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2026
Double (Poster) Duty for Postdoc, Will Coath, at HAI 2026 in Puerto Rico!
“Towards a harmonized amyloid clock: centralized image processing and temporal modeling with multiple cohorts and tracers”
“Alignment of antemortem images to postmortem fixed hemibrains using standard neuroimaging tools”
Tobey and Will caught up with lab alumni, Margo Heston, at HAI 2026 in Puerto Rico!
Biostatistician, Hailey Bruzzone, at HAI 2026 in Puerto Rico!
“Comparison of Sampled Iterative Local Approximation (SILA) Implementation in R and MATLAB”
Postdoc, Will Coath, gives Oral Presentation at HAI 2026 in Puerto Rico!
“TauPace as a novel, time-based metric to investigate accelerated tau and clinical progression in preclinical AD”
2025
Biomarker Clocks in Alzheimer’s Disease: Predicting Dementia Risk and Timing
Dr. Tobey Betthauser presented in the Fall 2025 UW Department Grand Rounds.
New Publication Alert!
Congratulations to our collaborator, PhD Candidate Henry Stephenson, on his publication “Abnormal Amyloid-β Duration, Tau, and Neurodegeneration in Cranial Images”.
New Publication Alert!
Congrats to Dr. Margo Heston on publication of her manuscript in Alzheimer’s & Dementia on understanding what contributes to when tau pathology becomes detectable by PET, and the time from T+ to dementia onset.
Dr. Tobey Betthauser presenting in Featured Research Session at AAIC 2025 in Toronto, Canada!
“Factors influencing tau trajectories along the amyloid timeline from three cohorts”
Dr. Tobey Betthauser and Featured Research Session Panel at AAIC 2025 in Toronto, Canada!
Featured Research Session: Insights Into Disease Trajectory And Biological Staging Of AD
Left to Right: Gemma Salvadó, Tobey Betthauser, Bruna Bellaver, Alexa Pichet Binette, and Karly Cody
Undergraduate Student, Simone Nowinski, at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium!
“Investigating the association between education and brain volume”
2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Hailey Bruzzone & Rose Palmer enjoyed supporting Simone Nowinski presenting her work “Investigating the association between education and brain volume” at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Betthauser Team At ADRD 2025!
Hailey Bruzzone, Rose Palmer, Finnuella Carey, Leah Staruck, Ruvini Navaratna, and Jacob Morse enjoyed attending the annual Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementias Research Day (ADRD)!
2024
2024 Winter Betthauser Lab Celebration – Mario Party Edition!
Wishing you all a very Happy Holidays!
2024 Winter Betthauser Lab Celebration – Mario Party Edition!
Margo Heston wins the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Alzheimer’s Imaging Consortium (AIC), a preconference to the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC)!
Congratulations to Margo Heston, Postdoc, for her talk titled “Factors explaining age at tau pathology onset and time from tau onset to dementia”!
Margo Heston wins the clinical research for postdoc/fellows poster award at Department of Medicine Research Day 2024!
Congratulations to Margo Heston, Postdoc, for her work titled “Amyloid burden and APOE modify sex difference in estimated meta-temporal region tau onset age”!
UW-SMPH, Department of Medicine Research Day 2024!
Yazan Hammad, Jordan Teague, and Margo Heston presented their work at UW-SMPH, Department of Medicine Research Day 2024!
Graduate Student, Jordan Teague at ADRD 2024!
“Multi-cohort temporal modeling of tau PET onset age and trajectories”
Undergraduate Student Collaborator, Yazan Hammad at ADRD 2024!
“Alzheimer’s disease APOE neuropathology-based score, amyloid, and pTau polygenic scores’ association with amyloid PET positivity”
Postdoc, Margo Heston at ADRD 2024!
“Amyloid burden and APOE modify sex difference in estimated meta-temporal region tau onset age”
Scientist, Yuetiva Robles at ADRD 2024!
“Alzheimer’s disease genetic risk factors’ influence on tau onset sage”
Graduate student Jordan Teague gave her 1st talk at HAI 2024!
“Validation of sampled iterative local approximation for individualized estimates of tau PET onset age.”
HAI 2024 in Miami, Florida!
Postdoc Margo Heston presents at HAI 2024!
“Factors explaining tau onset age and time from tau onset to dementia.”
2023
2023 Betthauser Lab Holiday Card!
Wishing you all a very Happy Holidays!
2023 Winter Betthauser Lab Celebration – Game Night Edition!
Fun at the Division of Geriatrics Research Recognition and Celebration!
Elena Ruiz De Chavez, Margo Heston, Finnuella Carey, and Tobey Betthauser enjoyed celebrating the recent accomplishments of the Division of Geriatrics!
Our team is growing!
We are thrilled to have Margo Heston, PhD, joining our team as a postdoc in October 2023!
2023 Walk to End Alzheimer’s – Dane County (Madison, WI)
Ruvini Navaratna, Elena Ruiz De Chavez, and Finnuella Carey participated in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s to raise awareness and funds for care, support, and research!
Our team is growing!
We are thrilled to announce Yuetiva Robles and Jacob Morse joined the Betthauser Lab in September 2023!
Ruvini Navaratna at the Data-Intensive Research Conference in Minneapolis, MN!
Ruvini Navaratna and CHDR enjoyed attending the Data-Intensive Research Conference at the University of Minnesota Life Course Center showcasing recent work examining how places and environments intersect with health and wellbeing!
AAIC Neuroimaging PIA Workshop!
Tobey Betthauser served as Vice Chair for the Neuroimaging PIA at AAIC 2023! This year included a full-house workshop on getting started with neuroimaging!
Graduate student Jordan Teague presents at AAIC 2023!
“Effect of SUVR reference region selection on sampled iterative local approximation estimates of amyloid onset age.”
Graduate student Erica Irizarry Pagan presents at AAIC 2023!
“Investigation of neighborhood disadvantage in the context of APOE-associated amyloid onset age risk”
AAIC 2023 in Amsterdam!
Tobey Betthauser enjoyed visiting the University College of London and exploring their radiochemistry labs!
Dr. Tobey Betthauser presented for the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) Neuroimaging PIA!
“The Basics of Neuroimaging: Positron emission tomography (PET)”. This webinar provides an introduction to positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, including data structure, image processing, quantification, and examples of how PET is used in clinical brain research of Alzheimer’s disease.
Jordan Teague presented at SNMMI 2023!
“The effect of amyloid PET quantification method on sampled iterative local approximation estimates of amyloid onset age”.
Erica Irizarry Pagan graduated!
Masters, 2023
Jordan Teague presents her poster at ADRD 2023!
“Effect of amyloid PET quantification method on sampled iterative local approximation estimates of amyloid onset age”
Erica Irizarry Pagan awarded Best Graduate Student Poster at ADRD 2023!
“Investigation of neighborhood disadvantage in the context of APOE-associated amyloid onset age risk”