After a long break and in the midst of a challenging year, the JBC community will come together for our annual meeting. We will hear about cutting-edge research, celebrate our recent award winners, and welcome esteemed scientists from Kav Haimut. Most importantly, it will be a day to reconnect, enjoy the company of colleagues and friends—to recharge, find inspiration, and strengthen our community.

Program

 

09:00 – 09:30            Arrival, registration, coffee and pastries

09:30 – 09:45            Welcome notes – Shir Atzil and Avihu Klar

Keynote Lecture:

09:45 – 10:30            Hagai Bergman, ELSC

                    The Awake and Asleep Life of the Basal Ganglia

10:30 – 10:45            Coffee break

Session 1:

Chair: Ehud Zohary, ELSC

10:45 – 11:10            Yuval Hart, Department of Psychology

                    Autism spectrum disorder as a computational trade-off

11:10 – 11:35             Yael Bitterman, Department of Medical Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine

                    Reading the score of the brain - the neural code of adaptive behavior

11:35 – 12:00            Ronit Ilouz, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed

Pathological Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration: Key insights "from a Protein Kinase A (PKA) mutation”

12:00 – 12:25            Israel Nelken, ELSC

Neural activity in the auditory cortex of freely-moving, behaving rats

12:25 – 14:00            Lunch

14:00 – 14:10            Asher Cohen, President of the Hebrew University

Session 2:

Chair: Aharon Lev-Tov, Department Of Medical Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine

14:10 – 14:35            Alon Zaslaver, Department of Genetics, Silberman Institute of Life Science

Memory formation, retrieval, and inheritance: principles learned from C. elegans

14:35 – 15:00            Omry Koren, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed

The microbiome-gut-brain axis in terms of the first 1000 days of life

15:00 – 15:25            Raunak Basu, ELSC

                    Mapping the world around us: A topology preserved schema of space in the Orbitofrontal cortex

15:25 – 15:40            Eitan Moses, Department of Genetics, Silberman Institute of Life Science

Manipulating lifespan and repair through pituitary and gonadal hormones

15:40 – 16:10            Coffee break

Session 3:

Chair: Leon Deouell, ELSC

16:10 – 16:35            Ithai Rabinowitch, Department of Medical Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine

Do worms know that they don't know?

16:35 – 17:00            Yifat Prut, ELSC

                        Subcortical regulation of motor plans

17:00 – 17:25            Anat Kahan, Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

VIP neurons of the circadian pacemaker integrate light information to regulate the mammalian estrous cycle

17:25 – 17:50            David Omer, ELSC

The naming of nonhuman primates: vocal labeling & the evolution of language

17:50 – 18:05            Baraa Abudiab, Department Of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine

Beyond the known function of WWOX: WWOX and its role in myelination.

18:05 – 18:30            Coffee break

Keynote Lecture:

18:30 – 19:15            Rafael Malach, Weizmann Institute

Relational neuronal coding underlying human visual perception

19:15              Dinner