Second Annual Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS - 2018

The Second Annual Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS - 2018 at Stanford University was sponsored by the Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) on Saturday, September 29, 2018.

Speakers

 * Linda Tannenbaum, CEO, Open Medicine Foundation - Welcome
 * Janet Dafoe, PhD, Patient Liason - Greetings
 * Ashley Haugen, Event Organizer - Symposium Logistics
 * Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Symposium Chair, Stanford University - Opening Remarks
 * Raeka Aiyar, PhD, Symposium Moderator, New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute - Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine
 * Øystein Fluge, MD, PhD, University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway - Keynote Address: Clinical Trials and Metabolic Features of ME/CFS
 * Wenzhong Xiao, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School - Results from the Severely Ill Patient Study (SIPS)
 * Jonas Bergquist, MD, PhD, Uppsala University - The Neuroimmune Route in ME/CFS
 * Alain Moreau, PhD, University of Montreal - Deciphering MicroRNAs code in ME/CFS Pathogenesis
 * Maureen Hanson, PhD, Cornell University - Metabolism and ME/CFS
 * Ron Tompkins, MD, ScD, Harvard Medical School - ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Harvard
 * Michael Sikora, PhD candidate in the Genetics department at Stanford University - Sequencing Clonally Expanded T Cells in ME/CFS
 * Jarred Younger, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham - How Brain Inflammation Causes ME/CFS
 * Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Symposium Chair, Stanford University - Biomarkers
 * Robert Phair, PhD, Integrative Bioinformatics Inc - Metabolic Traps: A new way to think about ME/CFS
 * Ronald W. Davis, PhD, Symposium Chair, Stanford University - What's next?

Question and answer panel
Two question and answer panels were presented.
 * The first panel was comprised of Drs Øystein Fluge, Wenzhong Xiao, Jonas Bergquist, Alain Moreau, and Maureen Hanson
 * Question & Answer Panel - Discussion 1


 * The second panel was comprised of Ron Tompkins, Michael Sikora, Jarred Younger, Ronald Davis, Robert Phair
 * Question and answer panel - Discussion 2

Events handsouts

 * Agenda