Scientific Program

Scientific Program

Event 1: Joint Research Symposium of XJTLU-Taylor’s-MFU

Agenda - 17 October 2025, Friday
07:30 – 08:45 Registration
08:45 – 09:00 Welcome and Introduction

John Moraros (Dean of the School of Science, XJTLU)

Lee Wei Lim (Chair of the Local Organizing Committee)

Plenary Session

Chairs: Elena Moro (Grenoble University) & Allan Kalueff (XJTLU)

09:00 – 09:40 The Discovery of STN Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease. Abdelhamid Benazzouz

Keynote Session

Chairs: Yin Quan Tang (Taylor’s University), Kitiphong Khongphinitbunjong (MFU)

09:40 – 10:05 Annonaceae: Phytochemistry and Biological Activities. Surat Laphookhieo
10:05 – 10:30 Peptides: From Food to Function. Lye Yee Chew
10:30 – 10:55 Deep Learning on Medical Image Analysis. Shuihua Wang

 

10:55 – 11:10 Discussion
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee Break

 

Parallel Session – Student Oral Presentation

Chairs: Yiran Li (XJTLU) & Student (MFU)

11:30 – 11:45 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
11:45 – 12:00 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
12:00 – 12:15 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
12:15 – 12:30 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
12:30 – 12:45 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Student Poster Presentation

 

Parallel Session – Student Oral Presentation

Chairs: Yiran Li (XJTLU) & Student (MFU)

14:45-15:00 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
15:00-15:15 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
15:15-15:30 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
15:30-15:45 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
15:45-16:00 Selected Topic/Student Selected Topic/Student
Judges: Yin Quan Tang (Taylor’s); Kitiphong Khongphinitbunjong (MFU); Allan Kalueff (XJTLU); Yongtao Zhu (XJTLU). Judges: Surat Laphookhieo (MFU); Lye Yee Chew (Taylor’s); Weiwei Dai (XJTLU); Francesco Zonta (XJTLU).
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break

 

Keynote Session

Chairs: Surat Laphookhieo (MFU) & Lye Yee Chew (Taylor’s)

16:20 – 16:45 Coffee Value Addition and Waste Management. Kitiphong Khongphinitbunjong (MFU)
16:45 – 17:10 From Bean to Sting: Discovering Nature’s Peptides for Cancer Precision Therapy. Yin Quan Tang (Taylor’s University)
17:10 – 17:35 Glutamine synthetase limits b-catenin-mutated liver cancer growth by maintaining nitrogen homeostasis and suppressing mTORC1. Weiwei Dai (XJTLU)

 

17:35 – 18:00 Discussion
18:00 – 18:10 Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks

Surat Laphookhieo (Dean of the School of Science, MFU)

Li Yang (Assoc. Dean of the School of Science, XJTLU)

19:00-22:00 Gala Dinner

Event 2: Deep Brain Stimulation Symposium

Agenda - 18 October 2025, Saturday
07:30 – 08:45 Registration
08:45 – 09:10 Welcome and Introduction

Lee Wei Lim (Chair of the local organizing committee)

John Moraros (Dean of the School of Science, XJTLU)

Abdelhamid Benazzouz (President of the DBS Society)

09:10 – 09:50 Inaugural Plenary Lecture

From the concept to the clinic: The history of the DBS revolution

Abdelhamid Benazzouz

Chair: Yasin Temel & Bomin Sun 孙伯民

09:50 – 10:10 Coffee Break

 

Session 1: Updates in DBS for Parkinson’s disease

Chairs: Huifang Shang 商慧芳 (Sichuan) & Wei Luo 罗巍 (Zhejiang)

Time Topic Speaker
10:10 – 10:35 The state-of-the-art of DBS in PD

 

Elena Moro
10:35 – 11:00 Motor outcome of DBS in PD

 

Huifang Shang 商慧芳
11:00 – 11:25 Neuropsychological and affective outcomes of STN DBS in PD

 

Jianjun Wu 邬剑军
11:25 – 11:50 STN vs GPi DBS in the management of gait and axial symptoms

 

Chengjie Mao 毛成洁
11:50 – 12:00 Discussion
12:00 – 12:40 Lunch
12:40 – 13:40 Poster Session      

Moderators: Chunfeng Liu 刘春风, Ersoy Kocabicak, Shouyan Wang 王守岩, Hemmings Wu 吳承瀚, Michael Lee 李永恩, Fei Su 苏斐, Germaine Chan 陈晓晖, Chengjie Mao 毛成洁

 

Session 2: Advances in clinical DBS

Chairs: Ling Chen 陈玲 (Guangzhou) & Kezhong Zhang 张克忠 (Nanjing)

13:40 – 14:05 When to perform DBS surgery for PD? Early or late?

 

Ling Chen 陈玲
14:05 – 14:30 How useful are LFPs in DBS for PD?

 

Michael Wing Yan Lee 李永恩
14:30 – 14:55 Conventional vs adaptive STN DBS for PD.

 

Guiyun Cui 崔桂云
14:55 – 15:05 Discussion

 

Session 3: Updates in DBS for psychiatric disorders and epilepsy

Chairs: Bomin Sun 孙伯民 (Shanghai) & Ersoy Kocabicak (Istanbul, Turkey)

15:05 – 15:30 The state-of-the-art of DBS in psychiatry

 

Bomin Sun 孙伯民
15:30 – 15:55 DBS of the central median nucleus of the thalamus in epilepsy. Huajie Liu 刘华杰
15:55 – 16:20 ANT DBS in epilepsy

 

Yasin Temel
16:20 – 16:30 Discussion
16:30 – 16:50 Coffee Break

 

Session 4: Advances in neurotechnology for DBS

Chairs: Mohamad Sawan (Zhejiang) & Shouyan Wang王守岩 (Shanghai)

16:50 – 17:15 Brain-machine interactive DBS with edge AI computing. Shouyan Wang 王守岩
17:15 – 17:40 Closed-loop technology in DBS for PD. Fei Su 苏斐
17:40 – 18:05 Challenges and future technology trends in wearable closed-loop neuromodulation Mohamad Sawan
18:05 – 18:30 DBS and brain computer interfacing. Hemmings Wu 吳承瀚
18:30 – 18:40 Discussion
19:00 – 22:00 Gala Dinner

 

 

Agenda - 19 October 2025, Sunday

 

Time Topic Speaker

Session 5: Updates in DBS for specific movement disorders          

Chairs: Elena Moro & Jianguo Zhang 张建国

08:45 – 09:10 Anterior capsulotomy combined with STN DBS for tardive dystonia Yiwen Wu 吴逸雯
09:10 – 09:35 Outcomes of DBS in early-onset PD with monogenic mutation. Yiming Liu 刘艺鸣
09:35 – 10:00 LFPs and DBS for other neurological disorders: Potentials and pitfalls Germaine Hiu-Fai Chan陈晓晖
10:00 – 10:25 STN DBS on PD genetic risk factors and causes Wei Luo 罗巍
10:25 – 10:50 STN-DBS for Meige syndrome: Clinical outcomes and underlying mechanisms Hutao Xie
10:50 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break

Session 6: Advances in preclinical DBS

Chairs: Abdelhamid Benazzouz (Bordeaux, France) & Yasin Temel (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

11:20 – 11:45 Nanoparticle-based DBS in animal models Yasin Temel
11:45 – 12:10 DBS in animal models of depression and dementia Lee Wei Lim 林礼伟
12:10 – 12:20 Discussion
12:20 – 13:00 Foundation & Election of Board Members for the Sino-DBS Society(Election of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Council Members)
13:00 – 13:15 Closing Remarks Abdelhamid Benazzouz
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch