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from sept 22 to 24, 2026

PROGRAM

tuesday,
september 22

08:00 - 11:50

Preconference: Educational Workshop

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12:30 - 13:00

welcome of participants

13:00 - 13:15

opening remarks

13:15 - 13:55

Plenary – Anna Dewenter

(Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Germany)

What’s new?

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13:55 - 15:15

Symposium – Imaging Methods

Speakers :

  • Nikolaus Weiskopf
  • Yasmine Salman 
  • Milan Nemy
  • Beatriz Padrela

15:15 - 15:40

Datablitz

15:40 - 16:40

coffee break – poster session

16:40 - 18:00

Symposium – Brain connectivity: from mechanisms to disease models

Speakers :

  • Mario Tranfa
  • Elise SAUL 
  • Gerard Temprano-Sagrera
  • Alessandra Griffa

19:00 - 21:30

Welcome Reception : Cocktail & Public Event

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wednesday,
september 23

09:00 - 10:00

Plenary – Susanne van Veluw

 (University of Edinburgh, UK) 

CAA: imaging and small vessel pathology

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10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:50

Symposium – New insights from imaging research on non-AD pathologies

Speakers :

  • Bàrbara Segura
  • Rosaleena Mohanty
  • Amanda Annettesdotter
  • Cèlia Cruz Escalera 

11:50 - 12:15

Datablitz

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

13:15 - 14:35

Symposium – Sleep and brain health in aging

Speakers :

  • Anders Fjell
  • Géraldine Rauchs 
  • Angeliki Tsapanou 
  • Grégory Hammad 

14:35 - 15:35

Coffee Break – Poster Session

15:35 - 16:55

Symposium – Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions

Speakers :

  • Nick Fox
  • Antonio Valero-Cabré
  • Emma Gummesson 
  • Konstantinos Chiotis 

19:00 - 22:00

Social activity and Gala

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thursday,
september 24

09:00 - 10:00

Plenary – Helen Zhou

(National University, Singapore)

Neuroimaging meets AI

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10:00 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 12:00

Symposium – Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Speakers :

  • James Cole
  • Somayeh Maleki Balajoo 
  • Sofía Gassó 
  • Vera Komeyer 

12:00 - 12:30

Awards

12:30 - 12:40

Closing remarks

Plenary Sessions

Anna Dewenter

Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (Germany)
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Plenary

Juan Helen Zhou

Director, Centre for Translational MR Research, National University (Singapore)
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Plenary

Susanne van Veluw

Professor of Translational Vascular Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh (UK)
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Plenary

symposium

1. Imaging Methods 

#1 Nikolaus Weiskopf
Max Planck Institute
« 7T and microstructure » 

#2 Yasmine Salman
UCLouvain
« 50μm ex vivo MRI reveals distant layer-specific hippocampal degeneration in early AD
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#3 Milan Nemy
Czech Technical University
« Deep learning-based cholinergic pathway imaging in Alzheimer’s disease
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#4 Beatriz Padrela
Amsterdam University Medical Center
« Perfusion, Blood Brain Barrier and AD »

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2. Brain connectivity: from mechanisms to disease models

#5 Mario Tranfa 
Amsterdam UMC
« A Connectome in Motion: Capturing Structural Changes Across the Alzheimer’s Continuum »

#6 Elise Saul
INSERM UA20 NEUROPRESAGE
« A unified connectome framework reveals divergent mechanisms of atrophy across dementia syndromes »

#7 Gerard Temprano-Sagrera
BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center
« White matter hyperintensities mediate the association between CSF proteomics and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease »

#8 Alessandra Griffa
Leenaards Memory Center, CHUV
« Brain Connectivity to Understanding Inter-Individual Variability in Tau Pathology and Disease Progression in Alzheimer’s Disease »

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3. New insights from imaging research on non-AD pathologies

#9 Barbara Segura
Universitat de Barcelona
« Glymphatic Dysfunction in Synucleinopathies: MRI Proxies and Clinical and Neurodegenerative Correlates »

#10 Rosaleena Mohanty
Karolinska Institute
« Imaging correlates of polypathology in Alzheimer’s disease
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#11 Amanda Annettesdotter
Lund University
« Neuropathological correlates of amygdala subregional volumes»

#12 Celia Cruz Escalera
Universitat de Barcelona
« Phenotype-specific white-matter degeneration in FTD using longitudinal diffusion MRI »

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4. Sleep and brain health in aging

#13 Anders Fjell
Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo
« Relation of sleep patterns to brain and cognitive health »

#14 Géraldine Rauchs
Normandie Université, UNICAEN, INSERM, UA20, Neuropresage, GIP Cyceron, Caen, France
« Sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging biomarkers »

#15 Angeliki Tsapanou
University of Patras
« Links between objective sleep measures and hippocampal subfield volumes »

#16 Grégory Hammad,
GIGA-CRC human imaging, University of Liège
« Sex-dependent loss of lateral hypothalamic integrity due to habitual napping »

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5. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions

#17 Nick Fox
Dementia Research Centre UCL
« New roles and new questions for MRI in the era of anti-amyloid therapies for AD »

#18 Antonio Valero-Cabré
Institut du Cerveau Paris
« MRI Neuronavigated and E-Field Model based Transcranial Direct Current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate language impairments in early-onset neurodegenerative conditions: Comparative outcomes & upcoming challenges»

#19 Emma Gummesson
University of Gothenburg
« Detecting Learning-induced Synaptic Changes In Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Sv2a Pet »

#20 Konstantinos Chiotis
Karolinska Institutet; UCSF
« Clinical and PET outcomes following Aβ-targeting therapies in sporadic Early Onset Alzheimer’s disease; trial emulation using the LEADS cohort »

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6. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

#21 James Cole
UCL Hawkes Institute
« The brain’s biological age and neurodegeneration: Towards real-world and representative predictors of disease risk and health outcomes »

#22 Somayeh Maleki Balajoo
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM 7), Research Center Juelich
« Disentangling heterogeneity in grey matter alterations in multiple sclerosis using generative normative modelling »

#23 Sofía Gassó
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
« Neuroimaging signatures across APOE genotype in Alzheimer’s disease revealed by explainable machine learning »

#24 Vera Komeyer
Research Centre Jülich
« Age-sensitive structural hotspots as sparse, cross-cohort features for Alzheimer’s Disease prediction »

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