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DAY 1: Monday June 1, 2015
Innate Immune System and Glia
Morning Session
Chairs: Gianvito Martino and Pavel Stourac
09:00 – 09:45: Neuroinflammation
Trevor Owens | Denmark
09:45 – 10:30: CNS innate immune responses in chronic neurodegeneration
Diego Gomez-Nicola | United Kingdom
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45: Microglia microvescicles as a new biomarker in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Roberto Furlan | Italy
11:45 – 12:30: Immune mechanisms of axonal injury (advanced imaging techniques)
Martin Kerschensteiner | Germany
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Chairs: Annamaria Vezzani and Hugh Willison
13:30 – 14:15: Animal models of neuroinflammatory diseases: strengths and weaknesses
Lesley Probert | Greece
14:15 – 15:00: Neuroinflammation in AD
Frederic Brosseron | Germany
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15: Immune responses in the CNS in epilepsy
Annamaria Vezzani | Italy
16:15 – 17:00: Inflammation and accumulation of mitochondrial deficits as a cause of neurodegeneration
Don Mahad | United Kingdom
DAY 2: Tuesday June 2, 2015
Adaptive Immune Responses in the CNS- T Cells
Morning Session
Chairs: Roberto Furlan and Antonio Uccelli
09:00 – 09:45: Mechanisms of T cell pathogenesis
Burkhard Becher | Switzerland
09:45 – 10:30: Th17 and memory cells in CNS autoimmunity
Thomas Korn | Germany
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45: CD8 T cell-mediated immunopathology in the CNS
Roland Liblau | France
11:45 – 12:30: Stem cells in immunomodulation and neuroprotection
Antonio Uccelli | Italy
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
Chairs: Don Mahad and Thomas Korn
13:30 – 14:15: Neuronal regulation of neuroinflammation
Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas | Denmark
14:15 – 15:00: Paraneoplastic syndromes- update focused on new and emerging syndromes
Pavel Stourac | Czech Republic
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15: Treg in CNS autoimmunity and therapeutic perspectives
Benoit Salomon | France
DAY 3: Wednesday June 3, 2015
Adaptive Immune Responses in the CNS- B Cells
Morning Session
Chairs: Roberta Ward and Trevor Owens
09:00 – 09:45: Neuroinflammation, emerging roles for B cells and antibody in CNS disorders
Christopher Linington | United Kingdom
09:45 – 10:30: Neurobiology of multiple sclerosis
Gianvito Martino | Italy
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45: Immunpathology of B cell associated CNS disorders
Hans Lassmann | Austria
11:45 – 12:30: Neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases including ALS disease, Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease
Roberta Ward | United Kingdom
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch break
Afternoon Session
Chairs: Hugh Willison and Lesley Probert
13:30 – 14:15: Human Ab and CNS demyelination, new methods for analysing antibody specificities
Jeffrey Bennett | United States
14:15 – 15:00: B cell function and autoantibodies in MS
Edgar Meinl | Germany
15:00 – 15:45: Pathogenic autoantibodies in human autoimmune encephalitis
Josep Dalmau | Spain
15:45 – 16:30: MS tissue and sample banks
Sandra Amor | the Netherlands
16:30 – 16:45: Coffee break
Chairs: Sandra Amor and Hans Lassmann
16:45 – 18:15: Debate on the relevance of meningeal follicles in MS
DAY 4: Thursday June 4, 2015
Disease
Morning Session
Chairs: Christopher Linington and Nicola Woodroofe
09:00 – 09:45: Narcolepsy
Mehdi Tafti | Switzerland
09:45 – 10:30: Autoimmune neuropathies
Hugh Willison | United Kingdom
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45: Treatment of CNS demyelinating disorders
Eva Havrdova | Czech Republic
11:45 – 12:30: Immunological differences between NMO and MS / NMDA involvement
Zsolt Illés | Denmark
Student Presentations and Closing Lecture
Afternoon Session
Chairs: Nicola Woodroofe and Petra Praksova
13:30 – 13:45: The immunogenicity of amyloid beta oligomers and their role in macrophage-mediated inflammation
Indre Dalgediene | Lithuania
13:45 – 14:00: The novel role of ALCAM in neuroinflammation and BBB homeostasis
Marc-André Lécuyer | Canada
14:00 – 14:15: Stressed oligodendrocytes trigger microglia activation a key event in early multiple sclerosis lesion formation
Laura Peferoen | the Netherlands
14:15 – 14:30: Chemokine expression and migration of immune cells in the central nervous system in viral neuroinflammation, with focus on regulatory T cells
Liza Lind | Sweden
14:30 – 14:45: TSPO-PET imaging reveals that anti-VLA-4 treatment leads to reduced microglial activation in focal rodent EAE
Susanne Vainio | Finland
CLOSING LECTURE
14:45 – 15:30: Gut microbioma and autoimmunity -current status and perspectives
Gurumoorthy Kirshnamoorthy | Germany
