Thursday, November 26, 2015 | |
8:30 – | Registration, coffee and tea |
9:00 – 9:15 | Monika M. Golas, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Opening and introduction |
9:15 – 10:00 | Noel Buckley, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.: iPSCs as models of neuronal development and degeneration |
10:00-10:45 | Jens Magnusson, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden: Injury-induced neurogenesis in the adult striatum |
10:45 – 11:30 | Martin Røssel Larsen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark: Neuro-proteomics – investigation of signal transduction pathways in the brain |
11:30 – 12:15 | Andrea Faedo, Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy: A differentiation toolkit for the derivation of striatal neurons from pluripotent stem cells |
12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:00 | Poster session |
15:00 – 15:45 | Yvon Trottier, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch, France: Multifaceted dysfunctions caused by polyglutamine expansion in neurodegenerative disorders |
15:45 – 16:30 | Zoya Ignatova, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany: Adventitious frameshifting at expanded CAG repeat sequences |
16:30 – 17:00 | Poul Henning Jensen, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Toxic mechanisms in synucleinopathies – a group of putative prion-like disorders |
17:00 – 17:45 | Eric Reits, Department of Cell Biology and Histology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Visualising the ubiquitin-proteasome system at work in Huntington's Disease |
19:00 – | Dinner |
Friday, November 27, 2015 | |
8:30 – | Coffee and tea |
9:00 – 9:45 | Åsa Petersen, Translational Neuroendocrine Research Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden: Hypothalamic pathology in Huntington disease |
9:45 – 10:30 | Stephan von Hörsten, Experimental Therapy, University Medicine, Erlangen, Germany: Neurodevelopmental phenotype and intervention by HDACi in models of Huntington's disease |
10:30 – 11:15 | Sybille Krauß, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany: The MID1 protein complex: a regulator of expanded CAG repeat mRNAs |
11:15 – 12:00 | Willeke van Roon-Mom, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands: Targeting the huntingtin mRNA to treat Huntington disease |
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 14:15 | Anne Nørremølle, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark: Mitochondrial dysfunction in Huntington’s disease: what went wrong? |
14:15 – 14:45 | Juan Yuan, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Differentiation of striatal medium spiny neurons from neural progenitor cells |
14:45 – 15:15 | Mark Denham, Dandrite, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Modelling Parkinson's Disease in vitro with human pluripotent stem cells |
15:15 – 15:45 | Marina Romero-Ramos, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Early change induced by alpha-synuclein over expression in the dopaminergic nitro-striatal system |
15:45 – 16:15 | Jens Randel Nyengaard, Stereology and EM Laboratory, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Changes in dendrites, synapses and synaptic vesicles in stress |
16:15 – 16:30 | Monika M. Golas, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark: Concluding remarks |
