8:30 |
Welcome by Rudi Balling, LCSB Director |
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9:00 |
Keynote by Michel Goedert, Head of the division of Neurobiology |
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge |
10:00 |
Coffee break with Poster session and industry exhibition |
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Session 1: Mitochondrial Dysfunction & Dynamics |
10:30 |
"Gene products of monogenic forms for Parkinson's disease and their links to mitochondrial and protein degradation pathways" |
Clinical: Nobutaka Hattori, Chairman, Juntendo University School of Medicine |
11:00 |
Translational: George Mellick, Chief Investigator, Griffith University |
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11:30 |
"Damage Control and Parkinson's Disease: Roles of the kinase PINK1 and the ubiquitin ligase Parkin in the autophagy of mitochondria in vitro and in vivo" |
Fundamental: Richard Youle, Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health |
12:00 |
Young researcher |
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12:15 |
Lunch & poster session & industry exhibition and guided poster tour |
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Session 2: Connectivity and Excitability |
13:30 |
"DBS in PD: where do we stand and how may technical innovations help improving" |
Clinical: Jens Volkmann, Director and Chairman of the Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Würzburg |
14:00 |
Translational: Richard Wade-Martins, Principal Investigator, The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre |
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14:30 |
"Bad brain waves in Parkinson's and new approaches to putting them right" |
Fundamental: Peter Brown, Director, Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford |
15:00 |
Young researcher |
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15:15 |
Coffee break |
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Session 3: Aggregation & degradation |
15:45 |
"Clinical phenotypes related to synuclein pathology in Parkinson´s disease" |
Clinical: Jan O. Aasly, Consultant Neurologist/Professor of Neurology, St. Olavs Hospital |
16:15 |
"PRX002, a Mab targeting alpha-synuclein for disease modification in Parkinson's disease: from preclinical models to first in humans" |
Translational: Markus Britschgi, Principal Scientist in Neuroscience Discovery, Roche - See more at: https://geopd.uni.lu/Program/7-October#sthash.FRwkHUlZ.dpuf |
16:45 |
"Alpha-synuclein synaptic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease" |
Fundamental: Maria Grazia Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology, University of Cambridge |
17:15 |
Young researcher |
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17:30 |
Wrap-up |
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18:30 |
Social event "A night at the furnace", Reception, dinner & cultural heritage |
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