Timetable

09.00 — Registration

9.30 – 9.45 — Offi­cial open­ing Jarosław Bosy / Michał Ślęzak

09.45 – 11.30 — Ses­sion I: Empow­er­ing trans­la­tion­al brain research through networking 

Chair: Witold Konop­ka (Łukasiewicz – PORT) 

HE Twin­ning — SAME-Neu­roID — Stan­dard­ized Approach­es to Mod­el­ling and Exam­i­na­tion of Neu­ropsy­chi­atric Dis­or­ders
Witold Konop­ka, Michał Ślęzak, Agniesz­ka Krzyżosi­ak, Łukasiewicz – PORT, Poland 

Mol­e­c­u­lar mech­a­nism of tau pathol­o­gy in Alzheimer’s dis­ease
Jozef Hritz, CEIT­EC – Cen­tral Euro­pean Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, Czech Repub­lic 

Gene ther­a­py: His­tor­i­cal con­text, chal­lenges, and break­throughs – the GeneT ini­tia­tive
Luis Pereira de Almei­da, Uni­ver­si­ty of Coim­bra, GeneT – Cen­ter of Excel­lence in Gene Ther­a­py, Por­tu­gal 

EBiSC – The Euro­pean Bank for iPS Cells – a joint endeav­our to accel­er­ate and stan­dard­ise iPS research 
Julie Neubauer, Fraun­hofer Insti­tute for Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing, Ger­many 

Europe’s Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture – key enablers for trans­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion in brain sci­ence
Cezary Mazurek, Poz­nan Super­com­put­ing and Net­work­ing Cen­ter, Poland 

Fos­ter­ing inno­va­tion in men­tal health: Bridg­ing the gap between acad­e­mia and indus­try 
Loren­za Mag­no, Judith Schweimer, Boehringer Ingel­heim Phar­ma, Ger­many 

11.30 – 11.50 — Cof­fee break 

11.50 – 13.30 — Ses­sion II: Neu­roim­mune dia­logue with sen­so­ry sys­tems and can­cer
neu­ro­science /​Session spon­sored by NAWA/

Chair: Mateusz Kuchar­czyk (Łukasiewicz – PORT) 

The periph­er­al code of pain rev­e­lead by activ­i­ty labelling
Marcin Szc­zot, Linköping Uni­ver­si­ty, Sweden

Neu­ro-inflam­ma­tion in chron­ic pain
Franziska Denk, King’s Col­lege Lon­don, UK

Somatosen­sa­tion and can­cer neu­ro­science
Mateusz Kuchar­czyk, Łukasiewicz – PORT, Poland

Pain in mul­ti­ple myelo­ma – inter­ac­tion of the can­cer microen­vi­ron­ment with the sen­so­ry ner­vous sys­tem 
Anne-Marie Hee­gaard, Uni­ver­si­ty of Copen­hagen, Denmark

13.30 – 14.20 — Lunch 

14.20 – 16.00 — Ses­sion III: Trans­la­tion­al approach­es to under­stand neurodegeneration

Chair: Agniesz­ka Krzyżosi­ak (Łukasiewicz – PORT)

Human stem cell mod­els of Alzheimer’s dis­ease and famil­ial British demen­tia 
Seli­na Wray, Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don, UK

Imag­ing-based approach­es for under­stand­ing and treat­ing Alzheimer’s dis­ease 
Pranesh Pad­man­abahn, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Queens­land, Aus­tralia

Oppos­ing effects of neu­ronal and myeloid P2X4 recep­tors on ALS pro­gres­sion in SOD1-G93A mice 
Sara Car­race­do, Uni­ver­si­ty of Bor­deaux, France 

Tar­get­ting the ubiq­ui­tin sys­tem for ther­a­peu­tic inter­ven­tion in amy­otroph­ic lat­er­al scle­ro­sis 
Dim­itris Xirodi­mas, Mont­pel­li­er Cell Biol­o­gy Research Cen­ter, France 

16.00 – 16.30 — Cof­fee Break / Poster ses­sion

16.30 – 17.30 — Keynote lec­ture 

The immune sys­tem in Alzheimer’s dis­ease: Friend or foe? 
Paul Schulz, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas Health Sci­ence Cen­ter at Hous­ton (UTHealth), USA 

17.30 – 18.30 Round­table dis­cus­sion: How to improve col­lab­o­ra­tion between pri­vate and pub­lic part­ners? 

Chair: Mateusz Kuchar­czyk,  Łukasiewicz – PORT

18.30 — Din­ner at PORT