CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2007
San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
03 – 07 November 2007
San Diego: Newt Gingrich Calls on Neuroscientists to Advocate for Funding
The Alzforum coverage of the 37th annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience kicks off with a story about...
San Diego: Society for Neuroscience Conference in Broad Strokes
To a bird’s eyes, the San Diego convention center for the past 5 days would have looked like a mile-long human beehive...
San Diego: Getting a Grip on Glia, Part 1
A mini-symposium at this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience devoted attention to the role of glia in brain injury and disease...
San Diego: Getting a Grip on Glia, Part 2
Cell-based therapies have the potential for treating a variety of diseases...
San Diego: Oligomers Live Up to Bad Reputation, Part 1
Over the past decade, researchers have shifted away from a literal interpretation of Alois Alzheimer’s groundbreaking discovery...
San Diego: What Goes Around Comes Around—Cell Cycle in Postmitotic Neurons
Could the failure of cell cycle regulation be an underlying cause of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer disease?...
San Diego: Oligomers Live Up to Bad Reputation, Part 2
Of all other presentations on Aβ oligomers, a talk by Takami Tomiyama created the greatest stir in the audience...
San Diego: Oligomers Live Up to Bad Reputation, Part 3
A major point of confusion in this field has been that different research groups are working with different kinds of Aβ oligomer...
San Diego: “Calcinists” See Years of Compensation Prior to Alzheimer’s
If our summary on Aβ oligomers from the recent conference of the Society for Neuroscience delivered an overdose of news on synaptotoxic Aβ, take this story as an antidote...
San Diego: MHC Class I and Complement—Holding Down Second Jobs in the Synapse
It may be a surprising idea, but it is becoming clearer that complement factors and MHC Class I proteins are regulators...
San Diego: Microglia Enter Enrichment Stage, Human Brain Imaging of Neurogenesis
Sangram Sisodia’s group presented new data that exemplify how the expanding field of environmental enrichment and adult neurogenesis has inspired AD research...
San Diego: Klotho Spins Threads Linking Aging and AD Research
In Greek mythology, Klotho is a goddess of fate. She spins the thread of life...
San Diego: Exploring the Function of APP, Part 1
Despite a 20-year courtship, researchers have gotten to know rather little about amyloid-β precursor protein (APP)...
San Diego: Exploring the Role of APP in Transit
At this year’s Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, a special ancillary symposium explored the normal and pathological roles of APP...
San Diego: Merck Reports BACE Inhibition in Primates
The 37th annual conference of the Society for Neuroscience offered morsels of news on β-secretase-1 (BACE1)...
San Diego: α-Synuclein Protofibrils Create Sense of Déjà Vu in PD, DLB
In some ways, Alzheimer disease research is about a decade ahead of research on Parkinson’s...