Antwerp 2023
18th International Meeting, October 30-31st

Call for Abstracts!
Send your abstract to geopd2023@uantwerpen.be  before September 22, making sure you respect the following recommendations:

• Add title and authors
• Max 500 words. Font: Times New Roman, size 11 
• Max 1 page including pictures and references

Please note that registration is required for the conference. Please REGISTER HERE

• Early registration deadline:  15 September 2023 - registration fee: 150 euro
• Registration deadline:  15 October 2023 - registration fee: 200 euro

• 29 Oct

  Welcome
  GEoPD members only

  Afternoon

  social programme, to be detailed to registered participants

• 30 Oct

  Genetic stratification, pathogenesis, biomarkers, diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease
  Open Meeting

  Registration/welcome (08:00-08:30)
  Session 1 (8:30-10:00)
  8:30	Update on the ROPAD study	Dr. Peter Bauer
  9:15	Update on the PDGene study	Roy Alcalay, Manu Sharma
  Coffee break (10:00-10:30)
  Session 2 (10:30-12:00)
  10:30	WGS in PD in the Korean population	Sun Ju Chung
  11:15	Propagative alpha-synuclein seeds as serum biomarkers in synucleinopathies	Nobutaka Hattori
  Guided poster tour – part 1 (12:00-12:30)
  Lunch (12:30-13:30)
  Session 3 (13:30-15:00)
  13:30	Brain-first vs. body first model of Parkinson’s disease	Per Borghammer
  14:15	Proteinopenia in neurodegeneration	Andrea Sturchio
  Coffee break (15:00-15:30)
  Guided poster tour – part 2 (15:30-16:00)
  Session 4 (16:00-18:15)
  16:00	The role of genetics in DBS	Patrick Santens
  16:45	Neuropathology of alpha-synucleinopathies	Anne Sieben
  17:15	Sleep disorders in alpha-synucleinopathies	Femke Dijkstra
  Closing remarks and discussion (17:45-18:15)

• 31 Oct

  GEoPD members only
  Closed meeting

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  Registration/Welcome 08:00-08:30
  Session 1: Updates on ongoing projects (8:30-12:00)
  08:30	Update on LONG-PD	Bruce Chase
  09:15	Update on COURAGE-PD	Manu Sharma
  Coffee break (10:00-10:30)
  10:30	Phenotype/genotype correlation in bi-allelic PARKN-PD	Jean-Christophe Corvol
  11:15	Update on DBS project	Katerina Markopoulou
  Lunch (12:00-13:00)
  Session 2: Datablitz part 1 (13:00-14:30)
  Coffee break (14:30-15:00)
  Session 3: Datablitz part 2 (15:00-16:30)
  Session 4: Future projects (16:30-17:30)
  Closing remarks and discussion (17:30-18:00)