Keynote Speakers

Adam Denes is a principal investigator at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (IEM), Budapest, Hungary. He is heading the Laboratory of Neuroimmunology and the Cell Biology Center in the IEM. Research of his group focuses on the role of microglia in regulating neuronal activity and injury. They also study the mechanisms of neuroinflammation in stroke and other forms of brain injury, as well as the fundamental processes of brain-immune interactions in health and disease. Their recent research revealed the contribution of microglial actions to cerebral blood flow and hypoperfusion.

Jeffrey Noebels is a neurologist and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is heading the Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory. The principal research strategy of the Laboratory is to apply mutational analysis to learn how genes regulate neuronal excitability and network synchronization within the mammalian central nervous system. Spontaneous and transgenic mutations that express neurological phenotypes in the mouse provide a valuable opportunity to identify excitability genes and examine their role in synaptic plasticity in the developing brain. His work on epilepsy connects directly to the focus of COSBID.

Andrew Carlson is a vascular neurosurgeon/scientist. His work focuses on translational aspects of spreading depolarization including expanding the understanding of how SD may be related to various clinical problems as well exploring approaches to target SD as a novel mechanism to improve clinical outcomes. He first attended COSBID in 2011 and has been a regular contributor for the past decade. He serves on the Editorial board of the Journal of Neurosurgery and is a neurosurgery representative to the multispecialty neurocritical examination and certification committee.