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 BNS Summer School: Recent Advances in Neuropathology & Applied Neurobiology
Date: 8-10th July 2009
Venue: The Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, UK. http://www.royagcol.ac.uk
Programme: Taking forward the ethos of the Wye symposium, The BNS Summer School is a mix of basic neuroscience and clinical application.
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME see link for full details.
Wednesday 8th July
Arrival and lunch
Afternoon: Neurodegeneration
Dr Chris Shaw: Update on genetics and pathobiology of ALS/MND
Professor David Mann: Role of TDP in dementia
Professor Tamas Revesz: Neuropathologist's view of causes of dementia
Dr David Allsop: Protein oligomers as a common toxic entity in various neurodegenerative diseases
Dinner
Thursday 9th July
Morning: Technology Platforms in Neurosciences
Professor Jeanne Bell: Brain banking
Professor Mike Hubank: New genomics technologies and their application
Professor John Hardy: The pathogenesis of neurological disease: beyond the genome-wide association study
Dr Mark Lythgoe: Imaging and pathology
Lunch
Afternoon: Potential of mouse models: Technologies to model and understand neurological diseases
Professor Elizabeth Fisher: Ethical aspects of mouse work
Professor Patrick Nolan: Mouse neurophenotyping pipelines. Discovery and investigation of new mouse models of disease
Professor Silvia Marino: Mouse models of brain tumours: potential and limitations
Professor Lynn Bedford: Mouse model of neurodegeneration created by interference with the proteasome
Professor Elizabeth Fisher: Mouse model to understand function of dynein and axonal transport. aspects of mouse work
Professor Dominic J Wells: Mouse models of muscular dystrophy: relevance for therapy
Image competition and course dinner
Friday 10th July
Morning: Neuromuscular disorders
Professor Marinos Dalakas: Immunopathology of inflammatory Myopathies and impact on therapeutic interventions
Professor Hans Lochmueller: Update on inclusion body and myofibrillar myopathies from a clinical and genetic perspective
Professor Michael Hanna: TBA
Professor Caroline sewery: Pathology and genetics of congenital myopathies
Lunch and departure
Over three days, in-depth sessions will mix basic neurosciences and applied neurobiology to link with human diseases. Sessions will be a mixture of lectures, workshops and discussions. There will be an emphasis on informality with opportunity for participants to meet informally and make new contacts. delegates are encouraged to submit an image for the competition; see link for details. |
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