We will start the second phase of our collaborative work in „ImmunoStroke“ by official kickoff meeting in April. Besides PIs, also the (newly recruited) project scientists as well as our external scientific advisory board will join this 2-day meeting. We are looking forward to fruitful discussions and a successful project start.

Program April 19th:

13.00 – 14.00 Arrival and lunch

14.00 – 14.15 Welcome & Introduction

14.15 – 14.40 Adam Denes: Compartment-specific modulation of neurovascular responses by microglia

14.40 – 15.05 Alba Simats:Innate immune memory after stroke drives inflammatory cardiac dysfunction

15.05 – 15.30 Berta Puig Martorell: Deciphering the role of extracellular vesicles in ischemic stroke

15.30 – 15.55 Ana Casas: PK-dependent immunomodulatory effect in stroke pathomechanism

15.55 – 16.15 Coffee Break

16.15 – 16.40 Karoline Degenhardt: The dichotomy of IL-17a in ischemic stroke

16.40 – 17.05 Ayan Mohamud Yusuf: Modulating microvascular remodeling by manipulation microglia activity

17.05 – 17.30 Igor Khalin: Real-time in vivo characterization of post-ischemic microthrombosis

17.30 – 17.55 Marios Georgakis: Targeting the CCL2-CCR2 axis for atheroprotection

17.55 – 18.15 RikeLanghauser: update on Z2 core project: next steps towards multi-center preclinical studies

18.00 – 22.00 Dinner

Program April 20th:

09.00 – 09.25 Götz Thomalla/Eva Tolosa: The stroke cohort in project C1 and a first glimpse of data

09.25 – 09.50 Selin Kenet: In vivo imaging of oligodendrocyte injury in an NMO mouse model

09.50 – 10:10 Yaw Asare: HDAC9 fine-tunes inflammasome-dependent chronic inflammation

10.10 – 10.25 Coffee Break

10.25 – 10.50 Corinne Benakis / Gerd MzH: Single nuclei transcriptomics of human meninges in multiple sclerosis as a reference for stroke research

10.50 – 11.10 Vikramjeet Singh: Neutrophil extracellular traps are mediators of post-stroke immunosuppression

11.10 – 11.35 Alessio Ricci:Stroke Induces Development of a Brain-Resident T cell Population which Promotes Functional Recovery

11.35 – 12.30 Lunch& Departure