SUNDAY |
2:00-6:00pm | Arrival and Registration |
6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30-9:30pm | Keynote Lecture |
| Melitta Schachner, Unversitaet Hamburg "Lessons from mutants deficient in myelin genes" |
MONDAY |
7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00-12:30am | Session I: Perspectives |
| Discussion Leader: Wendy Macklin, Cleveland Clinic |
9:00-9:45am | David Colman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine "Mechanisms of Myelin Wrapping" |
9:45-10:30am | Michael Rasminsky, Montreal General Hospital "The development of the concept of salutatory conduction". |
10:30-11:00am | Coffee Break |
11:00-11:30am | Conference Photo |
11:30-12:00pm | Henry D. Webster, National Institutes of Health
"Morphology of Myelinating Cells" |
12:00-12:30pm | Fred Lublin, Mount Sinai School of Medicine "MS Clinical Trials - Applied immunopathogenesis and reverse engineering" |
12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30-9:30pm | Session II:
Immune Cells in Regeneration and Re-myelination |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Trapp, Cleveland Clinic |
7:30-8:00pm | Michal Schwartz, Wiezmann Institute of Science "Post-traumatic T-cell-based vaccination with myelin-associated antigens promote recovery from spinal cord injury". |
8:00-8:30pm | Samuel David, Montreal General Hospital "Molecular control of myelin phagocytosis in the CNS" |
8:30-9:00pm | Hans Keirstead, University of California at Irvine "Reducing the Immune Response to Spinal Cord Injury Decreases Secondary Degeneration and Functional Deficit" |
9:00-9:30pm | Frank S. Walsh, Glaxo Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals "Nogo and nerve regeneration" |
TUESDAY |
7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00-12:30am | Session III:
Oligodendrocyte Determination |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Pfeiffer , University of Connecticut Medical School |
9:00-9:40am | Bernard Zalc, Hôpital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris "Origin of oligodendrocytes: Evidence for the existence of two lineages" |
9:40-10:20am | William Richardson, University College London "Ventral neurogenesis and the neuron-oligodendrocyte switch" |
10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break |
10:50-11:30am | Robert Miller, Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine "How spinal cord oligodendrocyte precursors take their bearings" |
11:30-12:10pm | David Anderson, California Institute of Technology "Control of oligodendrocyte differentiation by Olig genes" |
12:10-12:30pm | Anne Baron van Evercooren, Institut Federatif De Recherche Des Neurosciences "Regulation of neural stem cell-derived oligodendrogenesis by inflammatory-demyelination."
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12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30-9:30pm | Session IV:
Schwann Cell Determination |
| Discussion Leader: Laura Feltri, San Raffaele Scientific Institute |
7:30-8:10pm | Marianne Bronner-Fraser, California Institute of Technology "Evolution of the Neural Crest" |
8:10-8:50pm | Rhona Mirsky, University College London "Signals that determine Schwann cell identity" |
8:50-9:30pm | Eric Shooter, Stanford University School of Medicine "Neurotrophins as mediators of myelination in the PNS" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00-12:30am | Session V:
Glial/Neuron Signaling |
| Discussion Leader: Kristján R. Jessen, University College London |
9:00-9:45am | Ben Barres, Stanford University "A Role for Glia in the Making and Unbreaking of Synapses" |
9:45-10:30am | Stéphane Oliet, University Victor Segalen, Bordeaux "Modulation of synaptic transmission by astrocytes: insights from hypothalamic magnocellular nuclei" |
10:30-11:00am | Coffee Break |
11:00-11:45am | Richard Robitaille, Universite de Montreal "Perisynaptic glial cells: regulators of synaptic efficacy" |
11:45-12:30pm | David Weinstein, GliaMed, Inc. "Molecular events regulating astrocyte-neuron stability, differentiation and survival" |
12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30-9:30pm | Session VI:
Stem Cells |
| Discussion Leader: Anthony Campagnoni, UCLA Medical School |
7:30-8:00pm | Mark Mehler, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Coordinate regulation of the elaboration of oligodendrocytes and neuronal subtypes from regional embryonic forebrain stem cell subpopulations". |
8:00-8:30pm | Fiona Doetsch, Harvard University "Neural stem cells in the adult mammalian brain: unexpected identities |
8:30-9:00pm | Hideyuki Okano, Keio Universty School of Medicine "Functional recovery of the spinal cord injury model by the transplantation of neural stem cells" |
9:00-9:30pm | Mark Noble, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
"Pivotal roles of redox regulation in CNS development and neoplasia." |
THURSDAY |
7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
9:00-12:30am | Session VII:
Non-Compact Myelin |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Scherer, School of Medicine |
9:00-9:40am | Elior Peles, The Weizman Institute of Science "Caspr family members in myelinated nerves" |
9:40-10:20am | Peter Brophy, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Edinburgh "Neurofascin and axon-glia interactions" |
10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break |
10:50-11:30am | James Salzer, NYU Medical Center "Axonal regulation of Schwann cell myelination" |
11:30-12:10pm | Brian Popko, University of North Carolina "The role of myelin components in Node of Ranvier Formation and Maintenance" |
12:10 - 12:30pm | Barbara Ranscht, Burnham Institute's Neurobiology Program "Establishing Membrane Domains in Myelinated Nerve: Roles of Contactin" |
12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
7:30-9:30pm | Session VIII:
Signaling and Cell Cycle in Myelinating Cells |
| Discussion Leader: Rashmi Bansal, University of Connecticut Health Center |
7:30-8:10pm | Vittorio Gallo, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology "Transgenic approaches to study oligodendrocyte cell cycle and development" |
8:10-8:50pm | Douglas Fields, National Institutes of Health, NICHD "Regulation of glial development and myelination by neural impulse activity" |
8:50-9:30pm | Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey "Molecular mechanisms of oligodendrocyte lineage progression" |