CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Enabling Technologies for Alzheimer Disease Research: 2006 Bar Harbor Workshop
Bar Harbor, ME
01 – 10 November 2006
Alzheimer Disease, Aging, and the Immune System
This past August, Alzheimer disease researchers met with colleagues from other fields and with foundation and NIH representatives in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the sixth annual workshop on Enabling Technologies for Alzheimer Disease Research.
Synaptic Function in Aging and AD
To what extent is AD an acceleration of normal aging? This decades-old question receded in favor of the view that AD is a separate process from normal aging when studies showed that patterns of neuronal loss are different in aging and AD.
High-throughput Assays (Application of OMICS to AD)
Genomic/proteomic/metabolomics (OMICS) research in AD remains in its infancy. Most studies stall after discovering lists of hundreds of genes whose expression changes in the chosen comparison.
Recommendations for Future Research
Recommendations for future research from the Enabling Technologies for Alzheimer's Disease Research in Bar Harbor (2006).