The Alzheimer's Association International Conference Neuroscience Next, a global, no-cost conference Feb. 24-27, 2025 that aims to support and showcase the next generation of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia researchers and clinicians, is presented in a hub format that connects global and local communities.
Indiana University School of Medicine and Stark Neurosciences Research Institute is a hybrid hub for the conference and will host the AAIC Neuroscience Next award ceremony on Feb. 27.
What: AAIC Neuroscience Next, hybrid hub
When: Feb. 27, 2025
Where: IU School of Medicine, IU Health Neuroscience Center, 355 W. 15th St., Indianapolis, IN 46220
The Hong lab, led by Soyon Hong, PhD, studies neuro-glia-immune interactions in the central nervous system (CNS) and the enteric nervous system (ENS). In particular, the lab is interested in how CNS- and ENS-resident macrophages (microglia and muscularis macrophages, respectively) and glia (astrocytes and ENS-glia, respectively) coordinate neuronal homeostasis, and how this neuro-glia-immune crosstalk breaks down in neurodegeneration. The lab is also studying how neuroimmune signaling across brain borders confer region-specific vulnerability of neurons in the CNS to loss and dysfunction. Hong received her PhD in Neuroscience in 2012 from Harvard, after studying with Dennis Selkoe on amyloid-induced synaptic degeneration. Her post-doctoral work with Beth Stevens at Boston Children’s Hospital led to the identification of microglia as cellular mediators of synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease models. Soyon started her independent lab in the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London in October 2018.
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