About
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating disease that is still lacking an effective cure. In recent year, research advances offer hope that ALS will eventually become a preventable and treatable disease. Patients, researchers and clinicians worldwide have joined forces in various international projects to make progress towards this goal. European Network to Cure ALS (ENCALS) is a network of ALS centres in Europe that supports such collaborations. 2017 is an exciting year for the ALS community since positive clinical drug trials are promising new treatments after more than two decades.
The ENCALS Meeting 2017 was hosted by the Ljubljana ALS Centre and the Slovenian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology. In three days, a series of plenary lectures, thematic sessions and poster resentations brought together international researchers and clinicians to discuss the advances in research and clinical care.
Videos
Opening Session

Opening session
Jul 21, 2017
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Keynotes

Protein-RNA complexes & ALS: insights from iCLIP
Jul 21, 2017
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984 views

Masitinib as an add-on therapy to riluzole is beneficial in the treatment of amy...
Jul 21, 2017
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3086 views
Invited Talks

Cognitive and behavioural symptoms in ALS: why are they there and how to assess ...
Jul 21, 2017
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769 views

The panorama of ALS genomics
Jul 21, 2017
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904 views

Tracking ALS progression using neuroimaging
Jul 21, 2017
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925 views

Gene expression profiling in ALS: past, present and future
Jul 21, 2017
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870 views
ENCALS Young Investigator Award 2017

Clinical, pathological and molecular characterisation of C9orf72-ALS leads to id...
Sep 22, 2017
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1164 views
Session 1: Therapy

Intraspinal injection of human mesenchymal stromal cells in SOD1G93A ALS mice
Jul 21, 2017
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948 views

Bringing gene therapy based SOD1 silencing towards human trials: A highly effica...
Jul 21, 2017
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768 views
Session 2: Clinical & Epidemiology

The time of the ALSFRS-R to decrease to 50% (D50) in a sigmoidal decay model suf...
Jul 21, 2017
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1577 views

Global ALS/MND "big data" collaboration environment in a post-PRO-ACT era
Jul 21, 2017
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904 views

Euro-MOTOR: A multi-centre population-based case-control study of metals and sol...
Jul 21, 2017
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819 views

The role of pre-morbid diabetes on developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Jul 21, 2017
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866 views
AB Science Satellite Meeting

Masitinib for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): preclinical ...
Jul 21, 2017
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1175 views
Session 3: Genetics A

Serum microRNA-profiles indicate a role of Fragile-X-related proteins for ALS
Jul 21, 2017
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750 views

Whole genome sequencing as tool to unravel rare variants associated with ALS sur...
Jul 21, 2017
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783 views

The Project MinE data browser: bringing whole-genome sequencing data in ALS to r...
Jul 21, 2017
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827 views

Discovery of microRNA gene mutations in ALS patient genomes
Jul 21, 2017
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806 views
Session 4: Genetics B

ATXN1: expanding the spectrum of polyglutamine repeats in ALS
Jul 21, 2017
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1391 views

Integrating copy-number analysis with structural-variation detection in 50 ALS p...
Jul 21, 2017
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806 views

A high throughput gene, environment and epigenetics database and analysis system...
Jul 21, 2017
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862 views

MicroRNAs analysis of patient-derived iPSCs as molecular therapy for ALS
Jul 21, 2017
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919 views
Session 5: Cognition & Imaging

Assessing behaviour in ALS: the importance of using disease-specific tools
Jul 21, 2017
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890 views

Hypothalamic atrophy correlates with onset of disease-defining symptoms in patie...
Jul 21, 2017
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776 views

A PET/CT approach to spinal cord metabolism
Jul 21, 2017
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896 views

The brief Dimensional Apathy Scale (b-DAS): Mokken analysis and scale reduction
Jul 21, 2017
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1160 views
Session 6: Disease mechanisms A

Dynamic polymerization of TDP-43 in health and disease
Jul 21, 2017
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945 views

Developing vertebrate models to highlight the functional relevance of Nefl and m...
Jul 21, 2017
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806 views

Phase separation of C9orf 72 dipeptide repeats perturbs stress granule dynamics
Jul 21, 2017
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666 views

Role of FUS in post synaptic neuromuscular junction differentiation
Jul 21, 2017
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1087 views
Session 7: Disease mechanisms B

Two G-quadruplex structures adopted by oligonucleotide model of ALS and FTD link...
Jul 21, 2017
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826 views

Deciphering the function and mechanisms of C9ORF72 in ALS
Jul 21, 2017
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868 views

The role of valosin containing protein (VCP) in the clearance of toxic misfolded...
Jul 21, 2017
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896 views

Live imaging of RNA dynamics for genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...
Jul 21, 2017
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898 views
Session 8: Disease mechanisms C

Secretion of toxic exosomes by muscle cells of ALS patients: role in ALS pathoge...
Jul 21, 2017
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1128 views

RNA toxicity in a zebrafish model for C9orf 72 ALS is abrogated by Pur-alpha and...
Jul 21, 2017
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946 views

C9orf 72 interacts with coilin and influences Cajal body dynamics and splicing
Jul 21, 2017
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999 views

Intranuclear (G4C2)n RNA foci, transcribed from C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansio...
Jul 21, 2017
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990 views
Closing of the Meeting

Closing of the meeting
Jul 21, 2017
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766 views