The 20th International Taurine Meeting Taurine and Brain Health program and abstracts may 23-27, 2016 The Plaza Hotel Seoul, korea by the Organizing Committee of the 20

Taurine and Brain Health III

Chairperson Nicolas Froger (INSERM, France) & Mi Ja Choi (Keimyung University, Korea)

15:55 – 16:30 Lecture 8

Possible role of taurine as excitatory neurotransmitter during perinatal cortical development

Werner Kilb

Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Duesbergweg 6, D-55128 Mainz, Germany

16:30 – 16:55 Oral Presentation 10

Taurine and its derivative reverse pathology and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease

Young Soo Kim¹·²·*, Hye Yun Kim¹·³, Kyo Seon Hwang¹, Hyunjin Vincent Kim¹·², Seon Young Choi¹, C. Justin Lee¹, Sejin Lee¹·², Ji Yoon Kim¹·², Hochung Jang¹·²

¹Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea; ²Biological Chemistry Program, Korea University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea; ³Research Institute, GoshenBiotech Inc., Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

16:55 – 17:30 Lecture 9

Obesity and taurine

Shigeru Murakami

Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan

18:00 – 21:00 Banquet for Celebrating the 20^th Anniversary of International Taurine Meeting

(Diamond Hall, 22F)

Thursday, May 26

9:00 - 10:15 Session VIII