Conferences and symposiums Rockefeller University-Karolinska Institutet Joint Symposium in Neuroscience and Immunology
07-05-2019 1:00 pm Add to iCal
| Day 1 | |
|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration & Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome Dr. Ole Petter Ottersen , President of Karolinska Institutet |
| SESSION 1: | NEUROSCIENCE Chairs: Dr. Per Svenningsson, Karolinska Institutet and Dr. Thomas Sakmar, Rockefeller University |
| 9:10-9:50 |
Keynote Lecture: Genes controlling sleep duration in Drosophila |
| 9:50-10:20 |
A mouse model to evaluate treatment of mtDNA mutation diseases Dr. Nils-Göran Larsson, Karolinska Institutet |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Prefrontal Contributions to Memory Processing |
| Coffee | |
| 11:10-11:40 |
On the Neural Mechanisms of Face Recognition Dr. Winrich Freiwald, Rockefeller University |
| 11:40-12:10 |
Mapping brain circuits Dr. Konstantinos Meletis, Karolinska Institutet |
| 12:10-12:40 |
iPS cell models of human brain development Dr. Anna Falk, Karolinska Institutet |
| Lunch | |
| SESSION 2: | IMMUNOLOGY Chairs: Dr. Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Karolinska Institutet and Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, Rockefeller University |
| 13:30-14:00 |
The HIV problem |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Transcriptional delineation of human ILCs at the single-cell level Dr. Jenny Mjösberg, Karolinska Institutet |
| Coffee | |
| 15:20-15:50 |
Human immune system development early in life Dr. Petter Brodin, Karolinska Institutet |
| 15:50-16:20 |
Fc receptors - Drivers of Immunity |
| 16:20-16:50 |
Pneumococcal interactions with the host Dr. Birgitta Henriques Normark, Karolinska Institutet |
Abstracts, Day 1, Session 1: Neuroscience
Abstracts, Day 1, Session 2: Immunology
Abstracts, Day 2, Session 3: Neuroscience and Immunology
| Day 2 | |
|---|---|
| SESSION 3: | NEUROSCIENCE AND IMMUNOLOGY Chairs: Dr. Marianne Schultzberg, Karolinska Institutet and Dr. Michel Nussenzweig, Rockefeller University |
| 9:00–9:30 |
Toward a genetic theory of childhood infectious diseases Dr. Jean-Laurent Casanova, Rockefeller University |
| 9:30–10:00 |
Single-cell transcriptional and epigenomic states of oligodendroglia in multiple sclerosis Dr. Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Karolinska Institutet |
| 10:00–10:30 |
CRISPR-Cas: acquired immunity in prokaryotes Dr. Luciano Marraffini, Rockefeller University |
| Coffee | |
| 10:50–11:20 |
Applied epigenomics: insights into the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis Dr. Maja Jagodic, Karolinska Institutet |
| 11:20–11:50 |
Neuro-immune interactions in the gut Dr. Daniel Mucida, Rockefeller University |
| 11:50–12:10 |
Concluding remarks Dr. Per Svenningsson, Scientific director for Rockefeller and KI collaboration |
| Lunch | |
The conference is fully booked. Please contact Pernilla Witte, pernilla.witte@ki.se for more information.