Translational Research in Lewy Body Disorders

The Penn Udall Center for Parkinson's Research held its first event on April 29, 2008 from 9am to 3pm in BRB 2/3 Auditorium at 421 Curie Boulevard on Penn's campus.

"Translational Research in Lewy Body Disorders" brought together movement disorder physicians and researchers in cognition and neuropsychiatry from across the Penn School of Medicine and University of Pennsylvania Health System

to discuss basic and clinical aspects of Lewy body disorders and
to explore efforts to enhance the care and treatment of patients and the training of physcians.

This scientific meeting was free and open to the public. Breakout sessions was held in the afternoon to further discuss the science presented in the morning's lectures and presentations.

Agenda

Streaming video is available for this event. You will need Real Player to view the video. You can download the program at www.real.com.

Video is available in two segments: 1) Opening Remarks through Dr. Kim's presentation, and 2) Dr. Gitler's presentation through to Dr. Taylor's presentation.

9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome and Opening Remarks John Q. Trojanowski, PhD, MD Director, Penn Udall Center for Parkinson's Disease Research Director, Institute on Aging Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
	Presentations from Penn researchers:
9:15am - 9:45am	Howard Hurtig, MD Department of Neurology Penn School of Medicine “The Dementia of Lewy Body Diseases”
9:45am - 10:15am	Junhyong Kim, PhD Department of Biology and Penn Center for Bioinformatics Penn School of Medicine "Computational Challenges of Genome-wide Association Studies with Applications to Parkinson Disease Mapping"
10:45am - 11:15am	Aaron Gitler, PhD Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Penn School of Medicine "Beer and Bread To Brains and Beyond: Can Yeast Cells Teach Us about Neurodegenerative Disease?"
11:15am - 11:45am	Andrew Newberg, MD Department of Radiology Penn School of Medicine "Functional Brain Imaging in Parkinson's Disease"
11:45am - 12:15pm	J. Paul Taylor, PhD, MD Department of Neurology Penn School of Medicine "HDAC6 at the intersection of autophagy, the ubiquitin-proteasome system and neurodegeneration"
12:15pm	Lunch
1:15pm - 2:30pm	Breakout Sessions: Basic science discussion Moderated by: Benoit Giasson, PhD Department of Pharmacology, Penn School of Medicine Translational discussion Moderated by: John Duda, MD Department of Neurology and Philadelphia VA Medical Center Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC) Clinical discussion Moderated by: Dan Weintraub, MD Department of Psychiatry, PennSchool of Medicine Patient and Caregiver discussion Moderated by: Andrew Siderowf, MD Department of Neurology, Penn School of Medicine
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Group Discussion and Review

Let us know you'll be attending...
To register to attend, email udall@mail.med.upenn.edu or call 215-898-3163.

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Translational Research in Lewy Body Disorders

Agenda

Breakout Sessions: