35th IOA Annual Colloquium, 2025
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A Successful 2025 Colloquium
Thank you to all who attended and supported our 35th IOA Annual Colloquium, held Oct. 16, 2025 in Madison, Wisconsin.
If you were unable to participate, see below for some of the resources that were offered at the event:
2025 Speaker Videos
2025 New Investigator Award Winner
Awards are given to UW–Madison students or advanced trainees to recognize outstanding achievement in aging or life course studies. Winners receive a $500 award and their research is showcased in the event’s Poster Session.
2025 New Investigator Award Winner: Gina Lee
Poster Title: Sibling disconnectedness in midlife and cognitive functioning in later life: Is loneliness an explanatory factor?

Additional Posters Presented at the 2025 Poster Session:
“Age is associated with greater differentiation in brain response patterns between negative, neutral, and positive stimuli” Presented by: Kareem Al-Khalil
“Linking varieties of religious experience to eudaimonic well-being: Does race matter?” Presented by: Adam Baker
“Cumulative stress and epigenetic aging: The moderating role of psychological well-being and neuroticism” Presented by: Seung Eun Cha
“Enhancing care partner support and team-based care with the dementia care partner hospital assessment tool” Presented by: Kayla Dillon
“Exploring combinations of dual functionality and mortality: New findings from MIDUS” Presented by: Jonghwa Do
“An adaptive horseback riding program for persons living with dementia and their family caregivers: A dyad case study” Presented by: Melissa Hiatt & Abby Hays
“APOE ε2 and childhood physical abuse shape kidney function through a creatinine-mediated pathway” Presented by: Aimee Johnson
“Associations between perceived stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms with representational similarity in the amygdala’s reactivity to negative vs. neutral stimuli in a large adult sample spanning seven decades” Presented by: Mingtong Liu
“A community-engaged approach to improving access to memory care for indigenous elders” Presented by: Sarah Punshon
“Associations between cumulative stress, hippocampal volume, and hippocampal function” Presented by: Alexandra Wayss
Photos Capturing the 2025 Annual Colloquium















