Seoul, Korea 2012

7th Annual Meeting, October 7th - 10th

07 Oct

Welcome!

Whole day tour and dinner for all meeting attendants

08 Oct

9:00	Welcome & Membership Updates	Jim Maraganore, Medical Director (USA)
9:30	Polyglutamine repeats and PD	Manu Sharma (Germany)
10:15	Coffee & posters
11:00	RVCD sequencing & genotyping project	Carles Vilarino-Guell (Canada)
12:00	Lunch	Katerina Markopoulou & Videomessage
13:30	DataBlitz & Discussion	all attending GEoPD members
15:00	Coffee & posters
15:30	DataBlitz & Discussion
17:00	Adjourn
17:00	Closed Meeting, GEoPD Steering Committee	BJ Jeon Matt Farrer Jim Maraganore Rejko Kruger Jesse Theuns John Ioannidis
19:00	Closed Dinner, GEoPD Steering Committee	All other meeting attendants free to discover Seoul, list of recommended restaurants to be provided

09 Oct

AM - Parkinson's disease in Asia/Australia Moderator: B Jeon, Korea
8:30	Introduction to the region/program	B Jeon (Korea)
8:40	What's shakin' down under: An update from the Queensland Parkinson's project	George Mellick (Australia)
9:20	The China Biomarker Initiative for Parkinson's Disease	Piu Chan (China)
10:00	Coffee & posters
10:30	LRRK2 study in Taiwan: Genetic analysis and functional assay	Christy Lin (Taiwan)
11:10	Familial PD in Japan	Nobu Hattori (Japan)
11:50	Gene therapy for parkinsonism; the promise and pitfalls	Shin-ichi Muramatsu (Japan)
12:30	Lunch
13:40	A novel regulatory role of PINK1 in mitochondrial complex IV: Mechanism and Therapeutics	Jin Son (Korea)
14:20	Mechanism of paracrine activation of microglia via neuronal alpha-synuclein	Seung-Jae Lee (Korea)
15:00	Coffee & posters	Koji Yamanaka
15:40	Highlights of PD Research in Singapore	EK Tan (Singapore)
16:20	Panel discussion - Unmet needs, outreach and collaborative efforts in Aia
16:30	Mitochondrial pathology in PD - therapeutic approaches special seminar	Rejko Kruger (Gemany)
17:20	Adjourn
18:00	Dinner	All meeting attendants

10 Oct

Posters, Annual Members Meeting Moderator: Rejko Kruger, Germany
8:00	Guided poster tour	Jan Aasly (Norway)
10:00	Annual administrative meeting of the members	Jim Maraganore (USA) Matt Farrer (Canada)
12:00	Lunch
PM - Korean Public Meeting (GEoPD members invited) GEoPD members invited
Genetics of Parkinson's Disease: Past Lessons & Future Opportunities Moderator: BJ Jeon, Korea
13:00	Next-generation sequencing; the new frontier	Carles Vilarino-Guell (Canada)
13:40	Cellular pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease: a unified genetic etiology?	Matt Farrer (Canada)
14:20	Cell-based therapeutics; lessons from fetal grafts to iPS	Jeff Kordower (USA)
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Neuroimaging; leveraging endophenotypes to make discoveries	Norbert Bruggemann (Germany)
16:20	Back to the Future: from Greek Oracles to DNA Prediction	Jim Maraganore (USA)
17:00	Panel discussion
17:15	Adjourn