Fatal Attractions Within Neurons: Intracytoplasmic protein aggregates in AD and related degenerative disorders.

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Monday, April 12, 1999
8.30 a.m.		Y. Christen (Paris): Introduction
8.45 a.m.		K. Beyreuther (Heidelberg): Physiological function and regulation of intracellular Aß production in neurons. Implication for Alzheimer's disease
9.45 a.m.		R. Nussbaum (Bethesda): Approaches to modeling hereditary Parkinson's disease in mice
9.15 a.m.		P. Lansbury (Boston): The role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease Listen to lecture: P. Lansbury
10.15 a.m.		T. Iwatsubo (Tokyo): Purification of Lewy bodies and identification of alpha-synuclein as a major component of Lewy bodies
10.45 a.m.		Posters and Coffee-break
11.15 a.m.		K. Wilhelmsen (San Francisco): Mutational analysis of tau in chromosome 17-linked dementia Listen to lecture: K. Wilhelmsen View slide presentation
11.45 a.m.		M. Hutton (Jacksonville): Missense and splice site mutations in tau associated with FTDP-17
12.15 a.m.		Posters and Lunch
1.45 p.m.		G. Schellenberg (Seattle): Tau mutations in frontotemporal dementia, progressive supra nuclear palsy, and Alzheimer's disease
2.15 p.m.		M. Goedert (Cambridge): Tauopathies and alpha-synucleinopathies
2.45 p.m.		V. Lee (Philadelphia): Pathobiology of FTDP-17: Genotype predicts phenotype
3.15 p.m.		Posters and Coffee-break
3.45 p.m.		L. Buée (Lille): Neurodegenerative disorders with tauopathies: Mad tau diseases?
4.15 p.m.		E.-M. Mandelkow (Hamburg): Tau protein and Alzheimer's disease: Aggregation, phosphorylation and role in intracellular trafficking
4.45 p.m.		J. Trojanowski (Philadelphia): Transgenic (TG) mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) tau pathologies Listen to lecture: J. Trojanowski
5.15 p.m.		Conclusion
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