Sanders-Brown researchers to share during Alzheimer’s Association International Conference

Several UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (UK SBCoA) researchers will present their work during the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in London from July 12-15.

AAIC is the largest international meeting dedicated to advancing dementia science and clinical practice. Each year, AAIC convenes researchers, clinicians and dementia professionals from all career stages to share breaking research discoveries and clinical practice education that will lead to improvements in diagnosis, risk reduction and treatments for Alzheimer's disease and other dementia. From basic science to dementia care, every aspect of the field’s growing knowledge of dementia is incorporated into this world-class conference.

The conference aligns with the UK SBCoA mission of improving the health of older adults in Kentucky and beyond through research dedicated to understanding the aging process and age-related brain diseases, and education, outreach, and clinical programs that promote healthy brain aging. 

Details for each UK SBCoA presentation are below. AAIC attendees are invited to visit these sessions and connect.  

Sunday, July 12

• Christopher Bauer, Poster #0566: The Link Between Plasma Lipid Levels And Cognition In Older Adults Is Dependent On Cerebral Small Vessel Disease In The Brain, Sunday, July 12, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Colleen Pappas, Poster #0516: Markers Of Cholesterol Are Associated With Brain Iron Concentration Among Older Adults Without Dementia, Sunday, July 12, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Darlingtina Esiaka, Ph.D., Poster #0845: Stronger But Strained?: The Amplifying Role of Grit on Bodily Symptoms and Subjective Cognitive Decline , Sunday, July 12, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Xizhi Xu, Poster #0051: Genetic Fine-mapping Of Braak Neurofibrillary Tangle Staging Identifies YBEY And PIK3R5 As High-confidence Risk Genes, Sunday, July 12, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Hannah Speaks, Poster #0137: Cognitive And Hearing State Transitions in Later Life: Results From Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Volunteers, Sunday, July 12, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall

Monday, July 13

• Elizabeth Rhodus, Ph.D., M.S., O.T.R./L, Poster #13195, Improving Person-Environment Fit of Community-Residing Older Adults with Dementia Through Sensory-based Assessment and Intervention during Featured Research Session ADRD Clinical Trials Early Career Investigator Oral Abstracts Session, Monday, July 13, 9 a.m., N11
• Brian Gold, Ph.D., Co-chairing Featured Research Session: Achieving Cognitive Resilience in the Oldest-Old to Advance Brain Health in Longevity, Monday, July 13, 2 - 3:30 p.m., N10
• Yang Jiang, Ph.D., Poster #14341: Astrocytic biomarkers show stronger links to memory brainwaves than classical Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, Monday, July 13, 3:30 - 4:15 p.m., Connaught 4
• Elisandra Miller & Justin Miller, Ph.D., Poster #6122: Beyond the Data, Art and Reflection: Forget Me Not, Monday, July 13, 3:30 - 4:15 p.m., Connaught 2
• Elisandra Miller & Justin Miller, Ph.D., Poster #6122: Beyond the Data, Art and Reflection: Forget Me Not,  Art at AAIC Competition at the 2026 ISTAART Networking Reception, Monday, July 13, 6 - 7:30 p.m., InterContinental London- the O2
• Pinar Coskun, M.D., Ph.D., Poster # 0883: Automated Disclosure Portals For Alzheimer’s Disease And Dementia Risk In A Community-based Longitudinal Cohort, Monday, July 13, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Cellas Hayes, Ph.D., Poster #1113: Does disparities in cardiometabolic risk factor prevalence explain cognitive performance differences in cognition among Non-Hispanic Black and Non-Hispanic White Females?, Monday, July 13, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Justin Miller, Ph.D., Poster #0208 : Optimizing And Benchmarking Polygenic Risk Scores For Alzheimer’s Disease, Monday, July 13, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Linda J. Van Eldik, Ph.D., Poster #1214: MW189: Repositioning a novel acute care clinical candidate for repeat oral daily administration in Alzheimer's disease, Monday, July 13, 7:30 a.m.- 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Wang-Xia Wang, Ph.D., Poster #0073: Modeling Systemic Therapeutics Delivery: Coupling Human In Vitro BBB Models With Brain Organoids For Preclinical Screening of RNA Delivery, Monday, July 13, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, July 14

• Radmila Choate, Ph.D., Poster #1036: Sex-specific Multimorbidity Patterns Identified By Latent Class Analysis In The UK Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Cohort, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Pinar Coskun, M.D., Ph.D., Poster #0859: Efficacy Of A Local Registry For Clinical Trial Recruitment And Engagement: The BeBRIGHT Study, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Darlingtina Esiaka, Ph.D., Poster #1025: Advancing Healthy Cognitive Aging in Older People Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: Research and Policy Priorities, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Pradoldej Sompol, Ph.D., Poster #1252: Remodeling of Astrocytic Endfeet at the Neurovascular interface in Alzheimer's Disease, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Isaiah Stephens, Poster #0246: Knockout Of Perilipin-2 In Microglia Alters Lipid Droplet Accumulation And Functional Responses To Alzheimer’s Disease Stimuli, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Liz Ward, Poster #0085: Extreme Polygenic Risk Scores Are Uncommon But Strong Indicators Of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Nancy Wolff, Poster #0933: Abnormal Sensory Processing in Adults with Dementia Linked to Dementia Symptom Severity, Impaired Communication, And Caregiver Burden, Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall

Wednesday, July 15

• Darlingtina Esiaka, Ph.D.: ISTAART Intermission: Neurophysiology PIA: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue: HIV and the Aging Brain, Wednesday, July 15, 12:15 - 2 p.m. 
• Erin Abner, Ph.D.: ISTAART Workshop: Data and Statistics: Common Pitfalls in Journal Publishing, Wednesday, July 15, 12:30 -1:45 p.m.
• Clarissa Benzarti, Poster #1238: Associations Between Caregiver Burden And Social Function Of Adults With Dementia Using a Novel Functional Cognition Tool, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Rhada Choate, Ph.D., Poster #1304: Digital Cognitive Prescreening In Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Associations With Age, Education, And Cognitive Efficiency, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Darlingtina Esiaka, Ph.D., Poster #1117: Perseverance Is Associated With Subjective Cognitive Decline In Cancer Survivors, And Resilience Modifies This Relationship, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Darlingtina Esiaka, Ph.D., Poster #1049: Economic Insecurity in Mid-life Predicts Later-life Cardiometabolic Diseases and Cognitive Decline, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. , Exhibit Hall
• Cellas Hayes, Ph.D., Poster #0665: Differential Predictors Of Amyloid, Tau, Neurodegeneration, And Vascular Neuroimaging Markers Across Racial Ethnic Groups From HABS-HD, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Yuriko Katsumata, Ph.D., Poster #0097: SOftware for LArge-scale MultiAllelic variant and MEta analyses (SOLAMAME) with Application to ADRD-related proteinopathy scores, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Jenny Lutshuma, Ph.D., Poster # 0342: Sex and Age Influence Inflammation in Vascular Risk Management: Secondary Analysis to Risk Reduction To Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trial, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Neetu Nair, Poster #0647: Network Failure And Predicting Future Cognitive Decline In Aging, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Ximena Oyarzun-Gonzalez, Poster #1175: Participant Factors Associated with Transitions To and From Subjective Memory Complaint: Results From The NACC's UDS (2005-2025), Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall
• Akhil Pallerla, Poster #0027: Apoe4 Drives Changes In Glial Reactivity After Aducanumab Immunotherapy, Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., Exhibit Hall

Online On-Demand Posters

• Ahmed Bahrani, Ph.D.: Gait Velocity, Diabetes, And Cognitive Performance In Older Adults
• Ahmed Bahrani, Ph.D.: Transparent Mri-based ¹⁸F-florbetapir Amyloid Pet: Suvr/centiloid Comparison With Syngo.via In Down Syndrome
• Ali Eslamian: Comparing Different Machine Learning Approaches In The Longitudinal Prediction Of Clinical Dementia Rating From Multimodal MRI