The Markesbery Symposium is named in honor and memory of the late William R. Markesbery, MD, founding Director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Dr. Markesbery's legacy of groundbreaking research has formed the bedrock for our quest to understand and treat Alzheimer's disease and to improve the quality of life of the older adults. In the sessions for both the scientific and community audience, you will have the opportunity to hear clinicians and researchers from the University of Kentucky and other institutions share current findings, trends, and latest updates on dementia and aging disorders, particularly as related to Alzheimer's disease.

• 9:50am - Welcome 
  • Linda Van Eldik, PhD
    • Director, Sanders-Brown center on Aging & Alzheimer's Research Center, University of Kentucky
• 10:00am - Keynote Speaker: Is MCI Still a Viable Construct in 2020?
  • Ronald Peterson, MD, PhD
    • Chief Science Officer, National Alzheimer's Association 
• 10:45am - Q&A with Dr. Peterson
• 11:00am - Poster Session (Rules and Instructions here)
• 12:55pm - Poster Awards
• 1:00pm - Keynote Speaker: Human Genetics Implicates Efferocytosis in Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alison Goate, D.Phil., 
    • Director, The Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease, Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Neurogenetics 
    • Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY
• 1:45pm - Q&A with Dr. Goate
• 1:55pm - Closing Remarks
  • Linda Van Eldik, PhD