Melbourne, 21st – 24th October 2010
8th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress

ASEPA Basic Science Workshop


There will be a basic science workshop as a pre congress activity on the afternoon of Wednesday 20th October entitled The use of animal models for epilepsy research.

The use of animal models for epilepsy research

Chairs: Terence O'BRIEN (Australia) and Christopher FRENCH (Australia)

Animal models of genetic and acquired epilepsies: how good are they?
Solomon L. MOSHE (USA)

Acute animal models: surprising contributions to epilepsies
John O. WILLOUGHBY (Australia)

Novel disease mechanisms revealed by mouse models of familial epilepsy syndromes
Steven PETROU (Australia)

Use of gene expression systems to study cellular effects of human epilepsy mutations
Kanai KAZUAKI  (Japan)

Transgenic rat models for epilepsy
Shinichi HIROSE (Japan)

An animal model for Dravet syndrome: molecular and cellular basis of the disease
Kazuhiro YAMAKAWA (Japan)

The use of animal models to investigate neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive co-morbidities
Nigel JONES (Australia)

Putting it all together: molecules to epilepsy
John HUGUENARD (USA)

General Discussion
Terence O'BRIEN (Australia) and Chris FRENCH (Australia)

Registration Fees for
ASEPA Pre-Congress Workshops
(incl 10% GST)
One Half Day WorkshopTwo Half Day Workshops
Delegates registered for
the main congress
US$ 30US$ 50
Delegates not attending
the main congress
US$ 50US$ 75


Please note that all Registration Fees are inclusive of Australian GST currently at 10%.

If you are not attending the 8th AOEC but wish to register for the ASEPA workshops only, please click here.
NOTESThe acceptance of abstracts and the recipients of the travel bursary awards was announced at the beginning of August

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