Day 4 | August 23

ISNI DAY 3 - TUESDAY AUGUST 22
PLENARY SESSION 8:30am - 10:00am
Pathological mechanisms in autoimmune diseases of the nervous system Chairs: B cells, BAFF and CNS inflammation Jennifer Gommerman (Canada) TBD William H. Robison (USA) TBD Sean Pittock (USA)
Coffee Break \| 10:00am-10:30am
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS 10:30am - 12:00pm
Involvement of glial cells in neuroinflammation Chairs: Francisco Quintana (USA) Zhigang He (USA) Shane Liddelow (USA) Oral Presentations	Influence of sex and age on neuroinflammation Chairs: TBD Shannon Dunn (Canada) Female sex exacerbates age-related changes in microglia Marina Lynch (Ireland) Sex differences in microglial metabolism and implications for neural development Staci Bilbo (USA) Biological sex as a determinant in inflammatory T cell responses in chronic CNS autoimmunity Manu Rangachari (Canada) Oral Presentations
Lunch Break \| 12:00pm-1pm
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Microglia in neural development, remodelling, and protection Chairs: Diverse macrophages sense and govern brain environment Takahiro Masuda (Japan) The many roles of microglia in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration Rosa Paolicelli (Switzerland) Impact of microglia metabolic flexibility and immunometabolism on neuronal function Brian MacVicar (Canada) Oral Presentations	T cells in neurological diseases Chairs: Stranger Things about IL-12 and IL-23 Burkhard Becher (Switzerland) TBD Vijay Kuchroo (USA) The role of the non-canonical NFkB signalling in the regulation of autoimmunity Ari Waisman (Germany) Oral Presentations	Biomarkers of neuroinflammation Chairs: TBD Heinz Wiendl (Germany) Biomarkers of relapsing course in MOG antibody-associated disease Fabienne Brilot (Australia) TBD Mark Freedman (Canada) TBD Oral Presentations
ISNI KEYNOTE LECTURE 3:00pm - 4:00pm
The Rita Levi-Montalcini Neurobiology Lecture Chair: Inflammation and Neurodegeneration in multiple sclerois: A single and common pathway? Hans Lassmann (Austria)
POSTER SESSION 2 4:00pm - 6:00pm