Register Now: Scientific Symposium: June 24 and June 25, 2018 (for medical professionals only)
Medical Professionals $300
| Date/Time | Presenters | Topic/Event |
|---|---|---|
| SUNDAY, JUNE 24 | ||
| 7:00 - 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 8:00 - 8:15 am | Gerald Raymond Bob Rauner | Welcome & Announcements |
| 8:15 - 8:45 am | William Rizzo, MD | Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome |
| 8:50 - 9:10 am | Kathleen Zackowski | Vibration Sensation: A Quantitative and Relevant Early Clinical Outcome in AMN |
| 9:10 - 9:30 am | Joshua Bonkowsky | Fishing and Data-mining: New Information on Diagnoses and Treatments for Leukodystrophies |
| 9:30 - 10:00 am | Stephan Kemp | Metabolic Rerouting of Very Long-chain Fatty Acid Synthesis in Adrenoleukodystrophy |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am | Quasar Padiath | Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy: From Mechanisms to Potential Therapeutic Approaches |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am | Break | Break with Exhibitors/Auction Preview |
| 10:45 - 11:15 am | Andrea DeBarber | Improved Diagnostic and Screening Tests for Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis |
| 11:15 - 11:45 am | Keith Van Haren | Vitamin D Increases Energy Efficiency and Reduces Fatty Acid Dependency and Inflammation in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthy Controls |
| 11:45 - 12:15 pm | Vivi Heine | Towards Cell Replacement Therapy for Children with Vanishing White Matter Disease |
| 12:15 - 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm | Marjo van der Knaap | Vascular Leukodystrophies |
| 2:00 - 2:30 pm | Julia Kofler | The Neuropathologic Spectrum of Krabbe Disease |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm | Eleonora Cavalca | Metallothioneins are Central Nervous System Disease Biomarkers and Potential Therapeutic Agents in Leukodystrophies |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Genevieve Bernard | Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy |
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm | Break with Exhibitors/Auction Preview | |
| 3:45 - 4:15 pm | Florian Eichler | Gene Therapy |
| 4:15 - 4:45 pm | Christina Nemeth Mertz | Modeling LBSL |
| 4:45 - 5:15 pm | Daesung Shin | Temporal Galc Deletion Reveals a Critical Vulnerable Period in the Pathogenesis of Krabbe Disease |
| MONDAY, JUNE 25 | ||
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | Eric Mallack | Advanced Neuroimaging in Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy |
| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Heather Lau | Genotype-phenotype Correlations of Canavan Disease |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am | Maria Givorgri | Pathogenic mechanisms triggered by sulfatides |
| 9:30 - 10:00 am | Wouter van Ballegoij | The Natural History of Myelopathy in ALD |
| 10:00 - 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 am | Adeline Vanderver | Compassionate Use of Janus Kinase Inhibitors in Aicardi Goutieres Syndrome |
| 10:45 - 11:15 am | Troy Lund | Loss of Immune Tolerance in Cerebral ALD |
| 11:15 - 12:15 pm | Lunch |
