Upcoming Meeting Program

June 23rd & 24th, 2024

VI Multiple Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration & Progression


Venue:  Das Gutenbrunn Thermen & Sporthotel Baden bei Wien. Rollettgasse 6. 2500 Baden.

Organizers:  Prof. María Trinidad Herrero (Murcia, Spain) [mtherrer@um.es or herreromt@gmail.com]

   Prof. Micaela Morelli (Cagliari, Italy) Neurotoxicity Society (NTS) 

June 23rd –

General critical thinking skills

08h15 – Welcome and reception of the young researchers.

09h30 - 10.15 – Leadership skills for success.

10h30 - 11h30 – Discussion and practice.


11.45-12h30 – Welcome reception and lunch to attendees

Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases

12.30-14.00: Topic I – Prenatal Factors
14.00-14.30: Coffee
14.30-16.00: Topic II – Mechanisms of neurodegeneration

16.00-16.30: Break

16.30-17.30: Students presentations

17.30-18.00: Snacks

18.00-19.30: Students presentations

19.30-20.30: General open discussion

21.00: Dinner

June 24th -

Neurodegeneration’s progression

09.00-10.30: Topic III – Neuroprotection

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-13.00: Topic IV - Multiple hits aging-related

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-14.30: Young students Awards

14.30-15.00: Concluding remarks 


Full Program (preliminary -confirmed)

June 23rd –
General critical thinking skills

08h-09.00h – Welcome and reception of the young researchers.

* Herrero MT

09h15 - 10.00 – Leadership skills for success.

* Giannoumis A

10h15 - 11h30 – Discussion and practice.

Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases

11.45-12h30 – Welcome, reception and lunch.

12.30-14.00: Topic I – Prenatal Factors

* Marta C. Antonelli

Infant Maltreatment impairs stress-coping strategies in juvenile and adult rats.

* Sandra Ceccatelli

Translational value of alterations in circadian activity occurring in depression induced by developmental neurotoxicity in mice.

* Mario Herrera-Marschitz

Pharmacological treatment targeting NAD+ replacement rescues from the long-term mitochondrial impairment induced by perinatal asphyxia.

14.00-14.30: Coffee

14.30-16.00: Topic II – Mechanisms of neurodegeneration

* Elaine del Bel

The cannabinoid derivative 4’-fluoro cannabidiol restrains L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in hemiparkinsonian mice: contribution of anti-inflammatory and anti-glutamatergic mechanisms.

* Krystyna Gołembiowska

Neurotransmitter release, receptors and DNA damage after psilocybin and ketamine administration in the mesocortical and mesolimbic brain regions of the rat.

* Luigi Zecca

Neuromelanins in brain aging, neurodegeneration and neuromelanin-Magnetic Resonance Imaging as biomarker in neurodegenerative disorders.

08.15 - 09h00 – Communication skills: professional and strategic communication for positive influence.

16.00-16.30: Break

16.30-17.30: Students presentations

17.30-18.00: Snacks

18.00-19.30: Students presentations

19.30-20.30: General open discussion
21.00: Dinner


June 24th -

Pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases

09.00-10.30: Topic III – Neuroprotection

* Silvia Lima Costa & Victor Diogenes Amaral da Silva

Neuroprotective and anti-neuroinflammatory and mielinogenic related effects of the phytoestrogen agathisflavone: a new multitarget therapeutic agent in perspective. 

* Micaela Morelli

Neuroprotective and antinflammatory effects of grape pomace-loaded nutriosomes in the MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease. 

* Ivan Nalvarte

The neuroprotective role of estrogen receptor beta in Alzheimer’s disease.

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-13.00: Topic IV - Multiple hits aging-related

* Sayan Chatterjee & Harsh Thakkar
Glycated alpha-synuclein modulates receptor for advanced glycation end products signaling pathway: A detailed molecular mechanism and its role in the early onset of Parkinson’s disease-like phenotypes.

* H.W.M. Steinbusch

Understanding Alzheimer's disease: morphological, immunological and epigenetic changes.

* Herrero MT

Early protein aggregates and lipid oxidation in the hippocampus of the aged Octodon degus.

* Halloin N

Exacerbation of tauopathy following mild and repeated spinal contusions in the tauP301S mouse model.

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-14.30: Young students Awards 14.30-15.00: Concluding remarks 



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