The Adams lab gathers once or twice a week for an hour or so, during which we dissect primary research articles in a journal club format, students present their recent experimental data to the group, and/or team-based experimental plans are discussed.
Spring 2023 Lab Meetings – Fridays, 2:00pm-3:30pm
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 27-Jan | Team discussion | Welcome Back! |
| 3-Feb | Lauren | Project overview: Generating a PC12 cell model system to examine tau propagation |
| 10-Feb | Morgan | Journal Club: Ahmadi et al. (2019) Aggregation of Microtubule Binding Repeats of Tau Protein is Promoted by Cu2+. ACS Omega. 4: 5356-66. |
| 17-Feb | Jannah | Journal Club: Salazar et al. (2019) Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factor Pyk2 Mediates Amyloid-beta-Induced Synaptic Dysfunction and Loss. J. Neurosci. 39(4): 758-22. |
| 24-Feb | N/A | No meeting |
| 3-Mar | Richard | Journal Club: Stuchell-Brereton et al. (2023) Apolipoprotein E4 has extensive conformational heterogeneity in lipid-free and lipid-bound forms. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 120(7): e2215371120. |
| 10-Mar | N/A | No meeting – Spring Break |
| 17-Mar | Michaela | Journal Club: Prakash et al. (2022) Selective control of synaptically-connected circuit elements by all-optical synapses. Communications Biology. 5: 33. |
| 24-Mar | Morgan | Project talk: Generating recombinant tau-P301L to examine effects of cooper on aggregation |
| 31-Mar | Lauren | Journal Club: Zhou et al. (2022) Synaptogenic effect of APP-Swedish mutation infamilial Alzheimer’s disease. Science Translational Medicine. 14: eabn93. |
| 7-Apr | Jannah | Project talk: Using the split luciferase system to examine effects of apoE isoforms and mutants on amyloid-beta aggregation |
| 14-Apr | N/A | No meeting |
| 21-Apr | Michaela | Project talk: Effects of apoE isoforms on PC12 cell neuritogenesis |
| 28-Apr | N/A | No meeting – BSU’s Student Arts and Research Symposium (StARS) |
Fall 2022 Lab Meetings – Mondays, 2:00pm-3:00pm & Fridays, 2:00pm-3:15pm
| Date | Day | Presenter | Topic |
| 9-Sep | Fri | Team discussion | Welcome Back! |
| 12-Sep | Mon | Team discussion | Planning for the semester |
| 16-Sep | Fri | Michaela | Project/Data talk |
| 19-Sep | Mon | Team discussion | Planning for SfN 2022 Poster |
| 23-Sep | Fri | Richard | Practice talk for Summer ATP Symposium |
| 26-Sep | Mon | Team discussion | Planning for SfN 2022 Poster |
| 30-Sep | Fri | Summer ATP Symposium | 2:00-3:00pm – Richard’s oral presentation; 3:00pm-4:00pm – Jannah’s poster presentation; 5:00-5:45pm – Richard’s poster presentation |
| 3-Oct | Mon | Team discussion | Experimental planning |
| 7-Oct | Fri | Jannah | Islam et al. (2022) Presenilin Is Essential for ApoE Secretion, a Novel Role of Presenilin Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis. J. Neuroscience. 42(8): 1574. |
| 10-Oct | Mon | N/A | No meeting – Holiday |
| 14-Oct | Fri | Team discussion | Experimental planning |
| 17-Oct | Mon | Team discussion | Experimental planning |
| 21-Oct | Fri | Team discussion | Experimental planning |
| 24-Oct | Mon | Team discussion | Experimental planning |
| 28-Oct | Fri | Morgan | Yan et al. (2022) X-linked ubiquitin-specific peptidase 11 increases tauopathy vulnerability in women. Cell. 185: 3913. |
| 31-Oct | Mon | Team discussion | Experimental planning |
| 4-Nov | Fri | ||
| 7-Nov | Mon | Team discussion | Final planning for SfN |
| 11-Nov | Fri | ||
| 14-Nov | Mon | N/A | No meeting – SfN 2022, San Diego CA |
| 18-Nov | Fri | ||
| 21-Nov | Mon | Team | SfN Poster Review |
| 25-Nov | Fri | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 28-Nov | Mon | Morgan | Journal Club |
| 2-Dec | Fri | Brook | Journal Club |
| 5-Dec | Mon | Richard | Journal Club |
| 9-Dec | Fri | Lauren | Journal Club |
| 12-Dec | Mon | Morgan | Tau Project |
Kenneth W. Adams, Ph.D. 