Joint CBQB-Neuro mini Symposium Thursday 16.01, 12:00 - 14:00
@Sfadia auditorium, Multi purpose building. University of Haifa
What are the limits of the brain’s adaptivity and how does it influence our perception and health?
Speaker
Question and Topic
12:15-12:45 – Prof. Asya Rolls
Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University
What kind of physiological information can be stored in the brain?
Lecture and discussion – abstract linked in title
12:45 -13:15 – Prof. Amir Amedi
The Baruch Ivcher Institute For Brain, Cognition & Technology, Reichman University
What is the link between the reward system and the immune system?
Lecture and discussions – abstract linked in title
13:15 – 13:35 Lunch – mingling and pizza
13:35 – 14:00: Discussion: Response by the speakers (5 minute each) and discussion: What are the connections between brain and immune systems, and where are innate and learned responses encoded.
Background Materials
Asya Rolls
- Koren, T., et al. Insular cortex neurons encode and retrieve specific immune responses. Cell 184, 5902-5915.e17 (2021).
- Sammons, M., at al. Brain-body physiology: Local, reflex, and central communic -ation. Cell 187, 5877–5890 (2024).
- Florsheim, E. B., et al. Immune sensing of food allergens promotes avoidance behaviour. Nature 620, 643–650 (2023).
Amir Amedi
- Aggius-Vella, E., et al. Activation of human visual area V6 during egocentric navigation with and without visual experience. Current Biology 33, 1211-1219.e5 (2023).
- Amedi, A., et al. Perceptual learning and neural correlates of virtual navigation in subjective cognitive decline: A pilot study. iScience 27, 111411 (2024).
- Hannagan, T., et al. Origins of the specialization for letters and numbers in ventral occipitotemporal cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 19, 374–382 (2015).
