Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at AAIC 2026
Welcome to our showcase of contributions from the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s (Michigan ADRC) at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2026. We are proud to highlight the outstanding work of our faculty, staff, trainees, and collaborators as they present at this year’s conference in London.
Held annually, the AAIC is the premier international conference dedicated to advancing the science of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The conference brings together researchers, clinicians, and advocates from around the world to share discoveries, exchange ideas, and foster meaningful collaboration. As such, the Michigan ADRC community is honored to contribute to this global effort by presenting innovative research, emerging theories, and best practices in dementia care and prevention.
From groundbreaking scientific discoveries to insightful approaches to patient care and health equity, the sessions featured below reflect our center’s deep commitment to improving lives through research, innovation, and community engagement. You can find a comprehensive list of all Michigan ADRC-led posters and talks at AAIC 2026 below, including presentation topics, dates and times, presenters, and locations.
If you are attending AAIC 2026 in person, we invite you to join us at these sessions to connect with our team and learn more about our work. Whether you will be with us in London or elsewhere, we sincerely appreciate your support of the Michigan ADRC community and look forward to sharing the exciting advancements emerging from our center.
We look forward to connecting with you at AAIC 2026!
| Date | Time | Location | Presentation Title | Authors | Poster Number | Presenter |
| Friday, July 10 | 10:30AM - 12:00PM BST | InterContinental London O2 Hotel, Peninsula West — London, United Kingdom | 8th Annual NIA-AA Symposium — Enabling Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s Disease Through Open Science Session 2. Precision Environmental Health Approach to Risk Reduction and Disease Prevention | Catherine Kaczorowski | ||
| Sunday, July 12 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Associations Between Cognitive Status Transitions And Prior Concentrations Of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers | Nan Shi, Kelly M. Bakulski, Nicholas M. Kanaan, Andrew F. Brouwer | #12979 | Andrew Brouwer |
| Sunday, July 12 | 9:00AM-10:30AM BST | Exhibit Hall | Adaptation and validation of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol in Nepal | Briceño EM, Yang G, Jones RN, Dhakal U, Bogati U, Sapkota H, Shrestha L, Pandit P, Jalan P, Sharma U, Rai J, Pokhrel K, Mendes de Leon C, & Ghimire D. | #2815 | Emily Briceño-Abreu |
| Sunday, July 12 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Utility Of Biomarker Predicted Probability Estimates Compared To Cutoff Scores | John L. Woodard, Lisa Quenon, Lara Huyghe, Laurence Dricot, Renaud Lhommel, Bernard J. Hanseeuw, & Adrian Ivanoiu | N/A | John L. Woodard |
| Monday, July 13 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Centering Lived Experiences in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Research: The Formation of a Lived Experience Advisory Panel | Gierzynski, T.F., Leggett, A.M., Gadwa, R., Anastasia, D., Sytsma, L., Rice-Oeschger, L., Rahman-Filipiak, A., Roberts, J.S., Giordani, B., Paulson, H., & Polenick, C.A. | #425 | Theresa Gierzynski |
| Monday, July 13 | 2:00PM - 3:30PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Investigating Somatic Repetitive Element Insertions in Alzheimer’s Disease Brains Using TEnCATS Technology | Weichen Zhou, Brandt Bessell, Torrin L. McDonald, Steven J. Losh, Jessica A. Switzenberg, Camille Mumm, Alan P. Boyle, Ryan E. Mills | #7155 | Weichen (Arthur) Zhou |
| Monday, July 13 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Behavioral And Emotional Responses And Risks Associated With The Return Of Research Results In A Longitudinal Alzheimer’s Disease Study | Julia Pleskaczynska, Bernardo Flores, Haley Kohl, Amanda Cook Maher, Theresa Gierzynski, Arijit K. Bhaumik, Judith L. Heidebrink, Jonathan Reader, Miranda Cooper, Gloria Whitaker, Betsy Posby, Benjamin M. Hampstead, Scott Roberts, Bruno Giordani, Henry Paulson, Annalise Rahman-Filipiak | N/A | Julia Pleskaczynska |
| Monday, July 13 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Mortality Risk Across the US, India, and Mexico | Jeon S, Kunicki Z, Snider M, Kamalyan L, Yang G, Arce Rentería M, Briceño E. | #6688 | Emily Briceño-Abreu |
| Monday, July 13 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Olfaction, Mind Diet, And Cognition In Older Adults | Jingjing Xia, Chenxi Li, Jiantao Ma, Qu Tian, Eleanor Simonsick, Honglei Chen | #2502 | Honglei Chen |
| Monday, July 13 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Comparing Self- and Informant-reported Cognitive Decline in Older Adults Living Alone vs. Living with a Partner | Isabelle Allan, Jonathan Reader, Subhamoy Pal, Judith Heidebrink, Bruno Giordani | N/A | Isabelle Allan |
| Tuesday, July 14 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Pitch encoding and short-term memory in cognitively healthy adults | Tess M. Starr, Elizabeth Nesbitt, Anahita H. Mehta, Kelly L. Whiteford | N/A | Kelly L. Whiteford |
| Tuesday, July 14 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Estimating Dementia Prevalence Among Older Middle Eastern And North African (MENA) Americans | Kristine J. Ajrouch, Simon Brauer, Wassim Tarraf, Toni C. Antonucci, Laura B. Zahodne | #9086 | Kristine J. Ajrouch |
| Tuesday, July 14 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Post-delirium Cognitive Impairment 6 Months After Hospitalisation Among Older Ghanaians | John-Paul Omuojine, Caleb Otu-Ansah, Richard Dei-Asamoa, Gertrude Awuah Aboah Belinda Gyamfua Opoku, George Sedinam Amponsah, Stella Sena Afeti, Leah Ratner, Ruth Owusu-Antwi, Rachel Maina, Cyprian Mostert, Fred Stephen Sarfo, Cheryl A. Moyer, Melissa Elafros | #680 | John-Paul Omuojine |
| Tuesday, July 14 | 10:30AM - 11:00 AM BST | Exhibit Hall | Feasibility and Preliminary Mental Health Outcomes of a 6-Week Virtual Support Program for Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia | Sheria Robinson-Lane, Jada Jackson, Ivo Dinov, Burno Giordani | #10101 | Sheria Robinson-Lane |
| Tuesday, July 14 | 4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Factor Structure of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol in Nepal | Yang G, Ghimire D, Jones RN, Dhakal U, Bogati U, Sapkota H, Shrestha L, Pandit P, Jalan P, Sharma U, Rai J, Pokhrel K, Mendes de Leon C, & Briceño EM. | #6684 | Emily Briceño-Abreu |
| Tuesday, July 14 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Is poor gustation also associated with cognitive impairment in older adults? | Yaqun Yuan, Brenda L. Plassman, Hongxiang Qiu, Zhehui Luo, Christine Parks, Julie Fleenor, Corrine Madsen, Heather MacDonald, Davis Scott, Guy Potter, James Burke, Laura Beane-Freeman, Jonathan Hoffman, Dale P. Sandler, Honglei Chen | #2134 | Honglei Chen |
| Wednesday, July 15 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Care Network Characteristics and their Link with Potentially Preventable Health Services Utilization of Individuals with Dementia | Amanda N. Leggett, Wenjing Li, Chiang-Hua Chang | N/A | Amanda N. Leggett |
| Wednesday, July 15 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Sex Differences In Susceptibility To Synapse Loss And Cognitive Decline After Immune Challenge In A Mouse Model Of Alzheimer’s Disease | Natalie C. Tronson | N/A | Natalie C. Tronson |
| Wednesday, July 15 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Plasma P-tau217 Performs Comparably To Centiloid For Predicting Memory Changes In Cognitively Healthy Apoe ε4 Carriers | Colt M. Halter, John L. Woodard, Kristy A. Nielson, J. Carson Smith, Frank P. DiFilippo, Lynn M. Bekris, Maria Khrestian, Audrey Zhu, Sally Durgerian, & Stephen M. Rao | N/A | Colt Halter |
| Wednesday, July 15 | 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Psychological Impact of Learning Brain Amyloid PET Results in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults in the REVEAL-SCAN Study | Kyra O’Brien MD MSHP, Kristin Harkins MPH, Subhamoy Pal PhD, Jon Reader MS, Jason Karlawish MD, & Sarah J. Barber PhD | #2405 | Kyra S O'Brien |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Daily Extradyadic Social Interactions Among Couples Living With Dementia: Links To Cortisol And Alpha-amylase Synchrony | Courtney A. Polenick, Angela Turkelson, Charity Garner, Yin Liu | #9091 | Courtney A. Polenick | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | A Literature-driven Framework For Population-level Causal Modeling Of Alzheimer's Disease | Yijiang Pang, Ramya Keerthi Majji, Hao Dai, Yu Huang, Jiang Bian, Jiayu Zhou | #6364 | Jiayu Zhou | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Augmented Risk Prediction For The Onset Of Alzheimer’S Disease From Electronic Health Records With Large Language Models | Jiankun Wang, Sumyeong Ahn, Taykhoom Dalal, Xiaodan Zhang, Weishen Pan, Qiannan Zhang, Junyuan Hong, Bin Chen, PHD, Hiroko Dodge, Fei Wang, Jiayu Zhou | #6343 | Jiayu Zhou | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Multimodal Biomedical Knowledge Graphs Improve Cognitive Risk Modeling In Alzheimer's Disease | Haobo Zhang, Jiankun Wang, Zhe Huang, Qiannan Zhang, Chang Su, Fei Wang, Jiayu Zhou | #6310 | Jiayu Zhou | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Bridging Blood-Based Biomarkers and Language Markers in Natural Conversations | Yijiang Pang, Liu Chen, Hiroko Dodge, Jiayu Zhou, Ph.D. | #7239 | Jiayu Zhou | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Deep learning-based screening of novel compounds that reverse Alzheimer’s disease-associated transcriptional phenotypes | Zsolt Palmer, Dmitry Leshchiner, Erika Lisabeth, Edmund Ellsworth, Jiayu Zhou, David Morgan, Kin Sing Lee, Bin Chen | N/A | Jiayu Zhou | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | Dementia Etiology Classification Using NULISA Plasma Biomarkers and Machine Learning | Kelly N. DuBois, Subhamoy Pal, Amanda Cook Maher, Judith Heidebrink, Carol Persad, Bruno Giordani, Benjamin M. Hampstead, Kelly M. Bakulski, David G. Morgan, Nicholas M. Kanaan | Poster Abstract | Kelly N. DuBois | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | EEG-Based Brain Effective Connectivity Predicts PET Amyloid Status of Persons with Normal Cognition | Boxin Sun, Ming Gu, Amanda Maher, Kelly N. DuBois, Nicholas M. Kanaan, Jordan Bross, Robert Koeppe, Carol C. Persad, Yi L. Murphey, Voyko Kavcic, Jian Ren, Bruno Giordani, Tongtong Li. | N/A | Boxin Sun | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Virtual | A Comparative Analysis of Brain Functional Connectivity and Effective Connectivity based on EEG data | Boxin Sun, Alina Renli, Ming Gu, Jinxian Deng, Voyko Kavcic, Jian Ren1, Bruno Giordani, and Tongtong Li | N/A | Boxin Sun | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Mechanisms Of Age & Vascular-related Microstructure Changes In TheCorpus Callosum Using Biophysical Modeling Of Diffusion MRI | Shruti Mishra, MD, Hanie Karimi, MD, Trevor Exell, B.S., Scott Peltier, PhD, Douglas Noll, PhD, Benjamin M. Hampstead, PhD, Alexandru D. Iordan, PhD, Ana Daugherty, PhD | Poster | Shruti Mishra | ||
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Variability in simulator driving speed predicts changes in executive function performance at 2-year follow-up in older adults | Stark, J., Cook Maher, A., Giordani, B., Carmichael, D., Murphey, Y.L., & Persad, C.C. | Poster | Amanda Maher | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Comparing the eye movements during driving turns in older adults with and without elevated amyloid burden | Kumar, A. Murphey, Y.L., Cook Maher, A., Persad C.C., Koeppe, R., & Giordani, B. | Poster | Amanda Maher | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Driving speed across multiple roadway types among older adult drivers with and without elevated amyloid burden | Kumar, A. Murphey, Y.L., Cook Maher, A., Persad C.C., Koeppe, R., & Giordani, B. | Poster | Amanda Maher | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Health-Related Activity and Sleep Behaviours in SuperAgers: Preliminary Observational Findings from Free-Living Monitoring | Roberts, A.C., Van Ooteghem, K., Culum, I., Beyer, K., McIlroy, W., Lim, A., Swartz, R., Oklikah, D., Narayan, E., Bartha, R., Finger, E., Cook Maher, A., Goldstein, F.C., Martersteck, A., Okonkwo, O.C., Schafer, R., Capuano, A., The SuperAging Research Initiative, & Rogalski, E. | Poster | Amanda Maher | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | The SuperAging Research Initiative: Identifying Protective Mechanisms of Cognitive Resilience and Resistance in Late Life | Rogalski, E, Capuano, A., Beyer, K., Devine, R., Finger, L., Goldstein, F., Huentelman, M., Kozanno, L., Martersteck, A., McIlroy, W., Okonkwo, O., Piras, I., Peirce, H., Roberts, A., Schafer, R., Timpo, P., Van Ooteghem, K., The SuperAging Research Initiative, & Cook Maher, A. | Poster | Amanda Maher | |
| 7:30AM-4:15PM BST | Exhibit Hall | Blood-Based Proteomic Signatures of SuperAgers: Evidence for Reduced Mixed Proteinopathy Burden | Adam Martersteck, Amanda Cook Maher, Stella Wang, Hannah Peirce, Rhiana Schafer, Thomas Karikari, Xuemei Zeng, Ann Cohen, Felicia Goldstein, Matthew Huentelman, Liana Kozanno, Ozioma C. Okonkwo, Angela C. Robert, Ana Capuano, SuperAging Research Initiative, and Emily Rogalski. | Poster | Amanda Maher |
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