Agenda

Mitochondrial Health and Healthspan: Brain Metabolism and Bioenergetics

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 8:30 AM - 5:15 PM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Check-in and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome Remarks

Melanie Brickman Borchard, PhD, MSc, The New York Academy of Sciences
Sundeep Dugar, PhD, Blue Oak Nx 

9:15 AM - 10:05 AM
Keynote Presentation

Douglas Wallace, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 

10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
Networking Break
10:35 AM - 11:45 AM
Session I: Mitochondrial Genetics and Cellular Signaling in Brain Health

10:35 AM 

Keeping the Power on for Healthy Aging and Longevity
Keshav Singh, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham 

11:10 AM

Mitochondria, the Cell Danger Response, and the Emerging Science of Salugenesis 
Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego 

11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Session II: Short Talks Selected from Submitted Abstracts
12:05 PM - 1:10 PM
Networking Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Session III: Mitochondrial Psychobiology: Stress, Development, and Neuroplasticity

1:10 PM 

Mitochondrial Health in Brain Development and Neuroplasticity 
Ana Andreazza, PhD, University of Toronto 

1:35 PM 

Mitochondrial Dysfunction and RNA toxicity in Fragile X Premutation Disorders 
Randi Hagerman, MD, FAAP, University of California, Davis 

2:10 PM

Martin Picard, PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center 

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Networking Break
3:15 PM - 5:10 PM
Session IV: Metabolic Psychiatry and Mitochondrial Therapeutics: From Diet to Drug Development

3:15 PM

The Ketogenic Diet, Mitochondrial Metabolism, and Mental Health
Chris Palmer, MD, Harvard Medical School 

3:50 PM

Are Autism and Alzheimer’s the Same Disease?
Robert Lustig, MD, University of California, San Francisco 

4:25 PM

Panel Discussion

5:10 PM - 5:15 PM
Closing Remarks

Melanie Brickman Borchard, PhD, MSc, The New York Academy of Sciences
Sundeep Dugar, PhD, Blue Oak Nx 
 

Submit Your Abstract

Deadline: July 31, 2026

Are you interested in being considered for a short talk or poster session? Researchers at all levels and across disciplines and sectors can advance their work in a welcoming environment designed to encourage dynamic dialogues and meaningful exchange - propelling their research, and the science, forward.