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<i>August 7, 2025</i></div>
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Please join us for the<span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; text-align: center;"><font color="#2c1376"><b> </b></font></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; text-align: center;"><font color="#831100"><i><b>Third Annual Interdisciplinary Tutorials
Workshop on </b></i></font></span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; text-align: center;"><font color="#831100" style="font-style: italic;"><b>Aging & Brain Health </b></font></span><span style="text-align: center;"><font color="#1a0a53"><font face="HelveticaNeue">taking
place January 6-8, 2026,</font></font></span> at the Stonebridge Inn, located at the base of the Snowmass Mountain ski resort in Aspen, Colorado. All tutorial presentations take place from 4-7pm, allowing attendees to take full advantage of this Rocky Mountain
location during the d<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ay. All are welcome; past attendees have included scientists, doctors, biomedical and pharmaceutical industry representatives, government and private funders of research, students at
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">NOTE: There are very few hotel rooms left: less than 10 </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">rooms are still available in our heavily discounted rooming block at the Stonebridge Inn</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">If
you wish to join us, you should grab one of these remaining hotel rooms ASAP. See details below. In addition, </span><u style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">registration is limited to the first 50 people who register</u><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"> (including
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<b><font face="HelveticaNeue">Overview of Format and Goals</font></b><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">: </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Offering 20 concise 15-minute TED-style tutorials designed to be broadly accessible
<font color="#b51a00">(</font></span><font style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font style="font-weight: bold;" color="#b51a00">no jargon, no acronyms, no presumption of audience having any expertise in the speaker’s field)</font>,<font color="#7c2a00"> </font></font><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"> w</span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">e
seek to (1) pull attendees out of their academic and scientific silos, helping them understand methods and findings from related fields, (2) seed the potential for future cross-disciplinary collaborations, (3) facilitate the transition from basic research
to clinical interventions that promote healthy aging, (4) for students early in their career, promote a broader interdisciplinary vision of future progress in these fields, and (5) expand wider public awareness and understanding of current advances in research
on healthy aging and the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><b>Non-Scientists Welcome!</b> A</span><font face="HelveticaNeue">bout 20% of the attendees to this meeting are expected to be non-scientist members of the general
public (many from the Aspen area) who have a personal interest in learning about the latest advances in the science of healthy aging and the fight to cure Alzheimer’s disease. Some of these people are also financial supporters of our student travel fellowships,
helping us expand access to the meeting. <b><font color="#b51a00">We are grateful for their participation and support.</font></b></font></span></div>
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<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">SMALL VENUE AND HOTEL WILL FILL UP SOON. <i>Early booking is strongly advised.</i></span></strong><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif" size="4"> </font><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">A
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was </font><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif">reserved</font><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif" size="4"> and only 10 are left</font></span><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif" size="4">. Once those are booked, other attendees will need to find alternative local
accommodations. Book hotel rooms at the Stonebridge Inn by calling 1-844-330-1859, </font><u style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">during regular business hours</u><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif" size="4"> (Mountain Time) and ask
for the “</font><b style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rutgers 2026</b><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif" size="4">” group rate. We expect most people will arrive on Monday, January 5th, and depart on Friday, January 9th, staying four
nights, allowing them three full days of skiing, snowboarding, or other mountain recreation and diversion. The cost for the Deluxe Hotel rooms when staying 4 nights or longer—with our special negotiated conference rates—will be $354/night plus taxes and resort
fees (for total cost per night of $416.43 for a stay of 4 nights or longer). This room rate includes breakfast, allowing conference attendees to dine together each morning in the lobby restaurant. Those wishing to arrive a day earlier (Sunday, January 4th)
and/or depart a day later (Saturday, January 10th), may do so if there are rooms available. Booking early will give you maximal flexibility and options. For those who wish to stay only three nights (i.e., arriving on Tuesday, January 7th and departing on Friday,
January 10th), the base room rate is higher, at $404/night (which comes to $476.21/night with the taxes and fees).</font><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">This
room rate also includes breakfast.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><font face="HelveticaNeue, serif" size="4"> There is a three night minimum stay required. We expect the room
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has not been booked by November 21, 2025, these rooms will be released and no longer available at the conference rate. More information on our hotel venue is at: </font></span>https://www.stonebridgeinn.com/</p>
<p><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><font color="#0433ff"><b>See also below for (1) program information, (2) other information, (3) how to make a tax-deductible donation to support student attendees, (4) procedure and guidelines for applying for a
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Jennifer Schrack (Epidemiology & Medicine, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD). “<b>Quantitative measures of changes in body movement with aging</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Kevin Heffernan (Movement Science, Columbia Teachers College, NY), “<b>Vascular aging and brain health</b>”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Susy Stark (Occupational Therapy, Washington Univ. St. Louis, MI), “<b>Aging safely at home”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Rebecca Cunningham (Pharmacy, U. Of North Texas, TX), “<b>Sex differences in aging and brain health</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Reem Waziry (Medicine, Columbia Univ., NY), “<b>DNA methylation and biological stress in aging</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Nick Frost (Neurology, Univ of Utah, UT). “<b>How amyloid accumulation disrupts cellular and network activity</b>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Andrew Budson (Neurology, Boston University, MA). “<b>Dementia as a disorder of consciousness</b>” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Sara Burke (Neuroscience, Univ. of Florida, FL), “<b>Animal models of metabolic function in Alzheimer’s disease”</b></span></div>
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other attendees with something akin to a brief undergraduate-level pedagogical review of the literature, findings, and methods in a topic of broad interest. While some speakers may use examples from their own research, we ask that they limit any discussion
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be two dinners, an optional dinner outing the first night to a restaurant in town (January 6th) and a more elaborate final banquet the last night (January 8th) for everyone in the hotel restaurant. We will be back at the Stonebridge Inn (<a href="https://www.stonebridgeinn.com/" originalsrc="https://www.stonebridgeinn.com/">https://www.stonebridgeinn.com/</a>),
located ski-in/ski-out at the base of Snowmass Mountain, just outside the town of Aspen, Colorado. Breakfast is included in the room rate so we expect most people will have breakfast together for additional unstructured discussion time. For the non-skiers,
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along with room and facility charges. Registration will close once we have reached the room fire-code limit of 50 people. </font><b><font color="#831100"><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All attendees, including speakers,
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<b>Fully tax-deductible donations to support the Aspen 2026 conference (at $2,500/student)</b> can be processed through the following web site which has information on multiple different methods for making the donation. All donations are processed through
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related to healthy aging or Alzheimer’s disease, or (b) <b>undergraduates and post-baccalaureate research assistants</b> who are planning to
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