The 15th Great Lakes Glia Meeting will be held in downtown Traverse City, Michigan. We look forward to welcoming you to the Park Place Hotel & Conference Center, our favorite meeting place. We will see you October 11-13, 2026 – save the dates!
CLICK HERE for the 2026 Great Lakes Glia flyer and meeting invitation (general meeting information).
CLICK HERE for the 2026 Great Lakes Glia schedule with speaker information.
CLICK HERE for the GLG / Alzheimer’s Assoc. flyer –
Community & Caregiver Support Forum (open to the public)
CLICK HERE for the 2026 Great Lakes Glia registration form.
Our 2026 Keynote Speakers
(Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
(Univ Kentucky College of Medicine)
Our 2026 Poster Winners
Congratulations!
Postdoctoral Researchers –
Mark Milner (University of Michigan) – Disease-associated microglia promote visual circuit dysfunction in demyelinating disease
Ross Pelzel (University of Michigan) – Immunoproteasome regulation of neuron-microglia interactions during visual synapse loss and repair in multiple sclerosis
Mentor: Sebastian Werneburg
Graduate Researcher – Emma Fritsch (Vanderbilt University)
Optimizing lipid-siRNA conjugates for microglial gene silencing in Alzheimer’s disease
Mentor: Ethan Lippmann
Undergraduate Researcher – Kody Bruce (Loyola University – Chicago)
Investigating the impact of XBP1s transgenic overexpression in mature oligodendroctyes in a multiple sclerosis mouse model
Mentor: Yanan Chen
