20th TWS symposium on November 26th in Essen
Live: on site and in the stream
The program of the 20th symposium:
Abstracts | Speaker | Title |
| TWS + Stephan Klebe | Opening | |
| Kishore Raj Kumar (Syndney, AUS) | Challenges and Controversies in the Genetic Diagnosis of HSP | |
| Fanny Mochel (Paris, FRA) | Update on complex lipids in HSP | |
| Nathalie De Beukelaer (Leuven, BEL) | Muscle Characteristics in Pediatric HSP vs. Bilateral Spastic Cerebral Palsy: An Exploartory Study | |
| Andrea Martinuzzi/Marinela Vavla (Lecco, ITA) | Brain Magnetic Spectroscopy Imaging and HSP | |
| Rebecca Schüle (Tübingen, GER) | PROSPAX | |
| Ludger Schöls (Tübingen, GER) | 2021 TWS funding round: Introduction | |
| Catherine Rodger (Cambridge, GB) | Development of AAV-mediated gene therapy for hereditary spastic paraplegia | |
| Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari (Boston, USA) | Characterization of ap4b1-/- zebrafish as a novel in vivo model of SPG47 and its application in small molecule screens | |
| Gerald Fischer (AUT) | Adolf-Strumpell-Prize for HSP-Therapy: Introduction | |
| Francesca Sardina (Rom, ITA) | Spastin recovery in hereditary spastic paraplegia by preventing neddylation-dependent degradation | |
| Peter Baas (Philadelphia, USA) | Mechanistic Route to Therapy for SPG4 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia | |
| Aurora Pujol (Barcelona, ESP) | Novel metabolic genes causing HSP: the SHMT2 and PIA4KA cases | |
| Stefan Hauser (Tübingen, GER) | Comparative transcrisptional profiling of motor neuron disorder-associated genes in various human cell culture models | |
| Ziv Gan-Or (Montreal, CAN) | CanHSP: genetic and clinical lessons on HSP from a Canadian consortium | |
| Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari (Boston, USA) | AP-4-associated Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia – A Translational Approach to An Ultra-rare Disease | |
| Craig Blackstone (Boston, USA) | New Insights into ER Morphology Dysregulation in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias | |
| Concluding remarks |