Final Programme

Thursday, February 7th 2013
7:30 - 8:30	Registration opens
08:30	Official opening of meeting
08:45 - 09:30	Prof. Christine Dijkstra, Vrjie University, Holland, Netherlands Innate immunity in MS
09:30 - 10:30	Prof. Hugh Perry, University of Southampton, UK Microglia, cytokines and synapses in chronic neurodegeneration
10:15 - 11:45	Coffee
10:45 - 11:20	Prof. Marzia Malcangio, Kings College, London, UK The role of microglia in positive and negative modulation of nociceptive fibre synaptic activity in the spinal cord
11:20 - 12:00	Assoc Prof. Camilla Svensson, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Role of spinal microglia and toll-like receptors in inflammation-induced pain
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Prof. Lars Farde, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Imaging macrophages and microglia in the CNS
13:45 - 14:30	Prof. Bertil B Fredholm, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden The role of adenosine A1 receptors for chemokine-mediated neuroprotection upon ischemic brain damage
14:30 - 16:00	Poster session + Coffee
11:00 - 12:00	Student presentations (15 min) Daphne Vogel Macrophages in Inflammatory Multiple Sclerosis Lesions have an intermediate activation status Joel Jakobsson Microglial activation in lithium- and valproate-treated bipolar disorder patients Jacomijn Dijksterhuis WNT-5A is expressed in the brain and has proliferative and immunoregulatory effects on various cell types in the CNS Frederik Vilhardt Reciprocal dynamic interactions between alpha-synucleinopathic PC12 catecholaminergic neurons and microglia
17:00 -	Dinner for invited guests
Friday, February 8th 2013
09:00 - 09:45	Prof. Uwe Hanisch, Göttingen University, Germany Microglia - How versatile are their responses, how heterogeneous are they to start with?
09:45 - 10:30	Prof. Jennifer Pocock, University College London, London, UK P53 family pathway activation in microglia; implications for neurodegeneration
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee
16:00 – 17:00	Current Controversy
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:45	Dr. Tobias Pukrop, Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany Carcinoma cells misuse the host tissue danger response to invade the brain
13:45 - 14:30	Assoc Prof. Gunnar Schulte, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Pro-inflammatory transformation of microglia in response to WNT stimulation
14:30 - 15:00	Coffee
15:00 - 15:45	Roham Parsa, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Mice depleted of LyzM⁺ macrophages develop chronic inflammation and disregulated adaptive immunity
15:45 - 16:30	Assoc Prof. Robert Harris, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Myeloid cell therapy in neuroinflammatory diseases – future prospects for personalized medicine
16:30 - 16:45	Official closing of meeting
Saturday, February 9th 2013
Departure