ISNI DAY 5 - THURSDAY AUGUST 24

PLENARY SESSION


8:00am - 10:00am
Neuroinflammation in neural injury and repair (e.g. stroke, spinal cord damage, remyelination)
Chairs:


TBD
Dorian McGavern (USA)

TBD
Mikael Simons (Germany)

Microglia regulation of myelin health across the lifespan
Veronique Miron (Canada)

Role of microglia and IL-6 signalling following brain injury
Jana Vukovic (Australia)
Coffee Break 10:00am-10:30am

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS


10:30am - 12:00pm
Emerging therapies for neuroinflammatory conditions
Chairs:


Overcoming CNS fibrosis for neuroregeneration
V. Wee Yong (Canada)

TBD
Frauke Zipp (Germany)

Xenon gas treatment to restore microglial functions in neurodegenerative diseases
Oleg Butovsky (USA)

Oral Presentations
Influence of diet and microbiota on neuroinflammation
Chairs:


TBD
Kathy McCoy (Canada)

Bringing it all together: How do genes, diet and the microbiome contribute to MS?>/strong>
Sergio Baranzini (USA)

Specificity in the dietary fiber-microbiome-immune axis regulates susceptibility to neuroinflammation
Lisa Osborne (Canada)

Oral Presentations
Lunch Break 12:00pm - 1:00pm

AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS


1:00pm - 2:30pm
CNS-infiltrating innate immune cells (DCs, macrophages, neutrophils) and their components/products (e.g. inflammasomes, cytokines)
Chairs:


Cytokines produced by tissue-infiltrating innate immune cells as mediators of pain in chronic autoimmune diseases
Steve Lacroix (Canada)

TBD
Philip Popovich (USA)

TBD
Susanna Rosi (USA)

Oral Presentations
Immuno-neuro-oncology
Chairs:


Michael Platten (Germany)

Lior Mayo (Israel)


Oral Presentations
Novel approaches for neuroimmunologists (e.g. mouse models, lipid nanoparticles, analysis techniques)
Chairs:


TBD
Bart Eggen (the Netherlands)

Decoding the causal chain of glial activation in Alzheimer resolves the heterogeneity of the aging brain
Philip L. De Jager (USA)

Oral Presentations

ISNI KEYNOTE LECTURE


2:30pm - 3:30pm
The John Newsom-Davis Lecture
Chair:


Catherine Lubetzki (France)

MID-CAREER AWARD


3:30pm - 4:15pm

CLOSING SESSION


4:15pm - 5:00pm