Sarah Flowers speaks at U Ask, UVA Answers
The U Ask, UVA Answers series continues this fall at the downtown Jefferson-Madison Regional Library on the second Sunday of the month at 2pm. This fall, we are adding additional dates at the Crozet Library on the second Wednesday of the month at 6pm.
Sarah Flowers in the School of Medicine is our first speaker. She will be talking about her research in Alzheimer’s disease.
Watch the video below to learn more about her work:
Fall speakers:
September: Sarah Flowers: Alzheimer’s Disease and Genetics
- Downtown Library – September 13, 2026 – 2pm
- Crozet Library – September 16, 2026 – 6pm
October: Bryan Berger: Innovations in biotechnology aimed at improving the quality and safety of our food
- Downtown Library – October 11, 2026 – 2pm
- Crozet Library – October 21, 2026 – 6pm
November: Natasha Diba Sheybani: Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Downtown Library– November 8, 2026 – 2pm
- Crozet Library – November 18, 2026 – 6pm
Transcript of video:
Hi, I’m Sarah Flowers. I’m an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia, and I’ll be talking at the library downtown and in Crozet in September. I love being able to speak to our local community, because it’s really you who I’m working to helping. And by speaking with you, I’m able to really understand how I can help you the best.
Yeah, so my lab’s focused on neurodegenerative diseases and Alzheimer’s disease in particular, and we’re working towards making Alzheimer’s a preventable disease. And to do that, we’re focused on how we can detect somebody very early before they’re even getting pathology in the brain, before they have memory loss, and how can we treat them at that point so that we stop the progression to Alzheimer’s disease.
I hope that you see that there’s some hope out there, that we’re really working hard to really defeat this disease, and that we can work together to achieve that.