(This is a draft version, subject to change)
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 - 10:15
Prof Colin Espie: Sleep: the fall guy
10:15 - 11:30
Chair: Prof Colin Espie Co-Chair: Dr Laurent Sheybani
Prof Vladyslav Vyazovskiy: Sleep, wake and other states: neurophysiology, regulation and function
Prof Florian Mormann: Single-neuron correlates of human memory consolidation during sleep
Dr Lucie Barateau: Neurobiology of central disorders of hypersomnolence
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:15
Chair: Dr Rita Horvath Co-Chair: Dr Meher Lad
Prof Gabriele Lignani: Gene Therapy for Epilepsy
Prof Matthis Synofzik: Brain precision medicine 2.0: individual patient-customized antisense oligonucleotides for severe neurodegenerative brain diseases
Dr. Catherine Mummery: Novel dementia therapies - from genetic discovery to impact
13:15 - 14:15
14:15 - 15:35
Brain Communications Early Career Researcher Prize 2023 - Dr Stan Hrybouski
Data Blitz: Juliette Dufour - Before it’s too late: dynamic changes in sodium neurite-fractions uncover the early phase of potential reversible cellular energy distress preceding neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
Data Blitz: Gloria Vegliante - Inoculation studies in mice indicate the emergence of tau prions in traumatic brain injury patients
Data Blitz: Abidemi Otaiku - EEG slowing increases the risk of future dementia: A prospective study of two population-based cohorts
Data Blitz: Helena Dolphin - Alzheimer’s Disease Blood- Based Biomarkers: Plasma P-tau217 Electrochemiluminescence Assay accurately detects CSF Aβ pathology and outperforms Plasma P-tau181 in a Memory Clinic Cohort
Data Blitz: Kirsten Scott - Blood, CSF and PET imaging markers of immune activation predict cognitive outcomes in a longitudinal study of Parkinson’s disease
Data Blitz: Marissa Mueller - The QUINT pipeline neuroanatomically probes chronic manipulations to cortical layer 6b and corresponding sleep modulation
Data Blitz: Zanna Voysey - A 12-year longitudinal study of sleep abnormalities in Huntington’s disease: insomnia is associated with greater cognitive deficits and disease activity
15:35 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:05
Chair: Prof Alasdair Coles Co-Chair: Dr Omar Abdel-Mannan
Prof David Hunt: Antiviral immunity and brain disease
Dr Arman Eshaghi: Transforming multiple sclerosis care with artificial intelligence: prospects and challenges
Prof Astrid Iversen: Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist Populations
17:05 - 18:10
Chair: Dr Melanie Fleming Co-Chair: Dr Lucia Li
Dr. Steffen Tiedt: Brain-derived markers for monitoring brain injury in acute ischemic stroke
Dr Zahraa Al-Ahmady: Expanding Horizons in Stroke Care: The Game-Changing Elegance of Targeted Drug Delivery
Dr Hanna Willis: Rehabilitating visual loss post-stroke: neural markers of recovery
18:10 - 18:15
18:15 - 19:30
19:30
