The 4th dimension : Brain and vascular malformations
Day 1 : Monday, September 14, 2026
Each lecture will be followed by questions for 10 minutes
8.30 – 9.00
Phylogenetic evolution of the orbit
Masaki Komiyama, (Osaka, Japan)
9.10 – 9.40
Neuronal plasticity during life
Bryan Kolb (Lethbridge, Canada)
9.50 – 10.20
The ageing brain
Johanna Wardlaw (Edinburgh, UK)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
Exhibition area
11.00 – 11.30
Cerebral arterial and venous angiogenesis
Elisabeth Crouch (UCSF, USA)
11.40 – 12.10
Leptomeningeal collaterals : genetics and evolution
Arturo Consoli (Suresnes, France)
12.20 – 12.50
Cerebral Venous ageing
Philippe Gailloud (Baltimore, USA)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch break
Exhibition area
14.00 – 14.30
Gut microbiome and brain
Maria Rodriguez Aburto (Cork, Ireland)
14.40 – 15.10
Immunology of the brain : from children to elderly
Jean Leon Thomas (Yale, USA)
15.20 – 15.50
Brain AVMs : congenital or acquired ?
Bengt Karlsson (Singapore)
15.50 – 16.20
Coffee break
Exhibition area
16.30 – 16.50
Developmental Venous Anomalies:congenital or acquired ?
René Anxionnat (Nancy, France)
17.00 – 17.30
“Time is brain” in vascular malformations of the CNS
René van den Berg (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Day 2 : Tuesday, September 16, 2026
Each lecture will be followed by questions for 10 minutes
8.30 – 9.00
Developemnt of the cerebral cortex
Nadia Bahi Buisson (Paris, France)
9.10 – 9.40
Genetics of CNS AVMs
Stanislas Smajda (Brussels, Belgium)
9.50 – 10.20
Are AVMs only vascular diseases ?
Georges Rodesch (Suresnes, France)
10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break
Exhibition area
11.00 – 11.30
The “second hit” theory
Miikka Vikkula (Brussels, Belgium)
11.40 – 12.10
Anti angiogenetic treatment in BAVMs : where do we stand ?
Laurence Boon (Brussels, Belgium)
12.20 – 13.20
Lunch break
Exhibition area
13.30 – 13.50
Brain AVMs in the elderly population
Michel Bojanowski (Montréal, Canada)
14.00 – 14.30
VGAMs and brain development in NN and infants
Darren Orbach (Boston, USA)
14.40 – 15.10
VGAMs in the adult population
Alex Berenstein (New York, USA)
15.20 – 15.50
Coffee break
Exhibition area
15.50 – 16.20
Dural Fistulas in the pediatric population
Prakash Muthusami (Toronto, Canada)
16.30 – 17.00
Dural Fistulas in the elderly population
Seon Kyu Lee (New York, USA)
17.10 – 17.40
Moya Moya disease in children and adults : symptoms and treatment
Michihiro Tanaka (Chiba, Japan)
