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Symposium

June 2 (MON)

June 3 (TUE)

June 4 (WED)

Opening Auditorium (3F)
08:00-09:00
Opening
Ceremony for Lifetime Achievement Award
Presidential Lecture Auditorium (3F)
09:00-10:00
Ironing out ferroptotic cell death mechanisms to tailor novel stroke therapeutics
Rajiv R. Ratan M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, USA)
June 2 Grand ballroom 103
11:00-12:30
SY 01. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Redefined: Innovative Insights Driving Future Translation
Lead organizer
Prof. Byung Gon Kim (Ajou University School of Medicine)
AIM2 inflammasome inhibition improves cognition and cerebral blood flow in a mouse model of vascular dementia
Quynh Nhu Dinh (La Trobe University, Australia)
Border-associated macrophages: Emerging roles in small vessel diseases
Laibaik Park (Cornell University, Weil Medical College, USA)
Novel white matter miRNA targets for hypoperfusion
Tracy D Farr (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Role of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in white matter damage and repair
Ken Arai (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
13:30-15:00
SY 02. Reprogramming the Brain after Stroke
Lead organizer
Dr. Wenlu Li (Zhejiang Chinese Medical University)
Endothelial regulation for cellular reprogramming
Wenlu Li  (Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China)
Reprogramming astrocytes to support neuroplasticity
Vanessa Castelli (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Reprogramming microglia for modulating inflammation
Yanqin Gao (Fudan University, China)
Stem cells for stroke recovery
Cesar V Borlongan (University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, USA)
16:00-17:30
SY 03. Non-invasive Assessment of Cerebral Blood Flow and Oxygen Metabolism: Rationale and Latest Developments
Lead organizer
Prof. Turgut Durduran (ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences)
Dr. Stefan Carp (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Principles of neurovascular regulation in health and disease
Costantino Iadecola (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA)
Monitoring of cerebral blood flow autoregulation with near-infrared spectroscopy
Ken Brady (UT Houston McGovern School of Medicine, USA)
Cerebral microvascular blood flow monitoring of patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with diffuse correlation techniques
Regine Choe (University of Rochester, USA)
Neurovascular coupling changes as a biomarker of cerebral health
Jana Kainerstorfer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
17:30-19:00
SY 04. Acute Brain Injury: Impact of Spreading Depolarization and Metabolism
Lead organizer
Dr. Karl Schoknecht (Leipzig University, Carl-Ludwig Institute of Physiology)
Visualizing cellular bioenergetics in aging neurons through the lens of NADH dynamics
Carlos Manlio Díaz García (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA)
Spreading Depolarization exhaust neuronal ATP in a model of cerebral ischemia
Karl Schoknecht (Leipzig University, Carl-Ludwig Institute of Physiology, Germany)
Paracrine signaling effects of adenosine and H+ in the wake of spreading depolarization
Britta Lindquist (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Which brain oxygen responses to spreading depolarization are deleterious to brain tissue?
Jens Dreier (Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany)
 Grand ballroom 101
11:00-12:30
BPSY 01. Mapping the Dynamics of Neurotransmitter Action
Lead organizer
Prof. Rupert Lanzenberger (Medical University of Vienna)
Decoding dopamine and its receptor dynamics with PET/MRI
Qikai Qin (Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, USA)
Neuroimaging of classical psychedelics' target engagement
Gitte M Knudsen (Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Denmark)
The role of the opioid system in reward and fear processing: Insights from [11C]Carfentanil PET
Vesa Putkinen (University of Turku, Finland)
Use of the synthesis model for task-specific changes in dopamine and serotonin signaling
Matej Murgaš (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
The program is subject to change.