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UCL Motor Neuron Disease Centre International Symposium
06/09/2024 @ 9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Fifth UCL Queen Square Motor Neuron Disease Centre International Symposium
Big Data, New Technologies and AI for ALS: from genetics to physiology to therapy. Update on clinical and non-clinical research in ALS.
Agenda
09:30 – 09:40 – Welcome and Introduction to the UCL QS MND Centre – Andrea Malaspina
09:40 – 10:00 – Project MinE – Jan Veldink
10:00 – 10:20 – miRNA in ALS – Eran Hornstein
10:20 – 10:40 – New gene therapy / Stathmin – Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne
11:10 – 11:30 – New Technologies for Gene Therapy in ALS – Oscar Wilkins
11:30 – 11:50 – A CRISPR approach to studying neurodegenerative disease – Andrew Bassett
11:50 – 12:10 – New Pathologies in ALS and FTD – Tammaryn Lashley
12:10 – 12:30 – Cryo-EM has shown us about proteinopathy in ALS, including TDP-43 and TAF15 – Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon
13:30 – 13:50 – Insights from lipidomic approaches in ALS – Adrian Isaacs
13:50 – 14:10 – Metabolism and lipidomics – Luc Dupuis
14:10 – 14:30 – Immune senescence and ALS and CAR-Tregs – Sian Henson
14:30 – 14:50 – Immune responses in ALS – Al La Spada
14:50 – 15:20 – KEYNOTE: Big imaging datasets with respect to ALS – Steven Finkbeiner
15:50 – 16:10 – Digital and remote biomarkers in ALS/FTD – Jon Rohrer
16:10 – 16:30 – Precision ALS – Orla Hardiman
16:30 – 16:50 – Machine learning for multivariate prognostic models in MND – James Cole
17:00 – 17:20 – Large-scale Answer ALS iPSC data generation – Clive Svendsen
17:20 – 17:40 – AI augmented target identification in ALS, taking a disease mechanism approach – Bethan Kilpatrick
17:40 – 17:50 – Closing Remarks – Linda Greensmith