Programme

Day 3 - Friday, 5 September 2008

Session 5: Inhibitors of Neuroregeneration
0900-0935 Neurosurgical Intervention of Spinal Cord Contusion Injury. An analysis of 30 ASIA-A Cases
Gong Ju
Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
0935-1010 Rescue from secondary damage after spinal cord contusion injury
Sam David
McGill University, Canada
1010-1045 NogoA binding partners and regulation of protein levels
Sohail Ahmed
IMB, Singapore
1045-1105 Coffee break and poster viewing
1105-1140 Neurite outgrowth inhibitors at nodes of Ranvier Zhi-cheng Xiao
SGH/IMCB/Duke, Singapore
1140-1155 Speaker chosen from poster session
1155-1210 Speaker chosen from poster session
1210-1400 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing

Session 6: Neurotrauma
1400-1435 Activated microglia in brain injury - boon or bane?
Lu Jia
NUS, Singapore
1435-1510 Data mining in neurocritical care
Ang Beng Ti
NNI, Singapore
1510-1545 Aquaporins in brain injury
Geoff Manley
UCSF, USA
1545-1615 Coffee Break and Poster viewing
1615-1650 Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in brain injury
Ross Bullock
Miller School of Medicine, USA
1650-1705 Speaker chosen from poster session
1705-1720 Speaker chosen from poster session
1730-1900 Reception and roundtable discussion: Current issues in the translation of Neural Repair Discoveries
John Steeves
UBC, Canada