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  • Thursday, Mar 9th
    2:30 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Molecular Mechanisms 1
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    *Moderator: Joseph McCabe, PhD – Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Thursday, Mar 9th
    2:30 PM – 2:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    The influence of traumatic brain injury and aging on meningeal transcriptomic neuro-immune responses
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Bevan Main, PhD – Georgetown University
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Thursday, Mar 9th
    2:50 PM – 3:10 PM East Coast USA Time
    Alterations in glucose oxidative metabolism after traumatic brain injury in the developing brain
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Regina Fernandez, Post-Doctoral Fellow (she/her/hers) – Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Thursday, Mar 9th
    3:10 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Spatial transcriptomics reveals acute white matter pathology consistent with increased risk of chronic neurodegenerative outcomes with a single, focal cortical contusion injury in mice
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Martin Doughty, PhD (he/him/his) – Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    2:15 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Molecular Mechanisms
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    *Moderator: Junfang Wu, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    2:15 PM – 2:35 PM East Coast USA Time
    Loss of the voltage-gated proton channel Hv1 aggravates chronic brain injury-induced peripheral inflammation leading to worsened outcomes in male mice
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Zhuofan Lei, Post-Doctoral Fellow, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    2:35 PM – 2:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    Sexually dimorphic extracellular vesicle responses after chronic spinal cord injury are associated with neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the brain
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Yun Li, PhD – University of Maryland, School of Medicine
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    2:55 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Evaluation of Acute effect of Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury on Mitochondrial Redox Homeostasis
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Hiren R. Modi, PhD (he/him/his) – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    Co-Presenter: Sudeep Musyaju, MD – Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    3:30 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Molecular Mechanisms 3
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    *Moderator: Marta Lipinski, PhD – The University of Maryland School of Medicine
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    3:30 PM – 3:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Lysosomal accumulation of lipids leads to autophagy inhibition in microglia and macrophages and contributes to inflammation after traumatic brain injury
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Amir A. Mehrabani-Tabari, Graduate Student, MS (he/him/his) – University of Maryland Baltimore
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    3:50 PM – 4:10 PM East Coast USA Time
    Peroxisomal ether phospholipid synthesis is dysregulated in the brain after TBI
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Chinmoy Sarkar, PhD – University of Maryland SOM
    Molecular Mechanisms
  • Friday, Mar 10th
    4:10 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Pharmacologic TLR4 Inhibition Modulates Microglia M1/M2 and Astrocyte A1/A2 Polarization States Improving Cognitive Outcomes Post Traumatic Brain Injury
    Location: Orem Alumni Hall Section 1
    Presenter: Mahmoud El Baassiri, Post-Doctoral Fellow, BS, MD – Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Pediatric Surgery
    Molecular Mechanisms