4th Meeting SCI PT Researchers
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4th Meeting SCI PT Researchers

Annually organized by researchers dedicated to the study of spinal cord injury (SCI), this meeting gathers a growing community of neuroscientists working in Portugal. The event also features internationally renowned keynote speakers and research groups. It serves as a forum for SCI researchers to exchange knowledge and provides an exceptional opportunity to showcase the outstanding work being performed in Portugal.

 

Date

16th September 2024

 

Venue

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (FMUL)
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM)
Av. Prof. Egas Moniz
1649-028 Lisboa

 

Organizers

Leonor Saúde, iMM | FMUL
Madalena Marques, iMM
Isaura Martins, iMM

 

Preliminary Programme

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Keynote speakers

Professor Becker joined the University of Edinburgh in 2005 as senior Lecturer and was appointed personal chair in neural development and regeneration in 2013. She was also the Director of Postgraduate Training at the Centre for Neuroregeneration up to 2015, then Centre Director up to 2017. In 2021 she received an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, joining the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden at the Technical University of Dresden. She was elected President of that Center in 2024.
Becker's research focuses on a better understanding of the factors governing the generation of neurons and axonal pathfinding in the CNS during development and regeneration using the zebrafish model to identify fundamental mechanisms in vertebrates with clear translational implications for CNS injury and neurodegenerative diseases. The Becker group established the zebrafish as a model for spinal cord regeneration. Their research found that functional regeneration is near perfect, but anatomical repair does not fully recreate the previous network, instead, new neurons are generated, and extensive rewiring occurs. They have identified neurotransmitter signalling as one mechanism underlying regenerative neurogenesis. More recently, they have established larval regeneration paradigms in which highly selective cell ablation can be introduced and fundamental principles of functional repair, regenerative neurogenesis and rewiring can be analyzed. This system is scalable, allowing fast genetic screens into spinal cord repair.

 

Professor John Krakauer is a neurologist and neuroscientist with an interest in the healthy and damaged motor system. He received his bachelor's and master's degree from Cambridge University, and his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. After completing an internship in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, he returned to Columbia University for his residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York. He subsequently completed a research fellowship in motor control in the Center of Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia and a clinical fellowship in stroke at the Neurological Institute at Columbia University Medical Center. He was an Associate Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the Motor Performance Laboratory at Columbia University up until 2010. He is now the Director of the Center for Motor Learning and Brain Repair at Johns Hopkins University. Since 2014, has been a visiting scientist at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.
The Krakauer group studies motor learning and control in patients after stroke and their relationship to functional recovery. There is a critical need to establish whether motor learning itself is affected after stroke and to determine which forms of motor learning should be the focus of rehabilitation strategies. He has made a number of observations/contributions to the study of motor learning in healthy subjects and motor recovery after stroke that suggest new directions for the treatment of impairment early after stroke.

 

Registration

Participation is free of charge, but availability is limited.
Complete your registration and abstract submission HERE.
Please register and submit your abstract until 2nd September 2024.

 

Partners

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Contact us

sci.pt.researchers.2024@gmail.com

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