The Gonda Annual Retreat

The 2020 annual retreat will take place on March 1 + March 3, 2020

 

The Gonda Brain Center Annual Meeting

Sunday, March 1st.

8:30 – 9:00

Gathering & Breakfast

 

9:00 – 9:30

Opening remarks

 

Prof. Alon Korngreen - Director

 

Prof. Miriam Faust – Rector

 

Adi Korisky, Paz Har-Shai, Shiri Makov –

Neuroscience: what's next?  Introducing the BrainStornBIU community

 

 

Chair:  Prof. Michal Ben Shahar

 

9:30 – 10:15

Dr. Baruch Barzel – Head of the Complex Network Dynamics Lab.

 

Dynamic resilience of complex networks - where brains, blackouts and food-webs find common grounds

10:15 – 10:45

Tal Dalal  (Dr. Rafi Haddad)

 

Cell-Specific local inhibition improves population coding in downstream Neurons

 

10:45 – 11:10

Coffee

 

11:10 – 11:40

Erez Yehezkel Matsree  (Prof. Gal Yadid)

 

Agonistic Peptide of the Delta Opioid Receptor As a Novel Means to Attenuate Addiction in Rat Model

 

11:40 – 12:10

Nir Milstein  (Dr. Ilanit Gordon)

 

Heart-Rate Synchronization and Group Cohesion: A Quantitative Review

 

12:10 – 12:40

Roy Oz  (Prof. Hamutal Slovin)

 

Microstimulation in V1 of behaving monkeys: characteristics of neuronal spatio-temporal response patterns and their relation to visual stimulation and evoked saccades

 

12:40 – 13:30

Lunch – “Market Yard” Style

 

13:30 – 14:15

Prof. Yossi Mandel – Head of the Ophthalmic Science and Engineering Lab.

 

restoration of sight with retinal prosthesis- current and future directions

14:15 – 17:00

Poster Session

 

17:00 – 18:30

The Best Show Ever - The Seq's pistols – Prof. Eitan Okun & Band

 

cid:45F0ABDF-8278-4B50-922A-860922238E10@biu.ac.il

 

 

Tuesday, March 3rd.

 

8:30 – 9:00

Gathering & Breakfast

 

 

Chair: Dr. Elana Zion Golumbic

 

9:00 – 9:45

Dr. Shahar Alon - Head of the Spatial Genomics Lab.

 

In situ sequencing reveals the spatial-molecular organization of neural circuits.

 

9:45 – 10:15

Maor Gidron  (Prof. Ronny Geva)

 

Considering the Role of Interpersonal Interaction in the Experimental Setting

 

10:15 – 10:45

Ohad Felzenstain  (Prof. Moshe Abeles & Prof. Gal Chechik)

 

Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Analysis and Visualization Tool (MMVT)

 

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee

 

11:15 – 11:45

Tomer Illouz (Prof. Eitan Okun)

 

Maternal DNA-IMMUNIZATION Strategy targeting Amyloid-β related Neuropathology and dementia in Down-Syndrome.

 

11:45 – 12:15

Anat Kliger Amrani  (Dr. Elana Zion Golumbic)

 

The Preferred Period Hypothesis Revisited: Rhythmic Preferences and Motor Tapping Precision in ADHD Adults and Controls

 

12:15 – 12:45

Adi Korisky  (Prof. Avi Goldstein & Dr. Ilanit Gordon)

 

Neural and Behavioral Effects of Oxytocin in Adolescents with Autism

 

12:45 – 13:30

Lunch – “Mother’s Kitchen” Style

 

13:30 – 16:00

Poster session