Maria-Tzousi Papavergi is a third-year PhD candidate in the Lemere Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, co-supervised by Cynthia Ann Lemere and Daniel van den Hove. Her research focuses on unraveling the cellular and epigenetic mechanisms linking the complement cascade to aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Papavergi holds a BS in molecular biology and genetics from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and an MS in cognitive and clinical neuroscience from Maastricht University, Netherlands. Papavergi was also a part of the 2025 Neuronline Community Leaders cohort.

Laura Martin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health and the Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Dr. Beversdorf is a professor at the University of Missouri in the departments of Radiology, Neurology, Psychological Sciences and the Thompson Center.