Easton-BRI Dementia Colloquium

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