Programme

GENFI Summer Meeting 2025 Programme

Venue:
Scholastika Haus: https://scholastika.de/#location

Zoom link:
TBA

Thursday, June 5th

Funding - Synergy Cluster, Bluefield Project, Vesper Bio +/- Prevail +/- Alector

11.00-11.30 Welcome and meet with investigators over coffee

11.30-12.00 Welcome to Munich
Johannes Levin, Adrian Danek, Günter Höglinger, Matthis Synofzik

12.00-12.30 Initial update on recruitment, data freezes and publications
Jonathan Rohrer, Phoebe Foster, Sophie Farley and Eve Ferry-Bolder

12.30-1.00 New sites introduction - 5 minute flash talks [Chair - Sophie Farley]

1.00-2.00 Update on clinical, cognitive and digital projects [Chair - Lena Marth]
1.00 Update on Ignite - Rhian Convery
1.10 Autonomic symptoms in genetic FTD - Sonja Schönecker
1.20 Network analyses of cognition - Lize Jiskoot
1.30 Measuring apathy using the b-DAS - Sophie Farley
1.40 LISET eye tracking task - Liset de Boer
1.50 Data from the BAPQ, so-LIFE and HEXACO - Phoebe Foster

2.00-3.00 Lunch

3.00-3.50 Update on biomarker and genetics projects [Chair - TBC]
3.00 GRN lipidomics - Gabriel Miltenberger Miltényi
3.10 GFAP/NfL ratio - Julie de Houwer
3.20 TMEM106B - Enrico Premi
3.30 Update on genetics - Mario Masellis
3.40 C9orf72 cumulative penetrance - Caroline Graff

3.50-4.40 Update on imaging projects [Chair - Laura Göschel]
3.50 Plasma protein profiling and structural MRI - Abbe Ullgren
4.00 GRN/C9orf72 structural and functional connectivity - Arabella Bouzigues
4.10 Longitudinal DWI in GENFI - Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez
4.20 Rapid imaging in GENFI - Eve Ferry-Bolder
4.30

4.40-5.10 Coffee

5.10-5.30 Update on therapeutics [Chair - Sonja Schönecker]
5.10 Development of a C9 vaccine - Dieter Edbauer
5.20 FPI clinical rating scale - Jonathan Rohrer

5.30 Finish

7.00 Drinks and dinner (Hofbräuhaus - www.hofbraeuhaus.de) sponsored by the Bluefield Project

 

Friday, 6th June [GENFI Investigators Only]

9.00-9.30 Update on GENFI 3
Jonathan Rohrer, Phoebe Foster, Sophie Farley, and Eve Ferry-Bolder

9.30-10.00 Plans for GENFI 4 ALL

10.00-10.30 Feedback from the imaging task and finish groups

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.00 Working groups update
10.00 Digital: Rhian Convery, Jackie Poos
10.15 Language: Rose Bruffaerts, Lize Jiskoot, Arabella Bouzigues
10.30 Clinical Genetics: Caroline Graff, Gabriel Miltenberger Milenyi
10.45 Diversity - Jackie Poos, Carmela Tartaglia

12.00-12.15 GENFI-NeuroDev: Elizabeth Finger

12.15-12.35 Trials and therapies working group update
Jonathan Rohrer

12.35-12.55 Participant Engagement Board - feedback from the 2nd Annual Spring Webinar
Sophie Goldsmith, Phoebe Foster

12.55-1.00 Summary of the day and plans for the future

1.00 Finish and lunch for those who can stay