Membrane Trafficking in Health and Disease: Focus on Neurological Diseases

Membrane Trafficking in Health and Disease: Focus on Neurological Diseases

In the last thirty years, tremendous progress has been made in the elucidation of the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating membrane trafficking and turnover in mammalian cells, e.g., exocytosis, endocytosis and the lysosomal clearance of proteins and lipids through autophagy. The field is now able to explore how defects of membrane trafficking can lead to diseases, particularly neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. The school will overview the last decades of seminal advances in the field: the lessons learned about regulated and unconventional exocytosis, the role of lysosomes in degradation and secretion, the dynamics, metabolism and signalling of lipids, and the role of the immune system in regulating the synapse and neuronal function.

Program

Day 1. Monday 14th

11-12. welcoming

13.00. Lunch

Secretion and degradation I

14:30. Thierry Galli: “Unconventional Secretion in the Nervous System”

16:00. Silvia Coco: “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicles: A New Challenge for Brain Diseases?”

Social Dinner.

 

Day 2. Tuesday 15th

Membrane Trafficking and neurodegeneration

9:00. Shawn Ferguson: “Lysosome Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disease”

10:30. Peter McPherson: “DENN-Domain-Mediated Regulation of Rab GTPases in Neurological Disease

Social Event: Visit of Como and Museum

13.30. Lunch

Membrane dynamics at the synapse

14:30. Kohji Takei: “Interplay between Membrane Dynamics and Cytoskeletal Dynamics”

16:00. Ira Milosevic “Towards understanding synaptic transmission in the ageing brain”

 

17:15. Coffee Break

17:30. Student Session I

 

Day 3. Wednesday 16th

Secretion and degradation I

9:00Michele Solimena: “Secretory Granules/Large Dense Core Vesicles: The Other Side of Regulated Exocytosis. Lessons from the Pancreatic Islet Beta Cells””

10:30. Roberto Zoncu: “Lysosomes in Nutrient Sensing and Cellular Growth Control”

Social Event: visit of the Villa of Grumello and botanical Garden

13.30. Lunch

Membrane Trafficking and neurodegeneration II

14:30. Volker Haucke: “Lipid Switches in Cell Physiology: From Membrane Dynamics to Disease”

16:00. Gilbert Di Paolo: “Role of Lipids in Neurodegeneration”

17:15. Coffee Break

17:30. Student Session II

 

Day 4. Thursday 17th 

Neuroimmunology

9:30. Michela Matteoli: “The Synapse as a Target of the Immune System: Role of Microglia”

10:30. Evelina Gatti: “Unconventional Secretion Linking Cellular Stress and Innate Sensing: Lessons for the Neuroimmune Dialogue”

Social Event: Sailing on the lake

Lunch

16:30. Davide Pozzi: “The Synapse as a Target of the Immune System: Role of Cytokines”

 

Day 5. Friday 18th

10:00. Keynote Lecture: Pietro De Camilli.

Introduced by Prof. Maria Paola Canevini

11:00. Final discussion with all speakers and students

13:00. Lunch

Departure

 

 


Practical information

Opening

9-17:30

Place

The School is housed in Villa del Grumello, Como, which is set in a park over Como lake.

Target audience

Students, Postdoc, researchers