T.I.G.R. meetings

Past meetings

March 20, 2025

Usha Mahawar, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow, Wattenberg lab, VCU Biochemistry)

"Understanding the importance of sphingolipid regulation in CNS myelination: mechanisms and implications in MS"

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February 21, 2025

Unsong Oh, MD 

"Remyelination in MS: update from the clinic"

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December 19, 2024

Stephanie Buxhoeveden, PhD, MSN, Chief Scientific Officer, Accelerated Cure Project for MS

"Empowering Discovery: How People-Powered Research Drives Advances in MS"

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November 21, 2024

Gregory Wu, MD PhD (Department of Neurology, Washington University in St. Louis) 

"Tabula cerebrospinalis": single cell RNA sequencing of the human cerebrospinal fluid

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September 19, 2024

Priyam Das, PhD (Department of Biostatics, VCU) 

Clustering sequence data (multiple sclerosis EHR) by mixture Markov modeling with covariates using multiple simplex constrained optimization routine (MSiCOR)

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May 16, 2024

Jing-Ping Lin, PhD , (Postdoctoral Fellow, Translational Neuroradiology Section, NINDS, NIH)

Lesion Development and Repair in the Marmoset EAE

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April 18, 2024

Unsong Oh, MD

Update on biomarkers for multiple sclerosis 

March 21, 2024

Stephanie Buxhoeveden, MSCN, MSN, FNP-BC (PhD candidate, Swift-Scanlon Lab)

Exploring Genetic and Epigenetic Drivers of Sex-Based Differences in Relapsing MS

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February 15, 2024

Alexandra Simpson, MD (Neuroimmunology Fellow, Johns Hopkins University SOM)

Multiple Sclerosis: Exploring symptoms, interventions, and real-world insights

January 18, 2024

Maria Garcia Bonilla, PhD (Department of Neurosurgery, VCU)

How extracellular vesicles drive post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus in human neonates via immune dysregulation of the choroid plexus-CSF ventricular system

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November 16, 2023

Theresa Swift-Scanlon, PhD

Biobehavioral Reserach Lab

October 19, 2023

Catherine Larochelle, MD PhD (Centre hospitalier de Universite de Montreal)

T cell-oligodendrocyte interactions in multiple sclerosis

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September 21, 2023

Unsong Oh, MD

A new animal model of AQP4 autoimmunity

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June 15, 2023

M. Imad Damaj, PhD and Paul Whiteaker, PhD (Pharmacology and Toxicology, VCU)

The role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in inflammation

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May 18, 2023

Babette Fuss, PhD

Update on research

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February 16, 2023

Unsong Oh, MD

Animal models of CNS inflammatory disorders

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January 19, 2023

Michael Olex

Update from the meeting of the International Progressive MS Alliance

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November 17, 2022

Kaveh Moradi, PhD (post-doctoral fellow, Dupree Lab)

Oligodendrocyte development

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October 20, 2022

Edwin van den Oord, PhD (Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine, VCU)

Genomwide DNA methylation as predictive biomarkers of psychiatric illnesses

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September 15, 2022

Brian Weinshenker, MD (Department of Neurology, UVA)

Pathophysiology of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

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July 18, 2022

James Nicholas Brenton, MD (Department of Neurology, UVA)

Pediatric CNS inflammatory demyelinating diseases

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June 16, 2022

Amy Olex, PhD 

Natural language processing

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May 19, 2022

members, T.I.G.R.

T.I.G.R. chat... upcoming research opportunities and VCU MS Tissue Bank/Data Registry

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April 21, 2022

Unsong Oh, MD

Update on Epstein Barr virus in multiple sclerosis

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February 17, 2022

Elizabeth Dustin, PhD (Dupree Lab)

Adult-onset depletion of sulfatides drives structural and functional CNS abnormalities

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December 16, 2021

Unsong Oh, MD

Review of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction in multiple sclerosis

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October 21, 2021

Sandeep Singh, PhD (Department of Biochemistry) and Unsong Oh, MD

Chitinase-3-like 1 (CH3L1) in CNS inflammatory disorders

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September 16, 2021

Jani Udaiyappan, PhD (post-doctoral fellow, Kirsty Dixon Lab)

Selective inhibition of soluble TNF using XPro1595 reverses DFP-induced hippocampal neuroinflammation and neurological deficits in a rat model of Gulf War Illness

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May 20, 2021

Laxmikant Deshpande, PhD (Department of Neurology)

Gulf War Illness: epigenetics and depression

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April 15, 2021

Unsong Oh, MD

The multiple sclerosis prodrome and stress as a risk factor for multiple sclerosis.

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March 18, 2021

Gretchen Neigh, PhD

Update on research

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February 18, 2021

Audrey Lafrenaye, PhD (Anatomy and Neurobiology)

The role of microglia in neurodegeneration of traumatic brain injury

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January 21, 2021

Unsong Oh, MD

Trans-synaptic neurodegeneration in CNS inflammatory disorders

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October 15, 2020

Stephanie Buxhoeveden, MSCN, MSN, FNP-BC (Swift-Scanlon Lab)

Exploring Genetic and Epigenetic Drivers of Sex-Based Differences in Relapsing MS

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September 17, 2020

Yanan Chen, PhD (Brian Popko Lab, University of Chicago)

Virtual journal club with the author: Sephin1, which prolongs the integrated stress response, is a promising therapeutic for multiple sclerosis

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July 10, 2020

members, T.I.G.R.

T.I.G.R. chat

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