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Central Nervous System Injury and Repair (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Molecular to Translational Strategies to Improve Spinal Cord Injury

March 19 - 20, 2022

Chairs Jaclyn T. Eisdorfer and Angela R. Filous

Contact Chairs

Residence Inn at Oxnard River Ridge

2101 West Vineyard Ave

Oxnard, CA, United States

Venue and Travel Information

Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Central Nervous System Injury and Repair is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting-edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to bring together trainee researchers across a wide array of areas within spinal cord injury and related fields to discuss their work in an intimate, intellectually stimulating setting. Topics covered by an interdisciplinary selection of speakers will include: regeneration, neuroinflammation, glial responses to injury, bioengineering and translational studies in the field of spinal cord injury.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Central Nervous System Injury and Repair" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Cellular Identification and Interactions Discussion Leader: Markus Harrigan (The Ohio State University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm	Faith Brennan (The Ohio State University, USA) "Microglia Coordinate Cellular Interactions During Spinal Cord Repair"
4:05 pm - 4:15 pm	Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm	Isaura Martins (Instituto de Medicina Molecular - Lobo Antunes , Portugal) "Targeting Senescent Cells Improves Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm	Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Axonal Regeneration and Sprouting Discussion Leader: Timothy Faw (Duke University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm	Arthur Sefiani (Texas A&M College of Medicine, USA) "Novel Adult Brain Processing Method Reveals Age-, Sex-, and Species-Dependent Effects of Pharmaceutical Compounds on Neuron Survival and Neuritogenesis"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm	Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm	Nisha Iyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "4 Steps to Make Every Neuron in the Human Spinal Cord"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm	Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm	Lyandysha Zholudeva (Gladstone Institutes, USA) "Engineering Human Spinal Interneurons for Spinal Cord Repair"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm	Xuewei Wang (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) "Targeting Ezh2 histone methyltransferase to enhance mammalian axon regeneration in the peripheral and central nervous systems"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm	Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm	Carolin Ruven (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA) "Microsurgical Lesions Identify Segmentally Distinct Responses of Axotomized Corticospinal Neurons"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm	Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm	Vinicius Duarte (University of California, Irvine, USA) "The Role of Early Calcium Signaling on Dendrite Regeneration"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am	Inflammation and Neural Targeting Discussion Leader: Elham Asghari Adib (University of Michigan, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am	Bente Winkler (University of Muenster, Germany) "Brain Inflammation Triggers Macrophage Invasion Across the Blood-Brain Barrier in Drosophila During Pupal Stages"
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am	Katherine Mifflin (The Ohio State University, USA) "High Level Spinal Cord Injury Impairs Pulmonary Immune Function"
9:40 am - 9:45 am	Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am	Ryan Passino (University of Michigan, USA) "Integrin-aM/CD11b has an Inhibitory Effect on Optic Nerve Regeneration"
9:55 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am	Xiaofei Guan (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA) "Multi-Photon Imaging of Corticospinal Tract Target Interneurons"
10:20 am - 10:30 am	Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am	Lauren Walker (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "Knowing Where to Re-Grow: Identification of Extrinsic Cues Promoting Target-Selective Axon Regeneration"
10:40 am - 10:45 am	Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am	Juhi Samal (Duke University, USA) "Glycan Cues in Modulating Post-Stroke Neuro-Inflammatory Responses to Promote Brain Repair"
10:55 am - 11:00 am	Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Poster Session Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Mentorship Component: Mentorship Panel Discussion Leader: Ana Vivinetto (Burke Neurological Institute, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Panel Discussion Career Advice from Senior Investigators Lyn Jakeman (NIH/NINDS, USA) Aya Takeoka (VIB, Belgium) Elizabeth Bradbury (King's College London, United Kingdom)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Evaluation Period Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm	Seminar Concludes

Conference ID: 18117

Contributors

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13NS122148. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.