Day One today. I wonder if anyone will be tweeting from it?
The schedule is on
this page but I can't provide a direct link to where you have to scroll down and there's some finding and clicking to do so I hope IiMER don't mind that I reproduce the schedule here (I'd much rather see it on a separate tab on their site, which would be much easier, especially for PWME).
Welcome to the 8th Invest in ME International Biomedical Research into ME Colloquium
Dr Ian Gibson, UEA, UK
Clinical Research
CDC Multisite study and future plans
Dr Elizabeth R. Unger, CDC, USA
NIH Common Data Elements
Dr Vicky Whittemore, NIH, USA
Challenges in study design and identification of patients with post-infectious ME
Dr Avindra Nath, NIH, USA
From phenotype to endotype: empirical and data-driven approaches for parsing clinical heterogeneity of ME using immune signatures, proteomics and metabolomics
Associate Professor Mady Hornig, Columbia University, USA
Chaired Discussion - Clinical Research
Professor Angela Vincent, University of Oxford, UK
Clinical Trials
Clinical trial Results: Rituximab
Dr Øystein Fluge, Bergen, Norway
Neuronal antibodies in Norwegian ME cohort
Angela Vincent, Oxford University, UK
Clinical trial Results: CycloME
Dr Ingrid G. Rekeland, Bergen, Norway
Chaired Discussion - Clinical Trials and Research
Amolak Bansal, Epsom and St.Helier NHS Trust, UK
Microbiome
Double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical Trial: faecal microbiota transplantation
Dr Rasmus Gol /Dr Peter Johnsen, Universit of Tromso, Norway
Virome and gut microbiota research at QIB
Fiona Newberry/Katharine Seton, Quadram Institute Bioscience, UK
Chaired Discussion - Microbiome
Professor Maureen Hanson, Cornell University, USA
Purinergic Signalling / Metabolomics
Extracellular ATP and its role as a neurotransmitter and in regulating inflammatory responses
Dr Samuel Fountain, UEA, UK
Biobank Metabolomics Data
Dr Øystein Fluge, Bergen, Norway
How UK Biobank can facilitate research into ME
Naomi Allen, UK Biobank / University of Oxford, UK
Cellular energetics
Professor Karl Johan Tronstad, Bergen, Norway
Metabolism in ME/CFS
Professor Maureen Hanson, Cornell University, USA
Stanford Metabolomics/ME Update
Professor Ron Davis, Stanford, USA
How important are the associated metabolic changes in ME/CFS in driving the illness?
Dr Karl Morten, University of Oxford, UK
Chaired Discussion - Purinergic Signalling / Metabolomics
Professor Jonas Bergquist, Uppsala, Sweden
#BRMEC8 Day 1 is followed by a researchers' dinner organised by IiMER where more discussions are able to be carried out between researchers.