Presentations at the 2024 ENCALS scientific meeting

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June 2024: Some of our early-career researchers are presenting their work at the 2024 European Network to Cure ALS scientific conference, which is held in Stockholm next week.

The annual ENCALS conference is a key fixture in the diary for many MND researchers across Europe. It's a chance to get together, discuss findings and forge new collaborations.

The 2024 meeting will be in Stockholm from 17th-20th June.

The Euan MacDonald Centre funds conference registration for early-career researchers to present at MND-related conferences. Our presentations at ENCALS 2024 are as follows. Good luck to all!

Oral presentations

Monday 17th June

  • Understanding How Cognitive and Behavioural Impairments Affect the Mental Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions in ALS.
    Milena Contreras, Sharon Abrahams lab, University of Edinburgh
     
  •  A comparison of frameworks for identifying cognitive and behavioural impairment in pre-symptomatic ALS
    Caroline McHutchison, Sharon Abrahams lab, University of Edinburgh (now University of Stirling)
     
  • Is a brief apathy assessment useful in motor neuron disease clinics?
    Ratko Radakovic, University of East Anglia (Associate Member of Euan MacDonald Centre)

Poster presentations

Tues 18th June

  • Profiling the motor neuron translatome and transcriptome across pre-symptomatic and early symptomatic stages of a TDP-43 mouse model of ALS
    Hannah Smith, Tom Gillingwater lab, University of Edinburgh
     
  • Investigating Mechanisms of Neuroprotection from Therapeutic Targeting of Glycolysis
    Helena Chaytow, Tom Gillingwater lab, University of Edinburgh
     
  • A novel humanised zebrafish model of TDP-43 pathology exhibits early neuronal and glial dysfunction, relevant for phenotypic drug discovery
    Marcus Keatinge, Siddharthan Chandran lab, University of Edinburgh
     
  • Immunomodulation in skeletal muscle ameliorates NMJ denervation in the hTDP-43 mouse model of ALS
    Bernát Nógrádi, Tom Gillingwater lab, University of Edinburgh
This article was published on: Thursday, June 13, 2024
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