- Friday 27th June BSMS Foyer, Medical School Building
- 16.00 – 20.00 Registration in BSMS Foyer
18:30 – 20.00 Welcome Reception & Drinks in BSMS Foyer
- Saturday 28th June 2014 (UoS Conference Centre)
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9.00 – Welcome from the EBPS president (Prof Dora Duka)
9.05 – Introduction to the workshop (Neil Harrison)
09.15 Role of immune mediators in memory formation
09.15 – Keynote by Raz Yirmiya: Immune modulation of memory, neural plasticity and neurogenesis
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
10.00 – Manfred Schedlowski (Essen, Germany)
Repeated recall, extinction and reconsolidation in behaviorally conditioned immunosuppression
10.30 – Neil Harrison (Brighton & Sussex Medical School, UK)
Peripheral inflammation impairs human spatial memory
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Pathological influences of inflammation on memory
11.30 - Colm Cunningham (Trinity University, Dublin, Ireland)
The delirium dementia interface: vulnerability as a key determinant of the impact of systemic inflammation on central nervous system function
12.00 – Hugh Perry (University of Southampton, UK)
Inflammation in chronic neurodegeneration & contribution of systemic inflammation
12.30 – Clive Holmes (University of Southampton, UK)
The biological and clinical outcomes of immunotherapy in Alzheimer’s disease
13.00 LUNCH
14.00 – Keynote by Robert Dantzer: Inflammation And Depression: Where Do We Stand?
(MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas)
15.00 Coffee
15.30 - Does inflammation mediate associations between early life adversity, stress & risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders?
15.30 - Urs Meyer (Zurich, Switzerland)
Stress in Puberty Unmasks Latent Neuropathological Consequences of Prenatal Immune Activation in Mice
16.00 – John Cryan (Cork, Ireland)
Stress, Immunity and the Microbiota-Gut Brain Axis in Early-Life: Priming for Health and Disease
16.30 – Mats Lekander (Karolinska, Sweden)
Subjective health perception, inflammation and brain function
17.00 – General Discussion
- Sunday 29th June 2014 (UoS Conference Centre)
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09.00 – Immune-to-brain communication: relevance for neuropsychiatric comorbidity in metabolic disorders
09.00 – Lucile Capuron (Bordeaux, France)
Immune-to-brain communication: relevance for neuropsychiatric comorbidity in metabolic disorders
09.30 – Aye Mu Myint (Munich)
Inflammation and the generation of neurotoxins: can the activation of the tryptophan-kynurenine pathway in depression suggest novel targets for psychotropic drug development?
10.00 – Jonathan Cavanagh (Glasgow)
Molecular mechanisms linking brain response to peripheral inflammation.
10.30 COFFEE
11.00 – Carmine Pariante (Institute of Psychiatry)
Glucocorticoids, cytokines and brain abnormalities in depression
11.30 – Matthew Taylor (Institute of Psychiatry)
Effects Of Interferon-Alpha Treatment On Cortical Glutamatergic Function
12.00 – Ed Bullmore (University of Cambridge/ GSK)
Repurposing old immunotherapeutics for use in mental health – an industry perspective
12.30 –General Discussion
13.00 – LUNCH
14.00 – Keynote by Fulton Crews: Neuroimmune Signaling creates the Neurobiology of Alcohol Dependence
Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
15.00 – Roundup & FINISH