Molecular to Translational Strategies to Improve Spinal Cord Injury

March 19 - 20, 2022

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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Central Nervous System Injury and Repair is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting-edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to bring together trainee researchers across a wide array of areas within spinal cord injury and related fields to discuss their work in an intimate, intellectually stimulating setting. Topics covered by an interdisciplinary selection of speakers will include: regeneration, neuroinflammation, glial responses to injury, bioengineering and translational studies in the field of spinal cord injury.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Central Nervous System Injury and Repair" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Cellular Identification and Interactions Discussion Leader:
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm	"Microglia Coordinate Cellular Interactions During Spinal Cord Repair"
4:05 pm - 4:15 pm	Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm	"Targeting Senescent Cells Improves Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm	Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Axonal Regeneration and Sprouting Discussion Leader:
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm	"Novel Adult Brain Processing Method Reveals Age-, Sex-, and Species-Dependent Effects of Pharmaceutical Compounds on Neuron Survival and Neuritogenesis"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm	Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm	"4 Steps to Make Every Neuron in the Human Spinal Cord"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm	Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm	"Engineering Human Spinal Interneurons for Spinal Cord Repair"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm	"Targeting Ezh2 histone methyltransferase to enhance mammalian axon regeneration in the peripheral and central nervous systems"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm	Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm	"Microsurgical Lesions Identify Segmentally Distinct Responses of Axotomized Corticospinal Neurons"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm	Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm	"The Role of Early Calcium Signaling on Dendrite Regeneration"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am	Inflammation and Neural Targeting Discussion Leader:
9:00 am - 9:20 am	"Brain Inflammation Triggers Macrophage Invasion Across the Blood-Brain Barrier in Drosophila During Pupal Stages"
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am	"High Level Spinal Cord Injury Impairs Pulmonary Immune Function"
9:40 am - 9:45 am	Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am	"Integrin-aM/CD11b has an Inhibitory Effect on Optic Nerve Regeneration"
9:55 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am	"Multi-Photon Imaging of Corticospinal Tract Target Interneurons"
10:20 am - 10:30 am	Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am	"Knowing Where to Re-Grow: Identification of Extrinsic Cues Promoting Target-Selective Axon Regeneration"
10:40 am - 10:45 am	Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am	"Glycan Cues in Modulating Post-Stroke Neuro-Inflammatory Responses to Promote Brain Repair"
10:55 am - 11:00 am	Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Poster Session Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Mentorship Component: Mentorship Panel Discussion Leader:
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Panel Discussion Career Advice from Senior Investigators
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Evaluation Period Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm	Seminar Concludes

Contributors

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13NS122148. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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