Turin, Italy | 6 – 7 November 2026
Hybrid meeting
IV edition
MOTOR NEURON DISEASES
Understanding the pathogenetic mechanisms to develop therapies
Organizers: prof. Marina Boido & Serena Stanga
NICO and Dept. of Neuroscience – University of Turin
The IV edition of the conference will still focus on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), two severe neurological pathologies affecting motor neurons and causing their progressive degeneration.
The conference foresees to discuss about the most recent cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis and progression of these diseases, and to give an overview of the currently available treatments and new developing therapeutic strategies.
Registration Deadline: 14 September 2026
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The meeting by the numbers:
- 3 scientific sessions
- 7 speakers from Belgium, France, Spain, UK, and Italy
- 1 workshop – technical session
- 8 short talks selected among young researchers
- 2 poster sessions
- 1 social event
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
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Session I – Cellular and molecular mechanisms of SMA
Alessandro Usiello – Ceinge Biotecnologie Avanzate “Franco Salvatore”, Naples, Italy
Ana Garcera – Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida, Spain
Session II – Clinical advances in motor neuron diseases
Claudio Bruno – IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini and University of Genova, Italy
Umberto Manera – AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino and Univ. Turin, Italy
Session III – New insights from fundamental ALS research
Philip Van Damme – Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium
Séverine Boillée – Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau-ICM, Paris, France
Closing Lecture
Pamela Shaw – Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, UK
Patients’ Associations
Shaping research together (with SMA Europe, ConSLAncio ETS and Girotondo ODV Associations)
Technical session on transmission and volume electron microscopy
Sveva Dallere (NICO – Italy)
Credits (CFU): 2 for attendance + 0.5 for poster presentation
VENUE
Palace of the Anatomical Institutes, C.so Massimo D’Azeglio 52, 10124, Torino, Italy
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