Participants from France
Abrous Nora
Beracochea Daniel
Bontempi Bruno
Boraud Thomas
Bioulac Bernard
Chaouloff Francis
de Cheveigné Alain
Cohen Laurent
Desmedt Aline
Dubayle David
Etxamendi Nicole
Ferreira Guillaume
Gorea Andrei
Gurden Hirac
Hansel David
Herry Cyril
Jay Thérèse
Laroche Serge
Levénes Carole
Levy Frédéric
Marighetto Aline
Marsicano Giovanni
Melki Judith
Meunier Claude
Mongillo Gianliugi
Mulle Christophe
Naccache Lionel
Oliet Stéphane
Pessiglione Mathias
Piazza Pier Vicenzo
Poucet Bruno
Pressnitzer Daniel
Ravel Nadine
Revest Jean-Michel
Sahel José
Shulz Daniel
Sumbre German
van Vreeswijk Carl
Vouimba Rose-Marie
Wiener Sidney
Zytnicki Daniel
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Participants from Israel
Abeles Moshe
Ahissar Ehud
Akirav Irit
Amedi Amir
Bar-Gad Izhar
Barkai Edi
Belmaker Haim
Ben-Shahar Dorit
Berman Sigal
Brenner Naama
Chen Alon
Cohen Dana
Dudai Yadin
Flash Tamar
Gaisler-Salomon Inna
Gilboa Assaf
Golomb David
Gozes Ilana
Gutfreund Yoram
Karni Avi
Karniel Amir
Korzyn Amos
Lamprecht Rafi
Lowenstein Yonatan
Malach Rafi
Maroun Mouna
Michaelson Daniel
Morris Genela
Nelken Eli
Paz Roni
Richter-Levin Gal
Rosenblum Kobi
Rozin Marta
Segal Menahem
Shamir Maoz
Sobel Noam
Tsodyks Misha
Vaadia Eilon
Wagner Shlomo
Marta Winstock-Rosin
Yadid Gal
Zaksenhouse Miriam
Ziv Noam
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12:00 Registration & “Appetizers”
14:00-14:30 Opening Ceremony and greetings
Mr. Yona Yahav, Mayor of Haifa
Prof Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, President of the University of Haifa
Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi, Rector of the University of Haifa
His Excellency Mr. Christophe Bigot, Ambassador of France in Tel Aviv (TBC)
Prof. Eric Seboun, Scientific Attaché at the French Embassy, Tel Aviv
Prof. Bernard Bioulac, CNRS
14:30-15:15 Opening lecture
José Sahel (Institut de la Vision, Paris)
Rod-cone paracrine interactions: a molecular and therapeutic perspective
15:15-16:45 Neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases
Amos Korczyn (Tel Aviv U., Tel Aviv)
Is vascular cognitive impairment a useful concept ?
Ilana Gozes (Tel Aviv U., Tel Aviv)
Davunetide (NAP intranasal formulation AL-108) provides cognitive protection in models of microtubules dysfunction: relevance to Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia
Daniel Michaelson (Tel Aviv U., Tel Aviv)
Synergistic pathological interactions between apolipoprotein E4 and amyloid- β in Alzheimer's disease
16:45 -17:15 Coffee break
17:15-18:45 Motoneuron diseases: electophysiology, genetics and modeling
Judith Melki (Hôpital du Kremlin Bicêtre- Inserm, Paris)
Genomics and transcriptomics in human motorneuron diseases
Daniel Zytnicki (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
Mixed mode oscillations and sub-primary firing range in adult mouse spinal motoneurons
Claude Meunier (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
Mechanisms of mixed mode oscillations in spinal motoneurons
19:00 Cocktail & get together evening
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9:00-10:00 Memory consolidation
Menahem Segal (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Hippocampal metaplasticity
Yadin Dudai (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot
What keeps memory going, and how? Lessons from the rat cortex
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-13:05 Parallel sessions |
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Session 1: Amygdala in
health and disease |
Session 2: Executive control: computational models and psychophysics |
10:30-11:45 Part 1 |
Cyril Herry (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux)
Removal of perineuronal nets in the amygdala enables selective erasure of fear memory
Mouna Maroun (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Interaction between amygdala and prefrontal cortex in fear and extinction
Rony Paz (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Better safe than sorry: how valence affects generalization of learning |
David Hansel (Paris Descartes U., Paris)Choice preference in spiking neuronal network models of decision making
Yonatan Loewenstein (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
What is choice preference? A theoretical and experimental study
Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)Locking times to spikes: a synaptic model for neuronal representation of time |
11:45-12:00 Break |
12:00-13:15 Part 2 |
Rafi Lamprecht (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Fear memory formation in lateral amygdala: from gene expression to protein interactions
Guillaume Ferreira (Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
Conditioned odor aversion and preference: differential involvement of basolateral amygdala and insular cortex at the cellular and system levels
Rose Marie Vouimba (CNIC-Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)Age-dependent modulation of amygdala -hippocampal interactions |
Gianliugi Mongillo (Paris Descartes U., Paris)Irregular spiking and multistability in recurrent networks with non-linear synaptic transmission
Andrei Gorea (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
Decisional behavior assessed with external noise manipulations in a dual brightness-classification task
Dov Sagi (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Limiting factor in visual detection: threshold or noise |
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Monday,15 February, Afternoon |
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13:15-15:00 Lunch break
Chair Menahem Segal
15:00-15:45 Pier Vincenzo Piazza (INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie , Bordeaux)
An unified vision of addiction: role of drugs and individuals transition to addiction
15:45- 17:00 Parallel sessions |
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Session 2: Computational aspects of adaptation |
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Irit Akirav (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Cannabinoids modulation of emotional memory
Francis Chaouloff (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux)
Endocannabinoids and adaptation to stress
Giovanni Marsicano (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux)
Bimodal control of neuronal functions by the endocannabinoid system |
Yoram Gutfreund (Technion, Haifa)
Multisensory stimulus-specific-adaptation in the gaze control system of the barn owl
Naama Brenner (Technion, Haifa)
Adaptive response by state-dependent inactivation
German Sumbre (ENS, Paris)
Temporal processing of rhythmic sensory stimulation in zebrafish
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17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30- 19:00 High cognition and consciousness
Chair: Eli Nelken
Rafi Malach (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Self generated activity in the human brain
Laurent Cohen (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris)
Neuropsychology and imagery of word reading: footprints of culture in the brain
Lionel Naccache (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris)
Exploring conscious processing: from theory to bedside
19:00-21:30 Posters session, wine & cheese |
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Tuesday, 16 February, Morning |
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9:00-11:05 Parallel sessions |
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Session 1: Hippocampal functions and neurogenesis
Chair: Kobi Rosenblum
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Session 2: Basal ganglia and reward
Chair: Laurent Cohen
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Nora Abrous (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux)
On the influence of spatial learning on adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Aline Marighetto / Nicole Etxamendi (CNIC / Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
A critical CA1 episodic buffer in long-term declarative memory formation
Serge Laroche (Paris XI, Orsay)
Hippocampal cellular and molecular mechanisms of recognition memory
Genela Morris (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
The role of sensory information in creating representations in the hippocampus
Bruno Bontempi (CNIC-Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
Tracking the memory trace during systems-level consolidation |
Thomas Boraud (MAC-Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
Do computers dream of electric bananas?
Hagai Bergman (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
TBA
Mathias Pessiglione (INSERM,
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris)Splitting motivation: hemispheric dissociation of the human reward system
Izhar Bar Gad (Bar Ilan U., Ramat Gan)
The neurophysiological basis of deep brain stimulation
Dana Cohen (Bar Ilan U., Ramat Gan)
Distinct neural mechanisms of associative learning in dorsal and ventral striatum |
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11:05-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Haim Belmaker (Ben Gurion U., Beersheva)
The role of knockout mice in understanding the mechanism of action of lithium
12:15-14:30 Lunch break
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Tuesday, 16 February, Afternoon |
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14:30- 16:10 Parallel sessions |
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Session 1: Models of psychiatric disorders
Chair: Irit Akirav |
Session 2: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of plasticity.
Chair Hirac:Gurden |
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Thérèse Jay (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
Dysfunctions in prefrontal networks plasticity as a model in psychiatric disorders
Inna Gaisler-Salomon (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Modeling schizophrenia symptoms in animals: the surprise and promise of the glutaminase-deficient mouse
Dorit Ben Shahar (Technion, Haifa)
Mitochondria – dopamine interaction a novel piece of information in the biological puzzle of schizophrenia
Gal Yadid (Bar Ilan U., Ramat Gan)
Brain electrical stimulation as a suggested treatment of depression and addiction |
Christophe Mulle (Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
Activity-dependent plasticity of NMDA receptors in the hippocampus
Carole Levenes (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
NMDA receptors and bidirectional plasticity of Purkinje cell synapses: better late than never
Stephane Oliet (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux)
Contribution of glial cells to synaptic plasticity
Edi Barkai (Haifa U., Haifa)
A whole-cell mechanism for long-term memory enhancement |
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16:05-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:45 Parallel sessions
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Session 1: Stress and Plasticity
Chair: Thérèse Jay |
Session 2: Somatosensory system
Chair: Edi Barkai |
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Gal Richter-Levin (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Individual and sex differences in responses to juvenile stress
Daniel Beracochea (CNIC-Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
Impact of acute stress on hippocampal corticosterone rise and memory retrieval in aged mice
Marta Weinstock-Rosin (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
Gender differences in behavior and expression of hippocampal synaptic genes are greatly diminished by prenatal stress
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Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Thalamocortical convergence on object location in whisking rats
Daniel Shulz (Alfred Fessard I., Gif)
Exploring sensory processing of natural tactile scenes in the somatosensory system of the rat
David Golomb (Ben Gourion U., Beersheva)
Control of firing patterns of vibrissa motoneurons and vibrissa movements |
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Wednesday, 17 February, Morning |
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9:00-12:00 Parallel sessions |
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Session 2: Executive control: computational models and psychophysics |
9:00-10:15 Part 1 |
Hirac Gurden (Paris XI, Orsay)
The neuro-astrocytic crosstalk in olfactory glomeruli: control of odor-induced activities and imaging signals
Noam Sobel (Weizmann I., Rehovot)
From odorant structure to neural activity and perception in olfaction
Shlomo Wagner (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
The accessory olfactory (vomeronasal) system: a sensory system adapted for social interactions |
Eilon Vaadia (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
Studies of mutual learning of brains and computers in brain-machine interface (BMI)
Carl van Vreeswijk (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
The role of shunting inhibition in the generation of complex movements
Miriam Zacksenhouse (Technion, Haifa)
Signal-to-noise ratio of binned spike-counts and the timescales of neural coding |
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Kobi Rosenblum (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Inhibition of the proteasome bi-directionally affects learning & memory process in the cortex
Nadine Ravel (Lyon 1 U., Lyon)
Mapping learning-induced modulations of oscillatory activity in memory circuits: a new functional imagery
Frederic Levy (INRA-Nouzilly, Nouzilly)
Brain mechanisms of maternal attachment in sheep |
Tamar Flash (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Representing movement: from moving frames to space-time invariance.
Sigal Berman (Ben Gurion U., Beersheva).
Movements on curved manifolds.
Amir Karniel (Ben Gurion U., Beersheva)
Transfer of Adaptation between Feedback and Feed forward controllers |
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Wednesday, 17 February, Afternoon
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12:00-12:45
Chair: Carl van Vreeswijk
Moshe Abeles (Bar Ilan U., Ramat Gan)
How the binding problem may be solved by the nervous system
13:00-14:30 Lunch break |
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Session 1: Prefrontal cortex in navigation and memory
Chair: Mouna Maroun |
Session 2: Images of the brain
Chair: Alain de Chéveigné |
Bruno Poucet (Provence U., Marseille)
Coding of spatial and temporal information by hippocampal and prefrontal neurons during spatial navigation: specificity and complementarity
Sidney Wiener (Collège de France, Paris)
Characterization and mechanisms of formation of co-active neuron ensembles in prefrontal cortex upon new learning
Asaf Gilboa (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
Prefrontal cortex contributions to human declarative memory |
Noam Ziv (Technion, Haifa)
Synaptic tenacity: insights from live imaging experiments
Avi Karni (U. of Haifa, Haifa)
The acquisition of non-volitional skills: procedural memory for balance and posture
Amir Amedi (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
Multisensory integration and the binding problem: Insights from novel Phase-locking Fourier Approaches to fMRI |
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15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-18:00 Parallel sessions |
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Session 1: Auditory system
Chair: Claude Meunier
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Chair: Aline Marighetto |
Eli Nelken (Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
Short-term memory in auditory cortex - beyond the oddball sequences
Daniel Pressnitzer (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
Probing the formation of auditory memories with white noise
Alain De Chéveigné (Paris Descartes U., Paris)
New techniques for brain signal analysis
Maoz Shamir (Ben Gourion U., Beersheva)
Fast decoding mechanisms for interaural time delay discrimination in the guinea pig inferior colliculus |
Aline Desmedt (CNIC-Bordeaux U., Bordeaux)
From normal to pathological fear memories
Jean-Michel Revest (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux)
Molecular basis of stress-related memory: from glucocorticoids to synapsin-Ia/Ib
Alon Chen (Weizmann I. of Science, Rehovot)
Dissecting the central stress response using site-specific genetic manipulation in adult mice |
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Farewell Cocktail
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