CANTON – The St. Lawrence and surrounding communities are invited to attend the Richard D. Church Lecture in Neuroscience on Monday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in Eben Holden Main room on the St. Lawrence University campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Neuroscientist and a 2003 St. Lawrence alumna Jaime M. Ross will discuss how she uses genetic and genomic approaches to understand the basic mechanisms of disease, focusing on aging and age-related diseases, and in particular brain aging disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

Jaime M. Ross, Ph.D. joined the University of Rhode Island Faculty in October 2019 and is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience within the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy. Ross is a native of southern Vermont and attended Saint Lawrence University, where she studied Neuroscience and Fine Arts. She obtained her Ph.D. in Medical Sciences in the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health Graduate Partnerships Program. Thereafter, she completed post-doctoral training at both Karolinska Institute and Harvard Medical School.

Ross has made seminal contributions to understanding the aging process and is author to more than 20 publications. Her research accomplishments have led to several noteworthy awards and fellowships, including a K99/R00 award from the National Institute on Aging. She also has served as Guest Editor and is on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Experimental Gerontology, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Her current projects include understanding the lifecycle of microplastics in the body and their impact on brain health outcomes.