Live Stream Schedule
** All time indicated below are Pacific Standard Time **
| Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | |||
| 7:15am | Zoom Registration and Login | ||
| 7:30 | Conference Overview | Facundo Manes MD, PhD, INECO/Favaloro Univ. Argentina | |
| Bruce Miller, MD, UCSF, USA; Brad Boeve, MD, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA | |||
| Susan Dickinson, MSGC, Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) | |||
| 7:45 | President Lecture | Rosa Rademakers, PhD | |
| Antwerp Univ, Belgium | |||
| 8:00 | FTD & Society | Facundo Manes, MD, PhD INECO/Favaloro University Argentina | |
| Introduction to FTD | |||
| Session Moderator: Chiadi Onyike, MD, MHS | |||
| 8:15 | Evolving Issues in FTD | Bruce Miller, MD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 8:30 | Differentiating the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia from Primary Psychiatric Disorders | Chiadi Onyike, MD, MHS | |
| Johns Hopkins Univ, USA | |||
| 8:45 | Magnetoencephalography (MEG) in FTD, From Mechanisms to Experimental Medicine | James Rowe, MD, PhD | |
| Univ of Cambridge UK | |||
| 9:00 | Measuring Behavior for Diagnosis of bvFTD | Kate Rankin, PhD | Slides |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 9:15 | Innovative Measures for Assessing Social Cognition | Fiona Kumfor, PhD | |
| Univ. of Sydney | |||
| 9:30 | Question & Answer | ||
| 9:45 | Anterior Temporal Lobe: Left Versus Right | Marsel Mesulam, MD, Northwestern Univ, USA | |
| 10:00 | The Nonfluent/Agrammatic Progressive Aphasia Spectrum | Marilu Gorno-Tempini, MD, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 10:15 | FTD and the Connectome | Murray Grossman, MDCM | |
| Univ of Pennsylvania, USA | |||
| 10:30 | Longitudinal Studies of FTD | Howard Rosen, MD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 10:45 | Question & Answer | ||
| 11:00 | Break | ||
| Biomarkers & Treatments for FTD | |||
| Session Moderator: Emily Rogalski, PhD | |||
| 11:30 | Molecular Therapies for FTD | Adam Boxer, MD, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 11:45 | Overview of Fluid Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Dementias | Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD | |
| Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden | |||
| 12:00pm | Endpoints for FTD Clinical Trials | Adam Staffaroni, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 12:15 | Primary Progressive Aphasia: Nonpharmacologic Intervention Progress and Opportunities | Emily Rogalski, PhD | |
| Northwestern Univ, USA | |||
| 12:30 | Pharm and Nonpharm Management of Behaviors in bvFTD | Elizabeth Finger, MD | |
| Univ of Western Ontario, Canada | |||
| 1:00 | Question & Answer | ||
| 1:15pm | Adjourn | ||
| Thursday, March 4, 2021 | |||
| **All times are in Pacific Standard Time, Live Sessions | |||
| 7:30am | Zoom Registration and Login | ||
| Genetics from Gene to Molecule | |||
| Session Moderator: Manuela Neumann, MD, PhD | |||
| 7:45 | Genetic Discovery in Diverse Patients Diagnosed with FTD | Jennifer S. Yokoyama, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 8:00 | Tau in FTD | Maria Spillantini, PhD | |
| Univ. of Cambridge, UK | |||
| 8:15 | C9orf72 Diagnosis and Therapies | Leonard Petrucelli, PhD | |
| Mayo Clinic Florida, USA | |||
| 8:30 | Neuroimaging of Genetic Cohorts | Suzee Lee, MD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 8:45 | FUS in ALS and FTLD | Manuela Neumann, MD | |
| Univ of Tübingen, Germany | |||
| 9:00 | GRN Gene to Syndrome | Isabelle LeBer, MD, PhD Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, France | |
| 9:15 | Question & Answer | ||
| Neuropathology | |||
| Session Moderator: William Seeley, MD | |||
| 9:30 | Tau Filaments in Frontotemporal Degeneration and Alzheimer Disease: Molecular Conformers Revealed by Cryo-Electron Microscopy | Bernardino Ghetti, MD | |
| Indiana Univ, USA | |||
| 9:45 | Copathologies in FTD Syndromes (Neuropathologic Issues) | Glenda Halliday, PhD, FAAHMS | |
| Univ. of Sydney, Australia | |||
| 10:00 | FTD Neuropathology Update | Ian Mackenzie, MD | |
| Univ of British Columbia, Canada | |||
| 10:15 | Neuron Type-specific TDP-43 Pathobiology: Gain or Loss of Function? | William Seeley, MD UCSF, USA |
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| 10:30 | Late Onset FTLD-TDP and LATE | Keith A. Josephs, MD, MST, MSc | |
| Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA | |||
| 10:45 | Question & Answer | ||
| 11:00 | Break | ||
| Clinical FTD | |||
| Session Moderator Irene Litvan, MD, FAAN, FANA | |||
| 11:15 | Cognitive and Behavioural Dimensions of ALS | Orla Hardiman, BSc, MD, FTCD, MRIA | |
| Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | |||
| 11:30 | Motor Changes in FTD Spectrum | Brad Dickerson, MD | |
| Harvard Medical School, USA | |||
| 11:45 | Multiple Corticobasal Degeneration and PSP Presentations | Irene Litvan, MD, FAAN, FANA UCSD, USA |
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| 12:00pm | Social and Legal Issues in FTLD | Mario Mendez, MD, PhD | |
| UCLA, USA | |||
| 12:15 | Lille-Paris ICFTD 2022 / 2nd ISFTD Meeting | Florence Pasquier, MD, PhD | |
| Univ de Lille, France | |||
| 12:30 | Question & Answer | ||
| 12:45pm | Adjourn | ||
| Friday March 5, 2021 | |||
| **All times are in Pacific Standard Time, Live Sessions | |||
| 7:45am | Zoom Registration and Login | ||
| Latin America Session of the 1st International Society for Frontotemporal Dementia | |||
| Introduction to FTD Session | |||
| Moderator Facundo Manes, MD, PhD | |||
| 8:00 | FTD and Society | Facundo Manes, MD, PhD INECO/Favaloro Univ. Argentina | |
| 8:15 | Advances in FTD | Bruce Miller, MD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| FTD the Clinical Syndromes | |||
| 8:30 | bvFTD | Leonel T. Takada, MD, PhD | |
| Univ.of São Paulo, Brazil | |||
| 8:50 | Bilingualism in FTD | Jessica de Leon, MD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 9:10 | Neuropathologic Patterns in Primary Progressive Aphasia | Marsel Mesulam, MD | |
| Northwestern Univ, USA | |||
| Northwestern University, USA | |||
| 9:30 | Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Language | Adolfo Garcia, PhD | |
| REDLAT Argentina | |||
| 9:50 | Panel Discussion: FTD Diagnosis in Low Education Populations | Ricardo Nitrini, MD | |
| Department of Neurology, São Paulo, Brazil | |||
| Nilton Custodio, MD, PhD | |||
| Institute of Neurosciences | |||
| Lima, Peru | |||
| Elisa de Paula Franca Resende, MD, PhD, GBHI | |||
| Francisco Lopera, MD | |||
| Univ. de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia | |||
| 10:20 | Break | ||
| REDLAT Session | |||
| Session Moderator: Agustin Ibanez, PhD | |||
| 10:40 | REDLAT Overview | Agustin Ibanez, PhD | |
| REDLAT Argentina | |||
| 10:55 | REDLAT Clinical Organization | Andrea Slachevsky, MD PhD | |
| GERO and Univ. of Chile, Chile | |||
| FTD Genetics in South America | Claudia Ramos, MD | ||
| 11:10 | Univ. de Antioquia - Medellín, Colombia | ||
| 11:30 | FTD Mutations in Bogota, Colombia | Diana Matallana, PhD | |
| Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia. | |||
| 11:50am | Lunch | ||
| Special Topics in FTD Session | |||
| Moderator Stefanie Pina Escudero, MD | |||
| 1:00pm | Emotion in FTD | Virginia Sturm, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 1:20 | Imaging-Genomics in FTD | Corey McMillan, PhD | |
| Univ of Pennsylvania, USA | |||
| 1:40 | Social Determinants of Health | Stefanie Piña Escudero, MD | |
| GHBI | |||
| 2:00 | Sex Differences in FTD | Ignacio Illán-Gala, MD, PhD | |
| Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital Barcelona, Spain | |||
| 2:20 | Discussion | ||
| 2:30 | Break | ||
| Bluefield Symposium Clinical Trials & Progranulin Session | |||
| Moderator Rosa Rademakers, PhD | |||
| 2:50 | Progranulin Genetics | Rosa Rademakers, PhD | |
| Antwerp Univ, Belgium | |||
| 3:10 | Molecular Pathology of Progranulin Deficiency: From Mouse to Human | Eric Huang, MD, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 3:30 | Progranulin Families | John C. van Swieten, MD, PhD Erasmus MC-University, Netherlands | |
| 3:50 | GRN Models, Lipids and the Lysosome | Robert V. Farese, MD | |
| Harvard Medical School, USA | |||
| 4:10 | Progranulin, Multi-granulin Fragments and Granulins: Differential Modifiers of Lysosome Function | Aimee Kao, MD, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 4:30 | Clinical Trials for Progranulin | Julio Rojas, MD, PhD | |
| UCSF, USA | |||
| 4:50pm | Adjourn | ||
| PRE-RECORDED SESSIONS | |||
| Time | Title | Faculty | Recordings |
| International Consortium for FTD | |||
| 15 min | GENFI | Jonathan Rohrer, FRCP, PhD Univ College London, UK |
Video |
| 15 min | ALLFTD | Brad Boeve, MD Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA |
Video |
| 15 min | Japanese Frontotemporal Dementia Consortium | Manabu Ikeda, MD, PhD Osaka Univ, Japan |
Video |
| 15 min | Latin American Initiative ReDLat | Agustin Ibanez, PhD REDLAT |
Video |
| 15 min | Australia, Dominantly Inherited Non-Alzheimer Dementias | Olivier Piguet, PhD Univ of Sydney, Australia |
Video |
| 15 min | Neuropsychiatric International Consortium for FTD (NIC-FTD) | Yolande Pijnenburg, MD, PhD Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands |
Video |
| Special Topics | |||
| 15 min | FTD Diagnosis in Low Education Populations | Sonia Brucki, MD, PhD University of Sao Paulo |
Video |
| 15 min | iPSC Derived Neurons in FTD | Selina Wray, PhD Univ. College, England |
Video |
| 15 min | Neuropsychological Assessment in FTD: Practical Considerations | Katya Rascovsky, PhD Univ of Pennsylvania, USA |
Video |
| 15 min | Bilingualism and Diagnosis of FTD | Suvarna Alladi, MD Department of Neurology, Bangalore, India |
Video |
| 15 min | Misdiagnosis of FTD | Shunichiro Shinagawa, MD, PhD Jikei Univ, Tokyo, Japan |
Video |
| 15 min | Primary Progressive Aphasia in Chinese Language | Boon Lead Tee, MD GBHI |
Video |
| 15 min | Tests of Frontal Lobe Function | Bruno Dubois, MD, PhD Institute of the Salpétrière University Hospital at Paris |
Video |
| 15 min | Late Onset FTD | Sang Won Seo, MD, PhD Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, South Korea | Video |
| Family Track | |||
| 20 min | Introduction | Bruce Miller, MD UCSF, USA |
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| Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) | |||
| Susan Dickinson, MSGC | Video | ||
| Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) | |||
| 15 min | Experiences of Caring for a Person Living with FTD | Jennifer Merrilees, RN, PhD UCSF, USA |
Video |
| 20 min | Approach to Caregivers in Latin America | Teresa Torralva PHD | Video |
| Julian Bustin, MD | |||
| INECO, Argentina | |||
| Facundo Manes,MD PhD INECO/Favaloro Univ. Argentina | |||