Scientific Program

08:30-08:45 | Registration
08:45-09:00 | Welcome remarks (Byoung-Joon Kim, Mando Kim and V. Wee Yong)

Session 1 – chairs: V. Wee Yong & Ho Jin Kim
09:00-09:25 | Refresher on Immunology (Fabienne Brilot-Turville, Australia)
09:25-09:50 | Microglia responses in CNS injuries (Thameen Dheen, Singapore)
09:50-10:15 | Adaptive immunology in neurologic diseases (Fu-Dong Shi, China)
10:15-10:30 | Q&A

10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break

Session 2 – chairs: Fu-Dong Shi & Kon Chu
10:45-11:10 | Pathophysiology of inflammatory neuropathies (Soontae Lee, Korea)
11:10-11:35 | Neuroimmunology in stroke (Mengzhou Xue, China)
11:35-12:20 | Lympathics of the CNS and therapeutic implications (Jonathan Kipnis, USA)
12:20-12:35 | Q&A

Luncheon symposium – chairs: Byoung-Joon Kim & Manho Kim
12:35-13:00 | Principles of immunotherapy in autoimmune encephalitis (Soon-Tae Lee, Korea)
13:00-13:25 | Principles of immunotherapy in NMOSD (Su-Hyun Kim, Korea)

13:25-13:40 | Break

Session 3 – chairs: Fabienne Brilot-Turville & Sang Kun Lee
13:40-14:10 | Leukocyte trafficking into the CNS (Britta Engelhardt, Switzerland)
14:10-14:25 | Plasmablasts and neuroimmunological disorders (Norio Chihara, Japan)
14:25-14:40 | Suppression of Inflammatory Immune Disorders by Treg-inducing Probiotics (Sin-Hyeog Im, Korea)
14:40-14:55 | MOG encephalomyelitis: a new disease entity of CNS demyelinating disease (Sung-Min Kim, Korea)
14:55-15:10 | Metagenomic pathogen identification in CNS infection (Jangsup Moon, Korea)
15:10-15:25 | Q&A

15:25-15:40 | Coffee Break

Session 4 – chairs: Britta Engelhardt & Sin-Hyeog Im
15:40-16:05 | Beyond metagenomics: New technologies for infectious and autoimmune encephalitis (Michael Wilson, USA)
16:05-16:30 | Neuroimmunology of viral infections (Anirban Basu, India)
16:30-16:55 | Neuroimmunology in repair of the CNS (V. Wee Yong, Canada)
16:55-17:35 | Successes of Neuroimmunology in multiple sclerosis (Amit Bar-Or, USA)
17:35-17:50 | Q&A

17:50-18:00 | Closing remarks (Ho Jin Kim and V. Wee Yong)