The 2025 Dystonia Think Tank meeting will take place in Gainesville, FL on May 9th, 2025
Please Click Here To Register For The Dystonia Think Tank Via Zoom Virtual Attendance
Location: 1505 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, FL 32608
UF Health HVN Hospital, Room 8532 (In-person attendance is by invitation only.)
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May 9th
8:30 am – 10:30am
Session 1: Basic Science Developments and Their Potential Translation into Therapeutics for Dystonia
Session Moderator: Mark Moehle
Session Speaker
Baojin Ding – LSU (Louisiana)
Topic: Modeling DYT1 Dystonia In Patient-Specific Neurons
Session Speaker
Bradley Wilkes – UF (Florida)
Topic: DYT1 Mouse Model & Associated Findings
Session Speaker
Roy Sillitoe – Baylor (Texas)
Topic: Learning About Dystonia Pathophysiology by Genetically Dissecting Cerebellar Function
11am-1pm
Session 2: Lessons from mouse models of dystonia and connection with clinical science
Session Moderator: Yuqing Li
Session Speaker
Dr. Samuel Pappas–UT Southwestern (Texas)
Topic: Circuit to Cellular Modeling of TorsinA Function & Dysfunction
Session Speaker
Mark Moehle-UF (Florida)
Topic: Striatal & Cerebellar Origins of GNAL Linked Dystonia
Session Speaker
Noreen Bukhari-Parlakturk – Duke (North Carolina)
Topic: Mechanistic Insights From rTMS In Writer’s Cramp Dystonia
Lunch 1:00pm – 2:00pm
2:00pm-4:00pm
Session 3: Clinical Science Developments in Dystonia
Session Moderator: Adolfo Ramirez
Kristina Simonyan – Harvard (Massachusetts)
Topic: DystoniaDBSNet: A Novel Deep Learning Biomarker of Predictive Treatment Outcomes In Dystonia
Aparna Wagle Shukla – UF (Florida)
Topic: Structuring Neurorehabilitation In Dystonia Care: Key Questions of Who Benefits, When to Start, & How to Intervene
Roxanne Lofredi – Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany)
Topic: DBS In Dystonia (clinical) Neurophysiological Network-Signature of Symptom Severity & Therapy Response In Dystonia
End of Think Tank XVII
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