
The 5th International Spinal Cord Injury Treatments & Trials Symposium
The 3rd International Neural Regeneration Symposium
Program
10 October 2013 (Thursday)
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Session |
Venue |
13:30 - 17:00 |
Pre-Symposium Short Courses
Session Chair: Mingliang Pu and Xiaoming Jin
- Selective Immunotoxin Elimination of Projection Neurofibers Serotonin
- Mingliang Pu (Peking University)
- Transgenic Animal Technique in Neuroscience
- Yibo Qu (Jinan University)
- Optogenetic Application in Neurotrauma Research
- Xiaoming Jin (Indiana University School of Medicine)
- ZEISS Single and Two-Photon Laser Scanning Confocal Fluorescence Microscope Introduction and the Latest Light Sheet Microscopy for Multiview Imaging of Large Live Specimens
- Xuegang Sun (Carl Zeiss Microscopy China)
- How to Publish SCI Papers: Obstacle and Solution in Writing for Non-English Speaking Authors
- Melanie de Souza
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Meeting Room 2 at 5/F |
18:00 - 20:00 |
Opening Ceremony |
Grand Ballroom |
11 October 2013 (Friday)
Time |
Session |
Venue |
08:30 - 10:30
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Keynote Speech
Session Chair: Kwok-Fai So and Xiaoming Xu
- Neural Plasticity: Bench to Bedside
- Muming Poo (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS)
- Cross-talk & Developmental Programs – A Key to Translational Stem Cell Biology
- Evan Snyder (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute)
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Multi-Function Hall |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Keynote Speech
Session Chair: Kwo-Fai So and Jianzong Zhang
- Extracellular matrix molecules in CNS plasticity and regeneration
- James Fawcett (University of Cambridge)
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Multi-Function Hall |
12:00 - 13:30
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Lunch Break
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13:30 - 18:00 |
Translational Medicine
Chair: Kwo-Fai So, Jianzong Zhang
Venue: Meeting Room 2
- Neuroprotective Effect of Wolfberry on Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Kwo-Fai So (HKU)
- Chinese Herbal Medicine: A Drug Candidate Bank for Targeting Neural Stem Cells
- Jiangang Shen (HKU)
- The role of SWI in neurodegenerative disease: From perinatal to aging applications
- Mark Maacke (Wayne State University)
- Study on establishment of Alzheimer's disease rat model with Abnormal Savda Syndrome and intervention
- Hamulati Wufuer(Xinjiang Medical University)
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CNS/PNS Regeneration
Chair: Xiaoming Xu, Xiaosong Gu
Venue: Multi-functional Hall
- Functional regeneration beyond the glial scar
- Jerry Silver (Case Western Reserve University)
- Optic nerve regeneration: central reinnervation and partial return of visual responses
- Larry Benowitz (Boston Children's Hospital)
- Construction of tissue engineered nerve grafts and their application in peripheral nerve regeneration
- Xiaosong Gu (Nantong University)
- Motortherapy for Spinal Cord Injury
- Jian-an Li(Nanjing Medical University)
- Experimental research of myelotomy on a rat model of acute spinal cord injury
- Jianjun Li(China Rehabilitation Research Center)
- Treatment for local dystonia after spinal cord injury
- Zhigang Zhang(China Medical University)
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12 October 2013 (Saturday)
Time |
Session |
Venue |
08:30 - 12:00 |
Regenerative Therapies of the Spinal Cord
Chair: Gong Ju, Wise Young
- Guiding axon growth from spinal cord to muscle
- Wutian Wu (HKU)
- Recognition molecules in synaptic plasticity and regeneration
- Melitta Schachner (Rutgers University)
- Macrophages in spinal cord injury: phenotypic and functional change from exposure to myelin debris
- Yi Ren (China)
- Minimal Information Reporting Standards for SCI
- Vance P. Lemmon (Unversity of Miami)
- Possible Mechanisms of Umbilical Cord Blood Mononuclear Cell Therapy in Spinal Cord Injury
- Wise Young (Rutgers Unversity)
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Meeting Room at 8/F |
12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
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13:30 - 15:45 |
SCI Repair: Research Frontier
Session Chair: Vance P Lemmon, Paul Lu
- Neuroprotective and Regenerative Strategies for Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury
- Xiaoming Xu (Indianna University)
- Functional Genomics and SCI
- Vance P. Lemmon (University of Miami)
- Bridge of Injured Spinal Cord with Neural Stem Cells
- Paul Lu (University of California at San Diego)
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Meeting Room at 8/F
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15:45 - 17:30 |
SCI Repair: Surgical Treatment
Chair: Gong Ju, Tiansheng Sun, Zhuojing Luo
- Early Neurosurgery of Spinal Cord Contusion--Before and After
- Gong Ju (The Fourth Military Medical University)
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- Tiansheng Sun (The Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA)
- Zhuojing Luo (Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University)
- Hui Zhu (Kunming General Hospital of Chendu Military Command)
- Surgical treatment of cervical spine and spinal cord injuries
- Liangbi Xiang (General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area Command)
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Meeting Room at 8/F |
17:30 -18:00 |
Closing Ceremony |
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