7th ISPNR
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7th International Symposium
on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
The ISPNR 2024 will join, for the two scientific sessions on May 8th p.m. and May 9th a.m., the 16th Congress of the European Federation of Societies for Microsurgery.
ISPNR SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION FEES
EARLY BIRD FEE – by 31.3.24
- Regular early bird (until 31st March included): €150
- Student* early bird (until 31st March included): €100
REGULAR FEE – 1-30.4.24
- Regular (after 31st March): €180
- Student* (after 31st March): €130
*Students: undergraduated students, PhD students, residents
For organization purposes it will be possible to register to ISPNR 2024 only until 30th of April. On site registration is not possible.
Fee includes: • Attendance to all scientific sessions & exhibition • Certificate of attendance • Welcome Cocktail on 7th May • Lunch on 8th May and coffee breaks • VAT
GET-TOGETHER-DINNER
N.B. Not included in the registration fee.
WHEN: May 8th @ 8:30pm.
WHERE: Ristorante La Barchetta, Via Federico Tesio, 15, 20151 Milano.
RSVP: Once you have registered for the symposium you will receive an email asking you to confirm (or decline) your interest in the dinner. For organizational purposes it will be very important that you answer the email when you receive it.
1. CHOOSE YOUR MENU
a) Restaurant Menu: starter, two dishes, dessert, drink, coffee – €50
OR
b) Pizza menu: starter, pizza, dessert, drink, coffee – €33
Particular requests (vegetarian menu, food intolerance, allergies …) will be discussed directly with the restaurant the day of the dinner.
2. PAY FOR DINNER
It is necessary to book and pay for the dinner in advance.
Send a bank transfer for €50 or €33 (depending on your choice of option)
Bank details are below.
3. BOOK YOUR PLACE
Forward the bank receipt to [email protected]
Please specify in the subject of the email “Get -Together Dinner MAY 8th 2024”
You can expect an answer from StudioProgress.
BANK DETAILS:
Name of the bank: UniCredit Banca
Name of account holder: StudioProgress Snc
Address of bank: Corso Palestro, 1, 25121 Brescia (Italy)
Account number: 5235699
Complete IBAN: IT36O0200811200000005235699
SWIFT code: UNCRITM1090
N.B. Please remember that ALL BANK CHARGES must be covered by THE BUYER, €50 or €33 (depending on the choice) must be the final amount that is credited.
DEADLINE: The deadline to book the dinner is May 2nd, 2024. For organizational reasons it will not be possible to pay on site.
Sponsors
Guidelines
Oral Presentations
Oral Presentations
7th and 8th May: Oral Presentations will last 13 minutes in total (10 minutes for the presentation and 3 minutes for the discussion).
9th May: Oral Presentations will last 8 minutes in total (6 minutes for the presentation and 2 minutes for the discussion).
If your presentation includes videos or animations, make sure they work properly by checking them before your session.
Please bring a copy of your presentation on a USB memory stick.
For Mac Users: The conference room will be equipped only with Windows PC. If you have created a presentation using a Mac Computer, please check in advance that it works smoothly on Windows.
Check the final program to be sure of the date, time, and order of your presentation.
Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations
Posters will be displayed in person at the conference during the poster session scheduled for the 8th May.
Posters should be prepared with a portrait/vertical display with a maximum size of 80 width x 110 height
Posters can be displayed from 10.20 am on the 8th during the coffee break.
Abstract Submission
Abstract Submission
The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 25th February 2024
For submitting an abstract prepare a Word document and send an email to [email protected] using the instructions below. You will be notified of receipt of your abstract by email.
Submitted abstracts can be considered for oral or poster presentations. Kindly specify your preference in the email. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to change the presentation type (oral to poster), if necessary, to ensure the continuity of the conference program.
Abstract Template
TITLE OF ABSTRACT IN ARIAL FONT: SIZE 12 POINT, BOLD, UPPERCASE
(Authors: 10 points Arial font, superscript numbers are used to indicate the affiliations. Please bold and underline the name of the author who will present)
Author AA1, Second Author BB2, Third Author CC1 and Last Author CC1
(Affiliations: affiliation to be listed below the author names with 10 points italic Arial font)
1Affiliation 1
2 Affiliation 2.
The main text used Arial font 10 point. Page margins are 2.5 cm for the top and 2 cm bottom, left and right. Paragraphs are justified (straight-edged) on both left and right. Use single line spacing, no more than 2500 characters including spaces.
Invited Speakers
Professor Matilde Cescon
Professor Matilde Cescon
Associate Professor of Cell Biology at the Medical School of the University of Padova.
Principal Investigator of the joint Functional Genomics Research Unit of the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Padova
Expert in the generation and characterization of in vivo and in vitro models of diseases, she developed a deep interest in critical aspects impacting on the development and regeneration of the neuromuscular system.
Trained as a Molecular Biologist at the University of Padova, during her PhD, she focused on the pathomolecular mechanisms underlying Collagen VI-related muscular diseases, with a major focus on autophagy regulation in skeletal muscle, while during her post-doc experience she revealed the role of Collagen VI also in other tissues with a particular focus on the nervous system and the neuromuscular junction.
Her currently funded projects are focused on the role of autophagy in myelinating glial cells, with relevance for their homeostasis and response to injury. With this aim, she developed transgenic mouse lines for the study of the contribution of defective autophagy in Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes to neuropathies and neurodegeneration.
Professor Simone Di Giovanni
Professor Simone Di Giovanni
Professor of Neuroscience at Imperial College, London.
Chair in Restorative Neuroscience.
He leads a research group that investigates mechanisms and treatment for injuries and disorders that affect the peripheral nerves and the spinal cord and for pain conditions in the nervous system.
Professor Di Giovanni holds a honorary post within the NHS as a consultant in Neurology. His research and clinical work have broad implications for conditions spanning from traumatic, vascular, inflammatory, degenerative and metabolic (such as diabetes) damage to the spinal cord, spinal roots and peripheral nerves and for pain syndromes in the nervous system.
He is also involved in developing novel neurorehabilitation strategies. Previously, since 2006, he worked at the University of Tuebingen, Germany as a Research Group Leader, where he was also a consultant clinician in Stroke and General Neurology.
He did his post-doctoral training in Neuroscience studying gene expression regulation after spinal cord injury at Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2001-2004 where he became research Instructor (2004-2006). He studied Medicine at La Sapienza University and did his Neurology training at Catholic University, Rome, Italy.
Professor Silvestro Micera
Professor Silvestro Micera
Professor of Bioelectronics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) and at the EPFL (Lausanne).
He received the University degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pisa, in 1996, and the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in 2000.
From 2000 to 2009, he was Assistant Professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. In 2007, he was at MIT with a Fulbright Scholarship. From 2008 to 2011 he was Group Leader at ETH Zurich.
He was the recipient of “Early Career Achievement Award” and of the “Technical Achievement Award” of IEEE EMBS in 2009 and 2021.
Professor James Phillips
Professor James Phillips
UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering, Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy,
University College London, WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom.
He is Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Vice-Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) in the Faculty of Life Sciences at University College London in the United Kingdom.
He is also co-director of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering, Chief Scientific Officer of the UCL spinout company Glialign Ltd, and President of the European Society for the Study of Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration. His research focus on translational neuroscience includes construction of living artificial tissues for regenerative medicine; developing novel cell, drug, gene, and biomaterial therapies for neural repair and protection; advanced 3D co-culture models; and the development of clinical outcome measures. Applications include treating and modelling neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic injury to peripheral nerves, the spinal cord, and the brain.
His multi-disciplinary research group is based in the Department of Pharmacology at the UCL School of Pharmacy, and uses in silico, in vitro, in vivo, and clinical approaches.
Professor Ipsita Roy
Professor Ipsita Roy
Professor of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield.
She is an expert in microbial biotechnology, natural biobased materials, and their biomedical and environmental applications.
Professor Roy was awarded the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship to study for her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK. At Cambridge, she was awarded scholarships including the Churchill College Scholarship and the Cambridge University Philosophical Society Fellowship Award.
Her postdoctoral work was at the University of Minnesota, USA. She has published over 100 papers in high ‘Impact Factor’ journals such as Biomaterials, ACS Applied Materials Interfaces, with an H index of 47.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). Her group is focussed on the production of novel natural and sustainable polymers such as Polyhydroxyalkanoates, Bacterial cellulose, Alginate and their biomedical and environmental applications. She is an editor of Scientific Reports and Biomedical Materials.
Her total grant portfolio is more than 14 million pounds. She has many patents, and she is in the process of spinning out a company called PHAsT, focused on the production of biobased materials for biomedical applications.
Dr. Tamara Weiss, PhD
Dr. Tamara Weiss, PhD
Postdoc and team lead at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna.
She studied molecular biology at the University of Vienna and worked as a visiting scientist in Mark Kotter’s lab at the University of Cambridge where she analyzed the multi-step process of oligodendrocyte precursor cell differentiation.
She obtained her PhD from the Medical University of Vienna, investigating the role of stromal Schwann cells in peripheral neuroblastic tumors under the mentorship of Peter and Inge Ambros at the Children’s Cancer Research Institute in Vienna. During that time, her research focused on the culture of primary human Schwann cells and the characterization of their functional competences in response to nerve injury. She pursued her research as a postdoctoral fellow in Christine Radtke’s lab at the Medical University of Vienna and further explored human Schwann cell plasticity in tumor development and nerve regeneration.
Her most significant scientific contribution was the uncovering of a repair-like cellular state of stromal Schwann cells within peripheral neuroblastic tumors that revised the plastic potential of adult Schwann cells. As a principal investigator she now aims to identify the neuroblastic tumor cell derived factors responsible for the sustained activation of a repair-like cellular state in stromal Schwann cells to counteract the decline of their repair phenotype in chronically denervated human peripheral nerves.