35th IOA Annual Colloquium, 2025

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 IOA Annual Colloquium Brochure

2025 Exhibitors showcased at our Health & Resource Fair

2025 Posters presented at our Poster Session

2025 Welcome Slides

Watch the 2025 Speaker Presentations

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

Sibling disconnectedness in midlife and cognitive functioning in later life: Is loneliness an explanatory factor?

2025 New Investigator Award Winner Gina Lee for poster titled: Sibling disconnectedness in midlife and cognitive functioning in later life: Is loneliness an explanatory factor?

Posters Presented at the 2025 Poster Session:

The Poster Session features posters on various aging-related topics dealing with psychosocial, biomedical, and clinical/applied research. Posters are presented by faculty, research scientists, postdocs, and students.

View 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