| SUNDAY |
| 2:00-6:00pm | Arrival and Registration |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:30pm | Keynote Lecture |
| Melitta Schachner, Unversitaet Hamburg
"Lessons from mutants deficient in myelin genes" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:30am | Session I: Perspectives |
| Discussion Leader: Wendy Macklin, Cleveland Clinic |
| 9:00-9:45am | David Colman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Mechanisms of Myelin Wrapping" |
| 9:45-10:30am | Michael Rasminsky, Montreal General Hospital
"The development of the concept of salutatory conduction". |
| 10:30-11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30am | Conference Photo |
| 11:30-12:00pm | Henry D. Webster, National Institutes of Health
"Morphology of Myelinating Cells" |
| 12:00-12:30pm | Fred Lublin, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"MS Clinical Trials - Applied immunopathogenesis and reverse engineering" |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
| 4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:30pm | Session II:
Immune Cells in Regeneration and Re-myelination |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce Trapp, Cleveland Clinic |
| 7:30-8:00pm | Michal Schwartz, Wiezmann Institute of Science
"Post-traumatic T-cell-based vaccination with myelin-associated antigens promote recovery from spinal cord injury". |
| 8:00-8:30pm | Samuel David, Montreal General Hospital
"Molecular control of myelin phagocytosis in the CNS" |
| 8:30-9:00pm | Hans Keirstead, University of California at Irvine
"Reducing the Immune Response to Spinal Cord Injury Decreases Secondary Degeneration and Functional Deficit" |
| 9:00-9:30pm | Frank S. Walsh, Glaxo Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals
"Nogo and nerve regeneration" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:30am | Session III:
Oligodendrocyte Determination |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Pfeiffer , University of Connecticut Medical School |
| 9:00-9:40am | Bernard Zalc, Hôpital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris
"Origin of oligodendrocytes: Evidence for the existence of two lineages" |
| 9:40-10:20am | William Richardson, University College London
"Ventral neurogenesis and the neuron-oligodendrocyte switch" |
| 10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:30am | Robert Miller, Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
"How spinal cord oligodendrocyte precursors take their bearings" |
| 11:30-12:10pm | David Anderson, California Institute of Technology
"Control of oligodendrocyte differentiation by Olig genes" |
| 12:10-12:30pm | Anne Baron van Evercooren, Institut Federatif De Recherche Des Neurosciences
"Regulation of neural stem cell-derived oligodendrogenesis by inflammatory-demyelination."
|
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
| 4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:30pm | Session IV:
Schwann Cell Determination |
| Discussion Leader: Laura Feltri, San Raffaele Scientific Institute |
| 7:30-8:10pm | Marianne Bronner-Fraser, California Institute of Technology
"Evolution of the Neural Crest" |
| 8:10-8:50pm | Rhona Mirsky, University College London
"Signals that determine Schwann cell identity" |
| 8:50-9:30pm | Eric Shooter, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Neurotrophins as mediators of myelination in the PNS" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:30am | Session V:
Glial/Neuron Signaling |
| Discussion Leader: Kristján R. Jessen, University College London |
| 9:00-9:45am | Ben Barres, Stanford University
"A Role for Glia in the Making and Unbreaking of Synapses" |
| 9:45-10:30am | Stéphane Oliet, University Victor Segalen, Bordeaux
"Modulation of synaptic transmission by astrocytes: insights from hypothalamic magnocellular nuclei" |
| 10:30-11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:45am | Richard Robitaille, Universite de Montreal
"Perisynaptic glial cells: regulators of synaptic efficacy" |
| 11:45-12:30pm | David Weinstein, GliaMed, Inc.
"Molecular events regulating astrocyte-neuron stability, differentiation and survival" |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
| 4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:30pm | Session VI:
Stem Cells |
| Discussion Leader: Anthony Campagnoni, UCLA Medical School |
| 7:30-8:00pm | Mark Mehler, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Coordinate regulation of the elaboration of oligodendrocytes and neuronal subtypes from regional embryonic forebrain stem cell subpopulations". |
| 8:00-8:30pm | Fiona Doetsch, Harvard University
"Neural stem cells in the adult mammalian brain: unexpected identities |
| 8:30-9:00pm | Hideyuki Okano, Keio Universty School of Medicine
"Functional recovery of the spinal cord injury model by the transplantation of neural stem cells" |
| 9:00-9:30pm | Mark Noble, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
"Pivotal roles of redox regulation in CNS development and neoplasia." |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30-8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:30am | Session VII:
Non-Compact Myelin |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Scherer, School of Medicine |
| 9:00-9:40am | Elior Peles, The Weizman Institute of Science
"Caspr family members in myelinated nerves" |
| 9:40-10:20am | Peter Brophy, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Edinburgh
"Neurofascin and axon-glia interactions" |
| 10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:30am | James Salzer, NYU Medical Center
"Axonal regulation of Schwann cell myelination" |
| 11:30-12:10pm | Brian Popko, University of North Carolina
"The role of myelin components in Node of Ranvier Formation and Maintenance" |
| 12:10 - 12:30pm | Barbara Ranscht, Burnham Institute's Neurobiology Program
"Establishing Membrane Domains in Myelinated Nerve: Roles of Contactin" |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-4:00pm | FREE |
| 4:30-6:00pm | Poster Sessions |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30-9:30pm | Session VIII:
Signaling and Cell Cycle in Myelinating Cells |
| Discussion Leader: Rashmi Bansal, University of Connecticut Health Center |
| 7:30-8:10pm | Vittorio Gallo, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology
"Transgenic approaches to study oligodendrocyte cell cycle and development" |
| 8:10-8:50pm | Douglas Fields, National Institutes of Health, NICHD
"Regulation of glial development and myelination by neural impulse activity" |
| 8:50-9:30pm | Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
"Molecular mechanisms of oligodendrocyte lineage progression" |
