PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME & CALL FOR ABSTRACTS11 th ISNI Congress Day 48 th November 2012Morning Session8:30 am Main Hall: Plenary Symposium 4Stem cells in immunity and Disease8:30 am Gianvito MartinoDivision of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, ItalyCan transplanted stem cells cause cancer9:15 am Evan SnyderStem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Burnham Institute<strong>for</strong> Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, USA10:0010:30 am Coffee Break10:30 am – 12:00 pm Concurrent SymposiaRoom AStem cells and immunityJonathan KipnisUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA“Phagocytic activity of neuronal progenitors and adult neurogenesis”Stefano PluchinoCambridge Centre <strong>for</strong> Brain Repair and Stem Cell Initiative,University of Cambridge, UK“Horizontal celltocell communication programs and immuneregulatory neural stem cell therapies”.Tony WyssCorayCenter <strong>for</strong> Tissue Regeneration, Repair, and Restoration,Stan<strong>for</strong>d University, CA, USA,“Rejuvenation of the aged systemic milieu supportsadult hippocampal neurogenesis”D. KarussisHadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel“The in vivo and in vitro immunological effects of MSCin MS patients”Room BParaneoplastic and Nonparaneoplastic diseasesAngela VincentNeuroimmunology, University of Ox<strong>for</strong>d, UKJosep DalmauNeurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA34
PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME & CALL FOR ABSTRACTSRoom CMorning SessionProgress in MS therapeuticsLudwig KapposNeurology, University Hospital, Basel, SwitzerlandHansPeter HartungClinic Neurology,, HeinrichHeine University, Düsseldorf, GermanyAfternoon Session12:002:00 pm Lunch Break & Poster Session2:00 pm Main Hall: Plenary Lecture 4The Neurobiology LectureDouglas FieldsNervous System Development and Plasticity Section, NationalInstitute of Child Health and Human Development3:00 pm Closing Remarks35