to Investigate Brain Diseases
 
  Martin Kampmann, University of California, San Francisco
Elucidating Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases by CRISPR-Based Functional Genomics
 
  Nilesh Sharma, University of Calgary
Short Talk: Short Talk: Metabolic Perturbation in Ependymal Cells Leads to Progressive Peri-ventricular Pathology and Recapitulates Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
 
  Jean Paul Chadarevian, UC Irvine
Short Talk: Short Talk: Therapeutic Potential of Human Microglial Transplantation in a Chimeric Model of CSF1R-related Leukoencephalopathy
 
  Lulu Jiang, University of Virginia
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Innovative Neuron-Glial Brain Assembloid Model of Alzheimer’s Disease Reveals the Differential Role of ApoE Isoforms in Pathological Tau Propagation
 
  Mireia Gomez-Budia, University of Eastern Finland
Short Talk: Short Talk: Unravelling LTP-like Synaptic Plasticity in Human Cortical Biopsies on Microelectrode Arrays
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Sweeney Ballroom F
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Sweeney Ballroom F
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop 2: Steps Toward Precision Medicine for NDD Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Jordan Marks, Mayo Clinic
TMEM106B Risk SNP Alters Disease Duration and Fibril Deposition in FTLD-TDP
 
  Zhe Zhang, John Hopkins University
PTPσ-Mediated PI3P Regulation as a Therapeutic Strategy for C9ORF72-ALS/FTD
 
  Tina Schwabe, Nine Square Therapeutics
Developing Parkin Activators to Enhance Mitochondrial Function for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease
 
  Francesca Cignarella, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
Enabling a Precision Medicine Approach to Target and Biomarker Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease: Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Alzheimer’s Disease (AMP AD)
 
  Tong Wu, Washington University in St. Louis
Targeting SARM1 Inhibition Provides a Promising Therapeutic Strategy for DNA Damage-Induced Neurodegenerative Diseases, Including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
 
  Laura Koenig, Harvard Medical School
TYK2 Kinase as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer’s Disease
 
  Karthik A Raju, Denali Therapeutics
GPR34 Loss-of-function Rescues TREM2 Metabolic Dysfunction and Promotes Responsive Microglial States
 
  Jing Guo, NICO Therapeutics
Decreased Lipidated ApoE-receptor Interactions Confer Protection against Pathogenicity of ApoE and its Lipid Cargoes
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Designing Better: Steps Toward Precision Medicine for NDD Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Fiona C. Elwood, Janssen R&D
Precision Medicine in Neurodegeneration
 
  Jia Tay, Prime Medicine, Inc.
Prime Editing as a Curative Therapeutic Approach for Neurodegenerative Diseases
 
  Bruno Godinho, Atalanta Therapeutics
Addressing CNS Indications using a Novel Di-siRNA Modality for Improved Potency, Distribution, and Duration
 
  Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Johns Hopkins University
ALS and Neurodegeneration Starts at the Nuclear Pore: Insights and Therapy for ALS and Dementia
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Sweeney Ballroom A-B
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Sweeney F, Main Level Breakouts
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 3 Sweeney Ballroom F
Friday, June 7, 2024
7:00–11:59 PM Departure