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
- Epileptogenesis
- Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Epileptogenesis
Susan Herman, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
- Prevention of Posttraumatic Neocortical Epileptogenesis
Kevin D. Graber, M.D. (Stanford University)
- Co-morbidities
- Imaging/technology
POSTER SESSION/RECEPTION
DINNER
March 29, 2007
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)
- 11:40 Panel Discussion (view session photo)
- 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)
- 3:50 Panel discussion (view session photo)
- 5:30-6:30 RECEPTION
March 30, 2007
MORNING SESSION
AFTERNOON SESSION
Last updated January 14, 2009