Conference Speakers
NCL2012 Speaker Selection
All talks for presentation will be selected on scientific merit by the Scientific Organising Committee from the abstracts that are submitted. This will ensure that young investigators and those new to the field will have the same opportunities to present as those investigators who are well established in the NCL field.
NCL2012 Scientific Organising Committee
Jonathan Cooper (Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK)
Sara Mole (University College London, UK)
Ruth Williams (Evelina Children's Hospital, Guy's and StThomas/ NHS Foundation Trust, UK)
David Pearce (Sanford Children's Health Research Center, Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
Thomas Braulke (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany)
David Palmer (Lincoln University, New Zealand)
Mark Sands (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA)
Jaana Tyynela (University of Helsinki, Finland)
NCL2012 Session Chairs
The NCL2012 Science Conference will be split into five main sessions (Genetics and Biology of the NCLs, Disease Mechanisms; Links to Other Diseases; New Clinical Perspectives; Experimental Therapies), plus a 'Late Breaking News' session to allow the presentation of 'hot topics' submitted after the abstract deadline. Each session will be co-chaired by leaders in each field who will also present a summary of their session to the joint session with the Batten Disease Patient Organsiations meeting:
Session 1 Genetics and Cell Biology
Sara Mole (London, UK) and Thomas Braulke (Hamburg, Germany)
Session 2 Disease Mechanisms
David Palmer (Lincoln, New Zealand) and David Pearce (Sioux Falls, USA)
Session 3 Links to Other Diseases
Frances Platt (Oxford, UK) and Steven Walkley (New York, USA)
Session 4 Late Breaking News
Anu Jalanko (Helsinki, Finland) and Hannah Mitchison (London, UK)
Session 5 New Clinical Perspectives
Angela Schulz (Hamburg, Germany) and Jonathan Mink (Rochester, USA)
Session 6 Experimental Therapies
Beverley Davidson (Iowa City, USA) and Mark Sands (St Louis, USA)
Session 7 Joint Session with Patient Organisations
Andrea West (BDFA, UK), Sara Mole (London, UK), Jon Cooper (London, UK), Ruth Williams (London, UK)
NCL2012 Poster sessions
The poster sessions at NCL2012 will be grouped according to the focus of the scientific sessions each day, plus a section for posters from Patient Organisations. There will be prizes for the best posters by PhD students, postdocs, clinicians and Patient Organisations. These will be awarded by the NCL2012 Poster Review Committee which includes Guy Tear (London, Chair), Ines Noher de Halac (Cordoba, Argentina), Imke Tammen (Sydney, Australia), Alfried Kohlschutter (Hamburg, Germany), Brenda Williams (KCL, London), Stephanie Hughes (Dunedin, New Zealand), Susan Cotman (Boston, USA), Jill Weimer (Sanford Research, USA), Heather Adams (Rochester, USA), Claire Russell (RVC, London), Heather Band (BDFA, UK).