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BrainNet Europe is a "Network of Excellence" funded by the European Commission in the 6th Framework Program "Life Science" (LSHM-CT-2004-503039). It consists of 19 established brain banks across Europe and is coordinated by the Centre for Neuropathology and Prion Research Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

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2nd International Conference

Programme

Programme updated 03rd December:

	Wednesday 10 December 08
	Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues and Donor Recruitment in Brain Banking in Europe (Hotel Excelsior, Schützenstraße 11, Munich)
14.30	Inge Huitinga: Design of Ethical and legal guidelines for Brain banking
15.00	Natasja Klioueva: Introduction of documents and SOP’s for donor recruitment and tissue distribution to researchers: i.e. Code of conduct, Brain Bank regulations, informed consent forms, MTA’s
16.00	Coffee and Exhibition of donor recruitment methods and materials within BNE
16.30	Natasja Klioueva: Brain Donor Programs in Europe
17.30	Marleen Rademaker: Tips and Tricks to increase publicity and do’s and don’ts in donor recruitment programs
17.45	General Discussion followed by exhibition of donor recruitment methods and materials within BNE
18.30	End of workshop

19.30	Bavarian Evening and Dinner at the famous Hofbräuhaus in the heart of Munich

	Thursday 11 December 08
	Session on Brain Banking (Munich House of Artists, Lenbachplatz 8, Munich)
09.00	Welcome and Opening by Reinhard Putz, Vicepresident Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
09.10	Welcome by Hans Kretzschmar, Co-ordinator of BrainNet Euroe
09.20	Glenda Halliday: Brain Banking in Australia
09.45	Lea Grinberg: Brain Bank of the Brazilian Aging Brain Study Group - a Collection Focused in Human Control Cases
10.05	Claire Troakes: The effect of formalin fixation times on DNA preservation and immuno-reactivity in post-mortem brain tissue
10.25	Marta Barrachina: DNA methylation analysis of genes related Alzheimer’s disease, tauopathies and alpha-synucleinopathies in human post-mortem brain samples
10.45	Coffee break
	Session on Pathology of Neurodegenerative Diseases
11.15	Irina Alafuzoff: Reproducibility in the assessment of Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body disease related pathologies
11.40	Manuela Neumann: Pathological spectrum of frontotemporal lobar degeneration
12.05	Tamas Revesz: Tau in progressive supranuclear palsy-parkinsonism and Richardson’s syndrome
12.30	Markus Tolnay: Argyrophilic grain disease: a late-onset dementia with distinctive features among tauopathies
12.55	Lunch break
	Session on Pathology of Neurodegenerative Diseases – continued
14.00	Kurt Jellinger: Lewy body-related pathology - a critical update
14.25	Isidro Ferrer: Early molecular damage in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease and related alpha-synucleinopathies
14.50	Dietmar Thal: Perivascular drainage of cerebral apolipoprotein E in the human brain and its relation to Alzheimer’s disease
	Session on Gene Expression Profiling
15.10	Pascal Durrenberger: Microarray gene expression analysis of common pathogenetic mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases
15.30	Coffee break
	Session on Psychiatric Diseases
16.00	Sabine Bahn: Proteomics and psychiatric diseases
16.30	Carsten Korth: Mining the aggregome for identifying proteins that define chronic mental diseases
16.50	Daniel Martins-de-Souza: Shotgun Proteome Analysis of Schizophrenia Brain Tissue
17.10	Tamas Kozicz: The role of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript and nesfatin-1 in the non-preganglionic Edinger-Westphal nucleus in stress adaptation and suicide
17.30	Poster Session
19.00	End of conference Day 1

20.00	Elegant Gala Evening in the German Hunting and Fishery Museum

	Friday 12 December 08
	Symposium on ethical and legal issues (Munich House of Artists, Lenbachplatz 8, Munich)
8.30	Brigitte Tag: Brain banks in research - legal and ethical aspects
9.00	Inge Huitinga: The art of Brain Banking in Europe: Ethical, legal and practical guidelines for donor recruitment, tissue handling and tissue distribution
9.30	James Ironside: The Human Tissue Authority: Setting standards for consent, autopsies, tissue storage and research in the UK
9.50	Colin Smith: The Edinburgh Sudden Death Bank: Obtaining consent for research on medicolegal autopsies
10.10	Coffee break
	Session for patient organizations
10.30	Jeanne Bell: Introduction
10.35	Stewart Nixon
10.45	Heike von Lützau-Hohlbein (German Alzheimer Association): Aspects of Brain Banks for People with Dementia and their Carers
10.55	Jean Petitpré (Groupement d’intérêt économique): The Brain Bank NeuroCEB: blue print
11.05	Friedrich-Wilhelm Mehrhoff (German Parkinson Association)
11.15	A. Hovine (Groupement d’intérêt économique) What does a patients' association add to a Brain Bank?
11.25	General discussion (incl. Lee Dunster from the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society)
11.50	Lunch break
	Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis
12.30	Richard Reynolds: Cortical pathology in multiple sclerosis is associated with substantial neurodegeneration and progressive neurological disability
12.55	Marco Vercellino: Demyelination, inflammation and neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis deep grey matter
13.15	Jeroen Melief: Severe multiple sclerosis is associated with low stress-axis activity
13.35	Paul Ince: Iron Metabolism Pathways in White Matter Lesions in the Elderly
13.55	Christine Stadelmann: Translating findings on human tissue into new animal models
14.20	Coffee break
	Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis - continued
14.40	Francesca Aloisi: Detection of Epstein-Barr virus in the multiple sclerosis brain
15.05	Edgar Meinl: Maintenance of B cells and plasma cell in the CNS in multiple sclerosis
15.25	May Han: Proteomic analysis of active multiple sclerosis lesions reveals therapeutic targets
15.50	End of conference: Closing words by Hans Kretzschmar

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