Meeting Program

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Tuesday, February 15
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Chamisa Lobby
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Chamisa Lobby
7:30 - 8:30 PM	Keynote Address Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Stephen Sawcer, University of Cambridge, UK Whole Genome Studies in MS: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday, February 16
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Los Vaqueros
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Genetic Susceptibility in MS Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Raymond Hupperts, Maastricht University, Netherlands Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms
	Trevor J. Kilpatrick, University of Melbourne, Australia Genome-Wide Association Studies of MS Susceptibility Loci
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Lars Fugger, University of Oxford, UK Functional Contribution of Genetic Factors in MS
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Chamisa Lobby
11:15 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Chamisa Ballroom 2
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Chamisa Ballroom 2
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Chamisa Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Epidemiology of MS Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Bruce Hollis, Medical University of South Carolina, USA Role of Vitamin D
	Francesca Aloisi, Instituto Superior de Sanita, Italy Epstein Barr Virus Infection in MS Pathogenesis
	Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia Risk of MS Is Inversely Proportional to Number of Babies in Environment
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Chamisa Ballroom 2
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 2
Thursday, February 17
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Los Vaqueros
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Updates on Current Therapeutics Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Kenneth L. Tyler, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA Association of PML with Immunomodulatory MS Therapeutics
	Susan Goelz, Biogen Idec., USA JC Virus Pathobiology and PML in MS Patients
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Alasdair Coles, University of Cambridge, UK Autoimmunity after Alemtuzumab
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Chamisa Lobby
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Chamisa Ballroom 2
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Chamisa Ballroom 2
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop: Microglia/Astrocytes
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Chamisa Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Role of B Cells in MS Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Kevin C. O'Connor, Yale School of Medicine, USA B Cells and Antibodies in the MS CNS
	Jeffrey Bennett, University of Colorado Denver, USA Oligoclonal Bands Are Not Myelin-Reactive
	Peter K. Gregersen, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, USA Linking Genotype to Phenotype: Examples from Human Autoimmunity
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Chamisa Ballroom 2
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 2
Friday, February 18
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Los Vaqueros
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Events at the Blood-Brain Barrier Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Richard Daneman, University of California, San Francisco, USA Molecular Mechanisms of Blood-Brain Barrier Regulation during Health and Disease
	Paula Dore-Duffy, Wayne State University, USA Pericytes at BBB Are Potential Stem Cells
	Britta Engelhardt, Theodor Kocher Institute/Universitat Bern, Switzerland Molecular Mechanisms of Leukocyte Recruitment Across the BBB
	Stephen McQuaid, Queen's University Belfast, UK Tight Junction Abnormalities at BBB in MS
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Chamisa Lobby
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Chamisa Ballroom 2
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Chamisa Ballroom 2
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Chamisa Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Imaging in Neuroprotection in MS Diagnosis Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Douglas Arnold, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, Canada Magnetization Transfer Ratio as a Marker of Demyelination and Remyelination in MS
	Daniel Pelletier, University of California, San Francisco, USA Cortical Gray Matter Atrophy
	Laura J. Balcer, University of Pennsylvania, USA Optical Coherence Tomography as a Measure of Axonal and Neuronal Loss in MS
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Chamisa Ballroom 2
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 2
Saturday, February 19
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Los Vaqueros
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Mechanisms of MS Progression Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Amit Bar-Or, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada Impact of Early Immune Suppression in MS
	Christian Confavreux, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, France Natural Course of MS: Are Inflammation and Neurodegeneration Separable?
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Bruce D. Trapp, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute, USA Hypoxia/Chronic Necrosis/Mitochondrial Dysfunction of Demyelinated Axons
9:00 - 9:20 AM	Coffee Break	Chamisa Lobby
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Chamisa Ballroom 2
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Chamisa Ballroom 2
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Chamisa Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Regulation of Remyelination Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/15/2011	Chamisa Ballroom 1
	Speaker to be Announced,
	Robert Miller, Case Western Reserve University, USA Chemokine Regulation/LINGO Regulation of Remyelination
	V. Wee Yong, University of Calgary, Canada Overcoming Impediments to Remyelination
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Chamisa Ballroom 2
Sunday, February 20
	Departure
*=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

Although the specific etiology of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) remains unknown, important insights into the genetics and environmental triggers underlying the disease have been made. This conference will discuss advances in MS genetics, epigenetics and the interaction of genetics with the environment, particularly with vitamin D metabolism and Epstein Barr Virus. There will be a focus on the immunopathogenesis of MS, including pre-active MS lesions, mechanisms of lymphocyte activation, the B cell and trafficking of cells across the blood brain barrier. The application of new imaging methods and therapeutic strategies that target the immune system and promote remyelination will be discussed. The challenge of integrating emerging insights in the basic mechanisms of myelination, autoimmune demyelination, and neurodegeneration with translational science will he discussed. The goal of this meeting is to provide a broad spectrum of MS researchers with a forum to discuss recent advances, and to foster cross-disciplinary interactions and collaborations.