Thursday, September 13th, 2012
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Registration Desk |
Friday, September 14th, 2012
| 07:30-08:30   |
Registration Desk
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Welcome and Introduction
| 08:30-09:00 |
Sven Pålhagen (Stockholm, Sweden) G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer (Ulm, Germany)
Bea De Schepper (President of the EHA, Moerbeke-Waas, Belgium)
Antoni Montserrat Moliner (European Commission, DG Health)
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Plenary Session I: 'A look ahead'
| Chair: Gill Bates (London, UK) |
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| 09:00-09:30 |
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Frequency of Huntington Disease - Greater than you think Michael Hayden (Vancouver, Canada) | | |
| 09:30-10:00 | |
What are we really looking for in an HD drug? Cristina Sampaio (Princeton, USA) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | |
Care, coping and research in HD – the earlier the better! Alexandra Dürr (Paris, France) | | |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Tea/Coffee Break |
Plenary Session II: 'Frontiers in biology and their relevance to Huntington's disease'
| Chair: Christian Néri (Paris, France) |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
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Longevity pathways and their relevance to human disease Hugo Aguilaniu (Lyon, France)
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| 11:30-12:00 |
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RNA toxicity in poly-Q disorders
Włodzimierz J. Krzyżosiak (Poznan, Poland) |
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| 12:00-12:30 |
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Post-translational modifications and proteolysis of huntingtin Ray Truant (Hamilton, Canada) |
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Poster Viewing
| Chairs: Juliana Bronzova (Noordwijk, The Netherlands), Jean-Marc Burgunder (Bern, Switzerland), Raymund Roos (Leiden, The Netherlands) |
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| 12:30-14:00 |
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Poster Viewing & Guided Poster Tours |
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| 12:30-14:00 |
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Buffet Style Lunch |
| | Plenary Session III: 'Science practice at EHDN'
| Chair: G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer (Ulm, Germany) |
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| 14:00-14:15 |
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Scientific strategy of EHDN: implementation Joaquim Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal), Juliana Bronzova (Noorwijk, The Netherlands), Michael Orth (Ulm, Germany) | | |
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Juvenile HD Working Group Oliver Quarrell (Sheffield, UK)
Advanced HD Working Group Katia Youssov (Creteil, France)
Animal studies on the effects of physiotherapy Simon Brooks (Cardiff, UK)
Human physiotherapy studies Monica Busse (Cardiff, UK) | | |
Short Communications I: 'Scientific Presentations: 10’ and 5’ questions – selected from submissions'
| Chair: Åsa Petersen (Lund, Sweden) |
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| 15:00-15:15 |
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Default-mode network changes in preclinical Huntington´s disease Michael Orth (Ulm, Germany) |
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| 15:15-15:30 |
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Longitudinal functional and connectivity changes during working memory performance in HD
Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis (Clayton, Australia) |
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| 15:30-15:45 |
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Better global and cognitive functioning for choreatic compared to hypokinetic-rigid HD Ellen 't Hart (Leiden, The Netherlands) |
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| 15:45-16:00 |
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Critical consideration of the criteria for the motor diagnosis of HD
Jane S. Paulsen (Iowa, USA) |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
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Tea/Coffee Break |
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Plenary Session IV: 'Keynote Presentations'
| Chair: Joaquim Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal) |
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| 16:30-17:15 |
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Update on stem cell research: clinical potentials Patrik Brundin (Lund, Sweden) |
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| 17:15-18:00 |
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Cognitive alterations in HD
Julie Stout (Melbourne, Australia) |
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Roundup I
| 18:00-18:30 |
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Lessons of the day Edward Wild (London, UK) and Jeff Carroll (Bellingham, USA) | | |
EHDN Reception at the City Hall
| 18:30-19:00 |
Boat trip to the City Hall
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19:00-22:00 |
EHDN welcome reception dinner at the City Hall Stockholm,
hosted by the City of Stockholm and the County of Stockholm |
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