[BIC-announce] FW: [NEURO] Special Seminar - May 1: The role of astrocytes in neurodegeneration (Serge Przedborski)

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Subject: [NEURO] Special Seminar - May 1: The role of astrocytes in neurodegeneration (Serge Przedborski)

SPECIAL SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT:

Wednesday, May 1 at 1:45 pm

de Grandpré Communications Centre, MNI

"The role of astrocytes in neurodegeneration"


Serge Przedborski
Page and William Black Professor of Neurology
Co-Director, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease
Departments of Neurology, Pathology, and Cell Biology
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

New York, NY

Dr. Serge Przedborski has pioneered the investigation of molecular mechanisms of neuronal death in the MPTP model of Parkinson's disease (PD) and in the mutant superoxide dismutase model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His research has demonstrated the importance of the cascade of deleterious events - oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis - in the demise of nigral dopaminergic neurons in PD and of spinal cord motor neurons in ALS.
http://przedborski-lab.hs.columbia.edu/

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