The 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists was held June 8–11, 2017 in Garden Grove, CA. Neuropathology faculty members Liam Chen and Charles Eberhart, as well as a second year fellow, Heather Ames, all had abstracts selected for platform presentations. An incoming AP/NP resident, James Nix, also gave a platform talk, and second year fellow Andrew Guajardo presented a case at the diagnostic slide session. Many posters from incoming, current and recently departed trainees were also featured. The titles and authors of the platform presentations are shown below.
– Cryptic exon splicing repression by TDP-43 represents its major function compromised in Alzheimer’s disease and ALS/FTD. Liam Chen, Mingkuan Sun, Robert Bell, Olga Pletnikova, Juan Troncoso, Philip Wong
– Identifying corneal infections in formalin fixed specimens using next generation sequencing. Charles Eberhart, Zhigang Li, Florian Breitwies, Jennifer Lu, Albert Jun, Steven Salzberg
– Insulinoma-associated 1 (INSM1) is a novel nuclear marker of immature neuronal central nervous system neoplasms. Heather Ames, Lisa Rooper, Charles Eberhart, Fausto Rodriguez
– Neuropathology In Social Media. James Nix, Jerad Gardner, Murat Gokden, Brian Moore, Fausto Rodriguez, Maria Martinez-Lage, Felipe Costa, Douglas Anthony