 Joint Symposium of 4th INRS6th ISCITT
9th APSNR
6-8 September, 2014, Jiangsu Conference Center, Nanjing
Program
7 September, 2014 (Sunday)
| Time |
Session |
Venue |
| 08:15 - 09:45 |
Keynote Speech
Session Chair: Kwo-Fai So and Xiao-Ming Xu
- Neural Regeneration - A Retrospective
- Alber Aguayo, McGill University, Canada
- Schwann cells to the rescue: Repairing the injured spinal cord
- Mary Barlett Bunge, The Miami University, USA
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Level 3, Grand Hall |
| 09:45 - 10:15 |
Group Photo |
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| 10:15 - 12:00 |
Development and axonal guidance
Session Chair: Yimin Zou and Libing Zhou
- In vivo reprogramming for brain repair
- Gong Chen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Improving functional recovery by manipulating Wnt signaling after spinal cord injury
- Yimin Zou, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Beyong Taxol: Microtubule-based strategies for promoting nerve regeneration after injury
- Peter W. Baas, Drexel University, USA
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307 Conference Room |
| 10:15 - 12:00 |
Inflammation, neuronal and glial responses to injury
Session Chair: Jacqueline C. Bresnahan and Michael Sofroniew
- Astrocyte roles in spinal cord injury
- Michael Sofroniew, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Degeneration, repair and inflammation in primate spinal cord injury
- Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Role of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and related pathways in CNS injury and repair
- Michael S. Beattie, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Level 3, Grand Hall |
| 12:30 - 13:30
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Lunch Break
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| 13:30 - 17:30 |
Optical nerve regeneration and protection
Session Chair: Alan Harvey and Shigang He
- Linking intrinsic and extrinsic modulators of axon regeneration
- Jeff Goldberg, University of California, San Diego, USA
- What can neural tissue grafts in the visual system tell us about axonal growth and regeneration?
- Alan Harvey, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- Molecular basis of immune-mediated axonal regeneration in the injured optical nerve
- Roman Giger, University of Michigan, USA
- Strategies to limit secondary degeneratn following neurtrauma
- Melinda Fitzgerald, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- Promoting axon regeneration by manipulating intrinsic regenerative ability
- Zhigang He, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard, USA
- Long term rescue of visual functions by AAV mediated BDNF expression in two rodent glaucoma models
- Shigang He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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307 Conference Room
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| 13:30 - 18:00 |
Clinical trials and regenerative medicine
Session Chair: Wise Young, Shinn-Zong Lin and Jianjun Li
- Translational industry of adipose tissue derived stem cells in regenerative medicine
- Shinn-Zong Lin, Chair of Asia Pacific Symposium on Neural Regeneration
- Phase II trials of cethrin: selecting meaningful endpoints for cervical spinal cord injury
- Lisa M. Bond, BioAxone BioSciences, Inc., USA
- Development and clinical translation of biomaterial technologies for spinal cord injury
- Rick Layer, InVivo Therapeutics Corp., USA
- Can lithium relieve neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury
- Mingliang Yang, China Rehabilitation Research Center, China
- Biomarkers of human spinal cord injury - progress and perspectives
- Brian Kwon, University of British Columbia, Canada
- A preliminary evaluation of surgery to reconstruct thoracic breathing in patients with hight level cervical spinal cord injury
- Jianjun Li, China Rehabilitaton Research Center, China
- A preliminary study on spinal cord injury by diffusion tensor imaging
- Xijing He, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
- Umbilical cord blood mononuclear cell therapy of chronic spinal cord injury
- Wise Young, China Spinal Cord Injury Network, Hong Kong China
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308 Conference Room
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| 13:30 - 16:55 |
Peripheral nerve regeneration
Session Chair: Yudong Gu and Baoguo Jiang
- Research on the mechanism of nerve regeneration and CNS remodeling after peripheral nerve injury and renovation
- Baoguo Jiang, Peking University, China
- Tissue engineered nerve: current and prospective
- Xiaosong Gu, Nantong University, China
- Stem cell therapy for muscular atrophy
- Jianguang Xu, Shanghai Univeristy of Traditionaol Chinese Medicine, China
- The role and change of brain plasticity in peripheral nerve regeneration
- Wendong Xu, Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, China
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309 Conference Room
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| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Dinner |
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| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Round table discussions
- New directions in neural regeneration
- Co-Chair: Kwo-Fai So and Xiao-Ming Xu
- Translational crosstalk
- Co-Chair: Wise Young, Shinn-Zong Lin and Chunren Wang
- 973 Session
- Yudong Gu and Baoguo Jiang
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Conference Room
308
206
203
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8 September 2014 (Monday)
| Time |
Session |
Venue |
| 08:30 - 09:15 |
Keynote speech
Chair: Xiao-song Gu and Zhigang He
- Regulation of polarization after spinal cord injury
- Gong Ju, Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fourth Military Medical University, China
- Wolfberry and neuroprotection
- Kwo-Fai So, Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, GHM Institute of CNS Regeneration, Jinan University, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Research on regenerative medicine - current state and prospect
- Zheng-guo Wang, Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Third Military Medical University, China
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307 Conference Room |
| 09:15 - 09:40 |
Coffee Break |
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| 09:40 - 12:00 |
Spinal cord protection and regeneration
Session Chair: Oswald Steward and Jan Schwab
- Spinal cord injury-induced immune deficiency syndrome reduces host defence and facilitates infections - Deciphering underlying mechanisms of a prevalent risk factor for poor neurological recovery (disease modifying factor)
- Jan Schwab, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany
- Promoting axon regeneration by manipulating intrinsic regenerative ability
- Oswald Steward, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Promote regrowth of the corticospinal tract axons after spinal cord injury
- Kai Liu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Functional regeneration of descending propriospinal axons beyond a spinal cord injury
- Xiao-ming Xu, Indiana University, USA
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307 Conference Room
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| 09:40 - 12:00 |
Degeneration
Session Chair:
- Traditional Chinese Medicine may treat neurodegenerative disorders
- Xiaomin Wang, Capital Medical University, China
- Role of microtubule-associated protein Tau in neurodegeneratiion and regeneration
- Jian-zhi Wang, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong Univeristy of Science and Technology, China
- Role of lower brain glucose metabolism on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease
- Fei Liu, Nantong University, China
- Shifting balance from neurodegeneration to regeneration of the brain: a novel therapeutic approach to Alzheimer disease and related neurodegenerative conditions
- Khalid Iqbal, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, USA
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308 Conference Room
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| 09:40 - 12:00 |
New frontier in stem cell research
Chair: Itzhak Fischer and Shanping Yu
- Transplanting neural progenitors to build a neuronal relay across the injured spinal cord
- Itzhak Fischer, Drexel University, USA
- Endogenous regeneration via adult neurogenesis
- Hongjun Song, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Combination stem cell therapy for ischemic stroke
- Shanping Yu, Emory University, USA
- Normal and aberrant integration of adult generated neurons
- Guoli Ming, Johns Hopkins University, USA
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309 Conference Room |
| 12:00 -13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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| 13:00 - 15:40 |
Oral presentation for distinguished guests and outstanding abstract
Chair: WutianWu, Jianzhong Zhang and Ronghua Zhang
- The prevention of neurological complications and neuroprotection in orthopedic spine surgery
- Yong Qiu, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, China
- Aging related neurdegeneration of the lumbosacral spinal cord and ameliorated by sexual hormone replacement
- Huibing Tan, Liaoning Medical College, China
- Molecular role of cPLA2 activation in spinal cord injury
- Nai-Kui Liu, Indianna University, USA
- Systemic PTEN antagonist peptides promoted axon regeneration and functional recovery after CNS injury
- Shuxin Li, Temple University School of Medicine, USA
- Impaired motor axon development in spinal muscular atrophy
- Yiling Kong, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
- In vitro two-photon imaging of axonal dynamics, blood flow and calcium influx with methylprednisolone therapy in a mouse spinal cord injury model
- Yiling Zhang, Then General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, China
- Transplantation of embryonic spinal cord derived cells into transected peripheral nerve to prevent muscular atrophy
- Carolin Ruven, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Physical exercise-triggered adiponectin increase mitigates impairment of hippocampal neurogenesis and behavioral despairs in corticosterone-induced stress model
- Ang Li, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Expression of neuronal marker Hu C/Din matrix areas of the brain of trout Oncorhynchusmykiss after mechanical injury to optic nerve
- Evgeniya V. Pushchina, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Dopaminergic neurogenesis is selectively compromised in the olfactory buld of female lacking cholecystokinin 1 receptors
- Yi Sui, Shenyang First People's Hospital, China
- Pax3 and Pax7 reversely interact and similarly regulate the expression of their target genes in the developmenting chicken spinal cord
- Juntang Lin, Jena University Hospital, Germany/Xinxiang Medical University, China
- Effects of physostigmin on celll proliferation in the telencephalon of adult zebrafish
- Chang-Joong Lee, Inha University, South Korea
- Effect of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells on stress induced neural degeneration in CA1 hippocampal region of rats
- Saravana Kumar, Saveetha Dental College, India
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206 Conference Room |
| 13:00 - 14:40 |
Oral presentation for "Wings for Life" travel award winner
Chair: Yiwen Ruan and Verena May
- Lentivirus-meidated RNA interferone targeting RhoA slacks the migration and proliferation of Schwann cells in culture
- Changhui Qian, Southern Medical University, China
- The role of mitochondrial fission/fussion in CNS axon regeneration
- Alexander Kreymerman, University of California San Diego, USA
- Enhancement of functional recovery after peripheral nerve injury by intervention with peptide mimetics of protein tyrosine phosphase-rho wedge motif
- Heng Li, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Adiponectin mediates beneficial effects of running on depression-like behaviors and hippocampal neurogenesis
- Suk-Yu Yau, University of Victoria, Canada
- The regulation mechanisms of miRNAs in peripheral nerve regeneration
- Songlin Zhou, Nantong University, China
- A compact blast brain injury device produces graded injury severities, neuronal degeneration and functional deficits
- Hongxing Wang, Indiana Univeristy, USA /First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China
- Oligodendrocyte in zebrafish retina: development, origin, behavior and function
- Chen Tian, University of Science and Technology of China, China
- Microarray profiles comparing gene expression changes during primary versus secondary degeneration in the visual system
- Wissam Chiha, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- Specific targeting of the entire motor end plates in the rat hindlimb enhances retrograde transport in the spinal cord motor neurons
- Rahul Mohan, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Reparative neurogenesis in adult trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): in vitro and in vivo investigation of CNS response after optic nerve injury
- Sachin Shukla, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, India
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203 Conference Room |
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