Advanced Biomedical Imaging Seminar "Multimodal Imaging Biomarkers of Aging and Preclinical Disease"

Date

November 4, 201611/04/2016 11:00am 11/04/2016 11:00am Advanced Biomedical Imaging Seminar "Multimodal Imaging Biomarkers of Aging and Preclinical Disease"

WebEx Link: https://cind.webex.com/cind/j.php?MTID=mb602472a6818e5fe50364c22bdd6693b

Meeting Password: ABMI

Meeting Number: 809 996 760

Audio Connection: 1-800-767-1750

Audio Connection Code: 58498#

 

 

Host:

Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease (CIND)

Director, Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD

 936 America/Los_Angeles public

Type

Seminar

Time Duration

11:00am - 12:00pm

Location

SF VAMC CIND Conference Room I Building 13 I First Floor I 4150 Clement Street I SF

WebEx Link: https://cind.webex.com/cind/j.php?MTID=mb602472a6818e5fe50364c22bdd6693b

Meeting Password: ABMI

Meeting Number: 809 996 760

Audio Connection: 1-800-767-1750

Audio Connection Code: 58498#

 

 

Host:

Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease (CIND)

Director, Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD

Speakers

Samuel Lockhart, PhD
Posdoctoral Fellow
UC Berkeley

Samuel Lockhart, PhD currently works as a Kirchstein NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley in the lab of William Jagust, studying the aging human brain using cognitive neuroscience (jagustlab.neuro.berkeley.edu/).

My research project in the Jagust lab examines neuroimaging biomarkers of preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). It is known that preclinical progression along the AD pathological cascade may be inadvertently conflated with the normal aging process in many studies seeking to understand the causes of gradual cognitive decline late in life. Therefore, our goal is to investigate effects of tau and Aβ accumulation (measured using PET) on structural connectivity between these regions (measured using MRI and DTI), and the relative effects of these brain differences on memory performance.

I earned my PhD from UC Davis in 2014, working with Dr. Charles DeCarli to investigate the contributions of age and CVD-related white matter injury (white matter hyperintensities or WMH) to attentional control network function and cognitive performance (http://idealab.ucdavis.edu/).

Here is a link to my profile on Google Scholar, which keeps an updated tally of published manuscripts I’ve worked on over the years: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lbKAf4cAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao