TWS Symposium 2024
March 7 + 8, 2024 in Erlangen
Our 22nd Symposium will take place in Erlangen, Germany on 7 and 8 March.
If you would like to contribute a poster, please use this template: t3://file?uid=1760
Please send it with the file name Name_First Name_TWS_2024 to susanne.wahlig@hsp-info.de.
The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is February 16, 2024.
Please bring your poster printed out in DIN A 0 format (84.1 × 118.9 cm) to the symposium.
Together with the treatHSP network we will present the following programme over the two days:
March, 7th:
| 9:00 | Keynote Lecture | John K. Fink, Ann Arbor, USA | |
| 10:00-11:30 | Session 1 | Digital gait analysis in hereditary spastic paraplegias | |
| Chair | Heiko Gaßner | ||
| Speakers | Alexander Geurts, Nijmegen, NL Winfried Ilg, Tübingen, GER | ||
| 11:30-11:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:45-12:45 | Session 2 | Intervention strategies and symptomatic therapy | |
| Chairs | Stephan Klebe, Essen, GER and Martin Regensburger, Erlangen, GER | ||
| Speakers | Marcondes Franca, Campina, BRA Andreas Rowald, Lausanne CH + Tübingen, GER | ||
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch Break and Poster Session | ||
| Atrium Lecture Hall, Östliche Stadtmauer 11 | |||
| 14:15:16:45 | Session 3 | From genetics to disease mechanisms | |
| Chairs | Beate Winner, Erlangen, GER and Christel Depienne, Essen, GER | ||
| Speakers | Christian Hübner, Jena, GER Antonia Roll-Mecak, Bethesda, USA Giorgio Casari, Naples, ITA | ||
| 18:00 | TWS Get together | ||
| Venue | Orangerie "Wassersaal", Wasserturmstraße 3, 91054 Erlangen Walking distance 500 metres | ||
| Exhibition | Adolf Struempell´s anatomical specism | ||
| Historical Lecture | Neurology and psychiatry through the ages in Erlangen | ||
| Dinner |
March, 8th:
| 9:00-10:30 | Session 4 | Human stem cell models of HSP | Parallel Movement Analysis Workshop |
| Chairs | N.N. | Motion Capture EMG Mobile Gait Analysis | |
| Speakers | Beate Winner, Erlangen, GER Simone Mayer, Tübingen, GER | ||
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45-12:45 | Session 5 | Disease-modifying therapies in HSP and beyond | |
| Chairs | Jürgen Winkler, Erlangen, GER and Ludger Schöls, Tübingen, GER | ||
| Speakers | Wolfgang Köhler, Leipzig, GER Florian Eichler, Boston, USA | ||
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch Break and Poster Session | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Awards Ceremony | ||
TWS Research Award Adolf-Struempell-Prize Poster Prize Awards | |||
| 15:15-16:00 | Concluding remarks and end of the event |