3rd Joint Meeting Belgian-Dutch neuroMuscular stuDy cluB anD

Second Announcement and call for abstracts
3rd Joint Meeting
Belgian-Dutch
Neuromuscular
Study Club and
German Reference
Center for
Neuromuscular
Diseases
of the DGNN
May 9 and 10, 2014
Hotel Kasteel Bloemendal
Vaals, The Netherlands
Invited speakers:
Prof. Smita Saxena, Bern, Switzerland | Prof. Philip Vandamme, Leuven,
Belgium | Prof. Giuseppe Lauria, Milan, Italy | Prof. Jan De Bleecker, Gent,
Belgium | Prof. Sylvère van der Maarel, Leiden, The Netherlands |
Dr. Ingemar Merkies, Maastricht, The Netherlands | Prof. Bjarne Udd,
Tampere, Finland | Dr. Cornelia Kornblum, Bonn, Germany
Organizers:
Prof. Peter Van den Bergh, Brussels, Belgium | Prof. Joachim Weis, Aachen,
Germany | Prof. Marc De Baets, Maastricht, The Netherlands | Prof. Leonard
van den Berg, Utrecht, The Netherlands | Dr. Kristl G. Claeys, Aachen, Germany | Dr. Karin Faber, Maastricht, The Netherlands | Dr. Natalie Goemans,
Leuven, Belgium | Prof. Martin Häusler, Aachen, Germany |
in collaboration with the European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) |
Director Prof. Harry Steinbusch, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Deadline for abstract submission and registration:
April 1st, 2014
Registration:
Online registration via the website:
http://www.euronschool.eu/page/145/Online_registration/
Please register early, because attendance is limited.
Registration fee: €135 (including program, lunches, dinner and abstract
book)
Fee has to be paid via bank transfer:
Bank name: ING
Account holder: Universiteit Maastricht
IBAN: NL47 INGB 0657 6254 18
BIC: INGBNL2A
Reference: 30974375N/EURON
Registration will be confirmed after payment! Payment of Maastricht University participants will
be arranged differently via internal payment. They do not have to pay via the bank.
Hotel rooms:
A limited number of rooms have been reserved for participants.
Please book your room directly with the hotel Kasteel Bloemendal
Tel: +31-(0)43-3659800 | [email protected] |
www.hotelbloemendal.nl/nl
Reference: GF 9006
Other recommended Hotels:
Hotel Ibis Aachen am Marschiertor (Aix –la-Chapelle), which is located on the
road to Vaals close to the Aachen main train station
Hotel Mercure am Dom (centre of Aachen, bus line to Vaals)
Aquis Grana City Hotel (centre of Aachen, bus line to Vaals)
Contact information:
European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON)
Maastricht University | School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MH&NS)
Universiteitssingel 40 | 6229 ER Maastricht | The Netherlands
+31-43-3884130 | [email protected] |
www.euronschool.eu | www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/mhens
Program
Friday,
May 9, 2014
▼
10:30 – 10:45
Introduction
Peter Van den Bergh, Joachim Weis
Session 1 10:45 – 11:15
Philip Vandamme
Modeling genetic causes of ALS using zebrafish 11:15 – 11:45
Smita Saxena
The disease process in ALS Mice: Elucidating causes and
consequences
11:45 – 13:00
5 presentations (15 min including discussion)
13.00 – 14.00Lunch
Session 2 14.00 – 14:30 Giuseppe Lauria
Small Fiber Neuropathies
14.30 – 16:00 6 presentations (15 min including discussion)
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
Session 3 16:15 – 16:45
Jan De Bleecker
Inflammatory Myopathies
16:45 – 17:15
Ingemar Merkies
Measurements, and things that can go wrong…
17:15 – 18:30
5 presentations (15 min including discussion)
19:30Dinner
Saturday,
May 10, 2014
▼
Session 4 08:30 – 09.00
Sylvère van der Maarel
New developments in FSHD
09:15 – 10:30
5 presentations (15 min including discussion)
10:30 – 10:45Coffee break
Session 5 10:45 – 11:15
Bjarne Udd
Distal Myopathies
11:15 – 11:45
Cornelia Kornblum
MGME1 mutations and mitochondrial disease
11:45 – 13:00
5 presentations (15 min including discussion)
13.00Closure Peter Van den Bergh, Joachim Weis

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