Motor Neuron Diseases Symposium
Monday, October 29, 2007

The Symposium entitled "Motor Neuron Diseases Symposium" will be held on in the Biomedical Research Building II/III Auditorium of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine on Monday, October 29, 2007.

Speakers:

  • Davide Trotti, PhD, "Post-translational Processing of the Astroglial Glutamate Transporter Eaat2 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)"
  • Rita Balice-Gordon, PhD, "Neuromuscular Plasticity: Insights From Mice and Zebrafish"
  • Pico Caroni, PhD, "Defining Disease Onset and Progression in FALS Mice"
  • Robert Kalb, MD, "Signaling Events in Premorbid Motor Neurons"
  • Piera Pasinelli, PhD, "Mitochondrial Pathology in Mutant SOD1-mediated ALS"
  • Erika Holzbaur, PhD, "The Role of Retrograde Axonal Transport in the Pathogenesis of Motor Neuron Disease"
  • Paul Taylor, MD, PhD, "HDAC6 Rescues Neurodegeneration and Provides an Essential Link Between Autophagy and the UPS"
  • Philip Wong, PhD, "Mechanism of Motor Neuron Disease in a Mutant Dynactin p150Glued Mouse Model."
  • Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, "Molecular Functions of the Survival of Motor Neurons Complex and Therapeutic Approaches for Spinal Muscular Atrophy"
  • Diane Merry, PhD, "Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy"
  • Virginia Lee, PhD, "TDP-43 and ALS"

 

Contact for questions:
kalb@email.chop.edu