The 3P platform was created during COVID lockdown as a way of allowing early career scientists the opportunity to present and discuss their research online to the scientific community, helping further their professional development.

Following lockdown, this series has now ended; however, all presentations are still available to rewatch.

The Parkinson Postdoc Program seminar series – 3P

If you are interested in learning more about what this initiative was, we encourage you to read the 3P blog by Liza Bergkvist Ph.D and Michaela Johnson Ph.D at the Van Andel Institute for more insights and commentary!

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24 June 2021

Karissa Barthelson, PhD student at The University of Adelaide, presents “Alzheimer’s disease using zebrafish knock-in genetic models” and Ji Hyun Julia Yang, Postdoctoral Research Officer at The University of Queensland, discusses “Changes in the cerebellar activity during task based and resting state fMRI in Parkinson’s disease patients with mild cognitive impairment.”

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29 April 2021 – Rebekah Evans

Rebekah Evans, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center, presents on “Vulnerable vs resilient SNc dopamine neurons”.

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26 October 2020 – Dr Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey, Postdoc Fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discussing “Integrating genetic and transcriptomic data from ALS patients across multiple brain tissues”.

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18 September 2020 – Dr Mary Herrick, Emmanuel Quansah, & Ruwani Wijeyekoon

Mary Herrick, from the LaVoie lab at the University of Florida, Emmanuel Quansah, from the Brundin lab at Van Andel Institute and Ruwani Wijeyekoon from the Barker/Williams-Gray lab at the University of Cambridge discuss the topic of ‘Where and how does Parkinson’s start?’ focusing on peripheral inflammation and the gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s.

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27 August 2020 – Roshni Patel, Michelle Tosi & Gian Pal

Roshni Patel, Michelle Tosi and Gian Pal discuss clinical rating scale development and the topic of Parkinson’s and deep brain stimulation (DBS): cognitive effects in GBA mutation carriers. 

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25 August 2020 – Ben Stecher & Hugh Johnson

Ben Stecher and Hugh Johnson discuss their ideals for a neuromodulation clinic focused on physical activities that benefit people with Parkinson’s. The session is built around discussions of physical activities and exercises that have personally helped both of them with their motor function.

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25 June 2020 – Dr Willemieke Kouwenhoven & Benoît Delignat-Lavaud

Willemieke Kouwenhoven, postdoc at the University of Montreal, presents “Vglut2 expression in dopamine neurons contributes to post-lesional striatal reinnervation.” Benoît Delignat-Lavaud, PhD candidate at the University of Montreal, discusses “Mechanisms of somatodendric dopamine release and its contributions to post-lesional plasticity in a Parkinson’s model”.

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23 June 2020 – Dr Malú Tansey and Dr Anita Corbett

Malú G. Tansey, Professor at the University of Florida, and Anita Corbett, Professor at Emory University, present on “Crucial Conversations and Self-Awareness – Overcoming Impostor Syndrome and Stereotype Threat in Academia.”

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28 May 2020 – Dr Miguel Aguileta & Dr Thomas Karikari

Miguel Aguileta, Postdoc at Van Andel Institute, presents “Huntingtin (HTT) aggregates trigger an immune response” and Thomas Karikari, Assistant professor at University of Gothenburg, discusses “Blood phosphorylated-tau as Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic markers”.

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21 May 2020 – Dr Michaela Johnson & Aishwarya Kulkarni

Michaela Johnson, Postdoc at Van Andel Institute, presents on “Deficits in olfactory sensitivity in a mouse model of Parkinson’s” and Aishwarya Kulkarni, PhD student at University of Florida, discusses “α-Synuclein perturbs in vivo neural activity following seeding in the olfactory bulb”.

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14 May 2020 – Raphaella So & Beverly K Wilson

Raphaella So, PhD student at University of Toronto, presents on “Studying alpha-synuclein diseases in the context of conformational strains” and MSA patient advocate Beverly K. Wilson, discusses “Extraordinarily Healthy! . . . except for MSA”.

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7 May 2020 – Dr Malú Tansey, Dr Laura Volpicelli-Daley, & Dr Michael Henderson

In this career advice themed 3P session as we are joined by Dr Malú Tansey (Professor Department of Neuroscience and Centre director for Translation Research in Neurodegenerative Disease at University of Florida), Dr Laura Volpicelli-Daley (Assistant professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Dr Michael Henderson (Assistant professor at Van Andel Institute).

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