BrainStem - Stem Cell Center of Excellence in Neurology
29-30 August 2016 BrainStem Symposium
The lectures given during our first annual BrainStem Symposium are open to everybody. Lunch is available for the participants who signed up for the symposium only.
Program 29-30 August 29 August Session Chair – Poul Hyttel 10.00 Welcome 10.05 Keynote lecture I: Frank Edenhofer, University of Würzburg, DE 10.50 Denham Group, Aarhus University, DK: Muwan Chen – Investigating the role of Alpha-Synuclein in GBA1 iPSC-derived neurons 11.10 Roybon Group, Lund University, S: Carla Azevedo – Generation of Oligodendrocytes from pluripotent stem cells 11.35 Lunch Session Chair – Yu Zhang 12.40 Meyer Group, University of Southern Denmark, DK: Helle Bogetofte Thomasen – Proteomic characterisation of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons carrying PARK2 mutations & Renuka Sivapatham – Generation of isogenic PINK1 iPSC lines to understand the role of mitochondrial clearance in Parkinson's disease 13.20 Kirkeby Group, Lund University, S: Pedro Rifes – Modeling Human Neural Tube Patterning with Microfluidic Gradients 13.40 Hyttel Group, University of Copenhagen, DK: Vanessa Hall – Modeling pig entorhinal cortex development in a dish for creation of Alzheimer’s disease relevant neurons 14.00 Bioethics workshop: Peter Sandøe & Mickey Gjerris, University of Copenhagen, DK 15.30 Coffee and cake Session Chair – Kristine Freude 16.00 Sandøe Group, University of Copenhagen, DK: Peter Sandøe – Communicating Identifiability Risks to Biobank Donors 16.20 Clausen Group, Bioneer A/S, DK: Natakarn Nimsanor – MAPT R406W isogenic lines & Benjamin Schmid – Doxycycline inducible expression of MAPT 2N4R 17.00 Keynote lecture II: Brent Ryan, Univ. of Oxford, UK: Molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's disease: integrating animal and stem cell models August 30th Session Chair – Pedro Rifes 8.00 Hyttel Group, University of Copenhagen, DK: Yu Zhang – Modeling and study of frontotemporal dementia 3 using human iPS cellderived neurons & Anna Poon – Opportunities of modelling Alzheimer’s disease with patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells & Kristine Freude – Genes and pathways commonly affected in Neurodegenerative Diseases 9.00 Gouras Group, Lund University, S: Katarina Willén – Cellular Phenotypes in Neuron Models of Alzheimer’s disease 9:20 Fog Group, H. Lundbeck A/S, DK: Tina Charlotte Stummann – Establishing Tau and Alpha-synuclein seeding models in iPSC neurons & Helena Borland Madsen - Handling of pathogenic proteins – Interplay between neurons and microglia 10.00 Coffee break Session Chair – Carlota Pires 10.20 Gorodkin Group, University of Copenhagen, DK: Stefan Seeman – Predicted evolutionary conserved RNA structures in genes related to brain function and development & Ali Altintas – CaptureSeq strategies for disease analysis & Christian Anthon – The BrainStem computational infrastructure 11:00 Lou Group, Aarhus University, DK: Yonglun Luo - Genome Editing and Regulation & Lin Lin - Enhanced CRISPR gene editing with recombinant SpCas9 proteins 11.40 Lunch Session Chair – Helle Bogetofte Thomasen 12.30 Waldemar Group, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, DK: Steen G. Hasselbalch – Recruitment of Patients & Troels T. Nielsen – Cellular Mechanisms in SCA2 & Anja H. Simonsen – CSF Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases 13.30 Campagnone Group, ICDD, F: Nathalie Compagnone - Mitochondrial behavior phenotyping in Neurodegeneration 13.50 Management of BrainStem, Karina G. Christensen, Univ. of Copenhagen, DK 14.10 Keynote lecture III: Martin Røssel Larsen, University of Southern Denmark, DK: Application of proteomics and PTMomics for studying cellular signaling in neurons 14.55 End of symposium