The Oskar Fischer Lecture Series: Transposable Element Activation in Neurodegenerative Tauopathy: From Bench to Bedside

Join us to the Next lecture of the Oskar Fisher series on Transposable Element Activation in Neurodegenerative Tauopathy.

LOCATION: James J. & Miriam B. Mulva Auditorium (EER 0.904) & Virtual
ADDRESS: 2501 Speedway, Austin, Texas 78712 | VIEW MAP »
DATE: Monday, April 25, 2022 TIME: 3–5 p.m.
CONTACT: Bridgette Roberts

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The Oskar Fischer Lecture Series features invited scholars working at the vanguard of new ideas on the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of dementing illnesses.

The seventh lecture of the series will feature neuroscientist and UT Austin alumna Bess Frost, Ph.D. Dr. Frost is the Bartell Zachry Distinguished Professor for Research in Neurodegenerative Disorders at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disorders, and the Department of Cell Systems and Anatomyat the University of Texas Health San Antonio. She obtained her B.S. in biochemistry and molecular biology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and earned her Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Marc Diamond.

As a graduate student, Dr. Frost pioneered work that ignited a now prominent area of research, which is that tau adopts prion-like characteristics that help explain its pathological spread through the brain and the diverse disease phenotypes of the human tauopathies. She performed her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Dr. Mel Feany, where she developed a multi-system approach to studying tauopathy, interweaving studies in Drosophila, mouse and postmortem human brain tissue.

Dr. Frost’s current research focuses on the basic neurobiology connecting toxic forms of tau to neuronal death and dysfunction. Her contributions to neurodegenerative disease research have recently earned her an O’Donnell Award in Medicine from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas as well as a Standout Achievement Award from CurePSP.

Upon request, Dell Medical School will provide interpretation services at this event. Please notify Bridgette Roberts by April 15, 2022, if interpretation is needed.