BEST ORAL PRESENTATION:
Awarded by ACTRIMS (no particular order):
Lorena Martín-Aguilar (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
59-Clinical and laboratory features in anti-NF155 autoimmune nodopathy
Monique Marylin Alves de Almeida (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
61-Exogenous fractalkine enhances oligodendrogenesis and remyelination in the cuprizone-induced demyelination mouse model
Jeff Dong (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canad)
110–Aging perturbs microglia function and upregulates osteopontin to accelerate oxidized phosphatidylcholine-mediated neurodegeneration
Stephanie Zandee (CRCHUM, UdeM, Montréal, Canada )
365–MCAM involvement in regulatory T cell migration across the blood brain barrier: implications for multiple sclerosis
Awarded by EFIS (no particular order):
Irene Molina-Gonzalez (Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain)
131-Astrocyte-Oligodendrocyte interaction drives central nervous system remyelination
Arianna Merlini (Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany)
169-The role of the meningeal layers in CNS autoimmunity
Tommaso Croese (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
287-Disrupting the neuroimmune crosstalk in the spleen exacerbates cognitive loss in animal model of Alzheimer’s disease
Eileen Liao (The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
289-Impact of high fibre diet and its combination with intermittent fasting in CNS autoimmunity
Reza Naghavian (University hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
163- Identification of target antigens for glioblastoma-infiltrating CD4+ T cells
David Frieser (INSERM, Toulouse, France)
215- Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells drive compartmentalized and chronic autoimmune damage against CNS neurons
BEST POSTER (no particular order):
Ewa Andrzejak (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Berlin, Germany)
173-Effects of patient-derived anti-NMDA receptor antibodies on synaptic function and cortical network activity
Cecilie Madsen (University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Odense, Denmark)
253-Microglial Uptake and Degradation of Amyloid β is Affected by Inhibition of the Lysosomal Protease Cathepsin Z
David Schafflick (Department of Neurology with Institute of Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany )
311–B cells and their progenitors reside in non-diseased meninges
Fatima Hellani (CIIL, équipe 4, S.PIED CNRS UMR 9017 Institut Pasteur de Lille, lille, France)
337–Role of senescence induced by Plasmodium in astrocytes in the pathogenesis of Cerebral Malaria
Simon Thebault (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)
199-Baseline and dynamic changes in serum neurofilament light to predict impending MS relapses
Solenne Vigne (CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland)
213-Alterations of blood cholesterol homeostasis does not affect inflammation and progression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
Niamh McNamara (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
27-Microglia preserve myelin integrity in the central nervous system
Hyein Kim (Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
154-Acquisition of viral and self antigens by B cells in virus infected brain
Erica Butti (San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy)
217- Neural precursor cells tune striatal connectivity via secretion of IGFBPL-1.
Verena Haage (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York City, United States)
248-Towards manipulating microglial subsets in humans: an approach to polarize microglia in a targeted fashion
Sponsored by France Alzheimer
Aurora Valeria Pignata (Institut Toulousain des Maladies Infectieuses et Inflammatoires, TOULOUSE, France)
208-Investigating the role of Tissue-resident memory T cells in chronic CNS autoimmune disease
DON’T MISS A WORD WINNERS:
November 9, 2021 (no particular order):
Aurora Valeria Pignata (France)
John Heywood (Australia)
Xiaoyang Wang (Sweden)
November 10, 2021 (no particular order):
Noémie Oziol (France)
Fabrice Faure (France)
Martina Spiljar (USA)
November 11, 2021 (no particular order):
Benjamin Schmitt (France)
Markley Oliveira-Junior (Germany)
Arnaud B. Nicot (France)
November 12, 2021 (no particular order):
Evelyn Peelen (Germany)
Carlo Esteban Sotelo (Mexico)
Olivia Luise Gern (Germany)