10th December 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland

Scientific Program

• 9:00 Opening Remarks
  Helmut Kettenmann, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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• 9:15 Ontogeny of Microglia
  Melanie Greter, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• 10:00 Microglia in Development
  Sonia Garel, Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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• 10:45 Coffee Break
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• 11:15 Physiology of Microglia
  Amanda Sierra, Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain
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• 12:00 Lunch Break – Poster Session
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• 13:30 Psychiatric Disorders and Microglia
  Susanne Wolf, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, DE
• 14:15 Microglia in Neurodegeneration
  Hugh Perry, Dementia Research Institute, UCL, UK
• 15:00 Models in Microglial Research
  Francesca Peri, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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• 15:45 Coffee Break
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• 16:15 Tools to Study Microglia
  Marco Prinz, University of Freiburg, Germany

• 17:00 Pío del Río Hortega: Notes from his Grandnephew
  Juan del Río Hortega, University of Valladolid, Spain
• 17:30 Round Table with Pharmaceutical Companies: Therapeutic Approaches and Future Directions
  Markus Britschgi (Roche), Diego Gomez-Nicola (Eli Lilly, Southampton University), Knut Biber (Abbvie), Mariateresa Ferretti (WBP)
• 18:30 Concluding Remarks and “Best Poster Award”
• 19:00 Networking Apero

 

Organizers: Rosa Paolicelli (Université de Lausanne), Amanda Sierra (Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience), Helmut Kettenmann (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine)