Turney, a postdoctoral neuroscientist at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center, speaks as part of the 2022-23 Speaker Series and the Voices of Discovery Science Speaker Series.
Indira Turney, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, will speak Monday, March 6, as part of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 annual Speakers Series and Voices of Discovery Science Speaker Series. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in McCrary Theatre in the Center for the Arts.
The theme of the 2022-23 Speaker Series is 鈥淟iving Well in a Changing World.鈥 Learn more about Voices of Discovery here聽and the speaker series here.
Turney鈥檚 presentation, 鈥淯nderstanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Brain Aging,鈥 will include her research around understanding how racism affects the body, brain and peoples鈥 health. Her work at Columbia University Medical Center鈥檚 Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease and the Aging Brain aims to improve the detection and treatment of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and related dementia. She hopes to develop prevention programs to target malleable environmental, socio-cultural and biological mechanisms of change in at-risk populations.
Turney is a STEM ambassador who is passionate about demystifying and diversifying STEM fields and building spaces for scholars from historically excluded backgrounds to thrive. She is a co-founder of the Women of Color Writing Accountability Group.