[BIC-announce] FW: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON POLYMICROGYRIA SYNDROMES AND EPILEPSY

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU. JENNIFER 

This symposium will be held on December 1st. at the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre of the Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute. I believe that the program is scientifically excellent, and includes all the important scientists in the field.  This meeting is truly international, with speakers from France, Brazil, Australia, Italy, the US and Canada.

 

If you have any questions in the next couple of weeks, you can email me or call my Admin Secretary, Marilyn Reed at 514-398-8529. 

 

Looking forward to seeing you. 

 

 

Sincerely yours,

 

 

Eva Andermann, MD, Ph.D., FCCMG

Director, Neurogenetics Unit

Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute;

Professor,

Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and

Human Genetics,

McGill University

 

Tel:      514-398-8529

Fax:     514-398-1276

Email:            eva.andermann at mcgill.ca <mailto:eva.andermann at mcgill.ca> 

 

POLYMICROGYRIA SYNDROMES AND EPILEPSY

Montreal, December 1st, 2005

 

Introductory Session

Chairpersons: E. Andermann & P. Kahane

 

 

8h30-8h45:    Welcome:   John Robson, Associate Director for Scientific Affairs,  Montreal           

                          Neurological Institute

 David Rosenblatt, Chairman, Department of Human

Genetics, McGill University

 

8h45-8h55:    Frederick Andermann (McGill University) 

              Historical introduction

 

8h55-9h15:    A. James Barkovich (University of California at San Francisco)

      A developmental and genetic classification for malformations of  cortical development

 


9h15-9h35:    Christopher Walsh (Harvard University)


          Molecular genetics of the developing brain

 

9h35-9h55:    Jeff Golden (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)

Pathological subtypes of polymicrogyria and brain development

 

9h55-10h15:   Eva Andermann (McGill University) 

Genetics of the polymicrogyria syndromes

 

10h15-10h30: Discussion

 

10h30-10h50: Coffee break

 

 

Characterization and Genetics of Specific PMG Syndromes

Chairpersons: F. Andermann & C. Walsh

 

10h50-11h10: Eva Andermann (McGill University)

          Bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (BPP)

 

11:10-11h25:  Laurent Villard (Université La Timone, Marseille)

          Linkage of bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (BPP) to chrXq28

 

11h25-11h45:  Renzo Guerrini (University of Pisa)

Bilateral frontal polymicrogyria (BFP) and bilateral parieto-occipital   polymicrogyria (BPOP)

 

11h45-12h05: Bernard Chang (Harvard University)

                        Bilateral fronto-parietal polymicrogyria (BFPP) and generalized      polymicrogyria

 

12h05-12h20:  Xianhua Piao (Harvard University)

           The GFR56 gene

 

12h20-12h40:  William B. Dobyns (University of Chicago)

           Chromosomal abnormalities and other malformations associated with PMG

 

12h40-13h00:  Discussion

 

13h45-14h00:  LUNCH

 

 


Clinical and Radiological Aspects of PMG


  Chairpersons: R. Kuzniecky & A. J. Barkovich


 

 

14h00-14h20: Richard Leventer (University of Melbourne)

          William B. Dobyns (University of Chicago)

          Epidemiological aspects of PMG

 

14h2-14h40:   A. James Barkovich (University of California at San Francisco)

Neuroimaging of polymicrogyria

 

14h40-15h00: Renzo Guerrini (University of Pisa)

          PMG and epilepsy

 

15h00-15h20: An Jansen (McGill University & University of Antwerp)

Cognitive and developmental language disorders in PMG syndromes 

 

15h20-15h35:  Discussion

 

15h35-15h55:  Coffee break

 

 


Pathophysiological and Treatment Aspects of PMG


                      Chairpersons: A. Olivier & P. Plouin


 

 

15:55-16:15:  William B. Dobyns (University of Chicago)

Pathophysiological mechanisms of polymicrogyria: Genetic and environmental factors

 

16h15-16h35:  Reuben Kuzniecky (New York University)

          Cortical reorganization in polymicrogyria

 

16h35-16h55:  François Dubeau (McGill University)

          Epileptogenesis in polymicrogyric cortex

 

16h55-17h10:  Eliane Kobayashi and Jean Gotman (McGill University)

          EEG-fMRI in polymicrogyria

 

17h10-17h30:  Francine Chassoux (Paris)

          Intralesional recordings and epileptogenic zone in focal polymicrogyria

 

17h30-17h50:  Andre Palmini (Porto Alegre)

          Perisylvian polymicrogyria: a surgically remediable syndrome?

 

17h50-18h10:  Discussion 

 

18h10         Eva Andermann and Frederick Andermann (McGill University)

          Concluding remarks

 

 

 

 

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