ILAE-YES Basic and Translational Science Webinar Series

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: Animal models of seizures and acquired epilepsies

Speaker: Cristina Ruedell Reschke, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences & FutureNeuro Research Centre, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin (Ireland)

Moderator: Christos Lisgaras, NYU Langone (USA)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: Models of genetically-determined epilepsies

Speaker: David Henshall, Physiology & Medical Physics Department, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin (Ireland)

Moderator: Konstantin Makridis, Charité - Universitätsmedizin (Germany)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: The use of animal models in drug screening

Speakers:

• Pablo Casillas-Espinosa, Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004 Victoria (Australia)
• Vincenzo Mara, UCB Biopharma SPRL, Braine l'Alleud (Belgium)

Moderator: Rossella Di Sapia, Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS (Italy)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: Pre-clinical evaluation of gene therapy for drug-refractory epilepsies

Speakers: 

• Gabriele Lignani, Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London (UK)
• Stephanie Baulac, Institut du Cerveau (ICM)/Paris Brain Institute, Paris (France)

Moderator: Jaiver Macea, KU Leuven (Belgium)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: The role of EEG in animal studies and pre-clinical testing

Speaker: Premysl Jiruska, Department of Physiology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)

Moderator: Cecilie Nome, University of Oslo (Norway)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: Methods of EEG recording – from standard video-EEG to advanced approaches

Speaker: Christos Lisgaras, NYU Langone Health, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Center for Dementia Research, New York (USA)

Moderator: Eleni Nikalexi, Department of Physiology I, University of Münster (Germany)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: Electroclinical features of genetic epilepsy models

Speakers:

• Massimo Mantegazza, CNRS UMR727, Université Côte d'Azur, Valbonne-Sophia Antipolis (France)
• Simona Balestrini, Neuroscience Department, Children's Hospital 'A.Meyer' IRCSS - University of Florence (Italy); UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Bucks (UK)

Moderator: Naoto Kuroda, Wayne State University (USA); Tohoku University (Japan)

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Topic: EEG as a tool to dissect epileptic networks

Speakers: 

• Mark Cunningham, Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
• Julia Jacobs, Alberta Children's Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary (Canada)

Moderator: Bruna Nucera, Department of Neurology, F. Tappeiner Hospital, Merano (BZ) (Italy); Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg (Austria)