ISTANBUL MS DAYS

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

10 March 2022

08:00 – 09:00               ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATION SESSIONS - in English

09:00 – 09:20               Break

09:20 – 12:20               SESSION-2 – Sex Related Differences in MS

                                              Chairs: Ayşe Nur Yüceyar, Bassem Yamout

09:20 – 09:50               Sex Differences and Clinical – Imaging Phenotypes of MS– Burcu Zeydan

09:50 – 10:20               Sex differences in immune-phenotypes of MS - Amit Bar-Or

10:20 – 10:30               Coffee Break

10:30 – 10:50               Sex differences in children with MS – Naila Makhani

10:50 – 11:10               Pregnancy and MS – what we have learned from this special state? – Sandra Vukusic

11:10 – 11:30               Sex differences in biomarkers of MS – Eric Thouvenot

11:30 – 11:50               Sex specific treatment of MS - Thomas Berger

11:50 – 12:20               Q&A, Discussion

12:20 – 13:00               Lunch

13:00 – 16:10               SESSION-3 – Age and MS

                                              Chairs: Dimitrios Karussis, Uğur Uygunoğlu

13:00 - 13:20               Aging and MS phenotypes – Orhun Kantarcı

13:20 – 13:40               Aging and the immune system - Nikolaos Grigoriadis

13:40 – 14:00               Blood-brain barrier permeability, age and its relevance to MS –Katerina Akassoglou

14:00 – 14:20               Aging and microglia – Samia Khoury

14:20 – 14:40               Intra-session break

14:40 – 15:00               Ageing and remyelination - Bruce Trapp

15:00 – 15:20               What RIS may teach us about aging and MS pathogenesis - Christine Lebrun-Frenay

15:20 – 15:40               Age specific treatment of MS - Darin Okuda

15:40 – 16:10               Q&A, Discussion

16:10 – 16:30               Post-session break

16:30 – 19:20               SESSION 4 – Recovery related metrics in MS

                                              Chairs: Orhun Kantarcı, Yeşim Beckmann

16:30 – 16:50               Clinical metrics of recovery – Claire S. Riley

16:50 – 17:10               MRI metrics of recovery - Danny Reich

17:10 – 17:30               Molecular - metabolic imaging metrics of recovery – Bruno Stankoff

17:30 – 17:50               Coffee Break  

17:50 – 18:10               Strategies to improve CNS-access of regenerative therapies - Andrew Chan

18:10 – 18:30               Impact of Aging on CNS Recovery: Insight from Experimental Models and Human Studies - Catherine Lubetzki

18:30 – 18:50               Age-linked properties of human glial cells - Jack P. Antel 

18:50 – 19:20               Q&A, Discussion

20:00                                Departure for dinner at Secret House