| THURSDAY,
JUNE 15, 2000 |
| 09:00-09:30 |
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
GREETINGS
Ariel Miller, Symposium Chairman |
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WELCOME
Oded Abramsky, Chairman, ENS-2000, Hadassah
Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem
Michel Revel, The Weizmann Institue of Science,
Rehovot
Bracha Rager, Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of
Health, Jerusalem
Rafael Beyar, Dean, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion,
Haifa
Karl Skorecki Director, The Rappaport Family Institute for Research in
the Medical Sciences |
| 09:30-10:30 |
SESSION I: NEURO-IMMUNE INTERACTIONS
Moderators: Ruth Arnon, Israel
John Whitaker, USA |
| 09:30-09:50 |
CELLULAR IMMUNE RESPONSE FOLLOWING
INTERACTION OF T CELLS AND NEUROANTIGENS
Roland Martin, USA |
| 09:50-10:10 |
HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE AND
ANTIBODY-MEDIATED BRAIN INJURY
Nicole Kerler de Rosbo, Israel |
| 10:10-10:30 |
NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS AS LYMPHOKINES:
HUMAN IMMUNE CELLS PRODUCE NEUROTRPHIC FACTORS IN VITRO AND IN
INFLAMMATORY BRAIN LESIONS
Reinhard Hohlfeld, Germany |
| 10:30-10:50 |
INFLAMMATION AND AUTOIMMUNITY IN CNS
REGENERATION AND PROTECTION
Michal Schwartz, Israel |
| 11:50-11:20 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30-13:10 |
SESSION II: BRAIN INFLAMMATION
Moderators: Giancarlo Comi, Italy
Tamir Ben-Hur, Israel |
| 11:20-11:40 |
BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER, ADHESION MOLECULES
AND CELL MIGRATION
Juan J. Archelos , Austria |
| 11:40-12:00 |
MOLECULAR AND IMAGING ANALYSES REVEAL
COMPROMISED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER UNDER STRESS
Hermona Soreq, Israel |
| 12:00-12:20 |
MICROGLIA AND BRAIN MACROPHAGES
Jack Antel, Canada |
| 12:20-12:40 |
INFLAMMATION AND NEURODEGENERATIVE
DISEASE
Luigi Grimaldi, Italy |
| 12:40-13:00 |
INFLAMMATION AND DEMYELINATION IN
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
Hans Lassman, Austria |
| 13:00-14:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:30-16:00 |
SESSION III: GENETIC PREDISPOSITION AND
PRE-PROGRAMMED MORBIDITY
Moderators: Joab Chapman, Israel
Moses Rodriguez, USA |
| 14:30-14:50 |
THE GENETIC IMMUNOLOGY OF MULTIPLE
SCLEROSIS
Alastair Compston, UK |
| 14:50-15:10 |
THE GENETICS OF NEURO DEGENERATION
Efrat Levi-Lahad, Israel |
| 15:10-15:30 |
CELL FATE, APOPTOSIS AND NECROSIS
Daniel Offen, Israel |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:00 |
SESSION IV: MARKERS FOR MONITORING
NEURO-INFLAMMATION
Moderator: Per Soelberg Sorensen, Denmark
Oded Abramsky, Israel |
| 16:00-16:20 |
MMPS AND THEIR INHIBITORS IN BRAIN
INJURY AND REMODELING
Ariel Miller, Israel |
| 16:20-16:40 |
MONITORING PROGRESSION OF MULTIPLE
SCLEROSIS: P-CRESOL SULFATE AS THE DOMINANT COMPONENT OF URINE MYELIN
BASIC PROTEIN LIKE MATERIAL
John Whitaker, USA |
| 16:40-17:00 |
IMAGING BRAIN INFLAMMATION
Massimo Filippi, Italy |
| 19:00 |
GET TOGETHER RECEPTION |
| FRIDAY
JUNE 16, 2000 |
| 08:30-10:30 |
SESSION V: IMMUNOMODULATION AND THERAPY
Moderators: Dimitrius Karussis, Israel
Roland, Martin, USA |
| 08:30-09:00 |
IMMUNOMODULATION AND THERAPY IN BRAIN
TRAUMA AND STROKE
Esther Shohami, Israel |
| 09:00-09:30 |
IMMUNOMODULATION AND NEURO PROTECTION IN
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Moussa Youdim, Israel |
| 09:30-10:00 |
IMMUNOMODULATION AND THERAPY IN MULTIPLE
SCLEROSIS
Howard Weiner, USA |
| 10:00-10:30 |
DNA VACCINATION FOR CNS AUTOIMMUNE
DISEASES
Nathan Karin, Israel |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:40 |
SESSION VI: REPAIR MECHANISMS AND FUTURE
STRATEGIES
Moderators: Ron Milo, Israel
Aksel, Siva, Turkey |
| 11:00-11:30 |
ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REMYELINATION
Moses Rodriguez, USA |
| 11:30-12:00 |
STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR
NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES
Tamir Ben-Hur, Israel |
| 12:00-12:30 |
CYTOKINE GENE THERAPY OF AUTOIMMUNE
DEMYELINATION USING NON REPLICATIVE HERPES-SIMPLEX TYPE-1-DERIVED
VECTORS
Gianvito Martino, Italy |
| 12:30 |
Concluding Remarks |
