We organized an initial DPAN symposium on November 30th 2023, in Amsterdam.
On November 30th 2023 we welcomed the Dutch protein aggregation research community to the inaugural symposium of our network DPAN, sponsored by NWO.
The symposium includes an array of presentations from researchers in our field, including a keynote presentation by Prof. Harm Kampinga. To join us, please register via the registration button below. Registration is free, and people are invited to submit a short abstract for poster submissions. The event will take place at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.
Symposium program
(Note: Some details in the schedule below may be updated before the event.)
Downloadable symposium flyer with the program.
10:00 – 10:25 Registration & coffee
10:25 – 10:30 Introduction by organizers
10:30 – 11:30 Molecular Mechanisms regulating protein aggregation
Wiep Scheper (Amsterdam UMC) Neuron-specific proteostatic responses to tau aggregation
Monique Mulder (Leiden UMC) Deciphering the role of the Ubiquitin Proteasome System in Huntington Disease
Anne Wentink (Leiden University)
Irem Bayraktaroglu (University of Groningen, GELIFES)
11:30 – 12:30 Structures of protein aggregates
Sander Woutersen (UvA) What infrared spectroscopy can tell us about protein aggregates
Wilma van de Berg (Amsterdam UMC) The assembly and structure of alpha-synuclein aggregates in synucleinopathies
Anouk Rijs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Francesco Simone Ruggeri (Wageningen University)
12:30 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:15 Posters
14:15 – 14:55 Keynote speaker Harm Kampinga (Groningen UMC)
Chaperones and their fight against the protein aggregation avalanche
14:55 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 – 16:20 Protein aggregation disease modeling
Jinte Middeldorp (BPRC) Protein Aggregates in non-human primate models of aging and COVID-19
Vered Raz (Leiden UMC) Nuclear aggregates in muscle pathology
Samantha Hughes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Maurice Dekker (University of Groningen)
16:20 – 17:00 Therapeutic strategies targeting protein aggregation
Alberto Malerba (RHUL, UK) Gene therapy for Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
Pavlo Zelina (Utrecht UMC) Protein aggregation in ALS
17:00 – 17:05 Closing remarks
17:05 – 18:00 Drinks
Symposium location
The symposium was held in the auditorium of the O|2 building at the VU Amsterdam.
The venue is a 15 minutes walk from train station Amsterdam Zuid, right next to tram/bus stop “VUmc”, and close to parking garages “P2 VUmc” and “P3 VU Campus. Address: De Boelelaan 1108, 1081HZ Amsterdam.
Sponsors
We thank our sponsors of the 2023 DPAN symposium: NWO, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Proteintech, Photothermal Spectroscopy corp and Ibidi.
