2011 – 11th ESNI COURSE | Glasgow (UK) | 4-7 July
I Day
Neuroinflammation and cellular responses in the CNS
- Banking the brain – from resource to laboratory (Sandra Amor)
- Neuropathology now! (Hans Lassmann)
- What’s really going on? Visualising neuroinflammation in vivo (Martin Kerschensteiner)
- Strinking in Balance – Innate v adaptive immunity in neuroinflammation (Hugh Perry)
Genetics, Environment factors and neuroinflammation
- Emerging genetics in MS: a numbers game. (Stephen Sawcer)
- Gene-environment interactions In MS: triggers for disease induction (Tomas Olsson)
- Where did it all start? Lessons from Lactose Intolerance (Mark Thomas)
II Day
Disease Mechanisms and Treatment strategies 1
- Neurodegeneration and immunity: an intimate relationship (Rudolf Martini)
- Neuroprotective strategies for inflammatory CNS deseases (David Baker)
- T cells and autoimmune homeostasis (Steve Anderton)
- Sphingosine-1-phosphate pathways: therapeutic targets in autoimmune disease (Anna Schubart)
Disease Mechanisms and Treatment strategies 2
- B cell dependent mechanisms in neuroinflammatory diseases (Chris Linington)
- Impact of immune re-education on CNS repair: lessons from alemtuzumab (Alasdair Coles)
- Using the immune system to treat Alzheimer’s disease (James Nicoll)
- Enviromental Factors – targets for preventative strategies in MS? (George Ebers)
III Day
Humoral effector mechanisisms in neurology
- Autoantibodies in neurology: biomarkers to immunetherapeutic target (Chris Linington)
- Channels and Receptors: critical targets in antibody mediated diseases (Angela Vincent)
- Heteromeric lipid complexes: novel targets in neuroimmune disease. (Hugh Willison )
- Neuromyelitis optica: from patient to model and back again. (Monika Bradl)
IV Day
Hinnate mechanisms and treatment strategies
- FC Receptors in neuroinflammation (Jessica L. Teeling)
- Macrophages, Polarisation and Function (Carl Goodyear)
- Complement-based therapeutics in neurological diseases (Claire Harris)
- High dose iv lg – mode of action and clinical applications (Hans-Peter Hartung)
Stem cells and neuroinflammatory disease
- Glial cell transplantation strategies in the CNS. (Susan Barnett)
- Neural Steam cell transplantation; a therapeutic option. (Gianvito Martino)
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation – an emerging strategy in autoimmunity? (Paolo Muraro)
- Mesenchymal stem cells: where we are, where we go (Antonio Uccelli)