Joint CBQB-Human Biology mini Symposium Sunday 30.03, 12:00 - 14:00
@Sfadia auditorium, Multi purpose building. University of Haifa

What is the cross talk and cross learning/ adaptation between different stress responses?

Speaker

Question and Topic

12:15-12:45 – Prof. Michal Horrowitz

School of Dentistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

What is the cross talk and cross learning between adaptation to heatshock and to hypoxia?

Lecture and discussion

12:45 -13:15 – Prof. Imad Shams

Evolutionary Biology Section, School of Life Sciences, University of Haifa

How does adaptation to hypoxia in mole rats relate to the ability to control other forms of cellular stress and cancer?

Lecture and  discussions

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.