Symposium 2018
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17. TWS-Symposium am 16. März 2018 im Rahmen des DGKN-Kongresses an der Freien Universität Berlin
Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias and related disorders: Update on research concepts and on therapeutic strategies
Time | Speaker (in alphabetical order) | Title | |
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9:00 | Tom Wahlig Rebecca Schüle | Welcome and introduction | |
9:10 | Matthis Synofzik (Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, GER) | Overcoming the divide between ataxias and spastic paraplegias: Shared phenotypes, genes and pathways | |
9:30 | Bernard Brais (University of Montréal, CAN) | The molecular pathophysiology of ARSACS: when the cytoskeleton bundles | |
9:50 | Hélène Puccio (Illkirch, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, F) | Mitochondrial recessive ataxias - from models to gene therapy approaches | |
10:10: Coffee break | |||
10:30 | Rebecca Schüle | Novel TWS funding project: Introduction in awardees | |
10:45 | Martin Regensburger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, GER) | Mechanistic basis of an epistatic interaction reducing age at onset in hereditary spastic paraplegia | |
11:00 | Rachel Allison (Cambridge Institute for Medical Researchs, U.K.) | Investigating a novel phenotype of lyosomal dysfunction in spartin-HSP | |
11:15 | Molly Lettman (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) | Therapeutic strategies to treating hereditary spastic paraplegias | |
11:30 | Hamid Azzedine (Universitätsklinikum RWTH AAchen, GER) | Preliminary data from NGS in consanguineous families with Spastic Paraplegia and related neuropathies
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11:50 | Evan Reid (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK) | Mechanistic basis of an epistatic interaction reducing age at onset in hereditary spastic paraplegia | |
12:10 | Giovanni Stevanin (Institut du Cerveau et de Moelle épinière, Paris, F) | CYP2U1 Knock-out partially mimics the spastic paraplegia 56 phenotype | |
12:30: Lunch break | |||
13:45: guided poster session, Henry-Ford-building, Garystr. 35 | |||
15:00 | Markus Damme (Universität Kiel, GER) | Aberrant axonal transport of Lyosomes in Disease | |
15:30 | Cahir O´Kane (University of Cambridge, U.K.) | Architecture and continuity of axonal endoplasmic reticulum are compromised on loss of intramembrane hairpin-containing HSP proteins in Drosophila | |
16:00: Coffee break | |||
16:30 | Julian Großkreutz (Universitätsklinikum Jena, GER) | Progression of ALS: The clinical syndrome and the biomarker profile | |
17:00 | Rebecca Schüle (Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, GER) | An HSP biomarker initiative | |
18:15: by bus to hotel (restaurant close by) | |||
19:30: Awarding of poster prices and dinner |