Pre-conference satellite symposium- Sunday, April 7th

PRE-CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (FREE)

The symposium will be held at The David Lopatie Conference Centre, on the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Rehovot is located in the center of the country, ca. 20 km south of Tel Aviv.

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^{Sunday, April 7th}

Pre-conference satellite symposium: New horizons in neuroendocrinology of social behavior

Sunday. April 7th timeline
Hour	Subject
9:00 - 9:30	Reception
9:30 - 9:45	Greetings
9:45 - 12:45	Session A: Integrative and mechanistic aspects of animal social behavior Chair: Adi Mizrahi, Hebrew University, Israel Speakers: 9:45 – 10:15 Shlomo Wagner, University of Haifa, Israel Studying social behavior in animal models: do we do it right? 10:15 – 10:45 Tali Kimchi, Weizmann Institute, Israel Genes, Brain and Female Mouse Society 10:45 – 11:15 Oliver Bosch, University of Regensburg, Germany Breaking bonds: the extensive effects of partner loss on the pro-social oxytocin system 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break 11:45 – 12:15 Valery Grinevich, Central Institute of Mental Health and German Cancer Research Center, Germany Sensory inputs driving oxytocin neuron activity toward sociability *12:15 – 12:45 Ofer Yizhar, Weizmann Institute, Israel* Encoding of social information in the mouse prefrontal cortex
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 16:45	Session B: Human social behavior: between brain and environment, what can go wrong? Chair: Rony Paz, Weizmann Intitute, Israel Speakers: 13:45 – 14:15 Rene Hurlemann, University of Bonn, Germany Translation of oxytocin neuroscience to the treatment of anxiety 14:15 – 14:45 Ruth Feldmann, Interdesciplinary Center, Israel Utilizing multiple measures of the oxytocin system to study the neurobiology of human parenting 14:45 – 15:15 Simone Shamay-Tsoory, University of Haifa, Israel The social salience hypothesis of oxytocin 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break 15:45 – 16:15 Joseph Buxbaum, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA What is the evidence for specific risk factors for social deficits in autism? 16:15 – 16:45 Angela Sirigu, Institute of Cognitive Science Marc Jeannerod, France Oxytocin's effects on the primates' brain
16:45 - 17:00	Concluding remarks