Events / VIRTUAL Hope Center/Neurology Monday Noon Seminar

VIRTUAL Hope Center/Neurology Monday Noon Seminar

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Zoom conference

Lucia Capano
Graduate student
Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology

Miguel Minaya, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Karch lab, WashU Psychiatry

Lubov Ezerskiy
Graduate student
Miller lab, WashU Neurology

Title: “3R/4R Tau Data Blitz”

Lucia Capano: “Using age-maintained, directly-reprogrammed neurons to identify human-specific tau splicing regulators”
Miguel Minaya: “How does 4R-Tau expression affect human iPSC-Neuron maturity?”
Lubov Ezerskiy: “Increase in 4R tau expression promotes astrocytic dysfunction”


Mini-series: Alternative splicing/isoforms and neurological disease

Organizers, Timothy Miller and Nathan Pomper (WashU Neurology)

  • November 9: Darshan Sapkota (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
  • November 16: Adrian Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • November 23: Ya-Lin Lu (Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology), Bryan Copits (WashU Anesthesiology), Brittany Townley (Mosammaparast lab, WashU Pathology & Immunology)
  • November 30: Douglas Black (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • December 7: Lucia Capano (Yoo lab, WashU Developmental Biology), Miguel Minaya (Karch lab, WashU Psychiatry), Lubov Ezerskiy (Miller lab, WashU Neurology)

This Monday Noon seminar mini-series is co-hosted by the WashU Hope Center for Neurological Disorders and Department of Neurology.

Full list, Hope Center Monday Noon Seminars

For inquiries contact the Hope Center.