I was so grateful to my hosts at the Taiwan Neurological Society for inviting me to be a plenary speaker at their fantastic Annual Meeting this past weekend. Thanks also to Profs. Chaur-Jong Hu, Tu-Hsueh Yeh, and Chen-Tai Hong at the Taipei Medical University for the chance to speak at their 3rd Annual AD/PD Symposium, and to Profs. Yu-Wen Cheng and Ta-Fu Chen for the opportunity to review cases with the neurology residents at National Taiwan University Hospital. Taiwan is a beautiful country🇹🇼, I am so glad to have had the chance to meet you all! @TaipeiMedicalU #TNS #NTUH

➡️ Catch Rankin Lab postdoc Dr. Sherry Chen @Sherry_YuChen giving a short talk for the ISFTD EMCR Annual Online Symposium at 10:30pm tonight‼️ @

We are THRILLED to share that lab member @UCSFmac Dr. Yu (Sherry) Chen has been awarded an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from @NIHAging ! 🎉 Her project will map how cerebellar-cortical networks influence social cognition and disease progression in @FTD, advancing new network-based models of neurodegeneration. Huge congratulations, @Sherry_YuChen! So well deserved! 👏

Congrats🎉 to Rankin Lab member Bailey Ortiz for presenting a poster on approaches to more accurately identify depression in persons with dementia (PWD) last week at #INS2026inPhiladelphia! @INSneuro @UCSFmac

PAU student and lab member Angie Quagletti gave an amazing talk last week at #INS2026inPhiladelphia highlighting her research on social cognition profiles in early-stage behavioral variant versus typical early onset Alzheimer’s👏 @INSneuro @UCSFmac @AlzNorCalNorNev

Congrats to Rankin Lab postdoc and GBHI fellow Aaron Colverson @acolverson1 for presenting his poster on music and aging at the AAIC Satellite Symposium in Lima, Peru🇵🇪 last week! @alzassociation @AlzNorCalNorNev @UCSF @GBHI_Fellows @atlanticfellows #aging #music #dementia

Rankin Lab had a strong presence in New Orleans last week at #INS2025 where members gave engaging talks and presented wonderful posters relating to social cognitive performance in aging and neurodegenerative diseases! @INSneuro @UCSFmac

@acolverson1 and @ElijahRock gave an incredible Alzheimer's Association talk yesterday on music and the brain in which they discussed research on music and dementia🎶 @alzassociation @ISTAART

Rankin Lab postdoc @acolverson1 spoke at the Metropolitan Club of San Francisco Tuesday about how "Musicking" improves brain health in aging, and he also gave a talk yesterday at the Gerontological Society of America!

Rankin Lab postdocs Hulya Ulugut and Sherry Chen @Sherry_YuChen delivering shining presentations at #ISFTD24 describing their research on the behavioral neurology and brain networks of socioemotional symptoms! @isftd #isftd2024