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David A. Harris Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine Title: The Cellular Prion Protein: A Receptor For Neurotoxic Protein Oligomers. |
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Joaquín Castilla Professor, Ikerbasque Research Professor, CIC bioGUNE - Proteomics unit (Prion lab) Title: Recombinant prions. A new method for studying prions. |
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Alison J. E. Green National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh Title: Cerebrospinal fluid RT-QuIC in the diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. |
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Makoto Sasaki Professor, Department of Ultrahigh Field MRI, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Iwate Medical University Title: Current concepts in MR imaging of prion diseases. |
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Nobuyuki Okamura Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku University School of Medicine Title: The use of PET imaging in the diagnosis of Prion disease. |
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Yuji Goto Professor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University Title: Toward a comprehensive understanding of protein folding and misfolding |
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Keiichi Higuchi Professor, Department of Aging Biology, Institute of Pathogenesis and Disease Prevention, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine Title: Prion-like transmission of systemic amyloidoses. |
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Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurobiology of Aging, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science Title: Propagation of cerebral beta-amyloidosis. |
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Katsumi Doh-ura Professor, Department of Neurochemistry, Tohoku University graduate school of medicine Title: Drug discovery for prion diseases: dream and reality |
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Kazuo Kuwata Professor, United Graduate School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Sciences, Gifu UniversityGifu University Title: Medical chaperone- a novel strategy for the logical drug design for prion disease |
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Tsuyoshi Hamada Associate Professor, Nagasaki Advanced Computing Center, Nagasaki University Title: in silico screening on DEGIMA supercomputer. |
| 7/21 (Sun) | ||
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| 12:30 – 12:40 | Opening address | Susumu Shirabe |
| 12:40 – 13:30 | Keynote Lecture 1 | David A. Harris |
| 13:30 – 14:20 | Keynote Lecture 2 | Joaquín Castilla |
| 14:20 – 14:40 --Coffee Break – | ||
| 14:40 – 15:30 | Oral Presentation of Selected Posters (1) No.1 - 5 | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Round table 1: Diagnosis of Prion diseases |
Makoto Sasaki Nobuyuki Okamura |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Poster Session | |
| 19:00 – | Dinner, Hotel Europe (Rembrandt Hall) | |
| 7/22 (Mon) | ||
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| 8:00 – 8:50 | Oral Presentation of Selected Posters (2) No.6 – 10 | |
| 8:50 – 10:05 | Special Symposium on non-prion amyloid | Yuji Goto Keiichi Higuchi Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | Poster Session and Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | APSPR General Assembly | |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | Round table 2: Prospective Drug discovery in prion | Katsumi Doh-ura Kazuo Kuwata Tsuyoshi Hamada |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Awarding Ceremony | |
| 12:30 – 12:40 | Closing Remarks | |
