PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

15:00-16:30 Session 1: Clinical aspects of MS and neuroinflammation

Chairs:

Ofira Einstein, Ariel University: Basic science and clinical data on physical exercise and MS (20 minutes)

 

17:00-19:00 Session 2: Immune aspects of Neuropsychiatry and aging

Chairs:

Michal Schwartz 

Raz Yirmiya – Microglia in depression

Alon Monsonego – Immune system aging, Immune system aging underlying age-related disease susceptibility

Keren Regev – Evidence based medicine on MS therapy in aging people.

19:30 Dinner

Thursday, November 2, 2023

9:00-11:00 Session 3: Neuropathology and progressive MS

Chairs:

Hans Lassmann – neuropathology of progressive MS, implications for therapy 

Adi Vaknin: Drugs for progressive MS, mechanisms of action, do they treat CNS pathogenesis or only systemic immune-pathogenesis? 

11:30-13:30 Session 4: Cell-cell interaction in health and neuroinflammation

Chairs:

Francisco Quintana

 

13:30-14:30 Lunch

 

14:30-16:30 Session 5: Immune mediated small fiber and autonomic neuropathies

Chairs:

Claudia Sommer – immune mediated small fiber neuropathy 

Yehonatan Sharabi – anti Ach-R alpha 3 mediated autonomic neuropathy

Joab Chapman – When and in whom to provide immunotherapy in small fiber and autonomic neuropathies. 

 

16:30-18:00 Poster Session 1

 

19:30 Dinner

 

20:30 Party

Friday, November 3, 2023

9:00-10:30 Session 6: Emerging MS therapies

Chairs:

Frauke Zipp 

Radi Shahin: When do you switch treatments. 

Debate 

 

10:30-11:30 Poster session 2

 

11:30-13:30 Session 7: Gut-immune-brain interactions in neuroinflammation

Chairs:

Jane Foster – Microbiota-T cell-brain interactions in mice and depressed people 

Asya Rolls – CNS mediated gut tolerance 

Nissan Yissachar – enteric neuroimmunology 

Amir Minerbi– Clinical application on the microbiome in brain disorders. 

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