• 8:30 – 9:00 : Registration
  • 9:00 – 9:05 : Opening remarks by prof. dr. Anna Jansen
  • 9:05 – 9:35 : Dr. Asthik Biswas : The Neuroradiological Perspective
  • 9:35 – 9:50 : Dr Liene Thys: A Novel Presentation of RTN4IP1-Related Disorder
  • 9:50 – 10:05 : Dr Jessica Rosenblum : RNA Sequencing offers New Diagnostic Opportunities in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • 10:05 – 10:20: Dr Ellen Rijckmans : Diagnostic RNA sequencing in Lissencephaly

    10:20 – 10:45 : Coffee Break

  • 10:45 – 11:00 : Dr Claudio D’Incal: ADNP Disruption in Helsmoortel – Van der Aa Syndrome: Mechanistic Insights from Murine and Human Studies
  • 11:00 – 11:15 : Ayu Scott: Converging Mechanisms for Candidate Genes Involved in Cerebral Palsy
  • 11:15 – 11:30 : Dr Dale Annear : CGG Short Tandem Repeats Expansions are Overrepresented in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • 11:30 – 12.00 : Dr Brooke Latour: The NSL Complex Promotes Neural Development by Preventing R-loop Dependent Replication Stress

    12:00 – 13:00 : Lunch

  • 13:00 – 13:15 : Prof Dr Tommas Ellender: On NR1 NMDAR IgG Developmental Disorders Research Project; Tourette’s and OCD Research Project
  • 13:15 – 13:30 : Dr Stefanie Brock: Neuropathological Insights in Brain Malformations
  • 13:30 – 13:45 : Dr Katleen Janssens: Diagnostic Yield and Clinical Impact of Prenatal Whole-Exome Sequencing: Focus on Brain Malformations
  • 13:45 – 14:00 : Dr Ine Hoogwijs: Bilateral Frontal Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia: A Distinctive cortical malformation
  • 14:00 – 14:30: Dr Sylvia Tielens: Elongator controls the maturation tempo of brain ependymal cells

    14:30 – 15:00: Coffee Break

  • 15:00 – 15:30: Prof Dr Bert Callewaert: Episignatures in Neurodevelopmental Disorder: The Ghent experience
  • 15:30 – 15: 45: Dr Renske Oegema Episignatures in Neurodevelopmental Disorder: The Utrecht experience
  • 15:45 – 16:15: Prof Dr Sarah Vergult: Interpreting the Impact of Noncoding Structural Variation in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
  • 16:15-16:50: Case Discussions
  • 16:50 – 17:00: Closing remarks by Prof Dr Marije Meuwissen

    Networking reception