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March 28-30, 2007
Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
March 28, 2007 (Junior Investigators only)
SCIENTIFIC SESSION
- Welcome
Story Landis, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Junior Investigator Session
Chair: Manisha Patel, Ph.D. (University of Colorado) - The experience of epilepsy
Brendan Malone, Chicago Illinois - Scientific Talks
- Genetics
- Gene Mapping in Complex Epilepsies
Jocelyn F. Bautista, M.D.(Cleveland Clinic)
- Gene Mapping in Complex Epilepsies
- Epileptogenesis
- Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Epileptogenesis
Susan Herman, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania) - Prevention of Posttraumatic Neocortical Epileptogenesis
Kevin D. Graber, M.D. (Stanford University)
- Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Epileptogenesis
- Genetics
- Co-morbidities
- Neurobehavioral aspects of epilepsy
W. Curt LaFrance, M.D. (Brown University)
- Neurobehavioral aspects of epilepsy
- Imaging/technology
- Discussion (view session photo)
POSTER SESSION/RECEPTION
DINNER
- Career success talks
Scott Baraban, Ph.D. (University of California, San Francisco)
Anne Anderson, M.D. (Baylor College of Medicine)
March 29, 2007
- 7:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
- 8:30 Welcome: Story Landis, Ph.D., Director National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- 8:45 Introduction and Keynote Address: Gerald Fischbach, M.D. (Columbia University)
MORNING SESSION
- Session 1: Translating discoveries of epilepsy genes into cures
Chair: Jeffrey Noebels, M.D., Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine)- 9:15 The experience of epilepsy
April Cooper, Irvine, California - 9:30 Approaches to complex inheritance
Richard A. Gibbs, Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine) - 9:50 Imaging endophenotypes
Ellen Grant, M.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital) - 10:10 Monogenic epilepsies and epilepsy/malformation syndromes
Ingrid Scheffer, M.B.B.S., FRACP, Ph.D. (University of Melbourne) - 10:30 BREAK
- 10:50 Developmental reversibility of cortical malformations
Joseph LoTurco, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut) - 11:10 Targeting common signaling pathways in cortical dysplasia
Gabriella D'Arcangelo, Ph.D. (Talk given by Cecilia Ljungberg, Ph.D.) (Baylor College of Medicine) - 11:25 Rapamycin as a treatment for tuberous sclerosis complex
David N. Franz, M.D. (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
- 9:15 The experience of epilepsy
- 11:40 Panel Discussion (view session photo)
- Moderator:
Jeffrey L. Noebels, M.D., Ph.D. - Discussants:
Session 1 Speakers
- Moderator:
- 12:15 BOX LUNCHES
AFTERNOON SESSION
- 1:30 Keynote Address
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health - Session 2: Translating discoveries of epileptogenic mechanisms into cures
Chair: Frances E. Jensen, M.D. (Harvard Univeristy)- 1:45 The experience of epilepsy
Denise Pease, Corona, New York - 2:00 What is the clinical evidence for epileptogenesis?
Shlomo Shinnar, M.D., Ph.D. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) - 2:20 Epileptogenic phenotypes in experimental model systems
Asla Pitkänen, M.D., Ph.D. (University of Kuopio) - 2:40 BREAK
- 3:10 Candidate cellular and molecular mechanisms for epileptogenesis: impact from basic neurobiology
Helen E. Scharfman, Ph.D. (Columbia University and Helen Hayes Hospital) - 3:30 Epileptogenic biomarkers: human studies and experimental systems
Jerome Engel, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) (Talk given by Solomon Moshé, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
- 1:45 The experience of epilepsy
- 3:50 Panel discussion (view session photo)
- Moderator:
Frances E. Jensen, M.D. (Harvard University) - Discussants:
Barry W. Connors, Ph.D. (Brown University) (Toward an understanding of seizures and epileptogenesis)
Richard L. Huganir, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
David C. Van Essen, Ph.D. (Washington University) (Neuroimaging advances relevant to epilepsy)
Session 2 Speakers
- Moderator:
- 5:30-6:30 RECEPTION
March 30, 2007
- 7:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
- 8:30 Greeting: Peter Wolf, M.D., Ph.D. (International League Against Epilepsy)
Introduction: John W. Swann, Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine)
MORNING SESSION
- Session 3: Beyond seizures: cognitive and psychological issues in epilepsy
Chair: Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania)- 8:45 The experience of epilepsy
Sherry Healey, Naperville, Illinois - 9:00 Cognitive and psychological issues in epilepsy: the scope of the problem
Anne T. Berg, Ph.D. (Northern Illinois University) - 9:20 Imaging cognitive and psychological issues in epilepsy
John D.E. Gabrieli, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - 9:40 Longitudinal imaging of brain plasticity in children
Judith L. Rapoport, M.D. (National Institute of Mental Health) - 10:00 BREAK
- 10:30 Unraveling mechanisms and searching for cures for learning disabilities
Alcino J. Silva, Ph.D. (National Institute of Mental Health)
- 8:45 The experience of epilepsy
- 10:50 Panel discussion (view session photo)
- Moderator:
Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D. - Discussants:
John J. Barry, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Rochelle Caplan, M.D. (UCLA)
Bruce P. Hermann, M.D. (University of Wisconsin)
Gregory L. Holmes, M.D. (Dartmouth College)
Session 3 Speakers
- Moderator:
- 11:30 BOX LUNCHES and discussion of potential outcomes: Benchmarks (view session photo)
Chair: Daniel H. Lowenstein, M.D. (University of California at San Francisco)
AFTERNOON SESSION
- Session 4: Emerging technologies of diagnostic materials and cellular and molecular therapeutics
Chairs: Arnold R. Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California at San Francisco) and Dennis Spencer, M.D. (Yale University) - 1:00 The experience of epilepsy
Jeffrey Smith - Part I Technology
- 1:15 Next-generation implantable technologies: materials, power/telemetry and sensors
Bruce Lanning, Ph.D. (ITN Energy Systems) - 1:35 Nanotechnology for delivery and tracking therapy
W. Mark Saltzman, Ph.D. (Yale University) - 1:55 Brain mapping in the study of epilepsy
Arthur Toga, Ph.D. (University of California at Los Angeles)
- 1:15 Next-generation implantable technologies: materials, power/telemetry and sensors
- Part II Therapeutics
- 2:15 Neural interfaces for repair and therapy: potential for epilepsy
John Donoghue, Ph.D. (Brown University) - 2:35 Future of gene therapy
R. Jude Samulski, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina) - 2:55 Mechanisms that generate inhibitory interneurons—insights into cell-based therapies for epilepsy
John L.R. Rubenstein, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California at San Francisco)
- 2:15 Neural interfaces for repair and therapy: potential for epilepsy
- 3:15 Panel discussion: (view session photo)
- Moderator:
Dennis Spencer, M.D. - Discussants:
Session 4 Speakers
- Moderator:
- 4:00 WRAP-UP AND CLOSING REMARKS
- Walter Koroshetz, M.D., Deputy Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
ADJOURNMENT
- Walter Koroshetz, M.D., Deputy Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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