UCL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY
QUEEN SQUARE
THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND
NEUROSURGERY
QUEEN SQUARE
LONDON WC1N 3BG
QUEEN SQUARE PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS
GROUP FORUM
GENETICS AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS COURSE
Convenors: Prof John Hardy and Prof Kailash Bhatia
Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square
Friday 8th April
1. Introduction and welcome
John Hardy
11.00-11.15
2. Mendelian genes for parkinsonism and their phenotypes Nick Wood
11.15-11.45
3. Genetics of dystonia syndromes
11.45-12.15
Niccolo Mencacci
4. Genetic analysis of Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Jose Bras
5. Lunch
12.15-12.45
12.45-14.00
6. Genome wide association studies in Parkinson’s disease
Huw Morris
14.00-14.30
7. The pathology of parkinsonisms
Janice Holton
14.30-15.00
8. The processes underlying synuclein toxicity
Sonia Gandhi
15.00-15.30
9. Tea
10. Mitophagy failure as a cause of parkinsonism
15.30-15.45
Helene Plun Favreau
15.45-16.15
11. GBA dysfunction in parkinsonism
Tony Schapira
12. Bioinformatic analysis of LRRK2 function
Claudia Mazoni 16.45-17.15
13. Autophagy and parkinson’s disease
Patrick Lewis
14. End of day
16.15-16.45
17.15-17.45
Saturday 9th April
1. Prediagnostic and risk phase and PREDICT-PD
Annette Schrag 9.00-09.30
2. Clinicopathological cases
Helen Ling
3. Coffee
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.15
4. New Treatments for PD
Tom Foltynie
10.15-10.45
5. Synaptopathies in paroxysmal movement disorders
Henry Houlden 10.45-11.15
6. Use of TMS in PD
John Rothwell
11.15-11.45
7. Video session and concluding remarks
Kailash Bhatia
11.45-12.30
8. Lunch at end of day
Registration enquiries to Linda Taib (l.taib@ucl.ac.uk)
UCL Participants – no fee.
Others £20 – administrative fee for registration- (contact Linda Taib)
Endorsed by the International Parkinson’s disease and MD society
Supported by the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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