Day 5 | August 24
ISNI DAY 4 | WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23 |
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PLENARY SESSION8:00am - 10:00am |
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| Neuroinflammation in degenerative diseases Chairs: New insights into how brain and periphery communicate Jonathan Kipnis (USA) TBD Michael Heneka (Germany) TBD Li Gan (USA) Honing in on the molecular orchestrators of neuroprotective microglial responses in Alzheimer’s disease John R. Lukens (USA) |
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| Coffee Break 10:00am-10:30am | ||
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS10:30am - 12:00pm |
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| CNS barriers (e.g. blood-brain barrier, CNS lymphatics, meninges, ependyma) Chairs: Regulation of the blood-brain barrier in health and disease Richard Daneman (USA) Ependymal cell dysregulation during neuroinflammatory events Jo Anne Stratton (Canada) TBD Alexandre Prat (Canada) Oral Presentations | Infection and neuroinflammation Chairs: Christopher Power (Canada) Robyn Klein (USA) Cornelia Bergmann (USA) Oral Presentations |
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| Lunch Break & Novartis Sponsored Symposium (starts at 12:15pm) 12:00pm-1:00pm | ||
| Novartis Sponsored Symposium | Understanding the Unique Features of Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibodies for B-Cell Depletion in MS Chairs: TBD Dr Amit Bar-Or TBD Dr. Virginia Devonshire | ||
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS1:00pm - 3:00pm |
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| From basic to translational and clinical Neuroimmunology: contributions from young scientists Chairs: 13:00-13:15 | Introduction ISNI Young Committee & JNI 13:15-13:30 | TBD TBD 13:30-13:45 | TBD TBD 13:45-14:00 | Fighting friendly fire: immunobiology, diagnostics, and therapeutics in antibody-mediated CNS disorders Sudarshini Ramanathan (Australia) 14:00-14:15 | Immune regulation of stress Chao Wang (Canada) 14:15-14:30 | TBD TBD 14:30-14:45 | TBD TBD 14:45-15:00 | TBD TBD | Peripheral Neuroimmunology Chairs: Nociceptor neuron recognition of microbes in host defense and immunity Isaac Chiu (USA) TBD Hai Qi (China) Neuro-immune interactions in the gut Daniel Mucida (USA) Oral Presentations | Learning about Neuroimmunology through ALS Sponsored by ALS Society of Quebec Chairs: The title of my talk will be: Microglia and macrophages for ALS progression. Séverine Boillée (France) TBD Bahareh Ajami (USA) TBD Jasna Kriz (Canada) TBD Cristina Limatola (Italy) Role of endogenous retroviruses in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Avindra Nath (USA) Restoring glial functions at the neuromuscular synapse: a clinical target in ALS Richard Robitaille (Canada) |
ISNI KEYNOTE LECTURE3:00pm - 4:00pm |
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| The Immunology Lecture Chair: Alexander Flügel (Germany) |
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POSTER SESSION 34:00pm - 6:00pm |
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