Neuroimmune Interactions in the Central Nervous System

Description:
In this Symposium, we propose to bring together leading neuroimmunologists to discuss the mechanisms that participate in the cross-talk between the immune and the nervous system, focusing on specific cell subsets, molecular pathways and microbiome components which play important roles in development, homeostasis and disease. In summary, this symposium will highlight the important roles played by neuroimmune interactions in health and disease, as well as potential approaches for their therapeutic modulation.

Chair:
Francisco J. Quintana, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Program Agenda:
Neural-immune Interactions in Cognitive Impairment Associated with Cancer Therapy and Long COVID
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Stanford University

Modulation of Microglia with Nasal Anti-CD3 for the Treatment of Progressive MS and Neurodegenerative Diseases
8:45 am - 9:30 am
Howard Weiner, MD
Harvard Medical School

Immune Remodeling of Damaged CNS Barriers
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Dorian McGavern , PHD
NINDS.NIH

Break
10:15 am - 10:30 am

APOE4/4 is Linked to Damaging Lipid Droplets in Alzheimer's Microglia
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Michael Seamus Haney, PhD
Stanford University

Mapping CNS Cell-cell Interactions in Health and Disease
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Francisco J. Quintana, PhD
Harvard Medical School