The 2017 Nebraska Neuroscience Alliance Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Serge Przedborski, M.D., Ph.D., from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Durham Research Center Auditorium, Room 1002.
Dr. Przedborski is the Page and William Black Professor of Neurology, director of the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative and vice-chair for research in neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Przedborski is one of the most cited neuroscientists for his body of work on the molecular and cellular biology of Parkinson’s disease. His lecture, titled “Mitochondria and the Two-Century Journey of Parkinson’s disease,” highlights the strides made in research after James Parkinson described the disease complex in 1817.
The lecture celebrates this centennial milestone. It will focus on how alterations in glial and specifically mitochondrial dynamics provoke degeneration in specific neuronal subpopulations and lead to the devastating signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s.
The lecture is open to faculty, staff, students and community members.