Program at a glance

Symposia presentations will be available in phase 1, i. e. from June 28, 2021 to watch them individually. During the live phase the symposia will be discussed with all speakers.

S01 Microglia shape white matter health | Organizers: Veronique Miron (Edinburgh, UK), Josef Priller (Berlin, DE)

S02 Transcriptional control of reactive astrocyte responses across neurological diseases | Organizers: Florian Siezehnrubl (Cardiff, UK), Jiaqian Wu (Houston, TX, USA)

S03 Microglial immunometabolism: relevance in normal and disease states | Organizers: Agnes Nadjar (Bordeaux, FR), Chun-Xia Yi (Amsterdam, NL)

S04 Glial regulation and remodeling of the extracellular matrix across the lifespan | Organizers: Anna Victoria Molofsky (San Francisco, US), Valentin Nagerl (Bordeaux, FR)

S05 Mechanisms and effects of endocannabinoid signaling in glial cells | Organizers: Alfonso Araque (Minneapolis, US), Susana Mato (Leioa, ES)

S06 Myelin dynamics in neurological function and dysfunction | Organizers: Erin Gibson (Palo Alto, US), Jia Liu (New York, US)

S07 Molecular mechanisms controlling neural stem cell dynamics during aging | Organizers: Juanma Encinas (Leioa, ES)

S08 Blood brain barrier, neuronal activity and glia | Organizers: Stefan Liebner (Frankfurt/Main, DE), Friederike Pfeiffer (Storrs, US)

S09 Glial cells in the limelight of metabolic signaling: experiments in mouse and fly | Organizers: L. Felipe Barros (Valdivia, CL), Jimena Sierralta (Santiago, CL)

S10 Where do Glia Come From? Evolution and Diversification of CNS Glia | Organizers: Carmen Falcone (Sacramento, US), Jacob H. Hines (Winona, US)

S11 Neuron to Microglia communication: neuromodulators and purines get on the front scene | Organizers: Anne Roumier (Paris, FR)

S12 Metabolic aspects in myelinating glia: implications for health and disease | Organizers: Domna Karagogeos (Heraklion, GR)

S13 Advances in cellular reprogramming: where biology meets physics | Organizers: Mark Kotter (Cambridge, UK)
with kindly support of bit.bio

S14 Perisynaptic astroglial processes: activity-dependent regulation and function | Organizers: Nathalie Rouach (Paris, FR), Mark Verheijen (Amsterdam, NL)

S15 Glial modulation of circuit assembly and behavior: insights from different model organisms | Organizers: Margaret Ho (Shanghai, CN), Shai Shaham (New York, US)

S16 Microglia; from development to ageing | Organizers: Deborah Kronenberg-Versteeg (Tuebingen, DE), Balazs V. Varga (Cambridge, UK)

S17 Mechanics of glial cells in development and disease | Organizers: Marie Bechler (Syracuse, US), Marcelo Salierno (London, UK)

S18 Targeting glial cell activation for treatment of neurodegenerative disease | Organizers: Elizabeth Evans (Rochester, US), Shawn Whitehead (London, CA)

S19 Studying glia with single cell resolution (Special Trainee Symposium) | Organizers: Philip Hasel (New York, US), Jessica Sadick (New York, US)

S20 Metabolic control of glial identity phenotype and function | Organizers: Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti (Cambridge, UK), Francisco Javier Quintana (Boston, MA, US)

S21 Sex differences in glia | Organizers: Maxwell Heiman (Boston, US), Margret McCarthy (Baltimore, US)

S22 Understanding the role of glia in neurodevelopmental disorders using pluripotent stem cell-derived human glia | Organizers: Henrik Ahlenius (Lund, SE), Peng Jiang (Piscataway, US)
with kindly support of International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (ISDN)

S23 Mitochondrial regulation of astrocyte function in physiological and pathological conditions | Organizers: Matteo Bergami (Cologne, DE), Paola Bezzi (Lausanne, CH)

S24 Glia-axonal communication in nervous system injury and disease | Organizers: Peter Arthur-Farraj (Cambridge, UK), Ruth Stassart (Leipzig, DE)

S25 Satellite glial cells – unique glia of the peripheral nervous system | Organizers: Menachem Hanani (Jersusalem, IL), Sara Jager (London, UK)

S26 Innate immunity and microglia | Organizers: Guy Brown (Cambridge, UK), Harald Neumann (Bonn, DE)

S27 Emerging pathways and therapies to enhance Repair Schwann cells functions | Organizers: Yannick Poitelon (Albany, US)

S28 Modulating reactive astrogliosis: a therapeutic strategy | Organizers: Lynette Foo (Basel, CH)
supported by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

S29 Extracellular vesicles shape glia-neuron interplay in health and disease of the nervous system | Organizers: Davide Trotti (Philadelphia, US), Yongjie Yang (Boston, US)

S30 Exploring the regenerative properties of Müller glia for retinal repair | Organizers: Carol Schuurmans (Toronto, CA)