Episode 228 -- Sergio Ferreira PhD

On April 30, 2021, University of Texas San Antonio neuroscientists sat down with Sergio Ferreira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) to discuss Alzheimer's Disease as a pathology of proteostasis.  Hyoung-gon Lee, Chris Gamblin and Salma Quraishi chatted with him about how he is targeting protein synthesis to rescue defective synaptic plasticity and restore memory performance in a specific amyloid model of Alzheimer's. Dr. Ferreira is Professor of Biochemistry & Neuroscience in the Center for Health Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. https://www.ferreiralab.org/ Hyoung gon Lee PhD is Associate Professor of Biology at UTSA. Chris Gamblin is Professor of Biology at UTSA https://www.utsa.edu/biology/faculty/... Salma Quraishi PhD is Assistant Professor Research at UTSA & Associate Director of the UTSA Neurosciences Institute. https://neuroscience.utsa.edu