Easton-BRI Dementia Colloquium
February 26, 2026
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Part A
Uncovering Roles for the Gut Microbiome in AD Mouse Models
Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD
Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology and Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics; and Director, UCLA Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center, UCLA College of Letters & Science and
David Geffen School of Medicine – and –
The Gut-Brain Connection in Early Brain Aging
Gabriel A. Vignolle, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Medicine – Digestive Diseases (A. Church’s Lab)
Part B
The Neuronal Circuit Basis of Long-Term Memory Across the Lifespan
Laura DeNardo, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Neurobiology – and –
Constructing Distributed Cortical Memory Networks for Long-Term
Memory Storage
Zachary Zeidler, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology (L. DeNardo’s Lab),
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Contact – Nancy Osuch – nosuch@mednet.ucla.edu
132 NRB