Speakers

Topic 1 - Excitation-contraction coupling: basic aspects and related disorders

• Bruno Allard, Institut NeuroMyoGene, Lyon, France - Basic aspects of ECC and relation to clinical disorders
• Laurent Schaeffer, Institut NeuroMyoGene, Lyon, France - Review of the formation and maintenance of the NMJ
• Heinz Jungbluth, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK - Clinical features in ECC

Topic 2 - Extra-muscular manifestations in NMD

• Alvaro Rendon, Centre de Recherche Institut de la Vision, Paris, France - DP71 replacement in the brain and retina
• Brigitte Fauroux, Necker University Hospital & Research Unit, Paris, France - Respiratory insight to muscular dystrophy and relation to clinical trials
• Antoine Muchir, Institut de Myologie, Paris, France - Pathophysiology of Cardiac involvement in laminopathies
• Linda Cripe, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio, USA - The heart is a muscle too! -the cardiomyopathy in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Topic 3 - Advances in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders

• Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands - Oligo-antisense nucleotide based therapies-where do we stand
• Jeffrey Chamberlain, University of Washington, Seattle, USA - Development of microdystrophins for gene therapy of DMD
• Nigel Laing, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia - Neuromuscular Disorder Genetics: what is the best we can do?