MBI Insights: Accelerator Data Blitz

This data blitz features MBI Accelerator Award recipients using data-driven visuals and concise narratives to highlight the questions, discoveries, and ideas driving their work.

Enjoy food, beverages, and an opportunity to network with fellow attendees and presenters.

Agenda

Welcome: Jennifer Bizon

Introduction to Program & Moderation: Joe Abisambra

Group 1: Brain Injury & Repair (Co-Mod: Erica Dale)

1. Asken: Tau and repetitive head impacts
2. Candelario-Jalil: Stroke metabolism (PFKFB3)
3. Martinez: Astrocytes & glial scar formation
4. Hayes: Upper airway, swallow, breathing simulations
5. Criado-Marrero: Cellular & network vulnerabilities in aging/TBI
6. Hong: High-plex RNA imaging

*Followed by brief Q&A

Group 2: Brain Function & Behavior (Co-Mod: Sara Jo Nixon)

1. Babajani-Feremi: Decoding thought into speech
2. Setlow: Dopamine signaling & risky decision making
3. Elton: Methylphenidate & attention/alcohol cues
4. Keil: EEG and hippocampal inference
5. Bodison: Vestibular processing in children with SNHL
6. Ebner: Sensory flicker stimulation in aging/AD

*Followed by brief Q&A

Group 3: Disease Mechanisms & Therapeutics (Co-Mod Laura Ranum)

1. Bird: Tunneling nanotubes in tauopathy
2. Nguyen: Immunotherapy targeting glycine-arginine
3. Ricon-Limas: Drosophila synuclein platform
4. Sarkisian: Immune-targeting of glioma
5. Li: Restless Legs Syndrome models
6. M. Khanna: In silico mRNA targeting

*Followed by brief Q&A

Closing: Joe Abisambra