Program

WCNH2019 Program

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Monday, April 8

Time Session/Lecture info
08:00-12:45
 
08:00-11:30
Arrival to Ein Gedi (busses leave from Rehovot, Tel Aviv and from Ben Gurion airport)
11:30-12:00
Getting together/registration
12:00-12:45
Plenary lecture:
David Murphy, Bristol University, UK
Transcriptomic identification of novel regulators of hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system function
12:45-13:30
Poster blitz
Chair: Lee Eiden, National Institute of Mental Health, USA 
13:30-14:30
Lunch
 
14:30-16:15
Session 1 - Trafficking, release and functions of brain nonapeptides
Chair: Scott Young, National Institute of Mental Health, USA 
14:30-14:55
Charles Bourque, McGill University, Canada
Multiple roles of vasopressin as a mediator of circadian cues for fluid balance
14:55-15:20
Zhihua Gao, Zhejiang University, China
Reconstructing the neurosecretory pathway in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysis system
15:20-15:45
Andre de Souza Mecawi, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Low-sodium diet effects on magnocellular neurons activity, synthesis and release of vasopressin and oxytocin
15:45-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-18:45
Session 2 - Developmental, molecular and cell biology of the oxytocin and vasopressin systems
Chairs: Bice Chini, CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Italy and Francoise Muscatelli, Institut de Neurobiologie de la Mediterranee; Aix-Marseille Universite, France 
16:15-16:40
Hala Harony-Nicolas, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Oxytocin in autism: Is it curative or causative? Implications from a rat model for autism
16:40-17:05
Marysia Placzek, University of Sheffield, UK
Development of the hypothalamus
17:05-17:30
Robert Froemke, New York University, USA
Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behavior
17:30-18:15
Awards Ceremony in recognition of Drs. Maurice Manning and Harold Gainer seminal contributions to the oxytocin and vasopressin field (Sponsored by the Journal of Neuroendocrinology)
18:15-18:45
Coffee Break
18:45-19:45
Keynote lecture:
Nonapeptide regulation of behavior: an ecological-evolutionary approach in zebrafish
Rui Oliveira,Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, and and ISPA, Instituto Universitário, Portugal 
19:45-20:30
Dinner
 
20:30-21:30
Poster session A (odd numbers)
 

Deadline for early registration:

March 10, 2019

Organizers

  • Gil Levkowitz
    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Shlomo Wagner
    University of Haifa, Israel
  • Valery Grinevich
    Central Institute of Mental Health & German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Sponsors

  • הקרן הלאומית למדע
  • Haifa University
  • Weizmann Institute of Science - Aharon Katzir Center
     
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
     
  • Ministry of Science and Technology
  • European NeuroEndocrine Association

Coordinator &
Accessibility Issues

Limor Urfaly 
wcnh2019@ortra.com 

or limor@ortra.com