Oral Presentations

International Prion Congress Prion 2012 May 9–12, 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PRION 2012 is the leading international conference on TSEs held annually. This series of meetings was initiated in 2004 by Neuroprion as an European Network of Excellence, and since 2010 has been fostered by Neuroprion as an international association based in France (association@neuroprion.org). The science in this Prion 2012 abstract book represents the core business of the congress, which is defining the behavior and true nature of prions and their associated processes in transmissible spongiform encephalopthies. This is indispensible information to allow for targeted diagnosis, prevention and treatment of this family of infectious diseases. As a bystander result this knowledge will support further understanding of other protein folding diseases. Therefore, there has been created room for knowledge dissemination concerning neurological diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson disease and amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which will serve to understand the destroying mechanisms of pathological protein aggregation processes.