4 Brain Courses will be available at this year's congress.
Certificate of attendance at courses
Certificate of attendance for participatns of Brain and BrainPET Coures will be available at the registration desk from 15:30 on Wednesday, May 25 for pre-registered participants. If you have registered for a course onsite, please contact the registraiton desk for a certificate of attendance, which will be availabe at the registration desk within 24 hours, or sent to you via email.
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Experimental Animal Models
Chair: Ursula Tuor, Canada
Co-Chair: Nobutaka Kawahara, Japan
| Neonatal Models - Henrik Hagberg, Sweden |
| Physiological Monitoring and Effects of Temperature - Thaddeus Nowak, USA |
| Adult models of Focal Ischemia and Hemorrhagic Stroke - Hideaki Imai, Japan |
| Global Ischemia and Alternative Animal Models - Ursula Tuor, Canada |
| Outcome Measures – Behavioural Testing and Brain Damage - Dale Corbett, Canada |
| Design of Neroprotection Studies - Konstantin Hossmann, Germany |
| Group Discussion: Predictability of Animal Models for Pre-Clinical Testing |
Molecular and functional brain imaging Molecular and functional brain imaging
Chair: Gitte Knudsen, USA
Co-Chair: John Beaver, UK
| Multiset data analysis - Steven Strother, Canada |
| Combining Molecular Imaging with PET and fMRI (part I) - Julie Price, USA |
| Combining Molecular Imaging with PET and fMRI (part II) - Rupert Lanzenberger, Austria |
| Translational perspectives of molecular imaging in Alzheimers Disease - Tetsuya Suhara, Japan |
Neurogenesis, stem cell research
Chair: Koji Abe, Japan
Co-Chair: Hiroyuki Kinouchi, Japan
| iPS cell transplantation - Koji Abe, Japan |
| Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cell-based restorative treatment for neurological disease and injury - Michael Chopp, USA |
| Signaling for neurogenesis - David A. Greenberg, USA |
| Regeneration and plasticity - Barbro B. Johansson, Sweden |
| Instrisic neurogenesis in cerebral ischemia - Nobutaka Kawahara, Japan |
| Therapeutic plasticity of neural stem cells - Stefano Pluchino, Italy |
Neurovascular unit, BBB, drug delivery
Chair: Eng H. Lo, USA
Co-Chair: Gregory J. del Zoppo, USA
| Neurovascular Principles of the Blood-Brain Barrier - Joan Abbott, UK |
| Signaling for neurogenesis - Elizabeth Hillman, USA |
| CNS Drug Delivery - Thomas Davis, USA |
| Cell Biology of Neurovascular Signaling - Kyu-Won Kim, Korea |
| Pathophysiology of Neurovascular Signaling - Danica Stanimirovic, Canada |
BrainPET Educational courses
2 BrainPET Courses will be available at this year's congress:
Scanners, Tracers and Quantification
| Instrumentation: SPECT&PET &PET/MRI - Freek Beekman, The Netherlands |
| Acquisition/Reconstruction- Ronald Boellard, The Netherlands |
| Radiochemistry - Alan Wilson, Canada |
| Tracer Discovery & Development: From Discovery to Preclinical Evaluation - Bengt Langstrom, Sweden |
| Tracer Discovery & Development: From FTIH to validated Tracer - Mark Schmidt, Belgium |
| Modelling & Analysis - Mark Slifstein, USA |
Preclinical and Clinical Applications
| Preclinical Imaging - Rich Carson, USA |
| Designing a clinical PET Study - Ana Catafau, Spain |
| Imaging in CNS Drug Development - Ilan Rabiner, UK |
| Imaging in vivo pharmacology - Anissa Abi Dargham, USA |
| Imaging Parkinson's Disease: from pathogenesis to placebo response - Raul de la Fuente Fernandez, Spain |
| Future Directions and Challenges - Terry Jones, UK |