Iberian Prion Congress
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11 May 2023

Time Title Speaker
08:45- 09:30 Registration and posters set-up
09:30- 10:00 Welcome
Session: Prion diseases in animals, chairs: Juan Carlos Espinosa (CISA) + Alicia Otero (UNIZAR)
10:00- 10:45 Camel prion disease: a new emerging disease in North Africa Dr. Laura Pirisinu, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
10:45- 11:00 Oral 1: Assessment of the goat I/M142 polymorphism in the susceptibility to atypical scrapie prions Natalia Fernández-Borges
11:00- 11:15 Oral 2: Innate immune status of glia and prion replication Sang-Gyun Kang
11:15- 11:30 Oral 3: sPMCA conversion efficacies of Norwegian prions Cecile Ersdal
11:30- 12:00 Coffee break & Posters
Session: Prion diseases in animals, chairs: Leonor Orge (UTAD) + Tomás Barrio (ENVT)
12:00- 12:15 Oral 4: Atypical scrapie evolution during propagation in different PrPC subtract both in vitro and in vivo Sara Canoyra
12:15- 12:30 Oral 5: In vitro modelling of cervid prion strain emergence and evolution considering all the described polymorphic variants Carlos M. Díaz-Domínguez
12:30- 12:45 Oral 6: Vaccines for chronic wasting disease Hermann Schatzl
12:45- 13:30 Interventional clinical trials in human prion diseases: is now the time? Dr. Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain
13:30- 15:00 Lunch & Posters & Group photo
Session: Prion and prion-like diseases in humans, chairs: Jokin Castilla (CIC bioGUNE) + Natalia Sanchez de Groot (UAB)
15:00- 15:45 Strain-specific lesioning patterns in sporadic CJD - a neuropathological perspective Dr. Ellen Gelpi, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
15:45- 15:50 Genetic CJD Biobank Alice Ananne
15:50- 16:05 Oral 7: Human prion strain discrimination by RT-QuIC Alba Marín-Moreno
16:05- 16:20 Oral 8: Gene therapy for sCJD in a humanized mouse model Qingzhong Kong
16:20- 16:35 Oral 9: A robust method for evaluation of prionicide treatments Angélique Igel
16:35- 17:05 Coffee break & Posters
Session: Prion and prion-like diseases in humans, chairs: Jesús Requena (CiMUS USC) + Michał Burdukiewicz (UAB)
17:05- 17:20 Oral 10: Neuronal Networks in absence of the prion protein Ana Burato
17:20- 17:35 Oral 11: The small aromatic compound SynuClean-D inhibits the aggregation and seeded polymerization of multiple α-synuclein strains Samuel Peña
17:35- 17:50 Oral 12: The structural architecture of an α-synuclein toxic oligomer Jaime Santos
17:50- 18:35 Thirty years of cohabitation with prion diseases: my personal experience Dr. Martí Pumarola, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
21:00- 00:00 Congress dinner at bullfighting arena

12 May 2023

Time Title Speaker
Session: Prion structure and biology, chairs: Raimon Sabaté (UB) + Nuria Lopez Lorenzo (CiMUS)
10:00- 10:45 Protein Folding Pathways Across Physiology & Therapy Dr. Emiliano Biasini, University of Trento, Italy
10:45- 11:00 Oral 13: Antibody binding modulates PrPC dynamics Ioana Ilie
11:00- 11:15 Oral 14: Prion protein-based phylogeny inferred from hundreds of species of the class Mammalia shows overall conservation with canonical mammalian phylogenetic tree Cristina Sampedro
11:15- 11:30 Oral 15: Isolation of oligomeric prions from AS Ilaria Vanni
11:30- 12:00 Coffee break
Session: Prion structure and biology, chairs: Hasier Eraña (CIC bioGUNE) + Alba Espargaro (UB)
12:00- 12:15 Oral 16: A porphyrin with dual anti-prion activity Roberto Chiesa
12:15- 12:30 Oral 17: Spectroscopic heterogeneity in recombinant PrPSc prion strains Sanaz Sabhezei
12:30- 12:45 Oral 18: Tau Dynamics and Cooperative Interactions: possible relevance for its role as a Microtubule Associated Protein and for its pathological Solid Transition in Neurodegenerative Disease. Amayra Hernández-Vega
12:45- 13:30 Kinetic stabilization of biomolecular condensates by heterotypic interactions Dr. Xavier Salvatella, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain
13:30- 13:45 Best poster/oral communication prize
13:45- 14:00 Next Meeting anouncement
14:00- 15:00 Lunch
15:00- 16:00 Human castles workshop
16:00- 16:30 Farewell
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