Schedule of Speakers
***All speakers and speakers dates are subject to change in order to accommodate any unexpected schedule conflicts.***
Friday, 9/23/16 (all day event host at BU Castle)
Participant registration check-in (8am-8:30am)
Chair: Carole Dufouil (1st session)
Lenore Launer speaking on Overview and Recent Advances in the Epidemiology of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease (8:30am-9:10am)
Stéphanie Debette speaking on Epidemiology and Genetics of Stroke (9:10am-9:50am)
Bernard Mazoyer speaking on Modern Brain Phenotyping in a Large Cohort Setting (9:50am-10:30am)
Coffee Break (10:30am-10:45am)
Chair: Stéphanie Debette (2nd session)
Ganesh Chauhan speaking on Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology: Heritability, GWAS, Transethnic GWAS (10:45am-11:25am)
Anita DeStefano speaking on RNA Sequencing (11:25am-12:05pm)
Lunch Break lunch is provided for ALL guest (12:05pm-1:05pm)
Chair: Carole Dufouil (3rd session)
Vasan Ramachandran speaking on Epidemiology in the 21st Century: New Directions in the Framingham Study (1:05pm-1:45pm)
Zdenka Pausova speaking on Sageunay Youth Study (1:45pm-2:25pm)
Coffee Break (2:25pm-2:40pm)
Chair: Stéphanie Debette (4th session)
Tomáš Paus speaking on Population Neuroscience of the Adolescent Brain (2:40pm-3:20pm)
Yoichiro Kamatani speaking on Japanese Cohorts and Biobanks (3:20pm-4pm)
Agustín Ruiz speaking on Fundacioace: Catalonian Community Based Memory Clinics and Biobank (4pm-4:40pm)
Deborah Blacker on How Cohort Studies Can Inform Prevention and Treatment Trials: the Alzheimer Prevention Initiative APOE-44 Trial (4:40pm-5:10pm)
Group Picture at BU Castle (5:10 to 5:15pm)
Break -- free time (5:15pm-6pm)
Dinner provided for all guest except 1-day participants (6-8:30pm)
Saturday, 9/24/16 (Broad Institute) + Interactive Hands-on Sessions
Chair: Philip De Jager (1st session)
Philip De Jager speaking on Epigenetics: Inflammation and AD (8am-8:40am)
Myriam Fornage speaking on Genetics and Epigenetics of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease (8:40am-9:20am)
Josee Dupuis speaking on Gene by Environment Interaction Analyses (9:20am-10am)
Donna Chen interactive discussion on Ethical Challenges of Neurepiomics (10am-10:40am)
Coffee Break (10:40am-10:55am)
Chair: Qiong Yang (2nd session)
Bioinformatics and Genetics hands-on workshop (10:55am-2pm)
(Resources: Murali Sargurupremraj, Honghuang Lin, Chloé Sarnowki, Xueqiu Jian, Aniket Mishra)
Boxed lunches provided
Sunday, 9/25/16 (Broad Institute) + Interactive Hands-on Sessions
Chair: Joshua Bis (1st session)
Joshua Bis speaking on Epidemiology and Genetics of Carotid Atherosclerosis (8am-8:40am)
Kamran Ikram speaking on Retina: A Window on Cerebrovascular and Neurodegenerative Pathology in the Brain (8:40am-9:20am)
Carole Dufouil speaking on Epidemiology of Dementia; Methods (MELODEM) and Application (MEMENTO) (9:20am-10am)
Coffee Break (10am-10:15am)
Chair: Joshua Bis (2nd session)
Sudha Seshadri speaking on FHS Neurology and the Genetics of Alzheimer Disease and Cognitive Decline sharing with Claudia Satizabal (10:15am-11am)
Kameshwar Prasad speaking on Challenges in Establishing Population Based Longitudinal Cohort Studies in Developing Countries (AIIMS) (11am-11:30am)
Chair: Jose Rafael Romero (3rd session)
Imaging and Cognitive Methods hands-on workshop: (11:30am-2:30pm)
(Resources: Hugo Aparicio, Matthew Pase, Pauline Maillard, Jose Rafael Romero, Susanne van Veluw)
Boxed lunches provided
Break -- free time (2:30pm-5pm)
Bradford Worrall discussion during dinner cruise* on Journal of Neurology (5pm-8:30pm)
*Dinner (provided for all guest except 1-day participants) MUST arrive between 5pm-5:30 pm to board boat located at 1 Long Warf, Boston, MA.
Monday, 9/26/16 (all day event host at Broad Institute)
Chair: Lenore Launer and Bernard Mazoyer (1st session)
Albert Hofman speaking on Principles of Establishing a Successful Longitudinal Cohort Study: Perspectives from Rotterdam (8am-8:40am)
Paul Thompson speaking on MRI Derived Insights into Neuropsychiatric Disorders: the ENIGMA Consortium (8:40am-9:20am)
Keith Johnson speaking on PET Imaging in a Population Setting: Amyloid and Tau (9:20am-10am)
Coffee Break (10am-10:15am)
Chair: Lenore Launer and Bernard Mazoyer (2nd session)
M. Arfan Ikram speaking on Novel Methods for Analyzing Multi-site High-dimensional Data (10:15am-10:55am)
Steven M. Greenberg speaking on Epidemiology, Imaging, Genetics of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (10:55am-11:35am)
Lunch Break -- lunch is provided for ALL guest (11:35am-12:35pm)
Chair: Myriam Fornage (3rd session)
Manolis Kellis speaking on Integration of Genetic, Epigenetic, and Transcrciptional Variation in Alzheimer’s Disease (12:35pm-1:15pm)
Natalia Rost speaking on Integrating Clinical and Epidemiological Imaging Datasets for Genomic Discovery (1:15pm-1:55pm)
Coffee Break (1:55pm-2:10pm)
Chair: Myriam Fornage and M. Arfan Ikram (4th session)
Cornelia Van Duijn speaking on Metabolomics and Organ On A Chip: CoSTREAM and related projects (2:10pm-2:50pm)
Daniel Chasman speaking on Vascular pharmacogenetics: Discovery of Effects and Potential for Translation (2:50pm-3:30pm)
Neurepiomics Scholarship Award Presentation (3:30pm to 4pm)
Group Photo (4:15pm)
Event Ends (4:30pm)
***All speakers and dates are subject to change in order to accommodate any unexpected schedule conflicts.***