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BSI Neuroimmunology Symposium
April 24 - April 25
This is a two-day meeting organised by the BSI Neuroimmunology Group, to bring the UK field of neuroimmunology together to discuss diverse areas of neuroimmune research including brain injury, regeneration, peripheral neuroimmune mechanisms, neurodegenerative disease and CNS infection.
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The BSI Neuroimmunology Group looks forward to welcoming you at the Holiday Inn Manchester City Centre on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 April 2024.
Abstract submission
Submit your abstract here. The submission deadline is 23:59 GMT Monday 18 March 2024.
Programme
Day 1
11:45 | Registration and lunch
12:30 | Welcome address
12:45 | Keynote speaker: Professor Menna Clatworthy (University of Cambridge, UK)
Pushing the boundaries of central nervous system immunity
SESSION 1 – Regenerative neuroimmunology
Chairs: Dr Yvonne Dombrowsky, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, Dr Fränze Progatzky, University of Oxford, UK
13:30 | Invited speaker: Dr Yvonne Dombrowski (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Regenerative inflammation: Innate and adaptive immune mechanisms in myelin regeneration in the central nervous system
13:55 \ Selected short talk TBC
14:10 | Invited speaker: Professor Marina Lynch (Trinity College Dublin, UK)
The impact of sex on neuroinflammation in age and Alzheimer’s disease
14:40 | Selected short talk TBC
14:55 | Refreshment break and meet the exhibitors
SESSION 2 – Brain injury
Chairs: Dr Andy Greenhalgh, University of Manchester, UK, Dr Laura McCulloch, University of Edinburgh, UK
15:30 | Invited speaker: Dr Ed Needham (University of Cambridge, UK)
Reframing Traumatic Brain Injury as an Immunological Disease
16:00 | Selected short talk TBC
16:15 | Invited speaker: Dr Andy Greenhalgh (University of Manchester, UK)
Brain region-specific immune response to mild Traumatic Brain Injury
16:40 | Selected short talk TBC
16:55 | Invited speaker: Dr Laura McCulloch (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Systemic immune changes in response to stroke
17:20 | Networking reception and posters
18:30 | Close
Day 2
09:00 | Keynote speaker: Professor Burkhart Becher (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
SESSION 3: Peripheral immunity
Chairs: Dr Andy Greenhalgh, University of Manchester, UK, Dr Fränze Progatzky, University of Oxford, UK
09:45 | Invited speaker: Dr Elaine Emmerson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Nerve-associated macrophages in the salivary gland and their role following radiotherapy injury
10:15 | Selected short talk
10:30 | Invited speaker: Dr Fränze Progatzky (University of Oxford, UK)
Regulation of tissue immunity by peripheral glia
10:55 | Selected short talk
11:10 | Refreshment break and meet the exhibitors
SESSION 4: Neuroimmunology of neurodegenerative disease
Chairs: David Posner, University of Cambridge, UK, Dr Yvonne Dombrowski, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
11:35 | Invited speaker: David Posner (University of Cambridge)
TBC
12:00 | Selected short talk TBC
12:15 | Invited speaker: Dr Sebastiaan De Schepper (University College London, UK)
Gut Macrophages Modulate Brain Synucleinopathy in Parkinson’s
12:45 | Selected short talk TBC
13:00 | Lunch, posters and exhibition
SESSION 5: CNS infections
Chairs: Dr Juan Quintana, University of Manchester, UK, Dr Rebecca Drummond, University of Birmingham, UK
14:30 | Invited speaker: Dr Maria Bernabeu (EMBL, Spain)
Modelling cerebral malaria in bioengineered 3D blood-brain barrier models
15:00 | Selected short talk TBC
15:15 | Invited speaker: Dr Juan Quintana (University of Manchester, UK)
The neuroimmunology of sleeping sickness
15:40 | Selected short talk TBC
15:55 | Invited speaker: Dr Rebecca Drummond (University of Birmingham, UK)
Understanding microglia interactions with invading fungi
16:15 | TBC
16:45 | Prizes
17:00 | Close
Registration
Registration is open, book your place here.
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