Virtual morning coffee meeting with the Center for Alzheimer Research
The Center for Alzheimer Research organize virtual morning coffee meetings on Wednesdays at 9 am with approximately 15 minutes presentations of an ongoing project from a researcher within the center. Welcome!
2025
Meetings spring 2025
January
January 22 at 09.00
Anna Giulia Guazzarini, University of Perugia
“Factors Associated with Clusters of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: Findings from the clinical-based GERICO Cohort”
January 29 at 09.00
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
TBD
February
February 5 at 09.00
Daniel Ferreira, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
Latest advances in Dementia with Lewy Bodies: highlights from the International Lewy Body Conference
February 12 at 09.00
Martina Valletta, Aging Research Center
"Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer´s disease"
February 19 at 09.00
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Nienke van Drunen, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
Title TBD
February 26
No morning coffe meeting - winter break
March
March 5 at 09.00
Chiara Ceolin, Aging Research Center
Title TBD
March 12 at 09.00
Dilsah Ezgi Yilmaz, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"The Effect of APPNLGF and APPNLF Mutations on Early Neurogenesis"
March 19 at 09.00
Sophia Wheatley, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
“Multimodal Alzheimer’s Disease Subtyping done two ways”
March 26 at 09.00
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
TBD
April
April 2
No morning coffee meeting
CAR will be attending the ADPD Conference.
April 9
No morning coffee meeting
CAR will be organizing the 3rd Swedish Meeting for Alzheimer Research on April 10, Campus Solna.
April 16
No morning coffee meeting - Easter break
April 23 at 09.00
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
TBD
May
May 7 at 09.00
Lisha Wang, Division of Neurogeriatrics
Title TBD
May 14 at 09.00
Alice Ornago, Aging Research Center
Title TBD
May 21, at 09.00
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
TBD
May 28
No morning coffee meeting - Ascension Day Holiday
June
June 11 at 09.00
Anja Mrhar, Aging Research Center
"Diet and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease"
June 18 at 09.00
Elena Pinardi, Aging Research Center
Title TBD
2024
Meetings fall 2024
September
September 11 at 10.00 am (note the time!)
Takaomi C. Saido, Laboratory Head at RIKEN Center for Brain Science
"Predicting the future in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research and presenting brand-new animal models"
September 18
Liesbeth Voorbraeck, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Vesicle-mediated Mitochondrial Transfer in Alzheimer’s Disease"
September 25
EU MIND (no morning coffee meeting)
October
October 2
No morning coffee meeting
Se instead: International forum (ARC Seminar Series) with Rebecca F. Gottesman
0ctober 10 at 3.00 pm (note the time!)
Hybrid seminar, Room: J3:11 Birger & Margareta Blombäck, Bioclinicum
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group:
Liisa Galea, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
"Game of Hormones: Why Sex Considerations Matter for Healthy Brain Aging"
October 16
No morning coffee meeting
CAR is hosting the Neurodegeneration Session of the Mayo - KI Annual Meeting
October 23 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group:
Mari Aksnes, University of Oslo
"Relationship between Alzheimer's, kynurenine pathway metabolites [in the CSF] and sex-differences"
October 30
Fall break, no morning coffee.
November
November 6 at 9.00 am
Subash Chandra Malik, Division of neurogeriatrics
"Resolving Amyloid beta in synaptic vesicles using multi color nanoscopy"
November 13 at 12.00 noon (note the time!)
In person, Biomedicum Solna
Joint seminar with StratNeuro lunch
Rik Ossenkoppele, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title TBD
November 20 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group:
Anna Marseglia, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Sex-related differences in the link of biological brain age and resilience with cerebrovascular disease and plasma metabolic biomarkers"
November 27 at 9.00 am
Bowen Tang, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, KI
“Comparative effectiveness of glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, and sulfonylureas on the risk of dementia in older individuals with type 2 diabetes in Sweden: an emulated trial study”
December
December 4 at 3.00 pm (note the time)
Robel K. Gebre, Mayo Clinic, USA
“Heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s disease through the lens of Artificial Intelligence”
December 11 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group:
Claudia Barth, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Norway
Title TBD
Meetings spring 2024:
January
January 10 at 9.00 am
Dorota Religa, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Highlights from important congresses in 2023"
January 17
No morning coffee this week
CAR will be supporting the Symposium “Challenges for implementation of new Alzheimer Disease treatments”
January 18 - 19, Nobel forum, Karolinska Institutet, Campus Solna.
January 24
Seminar connected to the Lewy Body day
Irene Frigerio/Laura Jonkman, UMC Amsterdam
"Synaptic degeneration, alpha-synuclein burden, and axonal damage in Lewy body diseases"
January 31 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Anna Brugulat, Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Spain
"Pregnancy and CSF biomarkers"
February
February 7 at 9.00 am
Giulia Grande, Division of Aging Research Center
“Blood biomarkers of Alzheimer´s disease and the incidence of all cause and Alzheimer´s dementia in the community.”
February 14 at 9.00 am
Giulia Lorenzon, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Distinct grey matter patterns and their determinants in a Swedish birth cohort of septuagenarians"
February 21 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Maria Teresa Ferretti, Division of Clinical Geriatrics
"Maximizing utility of neuropsychological measures in sex-specific predictive models of incident Alzheimer's disease"
February 27
No morning coffee this week.
Winter break
March
March 6
No morning coffee this week
CAR will be supporting the ADPD Conference in Lisbon, Portugal
March 13 at 9.00 am
Javier Oltra, Division of Aging Research Center
"Association of load and progression of microvascular lesions and neurodegeneration with olfactory decline"
March 20 at 9.00 am
Alexa Pichet Binette, Lund University
"Proteomics to better understand Alzheimer's disease pathology"
March 27 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Aphrodite Demetriou, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Developing an immunocompetent in vitro 3D brain model of Alzheimer’s disease to study the neuroprotective effects of estrogen"
April
April 3
No morning coffee this week
Easter break
April 10 at 9.00 am
Goran Papenberg, Division of Aging Research Center
"Neuroinflammation and cognition in normal aging"
April 17 at 9.00 am
Giusy Pizzirusso, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Dynamic microglia alterations associate with hippocampal network impairments: a turning point in amyloid pathology progression"
April 24 at 2.00 pm - please note the change of time!
Opponent lecture:
Kristen Zuloaga, Albany Medical College, USA
“Sex differences in vascular and metabolic contributions to dementia”
May
May 1
No morning coffee this week
Holiday
May 8 at 9.00 am
Jolien Perneel, VIB-U Antwerp, Belgium
"TMEM106B: friend or foe? From disease and risk modifier to amyloidogenic protein"
May 15 at 9.00 am
Sakura Sakakibara, Division of Aging Research Center (ARC)
"Formal and informal care use before, during, and after detection of cognitive impairment and dementia: a population-based longitudinal study"
May 22 at 9.00 am
Mozhu Ding, Institute of Environmental Medicine, KI
“Use of common cardiovascular disease drugs and risk of dementia: A case-control study in Swedish national register data”
May 29 at 9.00 am
Hosted by Sex and Gender differences in dementia work group
Jessica Gong, University College, London
"Sex difference in dementia: from traditional risk factors to exposomes"
June 5
No morning coffee - StratNeuro retreat
June 12
No morning coffee - 27th Nordic Congress of Gerontology
Opponent lecture: Anne Simonsen, Oslo University
Information and Zoom-link.
“Linking mitophagy to cellular bioenergetics and disease development”
June 19
Simone Tambaro, Division of Neurogeriatrics
"Unraveling the Therapeutic Potential of the presenilin-like peptidase SPPL2b in Alzheimer's Disease"
June 26
Summer vacation
Next morning coffee will be in August/September!