Past Courses

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July 16 - 19, 2019 CONGRESS VENUE VUmc Amsterdam (Netherlands) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Sandra Amor Professor and Head of Multiple Sclerosis Research in the Pathology Department VU Medical Center Amsterdam | Netherlands Jeffrey Bajramovic Head of the Alternatives Unit Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) Netherlands Brigit de Jong Department of Neurology VUmc Amsterdam, Netherlands Rogier Hintzen Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands Pilar Martinez Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands Erik Nutma VUmc Amsterdam, Netherlands Jack van Horssen VUmc Amsterdam, Netherlands ORGANISING SCRETARIAT EEM Association Management http://eemservices.com ESNI BOARD SPEAKERS & CHAIRS SELECTED ORAL COMMUNICATIONS SELECTED POSTERS 17th ESNI Course Final program

June 26 - 30, 2017 CONGRESS VENUE San Servolo Venice (Italy) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Sandra Amor Professor and Head of Multiple Sclerosis Research in the Pathology Department VU Medical Center Amsterdam | Netherlands Giovanna Borsellino Neuroimmunology and Flow Cytometry Unit Santa Lucia Foundation Rome | Italy Cinthia Farina San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan | Italy Roberto Furlan Clinical Neuroimmunology Unit Institute of Experimental Neurology INSpe Division of Neuroscience San Raffaele Hospital Milan | Italy Gianvito Martino Division of Neuroscience San Raffaele Hospital Milan | Italy Antonio Uccelli Professor of Neurology Director Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Research (CEBR) University of Genoa [...]

15th ESNI Course | June 1 - 4, 2015 DAY ONE Chairs: G. Martino and P. Stourac INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND GLIA 09.00 - 09.45 Neuroinflammations (T. Owens) 09.45 - 10.30 CNS innate immune responses in chronic neurodegeneration (D. Gomez-Nicola) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.45 Microglia microvescicles as a new biomarker in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration (R. Furlan) 11.45 - 12.30 Immune mechanisms of axonal injury (advanced imaging techniques) (M. Kerschensteiner) 12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH BREAK Chairs: A. Vezzani and Hugh Willison INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND GLIA 13.30 - 14.15 Animal models of neuroinflammatory diseases: strenghts and weaknesses [...]

14th ESNI Course | November 9, 2014 ONE DAY Pre-Course Chairs: G. Martino and R. Furlan Morning Session 09.15 - 09.30 Introduction to the Course (G. Martino) 09.30 - 10.15 Lymphocyte trafficking in the CNS (B. Engelhardt) 10.15 - 11.00 Neuroimmunogenetics (T. Olsson) 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 - 12.15 Regulatory T cells: where we are in neuroimmunological disorders (L. Battistini) 12.15 - 13.00 Microglia: where they come from? (M. Greter) 13.00 - 14.30 LUNCH BREAK Afternoon Session 14.30 - 15.15 Inflammation and synaptic plasticity: a new merging concept in neuroprotection (D. Centonze) 15.15 - 16.00 Ion channel disorders: [...]

13th ESNI COURSE | 3-6 July 2013Program DAY ONE Chairs: M.J. Sà and G. Martino Learning from very experienced and inspiring neuroimmunologists - how to achieve success in clinical and laboratory research, and business in neuroimmunology 09.00 - 09.45 BIOGEN SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM Mechanisms of tissue injury in multiple sclerosis (H. Lassmann) 09.45 - 10.30 Science and serendipity: balancing family and opportunities (A. Vincent) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.45 From discovery of a neurological autoimmune mechanism to provison of a robust diagnostic reagent (W. Stoecker) 11.45 - 12.30 Ethnicity and age may shap ethe phenotype of some neuroimmunological [...]

12th ESNI Course | 4-8 November 2012 Program DAY ONE Morning Session 09.30 - 10.15 Monocyte trafficking to the CNS: When, how and what happens next
 (R. Ransohoff) 10.15 - 11.00 The role of immune genes in the CNS
 (D. Hafler) 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 - 12.15 Immune regulation in CNS autoimmunity
 (A. Waisman) 11.30 - 12.15 Unexpected role for MHCI and PIRB in synaptic remodeling during brain development (C. Shatz) 12.15 - 13.00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session 14.30 - 15.15 Use and abuse of animal models of multiple sclerosis (D. Baker) 15.15 - 16.00 The role of [...]

11th ESNI Course | 4-7 July 2011 Program DAY ONE Chairs: T. Olsson, L. Probert Neuroinflammation and cellular responses in the CNS 09.00 - 09.45 Banking the brain – from resource to laboratory (S. Amor) 09.45 - 10.30 Neuropathology now! (H. Lassmann) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 11.45 What’s really going on? Visualising neuroinflammation in vivo (M. Kerschensteiner) 11.45 - 12.30 Striking a balance - Innate vs adaptive immunity in neuroinflammation (H. Perry) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch with the experts Chairs: H. Perry, S. Amor Genetics, Environmental factors and neuroinflammation 13.30 - 14.15 Emerging genetics in MS: a [...]

10th Esni Course | 26 - 30 October 2010 Program DAY ONE Morning Session What neurologists need to know 09.00 - 09.45 Regeneration and the immune system (Anthony L. Mescher. Indiana University, US) 09.45 - 10.30 Genetic approaches for Neurological disorders (Maja Jagodic. Karolinska Institute, Sweden) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 11.45 Autoimmunity: from T to B cells (Joan Goverman. Washington University, US) 11.45 - 12.30 The blood brain barriers: gates or fences for immune cell entry into the CNS? (Britta Engelhardt, Unviersity of Bern, Switzerland) 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break Afternoon Session What biologists need to know [...]

9th ESNI Course | 1-4 September 2009 Program DAY ONE Chairs: G. Martino and A. Altintas Neuroscience and neurobiology: basic aspects 9.00 - 9.45 The host defense of Drosophila melanogaster (D. Ferrandon) 09.45 - 10.30 Regulatory and effector T cells in the central nervous system (S.D. Miller) 9.45 - 10.30 Exploring the plant immune response (S. van Wees) 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 - 11.45 The inflammasome: a new entry (S. Drexler) 11.45 - 12.30 Autophagy in autoimmunity (F. Cecconi) 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch with the experts 13.30 - 14.15 The immunomodulatory role of neural stem cells (S. Pluchino) [...]