| Registration
Register on arrival on the first floor. |
08.00 to 08.25 |
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| Welcome and opening
Welcome and an overview of the day from Professor Paul Morgan [3], UK Dementia Research Institute, Cardiff University |
08.25 to 08.30 |
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| Cognitive assessments
Session chairs:
Dr Rhian Convery [4], University College London and
Viktorija Smith [5], University of Cambridge
Senior plenary
Professor Masud Husain [6]
New methods and insights for assessing cognition in research and clinical settings.
ECR plenary
Dr Chloe Fawns Ritchie [7]
Remote cognitive assessment: investigating the impact of device type on cognitive test performance.
Lightning talks
- Dr Laura Stankeviciute [8], Associations between plasma biomarkers and digital cognition for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease in the population based REAL AD study.
- Toya Pauwels Romero [9], Performance on gene specific cognitive composites GENFI Cog in the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia GENFI study.
- Dr Kirsty Lu [10], Associations between biomarkers of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease at age 70 and cognitive performance over the subsequent 7 years.
- Dr Alexander Kaula [11], Novel PAL RT measures: development, clustering, association with plasma P tau217.
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08.30 to 09.30 |
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| Physiological and behavioural biomarkers
Session chairs:
Kalliopi Mavromati [12], University of Glasgow & Rebecca Egerton [13], Queen’s University Belfast
Senior plenary
Dr Francesca Cormack [14]
Digital technology to capture what matters in the real word.
ECR plenary
Dr Thomas Wilcockson [15]
Eye movement tasks can predict cognitive decline in preclinical stages of dementia.
Lightning talks
- Christine Weaver [16], Acoustic speech analysis and machine learning in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative disorders.
- Dr Matt Bancroft [17], Gait in atypical dementia: a comparison between posterior cortical atrophy, Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease.
- Dr Kiran K G Ravindran [18], Extracting essential sleep aspects from consumer sleep technologies in older adults and people living with dementia.
- Dr George Devitt [19], Holistic optical biomarkers to transform dementia diagnosis HOpE.
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09.30 to 10.30 |
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| Neuroimaging
Session chairs:
Dr Michael Stringer [21], The University of Edinburgh and
Dr Darragh Patrick O’Brien [22], University of Oxford
Senior plenary
Professor David Cash [23]
Exploring the latest research and advances in imaging techniques and their application to dementia and related disorders.
ECR plenary
Dr Andreia Rocha [24]
Tracking tau spread: MK6240 assigns higher Braak stages than Flortaucipir.
Lightning talks
- Harry Crook [25], TSPO PET binding in white versus grey matter in FTLD.
- Lorenzo Barcellos [26], Brain atrophy patterns associate with biological staging defined by PET in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease.
- Grace Gillis [27], Added value of UK Biobank aligned multimodal MRI in a real world memory clinic setting.
- Dr Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad [28], Volumetric biomarkers in subcortical structures for dementia detection.
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11.00 to 12.00 |
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| Fluid biomarkers
This session will be streamed as part of the main AAIC international programming.
Session chair:
Dr Amanda Heslegrave [29], University College London
Senior plenary
Dr Marc Suarez Calvet [30]
Exploring the latest in fluid biomarkers, to diagnose dementias.
Lightning talks
- Ellie Crispin [31], Measuring Nptx1 in extracellular vesicles from genetic frontotemporal dementia mutation carriers.
- Dr Sonia Wagner Reguero [32], Linking seeding to pathology: insights from α synuclein RT QuIC in postmortem CSF.
- Hanjun Zhao [33], Plasma proteomic signatures of Alzheimer’s neuropathology: insights from Bio Hermes study.
- Dr Sujin Kang [34], Organ specific proteomic aging and cognitive performance.
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13.00 to 14.00 |
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| AAIC Neuroscience Next awards presentation
Presented by Dr Oz Ismail [35].
Excellence in Neuroscience Mentoring award and One to Watch award. |
14.00 to 15.00 |
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| Refreshments
Refreshments served. |
15.15 to 15.30 |
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| Technology biomarkers
Exploring emerging tools and technologies that support measurement, diagnosis and monitoring.
Session chairs:
Dr Ria Kodosaki [40], University College London and
Dr Mosi Li [41], The University of Edinburgh
Senior plenary
Dr Cynthia Sandor [42]
Exploring emerging tools and technologies that support measurement, diagnosis and monitoring.
ECR plenary
Dr Lukas Hughes Noehrer [43]
From prototype to practice: technology to support stimulation needs in dementia care
Lightning talks
- Dr Zeke Steer [44], Smart Socks gathering data to inform research, diagnosis and disease
- Labhpreet Kaur [45], Automatic analysis of informant based collateral information for dementia detection: a large language model study
- Luna Nordenström [46], Online keyboard tapping as a digital biomarker for early frontotemporal dementia
- Dr Ahmet Begde [47], Digital cognition plus plasma P tau217 and aβ42 40 predict Alzheimer’s progression
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15.30 to 16.30 |
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| All biomarkers panel discussion
Chair:
Professor Selina Wray [48], University College London
Panel: Professor Masud Husain, Dr Francesca Cormack, Professor David Cash, Dr Marc Suarez Calvet, Dr Cynthia Sandor
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16.30 to 17.00 |
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| Closing and local prizes
Poster award, Lightning talk award, The showstopper award. |
17.00 to 17.15 |
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