Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lectures | 2011-2025

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2025 Series Lecturers
  • Annalise Rahman-Filipiak, PhD, "Return of Individual Neuropsychological & Biomarker Results Across the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers Network: Survey of Current Practices" International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 12-14, 2025.
  • Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH, "The Role of Basal Ganglia in Complex Walking: Implications for Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases" Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Panama City, Panama, April 28-May 2, 2025.
  • Monika Bambouskova, PhD, "The role of isoprenoids metabolites in immune homeostasis" Mechanisms of Metabolic Signaling, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 13 – 17, 2025.
  • Constanza Cortes, PhD, "Exercise-activated, Sex Dimorphic Transcriptional Remodeling of the Hippocampus in a model of Alzheimer’s Disease" Neurotrophic Mechanisms in Health and Disease, Newport, RI, June 1-6, 2025.
  • Jiping Yang, PhD, "Linking Rare Non-Coding Variants Associated with Human Longevity to Cellular Senescence via Integrative Functional Genomic Approaches" International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2025), Columbus, OH, August 3-5, 2025.
2024 Series Lecturers
  • Dudley Lamming, PhD, "Reduced Intake of Specific Amino Acids Can Promote Healthy Aging" Human Dietary Protein Needs and Benefits: A Critical Assessment of Postulated Propositions, Rosemont, Illinois, February 25-26, 2025.
2023 Series Lecturers
  • Grace E. Stutzmann, PhD, "A tragic triad of organelle dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: Calcium culpability." Cellular and Organellar Calcium Signaling Conference, Haifa, Israel, May 14-19, 2023.
  • Sara C. Zapico, PhD, "Development of the first epigenetic clock in tooth tissues: a better understanding of tooth aging." American Society of Human Genetics Meeting, Washington, DC, November 1-5, 2023.
2022 Series Lecturers
  • Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, PhD, "Age-related response to ocular hypertension." The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2022 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 1-4, 2022.
  • Cintia de Paiva, MD, PhD, "Effects of Age and Genetic
    Diversity Background on Ectopic Lymphoid    ." The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2022 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 1-4, 2022.
  • Jonathan Lin, MD, PhD, "Mutations in the Unfolded Protein Response Regulator Atf6 Cause Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Impairment of the Organ of Corti." Molecular Biology of Hearing and Deafness Conference, Iowa City, IA, May 24-27, 2022.
  • David Gate, PhD, 2022 Keystone Symposia on Neuro‐Immune Interactions in the Central Nervous System / Neurodegeneration: The Biological Pathways Driving the Future of Therapeutic Development, Keystone, CO, June 5-10, 2022.
2020 Series Lecturers
  • The Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR). Optimal Longevity: Mechanisms, health disparities, and increasing healthspan: 2020 ABMR Annual Meeting. Scotts Valley, CA. June 25-28, 2020.
2019 Series Lecturers
  • Miles Berger, MD, PhD, "Pathophysiology of Delirium and Anesthetic Considerations and Optimizing Perioperative Care of the Cognitively Impaired Patient." American Society of Anesthesiology 2019 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, October 19-23, 2019.
  • Leanne Groban, MD, "Cardiac Aging: Doomed or Escapable?" American Physiological Society’s section on Exercise and Environmental Physiology at the Experimental Biology Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 4-7, 2020.
  • Meredith Hawkins, MD, "Central Regulation of Glucose Metabolism in Humans: Expanding the Frontiers." American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR) Eastern Regional Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 30, 2019.
  • Jason Hinman, MD, PhD, "Absence of SARM1 Promotes Axonal and Neuronal Survival after Stroke." 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, St Louis, MO, October 13-15, 2019.
  • Hillary Lum, MD, PhD, "Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementation of an Advance Care Planning Group Visit." 2019 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Washington, DC, June 2-4, 2019.
  • Robert G Morrison, PhD, "Functional differences in a cognitive control network in older adults with exceptional memory." Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, March 23-26, 2019.
  • Edward P Weiss, PhD, "Calorie Restriction and Aging." Joint Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, World Congress on Exercise is Medicine, and the World Congress on the Basic Science of Exercise, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep, Orlando, FL, May 28 - June 1, 2019.
2018 Series Lecturers
  • American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Osteoporosis and Soft Tissue Disorders: National Institute on Aging (NIA) U13 "Bench-to-Bedside" conference series, Bethesda, MD. March 11-12, 2019.
  • Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD, "Disrupted Monocyte Cholesterol Efflux is Sufficient for Developing Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration Lesions in Mice." Retina Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 12-15, 2018.
  • Nathan Brummel, MD, "Critical Illness Brain Injury: Pathways from Delirium to Dementia." American Thoracic Society 2018 International Conference, San Diego, CA, May 18-23, 2018.
  • Jennifer Garrison, PhD, "Cellular and circuit mechanisms of neuropeptide signaling." Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2018, San Diego, CA, November 3–7, 2018.
  • Kristin Gribble, PhD, "Maternal age effects on offspring aging and response to caloric restriction." Evolutionary Demography Society Sixth Annual Meeting, Coral Gables, FL, January 10-12, 2019.
2017 Series Lecturers
  • Domenico Pratico, MD, “Novel Functional Role that caspase-3 plays in Modulating Tau Phosphorylation and Neurodegeneration.” The 13th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, Vienna, Austria, March 29 – April 2, 2017.
  • Jonathan Lin, MD, PhD, “ER Stress in Age-Related Retinal Degeneration.” Annual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 7 – 11, 2017.
  • May J. Reed, MD, “Accumulation and Synthesis of Hyaluronan During Normal Murine Brain Aging.” The International Conference on Advances in Basic, Applied and Clinical Science of Hyaluronan, Cleveland, OH, June 11 – 15, 2017.
  • Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA, “Frailty & Sarcopenia in Cirrhotic Patients.” The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Washington, DC, October 20 – 24, 2017.
2016 Series Lecturers
  • Daniel Goldstein, MD, “Immunobiology of Aging in Lung Transplantation.” The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 36th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Washington, DC, April 27 – 30, 2016.
  • Audrey Gordon, Esq, 2016 Progeria Research Foundation International ScientificWorkshop, “Across the Table; Around the Globe.” Cambridge, MA, May 2 – 4, 2016.
  • Sean X. Leng, MD, PhD, “The Interplay between Chronic Viral Infection and Immunosenescence.” American Association of Immunologists 2016 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 13 – 17, 2016.
  • XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, “Filial Piety and Suicidal Ideation in Chicago Chinese OlderAdults.” 8th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2016, Melbourne, Australia, June 22 – 25, 2016.
2015 Series Lecturers
  • Daniel Promislow, PhD, “The Domestic Dog as a Model System for Aging Research.” 2nd Annual Canine Longevity Consortium, Bethesda, MD, March 25 – 27, 2015.
  • F. Brad Johnson, MD, PhD, “Evidence that G-quadruplex levels increase during Sphase in human cells, and are elevated throughout the cell cycle in Werner and Bloom syndrome cells.” 5th International Meeting on Quadruplex Nucleic Acids, Bordeaux,France, May 26-28, 2015.
  • Ming Ming Zhou, PhD and David Sinclair, PhD, FASEB Summer Conference on Histone Deacetylases and Sirtuins in Biology, Disease and Aging. Maritim Seehotel, Timmendorfer Strand, GERMANY, August 16 – 21, 2015
  • Christiane Reitz, MD, PhD, “Association of genetic variation in the REST gene with memory performance in cognitively healthy elderly.” 2015 Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics , Baltimore, MD, October 6 – 10, 2015.
2014 Series Lecturers
  • Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, “The Effect of Age on Innervation of the Skin.” 2014 Annual meeting of The American Neurological Association, Baltimore, MD, October 12-14, 2014.
  • John Feather, PhD/Grantmakers in Aging, Speakers travel – 2014 Annual Grantmakers in Aging Conference, San Francisco, CA, October 22 – 24, 2014
  • Butler-Williams Scholars Program, 5 scholars for 2014 Butler-Williams Scholars Program, Bethesda, MD, August 4 – 8, 2014.
  • Israel Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, Speakers travel - Israel Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 19 – 21, 2014.
2013 Series Lecturers
  • Liana Apostolova, MD, MSc, “Molecular Neuroimaging in Dementia Research: Current Status”. 2013 American Heart Association International Stroke Conference, Honolulu, HI, February 6-8, 2013.
  • Domenico Pratico, MD, “The Role of 5Lipoxyegnase in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Impairments”. 2013 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, Boston, MA, July 13-16, 2013.
  • Dr. Vilhelm Bohr, Speaker Travel - 2013 Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, Cancun, Mexico, April 20 – 24, 2013.
  • Rebecca C. Thurston, PhD, "Menopause, Aging & Menopausal Symptoms.” 2013 Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research meeting, Monterey, CA, June 26-29,2013.
  • Lynn McNicoll, MD, 2013 European Union Geriatric Medicine Society Meeting , Venice, Italy, October 2 – 6, 2013.
  • Peter J. Hornsby, PhD, 2013 San Antonio Nathan Shock Center Conference on Aging, Bandera, TX, October 17-20, 2013.
2012 Series Lecturers
  • Nir Barzilai, MD, “Genetic Epigenetic, Inflammatory and Metabolic Origins of Aging.” Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Aging, Ventura, CA, February 12– 17, 2012.
  • Grace E. Stutzmann, PhD, “Early Disruptions in Neuronal Calcium Signaling Alter Synaptic Homeostasis in Alzheimer’s Disease.” 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Neurochemistry, Baltimore, MD, March 4 – 7, 2012.
2011 Series Lecturers
  • Ayotunde S. Adeagbo, PhD, Topic: "Innovations in Biomedical Sciences Education in Nigeria: Prospects & Challenges.” The 11th Annual Scientific Conference & General Meeting of the Nigerian Society of Experimental Biology. Lagos, Nigeria, March 28 – 31,2011.
  • Reisa Sperling, MD, “Cognitive Aging: From Bench to Bedside.” The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. Honolulu, Hawaii, April 9 – 16, 2011.
  • Grace E. Stutzmann, PhD, "Mechanisms of Synaptic Dysfunction in Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease.” The 5th Meeting on Synapses: From Molecules to Circuits & Behavior. Cold Spring Harbor, NY, April 12-16, 2011.
  • Alison A. Moore, MD, MPH, “Older Adults and At-Risk Alcohol Use: New Research on Prevalence, Predictors and Interventions for Research Society on Alcoholism.” Research Society on Alcoholism 34th Annual Scientific Meeting 2011. Atlanta, GA, June 25-29, 2011.
  • Antonio Barrientos, PhD, FASEB Meeting on Mitochondrial Assembly in Health,Disease and Aging. Steamboat Springs, CO, July 17-22, 2011. The award will be used to give fellowships to young students and postdocs and, if any funds remain, to cover someexpenses of the invited speakers.
  • Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, "Peripheral Neuropathy – Discovery of Smallfiber Polyneuropathy that Causes Chronic Pain.” The 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association. San Diego, CA, September 25 – 28, 2011.
  • Holly Van Remmen, PhD, 2011 Nathan Shock Center Conference on “Inflammation in Aging and Aging-Related Disease”. Banderas, TX, October 13-16, 2011. The award will be used to offset travel, lodging and conference related expenses for conference speakers.
1997-2010 Eweson Lectures can be found here.