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Preliminary Programme


ISN-IBRO SCHOOL 2009
A SONA pre-conference event

“Cell death mechanisms and neuroprotective strategies in neurologic disorders.”

Organisers: Simon Heales (UCL), Roger Butterworth (U Montreal) and Raj Kalaria (NCL).
 

Day 1
Noon – 2.30 pm Registration, Welcome mixer (Simon Heales)
3 pm SESSION I Introduction (Chair Abdul Mohammed)
3.00 – 3.30 pm Neuronal Necrosis versus Apoptosis (Raj Kalaria)
3.30 – 4.00 pm Brain Energy Metabolism and Neuronal cell death (Simon Heales)
4.00 – 4.30 pm Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration (Marina Bentivoglio)
4.30 – 5.00 pm General Discussion
7 pm Dinner


Day 2
7 – 8.30 am

Breakfast

8.30 am SESSION II Alzheimer’s Disease (Chair Simon Heales)
8.30 – 9.00 am Neuropathology of Common Neurodegenerative Dementias (Raj Kalaria)
9.00 – 9.15 am Questions
9.15 – 9.45 am Neuronal Cell Death Mechanisms in Dementias (Raj Kalaria)
9.45 – 10.00 am Questions
10.00 – 10.30 am Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00 am Animal Models of AD (Abdul Mohammed)
11.00 – 11.15 am Questions
11.15 – 11.45 am Therapy / Neuroprotection in AD (Raj Kalaria)
11.45 – 12.00 pm Questions
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 – 5 pm Laboratory Workshop I : Laboratory Workshop I : Basic Neuropathology
(Philippe De Deuwaerdere, Abdul Mohammed)
7 pm Dinner
8.30 pm Informal After-Dinner Discussion: Survival Skills I
(Communications / Presentations)


Day 3
7 – 8.30 am

Breakfast
8.30 am SESSION III Parkinson’s Disease (Chair Simon Heales)
8.30 – 9.00 am Neuropathology of PD (Roger Butterworth)
9.00 – 9.15 am Questions
9.15 – 9.45 am Neuronal Cell Death Mechanisms in PD (Philippe De Deuwaerdere)
9.45 – 10.00 am Questions
10.00 – 10.30 am Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00 am Animal Models of PD (Philippe De Deuwaerdere)
11.00 – 11.15 am Questions
11.15 – 11.45 am Novel Therapeutic Strategies in PD (Raj Kalaria)
11.45 – 12.00 pm Questions
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 – 5.00 pm Laboratory Workshop II : Immunohistochemistry
Nouria Lakhdar-Ghazal,Howard Cooper, Samir Ahboucha)
7.00 pm Dinner
8.30 pm Informal After-Dinner Discussion: Survival Skills II
(Careers in Neuroscience)


Day 4
7 – 8.30 am

Breakfast
8.30 am SESSION IV Stroke, Metabolic Disorders (Chair Nilesh Patel)
8.30 – 9.00 am Ischemic Brain Injury (Simon Heales)
9.00 – 9.15 am Questions
9.15 – 9.45 am Neuroprotection in Stroke (Simon Heales)
9.45 – 10.00 am Questions
10.00 – 10.30 am Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00 am Neuronal cell death Wernicke’s Encephalopathy (Roger Butterworth)
11.00 – 11.15 am Questions
11.15 – 11.45 am Protective effect of neurosteroids in Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury (Samir Ahboucha)
11.45 – 12.00 pm Questions
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch
1.30 – 5.00 pm Student Presentations
7 pm Dinner
  Free evening


Day 5
7 – 8.30 am

Breakfast
8.30 am SESSION V Neuronal Cell Death: African Perspectives
(Chair Marina Bentivoglio)
8.30 – 9.00 am Review of Neurodegenerative Diseases in Africa (Nilesh Patel)
9.00 – 9.15 am Questions
9.15 – 9.45 am Cerebral Malaria (TBA)
9.45 – 10.00 am Questions
10.00 – 10.30 am Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00 am Konzo: a dying-back neuropathy (TBA)
11.00 – 11.15 am Questions
11.15 – 11.45 am African species as animal models of selective neuronal cell death (TBA)
11.45 – 12.00 pm Questions
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch
Afternoon Free for local visit (Faculty and students)


 
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