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| Detailed Schedule (Tentative): |
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| 14.00 - 17.00 |
APSN Council Meeting |
| 14.00 |
Registration |
| 18.00 |
Opening Reception |
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| 08.30 - 09.30 |
Plenary #1 – Professor Glenda Halliday
Chaired by Andrew Lawrence |
| 09.30 - 10.30 |
Special Lecture – Prof. Doug Feinstein |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee, Poster viewing and Exhibition |
| 11.00 - 13.00 |
Symposia |
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| SYM #1 – Cell therapy for parkinson’s disease |
- Deniz Kirik – Perspectives on the clinical experience
- Lachlan Thompson – Transgenic reporter mice as tools for grafting studies
- Clare Parish – Axonal growth guidance mechanisms for midbrain dopamine neurons
- Jun Takahashin – Stem cell therapy for PD
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| SYM #2 – New players in the molecular pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
- Stefan Marklund – Misfolded superoxide dismutase-1 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Ian Blair – Molecular genetic insights into ALS
- Kohsuke Kanekura – Pathomechanism of mutant VAPB-mediated ALS: a missing link between sporadic and familial ALS dramamine?
- Bradley Turner Howard – Expression of the SMA determining factor, survival motor neuron, modulates the ALS phenotype
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| 13.00 - 14.00 |
Lunch, Poster viewing and Exhibition |
| 14.00 - 16.00 |
Young Investigator Colloquia |
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YIC #1 – Mechanisms of diseases (tentative title)
Chaired by Yukio Yoneda |
- Paul Joseph Lockhart – Investigation of the role of parkin and Parkin Co-Regulated Gene in Parkinsonian disorders
- Yoshio Bando – The regulatory function of Kalikrein 6 in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
- Peter J Crouch – The molecular mechanism of action for metal-ligand complexes as potential therapeutics for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases
- Sangyeul Han – Common pathway in uncommon diseases; the TSC/mTOR signaling pathway in neurocutaneous diseases
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YIC #2 – Neuronal Plasticity and Circadian Rhythm (tentative title)
Chaired by Prakash Babu |
- Anthony J Hannan – Molecular mediators, environmental modulators and experience-dependent plasticity in mouse models of brain disorders
- Nicole M Jones – Roles for hypoxia-inducivle factor-1 (HIF-1) in brain protection and plasticity
- Sujira Mukda – The circadian genes and drug addition (Amphetamine-induced change in circadian rhythms of dopaminergic system in the rat)
- Prapimpun Wongchitrat – The circadian genes and drug addition (Circadian rhythm of clock gene in methamphetamine treated rat brain and pineal gland during postnatal development)
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| 16.00 - 16.30 |
Coffee |
| 16.30 - 18.30 |
Symposia |
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| SYM #3 – Drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease: complexes and targets |
- Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath – New discoveries in neurodegeneration and their support for drug targets
- KS Jagannatha Rao – Natural products as drugs: A new hope
- Ralph N Martins – Novel biochemical pathways needs to be identified as drug targets
- Masaaki Matsuoka – A debate on environmentally (Al-maltol) induced aged rabbit as AD animal model: a debate on hope in drug discovery
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| SYM #4 – Astrocyte in diseases |
- Schuichi Koizumi – Mechanisms underlying release of vliotransmitter ATP and neuronal functons
- Shumin Duan – Title to be announced
- Takahiro Takano – In vivo imaging of ATP release in rat cerebral cortex
- Yasushi Enokido – Abnormal metabolic neuron-glia interaction and neurological disorders: Possible implications in inborn errors of metabolism
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| 08.30 - 09.30 |
Plenary #2 – Professor Hideyuki Okano
Chaired by Kazuhiro Ikenaka |
| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Coffee, Poster viewing and Exhibition |
| 10.00 - 12.00 |
Young Investigator Colloquia |
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YIC #3 – Stem Cell
Chaired by Akio Wanaka |
- Tara L Walker – Neural stem cell:Activation of latent stem cells in the adult mouse hippocampus
- Nopporn Jongkamonwiwat – Neural stem cell: Survival and differentiation of hESCs-derived Otic NeuroProgenitor cells (ONPs) transplanted into the gerbil cochlea
- Areechun Sotthibundhu – Neural stem cell: Melatonin-enhanced neurogenesis in subventricular zone
- Xiao-bing Yuan – Chemotropic guidance of cortical radial migration
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YIC #4 – Glial Cells in Health and Disease
Chaired by Rashmi Bansal |
- Trent Watkins – The development of a coculture platform for mechanistic studies of myelination and remyelination
- Junhua Xiao – Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor enhances central nervous system myelination via a direct effect on oligodendrocytes
- Kenji Tanaka – A versatile new gene modulating system and its application in glial biology
- Xinhua Zhang – Activation of PI-Linked D1-Like receptor modulates FGF-2 expression in astrocytes via IP3-dependent Ca2+ signaling
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| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch, Poster viewing and Exhibition |
| 13.30 - 14.30 |
Special Lecture: Professor Setou
Chaired by Peter Dunkley |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Coffee and APSN business meeting |
| 15.30 - 16:30 |
Special Lecture: Aryeh Routtenberg – "A novel hypothesis of memory loss in Alzheimer's disease: new direction for drug discovery?"
Chaired by Peter Wong |
| 16:30 - 18:00 |
Free Activity |
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| 08.30 - 09.30 |
Plenary #3 – Professor Kyungjin Kim
Chaired by Akio Wanaka |
| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Coffee, Poster viewing and Exhibition |
| 10.00 - 12.00 |
Symposia |
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| SYM #5 – The Chloride Ion and cell signaling in neurobiology |
- Thomas Jentsch*
- Stephen Moss*
- Stephen Shears*
- Shigeo Takamori*
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| SYM #6 – Ins and outs of cell fate determination in the central nervous system |
- Valerie A Wallace – The role of signaling molecules in neural development in the retina
- Yasuki Ishizaki – Control of neural cell proliferation and differentiation in the developing cerebellum
- Eyleen LK Goh – Neuroregeneration in the adult central nervous system
- William Richardson – Neural stem and progenitor cells in the embryonic and adult CNS
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| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch, Poster viewing and Exhibition |
| 13.30 - 15.30 |
The Tokuji Ikenaka Prizes for Best presentation
Chaired by Piyarat Govitrapong |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| SYM #7 – Regulation of oligodendrocyte development and myelination |
- Robert H biaxin. Miller – Control of early oligodendrocyte development by local cell-cell interactions
- Hiroko Baba – Disruption of axo-glial interaction causes alteration of axonal transport
- Wendy B. Macklin – Signaling pathways regulating myelination
- Vidita A Vaidya – Thyroid Hormone and regulation of Gene expression in the adult mammalian brain - relevance to oligodendrocyte development
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| SYM #8 – Validation and molecular mechanism of schizophrenia and depression |
- Dongho Geum – The relationships between adult neurogenesis and depression using Dcx-CreER;
- Rosa26floxed-DTA mouse
Tetsufumi Kanazawa – The validation of schizophrenia diagonized by DSM
- Sang-ki Park – Molecular links between schizophrenia and mitochondria
- Heon-Jeong Lee – The associations between reactive oxygen species related gene polymorphisms and tardive dyskinesia in schizophrenia
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| 18.30 |
Farewell Banquet |
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