[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY - Molecular Characterization of Blood-to-Brain Exchanges

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

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Subject: Killam Lecture - TODAY


 

 

*****REMINDER*****

 

Killam Lecture

 

Speaker:  Alexandre Prat, MD

Director, Neuroimmunology Research Unit

Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC

 

Title:  Molecular Characterization of Blood-to-Brain Exchanges

 

Date:  TODAY

 

Time:  4:00 pm

 

Place:  de Grandpre Communication Centre

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Alexander Prat will present the Killam Conference on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, with the subject being Molecular Characterization of Blood to Brain Exchanges.  Alexander Prat received his MD degree from the University of Montreal, completed his Neurology clinical training both at the University of Montreal and at McGill University, and received his PhD from the Neuroscience Program, McGill University.  He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal and Director of the Neuroimmunology Research Unit at CHUM.  He is now internationally recognized for his studies on novel molecules produced by endothelial cells that regulate trafficking of immune constituents to the central nervous system and on molecules produced within the central nervous system that impact on properties of the blood-brain barrier.  His work covers both basic and translational aspects of neuroscience research.

 

References:

Preferential recruitment of interferon-gamma-expressing T H 17 cells in multiple sclerosis.  Kebir H, Ifergan I, Alvarez JI, Bernard M, Poirier J, Arbour N, Duquette P, Prat A.  Ann Neurol 2009 Sep;66(3):390-402.

Activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule promotes leukocyte trafficking into the central nervous system.  Cayrol R, Wosik K, Berard JL, Dodelet-Devillers A, Ifergan I, Kebir H, Haqqani AS, Kreymborg K, Krug S, Moumdjian R, Bouthillier A, Becher B, Arbour N, David S, Stanimirovic D, Prat A.  Nat Immunol 2008 Feb;9(2):137-45.

The blood-brain barrier induces differentiation of migrating monocytes into Th17-polarizing dendritic cells.  Ifergan I, Kebir H, Bernard M, Wosik K, Dodelet-Devillers, Cayrol R, Arbour N, Prat A.  Brain 2008 Mar;131(Pt 3):785-99.

Human TH17 lymphocytes promote blood-brain barrier disruption and central nervous system inflammation.  Kebir H, Kreymborg K, Ifergan I, Dodelet-Devillers A, Cayrol R, Bernad M, Giuliani F, Arbour N, Becher B, Prat A.  Nat Med 2007 Oct;13(10):1173-5.