Program

February 15th

08:30 -

Registration

At Fontein Patio (corner Winkelstraat)

09:00 -

Opening

By Bart Eggen

09:15 -

Keynote 1

Mikael Simons

Munich, DE

Innate immune mechanisms in remyelination

10:00 -

Amanda Sierra

Leioa, ES

Born to be a phagocyte: developmental maturation of microglial phagocytosis efficiency

10:30 -

Coffee / Tea

11:00 -

Sally Cowley

Oxford, UK

Modelling neuroinflammation in vitro with iPS-microglia

11:30 -

Keynote 2

Francisco Quintana

Boston, US

Glial control of CNS pathology

12:15 -

Lunch and poster session

14:00 -

Chotima Böttcher

Berlin, DE

Compartmentalization of myeloid cell responses in neuroinflammation

14:30-

Lot de Witte

Nijmegen, NL

Microglia in MS: Are they as bad for a positive mood as we tend to think?

15:00 -

Rosa Paolicelli

Lausanne, CH

The Alzheimer’s disease risk gene INPP5D modulates synaptic pruning by microglia in the developing hippocampus

15:30 -

Coffee / Tea

16:00 -

Keynote 3

Marco Prinz

Freiburg, DE

The myeloid side of the brain

16:45 -

Drinks and poster session

18:30 -

Dinner

At the DOT

february 16th

09:30-

Opening

By Wia Baron

09:45 -

Jerome Hendriks

Hasselt, BE

Myelin induced alterations in cellular lipid metabolism direct the reparative properties of microglia

10:15

Short talks

(selected from abstracts)

By: Viktor Al Naqib & Ivana Geric

10:45-

Coffee / Tea

11:15-

Keynote 4

Martina Absinta

Milan, IT

Decoding and hiPSC-modelling chronic inflammation in multiple sclerosis

12:00 -

Short talks

(selected from abstracts)

By: Fabia Filipello, Gabriela Lyszczarz & Aletta van den Bosch

12:45 -

Lunch and poster sessions

14:15-

Susanne Kooistra

Groningen, NL

MS lesion evolution

14:45-

Joost Smolders

Rotterdam, NL

About these other CNS-resident immune cells: tissue resident memory T cells in the human brain

15:15-

Maarten Witte

Amsterdam, NL

Meningeal immune cell - microglia crosstalk in cortical MS pathology

15:45-

Coffee / Tea

16:00-

Keynote 5

Wee Yong

Calgary, CA

Microglia - diverse roles in multiple sclerosis pathology

16:45 -

Concluding remarks

By Bart Eggen

* All lectures will be held at the Blauwe Zaal *

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