SAVE THE DATES Thursday 23 + Friday 24 April, 2015 The 9th Alzheimer’s + Parkinson’s Disease (A+PD) Symposium will be held in 2015 at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), The University of Queensland Organized by Professor Jürgen Götz (QBI) and Professor Lars Ittner (UNSW), alternating on an annual basis between QBI (2013) and UNSW (2014) As in previous years, the focus of the 2015 A+PD Symposium will be on neurodegeneration in a very broad sense. This two-day event has in previous years consistently drawn more than 160 attendees. Thursday and Friday mornings program will have key note lectures and 20 minute talks. Friday afternoons program will commence with a keynote lecture, will include e-poster talks and two consecutive workshops, one theme will be mouse model versus human iPSCs and the symposium will conclude with a faster road to clinical translation workshop. There will be no cost to attend. Final program and registration details will be available in January, 2015. Confirmed speakers Takaomi Saido Mathew Kiernan Victor Villemagne Brett Garner Julie Atkin Marcus Barth Anthony Hannon Peter Crouch Giuseppe Verdile Clare Parish Carol Dobson-Stone Jia Jianping Christian Czech Kim Green Mirelle Dottori Mike Dragunow University of Melbourne Michael Ryan Mark Gillies Queensland Brain Institute Xin-Fu Zhou Trent Woodruff University of California Irvine Riken Japan University of Wollongong Florey Institute, Melbourne Florey Institute, Melbourne Roche Pharma Ltd, Basel University of Melbourne Monash University University of South Australia University of Sydney Macquarie University University of Melbourne University of New South Wales University of California Irvine University of Auckland Save Sight Institute Sydney The University of Queensland University of Melbourne The University of Queensland Curtin University Hospital of Beijing Capital Medical University Paul Lockhart Peter Visscher Frank LaFerla