Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury June 5 – June 8, 2012: Latimer Place, UK

 

The schedule is now available for download a in PDF file.

 

The tradition of the Hershey conference is to start with an opening reception that will be held on Tuesday June 5^th 2012. There will be two full days of sessions and a final session on Friday morning. The conference ends with a lunch on Friday. The tentative schedule with speakers is as follows:

 

 

16.00               Registration and Opening Reception/Dinner

 

 

8.15-8.30         Welcome and Opening Remarks Henrik Hagberg, M.D., Ph.D.: Introduction

8.30-9.15         Keynote speaker Urs Meyer, : The neuropathological contribution of prenatal inflammation to schizophrenia and autism

 

Session 1: Inflammation and microglia 9.15-12.15

9.15- 10.00      Keynote  speaker Carol Colton:  Assessing activation states in microglia

 

10.00-10.30     Break

 

10.30-11.00     Zena Vexler: Does Inflammation after stroke affect the developing brain differently from the adult?

11.00-11.30     Laia Acarin: Microglia activation in the immature brain: involvement of the CD200 receptor

11.30-12.15     3 short talks from abstracts

 

12.15-13.30     Lunch

 

Session 2: Inflammation in fetal/neonatal brain and adaptive immunity

13.30-17.30

13.30-14.00     Mary Rutherford: MRI for detection of CNS Inflammation in fetal and neonatal brain

14.00-14.30     Xiaoyang Wang: Neonatal adaptive immunity and encephalopathy of prematurity

14.30-15.00     2 short presentations

 

15.00-15.30     Break

 

15.30-17.30     Leducq foundation sponsored Workshop on animal models of perinatal inflammation and injury: Carina Mallard and Pierre Gressens, M.D., Ph.D. chair and decide topics

 

19.00-20.00     Dinner

 

Session 3: Poster Session, 20.00-22.00

 

 

Session 4:  Connectivity in normal and abnormal development, 8.30-10.45

 

8.30-9.15         Keynote Speaker: Zoltan Molnar: Molecular mechanisms of cortical development

9.15-10.00       Serena Counsell : Connecting the developing preterm brain

10.00-10.45     Olga Tymofiyeva: Baby Connectome: Mapping the structural connectivity of the newborn brain

 

10.45-11.00     Break

 

Sesion 5: Neuroprotection/Regeneration, 11.00-13.00

11.00-11.30     Flora Vaccarino: Cortical regeneration and repair in a model of subchronic hypoxia

11.30-12.00     Annemieke Kavelaars : Treatment of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury with mesenchymal stem cells

12.00 -12.30    Fernando Gonzalez : Is Erythropoetin the answer ?

12.30-13.00     Two short presentations related to the above

 

13.00-14.00     Lunch

 

Session 6: New perspectives on cell signaling in brain injury, 14.00-17.30

14.00-14.45     Keynote speaker: Bertrand Joseph: Role of caspases in microglia activation

 

Neurobid sponsored session, 8.30-11.30

8.30-8.50         Joakim Ek: Role of Inflammation on BBB transport in the immature brain

8.50-9.10         Helen Stolp: Vascular effects of fetal inflammation

9.10-9.40         2 short presentations

 

9.40-10.00       Break

 

10.00-10.40     Sid Tan: Development of a rabbit model of CP

10.40-11.20     Marianne Thoresen: Piglet model of encephalopathy

11.20-11.40     Closing comments and Hershey Conference 2014

 

11.45-              Lunch