SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME:
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Molecular basis of pathology and therapy in neurological disorders
| 9:15 | Opening Ceremony |
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Session I: Neurotoxicity
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| Chair: | Michal Toborek and Jerzy Lazarewicz |
| 9:30-10:00 | Michal Toborek (Miami, FL, USA) Methamphetamine-induced aberrant neurogenesis in the hippocampus  |
| 10:00-10:30 | Leonora Buzanska (Warsaw, Poland) Micro- and macro-scale approach of stem cell based developmental neurotoxicity testing |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Malgorzata Kajta and Wladysław Lason (Krakow, Poland) Endocrine disruptors and their neurotoxic effects on developing brain |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jerzy Lazarewicz (Warsaw, Poland) Triggering role of calcium imbalance in the induction of acute oxidative stress and cytotoxicity in primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule cells challenged with TBBP |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch and poster session
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Session II: Glutaminases in the CNS: norm and pathology |
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| Chair: | Magdalena Zielinska and Monika Szeliga |
| 13:30-14:00 | Jialin Zheng (Nebraska, USA) Glutaminase, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and beyond |
| 14:00-14:30 | Manuel Romero Gomez (Sevilla, Spain) Glutaminase, ammonia and Hepatic Encephalopathy: an opportunity for therapy |
| 14:30-15:00 | Inna Gaisler Salomon (Haifa, Israel) Brain glutaminase in psychiatric disease: from mouse models to schizophrenia |
| 15:00-15:30 | Javier Marquez (Malaga, Spain) Glutamine addiction to brain cancer |
Friday, November 18, 2016
Stem Cells: Therapeutic Outlook for Central Nervous System Disorders
| 9:15 | Introduction: Krystyna Domanska-Janik President of Cell Therapy Team of the Central Nervous System Diseases, PAS |
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| Chair: | Wojciech Maksymowicz and Krystyna Domanska-Janik |
| 9:30-10:00 | Yang D. Teng (Boston, USA) Engineered human neural stem cells for treating Spinal Cord Gliomas: A Neurobiology-based approach |
| 10:00-10:30 | Juan Gallo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) New strategies of stem cell therapy in retinal disease |
| 10:30-11:00 | Boguslaw Machalinski (Szczecin, Poland) Hematopoietic stem cell-based therapy in neurodegenerative disorders – cellular and humoral mechanisms |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffe break |
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Plenary Lecture: |
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| Chair: | Leonora Buzanska |
| 11:30-12:30 | Anders Bjorklund (Lund, Sweden) Stem cell therapy for Pakinson`s disease |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and poster session |
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Session II:
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| Chair: | Boguslaw Machalinski and Yang D. Tang |
| 14:00-14:30 | Wojciech Maksymowicz (Olsztyn, Poland) Stem cells for ALS: an overview of possible therapeutic approches |
| 14:30-15:00 | Marcin Majka (Cracow, Poland) Stem cells and neurorepair - from bench to clinic and back |
| 15:00-15:30 | Anna Sarnowska (Warsaw, Poland) Pre-transplantation optimization of MSC function for enhancing their regenerative potential |
| 15:30-16.00 | Marina A Lynch (Dublin, Ireland) Modulation of microglial activation by CD200R activation in models of neurodegeneration. |
| 16:00 | Closing ceremony |
POSTER PRESENTATION
- Poster presentation will take place on Thursday and Friday at lunch time.
- Each poster should be no larger than 85 cm x 120 cm. (A0 portrait format).
- The poster boards will be marked with a number in accord a with the scientific program.
- Authors are asked to mount their posters before the morning session, and are required to be present with their posters during the assigned presentation time.
- Please remember to remove your poster at the end of the session.
