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Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by diminishing memory and thinking skills, affecting as many as 8 million  Europeans, most over the age of 60. The causes of Alzheimer’s disease are still largely unknown, though they are likely a combination of genetic, environmental and other factors.
As part of ongoing research to better understand the complexities of the human brain, European-funded FP7-HEALTH AgedBrainSYSBIO consortium (on systems biology, synapse and ageing) is embarking on efforts to unravel molecular mechanisms involved in brain functioning both in normal conditions and during ageing.
We expect that this meeting will generate novel interactions between leading groups in the field. Because of the increasing interest in ageing-related diseases such as neuropathologies, we expect the symposium to gather up to 150 participants. This symposium will bring together clinicians, biologists, bioinformaticians, statisticians, who will present the latest advances in the field of neuroscience, taking advantage of state-of-the-art approaches provided by omics-biotechnologies, supercomputers, neuroimaging, amongst others.
The meeting will survey recent discoveries in the field of normal and pathological brain ageing: from systems biology to the clinic.