Spring School 2008 - Translating animal models to patients with Neurodegenerative disorders


2008-04-01 14:00: Models to approach disease- Parkinson's Disease (Leonidas Stefanis, Serge Przedborski, Tipu Aziz, Roger Barker)

2008-04-02 09:00: Alzheimer's Disease (Monica Di Luca, Amrit Mudher, James Nicoll, Peter Nestor.				)

2008-04-02 14:00: Models of disease (Andrew Grierson, David Allsop, Peter St George-Hyslop)

2008-04-03 09:00: Huntington's Disease (David Rubinsztein, Gill Bates, Sarah Tabrizi, Roger Barker)

2009-03-31 14:10: Axon guidance and local RNA-based mechanisms of directional steering (Christine Holt Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Anatomy Building, Downing Street, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY)

2009-03-31 14:55: Functional Genomics: Phenotypic screening of large gene sets to identify novel genes that regulate axon growth and branching. (Vance Lemmon Miami Project to Cure Paralysis)

2009-03-31 16:10: Cellular mechanisms underlying self-assembly of growth cones after axotomy (Micha E. Spira Department of Neurobiology, The Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.)

2009-03-31 16:55: Deconstructing synapses with Wnt antagonists (Patricia C. Salinas  Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London. London WC1 6BT. UK.)

2009-04-01 09:00: Structural synaptic changes in cortical adaptive plasticity (Anthony Holtmaat	  Département des Neurosciences fondamentales CMU, 1 Rue Michel-Servet 1211 GENEVE 4)

2009-04-01 09:45: Visual Cortical Placticity (Mark Hübener Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany)

2009-04-01 11:00: Imaging changes in neurodegenerative disease (Tara L Spires-Jones  Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA USA.)

2009-04-01 13:45: Imaging axonal degeneration and regeneration (Martin Kerschensteiner  Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)

2009-04-01 14:30: Functional imaging in stroke (Jean-Claude Baron Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, R3 Neurosciences Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge UK)

2009-04-01 15:15: Functional imaging of cortical connectivity in normal brain and neurodegenerative disease (James Rowe Cambridge University Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)

2009-04-01 17:00: Motor systems plasticity (John W Krakauer MD Associate Professor of Neurology, Co-Director, The Motor Performance Laboratory, The Neurological Institute Columbia University)

2009-04-02 09:00: Molecular control of visual cortical plasticity (Tommaso Pizzorusso 1,2.   1.Istituto Neuroscienze CNR, Pisa 2.Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Firenze)

2009-04-02 09:45: Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on axon regeneration and plasticity. ( James W. Fawcett Cambridge University Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)

2009-04-02 11:00: In vivo 2-photon imaging of axonal microlesions in the adult brain (Vincenzo De Paola MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London)

2009-04-02 11:45: A systems approach to recovery of function (Cornelius Weiller Department of Neurology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany)