The 3Rd International Meeting of the Haifa Forum for Brain and Behavior

The Ray D. Wolfe Center for Study of Psychological Stress The 3rd International meeting of the Haifa Forum for Brain and Behavior

Location: The Sefadia Auditorium, Multi-purpose building

Day 1 (Tuesday, February 3 rd )

12:00-14:00 Registration.

.Opening of the 3nd International Meeting of the Haifa Forum 14:00-14:15 :Greetings .Professor Yossi Ben Artzi, University Rector .Professor Majid Al-Haj, Vice President and Dean of Research

Session 1. Title: Molecular Biology in Brain and Behavior 14:15-15:40 .(.Chair: Malka Cohen-Armon (Tel Aviv U  Yukiko Goda (UK) Integrins and regulation of synaptic strength.  Noam Meiri (ISRAEL) Epigenetic regulation of thermotolerance acquisition and memory.  Kobi Rosenblum (ISRAEL) Complex Translational Control in the Gustatory Cortex Determines the Stability of a Taste Memory.  Alon Chen (ISRAEL) Dissecting the central stress response: Elucidating the role of the CRF/Urocortin family of peptides and receptors.

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

Session 2. Title: Social Affective Behavior and Neuroscience 18:00 – 16:00 .(.Chair: Shlomo Bentin (Hebrew U  Shlomo Wagner (ISRAEL) Interaction between two traces of social recognition memory. The Ray D. Wolfe Center for Study of Psychological Gleb Stress P. Shumyatsky (USA) Stathmin reveals dissociable roles of the BLA in parental and social behaviors.  Simone-Shamay-Tsoory (ISRAEL) There is no joy like malicious joy: the neural bases of envy and schadenfreude.  Jean Decety (USA) The benefits and the costs of empathy: the price of being human A social neuroscience approach.  Jason Mitchel (USA) fMRI studies of self and others.  Joe Piven (USA) Towards Defining the Broad Autism Phenotype.

19:00- Welcome evening + Cultural performance

Day 2 (Wednesday, February 4 th )

Session 3. Title: Neural plasticity and beyond 09:30-11:20

.(.Chair: Rami Yaka (Hebrew U

 Irit Akirav (ISRAEL) Cannabinoids Modulation of Memory.  Avi Avital (ISRAEL) Behavioral and Neural plasticity in animal models.  Rony Paz (ISRAEL) Temporal binding of episodes in the human hippocampus.  Edi Barkai (ISRAEL) A cellular mechanism for general enhancement of learning capability.  Menahem Segal (ISRAEL) Stress and hippocampal metaplasticity.

11:20-11:40 Coffee Break

Session 4. Title: Memory systems and integration 11:40-13:30 .(Chair: Miriam Reiner (Technion  Asaf Gilboa (ISRAEL) Recollection-like processes during semantic memory retrieval: Is there a role for the hippocampus in recalling semantic facts?  Simon Rumpel (Austria) Cortical contribution to auditory cued fear learning.  Avi Karni (ISRAEL) A critique of 'critical periods' in skill acquisition: the adult brain remains plastic but may be more selective in procedural memory consolidation.  Ehud Ahissar (ISRAEL) Closed loop Perception. The Ray D. Wolfe Center for Study of Psychological Yadin Stress Dudai (ISRAEL) Predicting not to predict too much: How the cellular machinery of memory anticipates the uncertain future.

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break

Session 5. Title: When the amygdala matters 15:00-16:30 .(.Chair: Talma Hendler (Tel Aviv U  Andreas Lüthi (Switzerland) Gating of conditioned fear by neuronal plasticity in the central amygdale.  Valérie Doyère (France) Synaptic Plasticity in the Lateral Amygdala: Selective storage and updating of fear memories.  Mouna Maroun (ISRAEL) Interaction between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex in emotional memory.  Andrew Holmes (USA) Impaired fear extinction learning and cortico- amygdala circuit abnormalities in a common genetic mouse strain.

16: 30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-17:45 Plenary Lecture I - Joseph E. LeDoux (USA) – Fearful Brains in an Anxious World.

18:00- Posters happening + buffet dinner + background Music. Aviva & Sammy Ofer Observation Gallery, Eshkol Tower, 30th Floor.

Day 3 (Thursday, February 5 th )

Session 6. Title: The Morphology of it all 09:30-11:00 .(Chair: Noam Ziv (Technion

 Rafi Lamprecht (ISRAEL) Fear memory formation in lateral amygdala: from gene expression to protein interactions.  Stewart M.G. (UK) Three-Dimensional (3-D) Analyses of Remodelling of synapses and dendritic spines in Dentate Gyrus following LTP in vivo.  Cara L. Wellman (USA) Stress Effects in Prefrontal Cortex: Morphology, Physiology, and Behavior.  Henry Markram (Switzerland) The Ray D. Wolfe Center for Study of Psychological Stress Coffee Break 11:00-11:20

Session 7. Title: Stress and Gender 11:20-13:00 .(.Chair Tali Kimchi (Weizmann Inst  Micah Leshem (ISRAEL) Adversity To The Female Rat Before She Conceives Will Influence Her Future Offspring Differently, By Sex.  Ora Kofman (ISRAEL) Long-term sex-dependent changes in emotional behaviour following exposure to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors during the pre- weanling period.  Robertas Bunevicius (Lithuania) Cortisol and Thyroid Hormone in Depressed Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: Impact of Gender.

13:00-15:00 Lunch Break

Session 8. Title: Translational research 15:00-16:00 .(Chair: Avi Peled (Technion, Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center

 Daphna Joel (ISRAEL) On compulsive humans and ‘compulsive’ rats.  Joram Feldon (Switzerland) Distinct forms of prepulse inhibition disruption distinguishable by the associated changes in prepulse-elicited reaction: from rodents to patients.  Raz Yirmiya (ISRAEL) Interleukin-1: A central regulator of stress responses and depression.

Session 9. Title: Between Post-traumatic stress and depression 16:00-17:00 .(Chair: Robertas Bunevicius (Lithuania

 Ehud Klein (ISRAEL) Traumatic events lead to PTSD and stressful life events lead to depression; Does the evidence support a dichotomous approach.  Gal Richter-Levin (ISRAEL) Post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic depression?  Leo Sher (USA) The concept of posttraumatic mood disorder and its relation to suicidal behavior.

17:00-17:15 Break The Ray D. Wolfe Center for Study of Psychological17:15-18:15 Stress Plenary Lecture II - John P Aggleton (UK) - Extending the Hippocampal Memory System: Beyond the Fornix.

18:15- Concluding remarks and end of meeting.