医学国际学术会议

The theme of the conference

A Truce in the BAP-tist/Tau-ist War? Progress Toward A Unified Understanding of Alzheimer's Disease

Basic information

Date: 10 December 2013 Location: The New York Academy of Sciences7 World Trade Center

Registration PricingMember$30 Student/Postdoc Member$15 Nonmember (Academia)$65 Nonmember (Corporate)$85 Nonmember (Non-profit)$65 Nonmember (Student / Postdoc / Resident / Fellow)$45

DescribtionAlzheimer's disease is a public health crisis that will grow to devastating proportions over the next several decades unless effective therapies are found. Two hallmark pathologies in the brain have characterized the disease since it was first described over 100 years ago by Alois Alzheimer. The first is the neuritic plaque,The second is the neurofibrillary tangle.Vigorous debates as to which pathology is more relevant to disease has in addition led to what has been referred to as the 'BAP-tist/Tau-ist' wars, further isolating these biologies. The goal of this symposium is to revisit the old BAP-tist/Tau-ist schism and ask whether two fields of research on one disease can offer each other mechanistic clues in the quest to find effective therapies.

Agenda8:30 AM Registration and continental breakfast 9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction 9:10 AM Two speeches 10:30 AM Coffee break 11:00 AM Two speeches 12:20 PM Lunch break 1:20 PM two speeches 2:40 PM Coffee break 3:10 PM two speeches 4:30 PM Networking reception 5:30 PM Close

OrganizersKen Jones, PhD Forest Research Institute Robert Martone Covance Biomarker Center of Excellence Robert B. Nelson, PhD Lundbeck Research USA Jennifer Henry, PhD The New York Academy of Sciences

Speakers

Frank M. LaFerla, PhD ;University of California, Irvine Sylvain E. Lesné, PhD, MSc:University of Minnesota Bingwei Lu, PhD: Stanford University School of Medicine Lennart Mucke, MD:Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease Ralph A. Nixon, MD, PhD: Nathan Kline Institute Franck Polleux, PhD: Columbia University Terrence Town, PhD: University of Southern California Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD:Stanford University School of Medicine

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Our LocationThe New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor New York, NY 10007-2157 212.298.8600

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