April 26, 2018
9:00 Welcome coffee - Poster setup
9:30 Introduction: Luc Buée
9:40-12:00 experimental models & atypical tau functions
9:40-10:00 Lefebvre B (France) DDX proteins: tau nuclear partners
10:00-10:20 Hanger D (UK) Animal and cell models of Tauopathy
10:20-10:40 Mudher A (UK) Wlds confers bystander protection against tau-mediated degeneration in a Drosophila model of tauopathy
10:40-11:00 Novak M/Smolek T (Slovakia) Humanized rat tau model for AD
11:00-11:20 Planel E (Canada) Regulation of tau by temperature
11:20-11:40 Mandelkow EM (Germany) Trans-neuronal transmission of Tau protein by exosomes
11:40-12:00 Takashima A (Japan) AMPA/NMDA stimulation causes somato dendritic localization of pTau protein: local translation of tau in dendrite
12:00-13:30 Lunch and Poster session
13:30-16:00 Tau pathology
13:30-13:45 Milutinovic M (Quanterix) Simoa: Ultrasensitive immuno-assays for detection of tau and CNS biomarkers in serum & plasma
13:45-14:00 Verelst J (Belgium) A new panel of novel Tau monoclonal antibodies, rendering new insights in Tau structure and diagnosis
14:00-14:20 Ando K, Brion JP (Belgium) Alzheimer risk PICALM
14:20-14:40 Attems J (UK) Impact of cortical tau pathology on white matter integrity
14:40-15:00 Kovacs G (Austria) Astroglia and Tau: new perspectives
15:00-15:15 Hanseeuw B (Belgium) From amyloid and tau to cognitive decline: Serial PET measures ...
15:15-15:30 Perrotin A (Piramal) 18F-PI-2620, clinical evaluation of a next generation tau PET agent in subjects with AD and PSP
15:30-15:45 Sanchez-Juan P (Spain) MAPT genetic variants and neurodegenerative diseases in Spanish population.
15:45-16:00 Caffrey TM (UK) MAPT genetic variations and neuronal maturity regulate alternatively-spliced exon expression
16:00-16:30 Coffee break and poster session
16:30-18:35 Tau dysfunctions and consequences
16:30-16:50 Medina M (Spain) Role of the N-terminal domain in tau secretion
16:50-17:10 Wegmann S (USA) Tau protein liquid-liquid phase separation: a novel way to initiate tau aggregation in the brain
17:10-17:30 Sotiropoulos I (Portugal) Endolysosomal sorting and degra-dation of tau and its role in glucocorticoid-driven hippocampal malfunction
17:30-17:50 Scheper W (NL) The UPR and tau pathology
17:50-18:05 Evans L (UK) Internalization and vesicular trafficking of tau in human forebrain neurons
18:05-18:20 Lastres-Becker I (Spain) Impaired signaling of transcription factors NF-kB and NRF2 in CX3CR1-deficient microglia leads to altered neuroinflammation and phagocytosis: implications in Tauopathies
18:20-18:35 Di Primio C (Italy) Behing the nuclear envelop: tau involved in gene regulation