Wednesday, 29th October International Congress on Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses 2025

9:00AM - 10:35AM
Wednesday, 29th October
Minyama 4
Chairs: Sara Mole & Kasparas Petkevicius

Kasparas Petkevicius Batten disease genes drive the biosynthesis of bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate
Christopher Minnis Targeted long-read RNA sequencing reveals the complexity of CLN3 transcription and the consequences of the most common 1-kb deletion in patients with juvenile CLN3 disease
Stephane Lefrancois CLN3 palmitoylation is required for its role in sorting
Ewa A Ziółkowska Histopathological characterization of brainstem degeneration in CLN1, CLN2, and CLN3 mouse models
Stephan Storch Mistargeting and ER retention of CLN7 patient-associated nonsense and sequence deletion mutations as a novel cause for CLN7 disease

10:35AM - 10:55AM
Wednesday, 29th October
10:55AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 29th October
Minyama 4
Chairs: Christopher Minnis & Claire Russell

Adelene SL Chiam Pieces of a puzzle: How does CLN3 disease impact the blood-brain barrier?
Mirta ML Sousa Patient-derived retinal, cortical and neuromuscular junction organoids reveal tissue-specific pathomechanisms in CLN3 Batten disease
Katherine N Lyons Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals the impact of CLN1 disease and treatment upon microglia in the brain and spinal cord.
Tereza Vecerkova Structural studies of selected Batten disease proteins
Zhihao Wu Key genes in the RQC pathway affect CLN10-related neuromuscular degeneration in a Drosophila model

12:30PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 29th October
1:30PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 29th October
2:00PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 29th October
Minyama 4
Chair: Anthony Cook

Maree McCabe

TBC

Mark Sands

Carriers of Lysosomal Enzyme Gene Defects: Risk for Adult-Onset Neurodegenerative Disease?

Elina Casoli

Investigating drug repurposing in childhood dementia using patient-derived cell models

Julia C. Heiby

Cell-Type Resolved Protein Atlas of Brain Lysosomes Identifies SLC45A1-Associated Disease as a Lysosomal Disorder

Anthony Cook

Head-to-head comparison of existing and novel UGCG/GCS inhibitors in human cell models of lysosomal storage disorders

Ya Hui Hung

An mRNA Gene Therapy Platform for Childhood Dementia: Initial findings with Niemann-Pick C and ongoing challenges

Karissa Bartheloson

Applying network biology to understand the commonalities between adult- and childhood-onset dementia

3:45PM - 4:10PM
Wednesday, 29th October
4:10PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 29th October
Minyama 4
Chair: Thomas Wishart

Ewa A Ziółkowska

Systemic AAV9 gene therapy mitigates neuromuscular junction degeneration and muscle atrophy in CLN1 disease

Jonathan D Cooper

Efficacy of AAV-mediated gene therapy in a sheep model of CLN1 disease

Jill M Weimer

Cardiac dysfunction in a CLN2 Batten disease mouse model

Nadia L Mitchell

Dual CLN5/CLN6 gene therapy improves clinical outcomes in a large animal model of CLN6 Batten Disease

5:30PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 29th October