Join Suzanne Angeli of the Buck Institute on Aging to learn how environmental exposure to manganese is a potential risk factor for developing parkinsonism and Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Exposure to high levels of the element also causes a syndrome known as manganism, which has symptoms similar to PD. By modeling manganism in a microscopic worm known as C. elegans, Angeli aims to identify new therapeutic interventions to ameliorate the symptoms of PD and other neurodegenerative diseases.​

In the spirit of amplifying the Black Lives Matter movement and to avoid any appearance of having appropriated that title, our series of talks formerly called Everything Matters: Tales from the Periodic Table will now be called, simply, Tales from the Periodic Table. Please excuse the former title on videos made in the past.