SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

8:00-8:40     Registration and Breakfast

08:40-10:10   Session 1: Gut-Immune-Brain Interactions in Neuroinflammation

                       Chairs: Dan Frenkel, Yifat Vigiser

08:40-09:00    Asya Rolls  CNS mediated gut tolerance

09:00-09:20     Eran Blacher The gut as a novel front of immune activation after stroke

09:20-09:40     Nissan Yissachar – Enteric Neuroimmunology

09:40-10:00     Amir Minerbi – The microbiome as a therapeutic target in chronic pain

10:00-10:10       Alon Zemer –  SINGLE-NUCLEUS HYPOTHALAMUS RNA-SEQ UNCOVERS MICROGLIA SUBTYPES: POSSIBLE RELEVANCE TO OBESITY AND WEIGHT LOSS IN MID-AGE.

10:10-10:35     Coffee Break

10:35-11:40     Keynote Lectures

                        Chairs: Tamir Ben-Hur, Alon Monsonego

10:35-11:05    Michal Schwartz  

11:05-11:40    Francisco Quintana

11:40-13:00    Session 2: Immune Aspects of Neuropsychiatry and Aging

                       Chairs: Alla Shifrin, Marc Helman

11:40-12:00     Alon Monsonego Immune system aging, immune system aging underlying age-related disease susceptibility

12:00-12:15     Joab Chapman Neuropsychiatric manifestations of systemic autoimmune disease

12:15-12:30     Keren Regev Evidence based medicine on MS therapy in aging people

12:30-12:40     Hodaya Polonsky –  THE ROLE OF THE BRAIN-SPLEEN CIRCUIT IN THE CONTROL OF SYMPTOM ONSET IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

12:40-12:50     Marva Lachish –  TSG101, A NOVEL MARKER OF HIGHLY PHAGOCYTIC, DISEASE-ASSOCIATED MICROGLIA IN THE ALZHEIMER`S DISEASE BRAIN

12:50-13:00     Dan Frenkel –  METABOLIC CHANGES WITHIN ASTROCYTES AND THEIR LINK TO NEURODEGENERATION

13:00-14:00     Lunch

14:00-15:10     Session 3: Basic and Clinical Aspects of MS and Neuroinflammation

                        Chairs: Eyal Rosenberg, Maya Garti-Ophir

14:00-14:20     Ofira Einstein   Basic science and clinical data on physical exercise and MS

14:20-14:30     Ifat Vigiser MIRNA SIGNATURE PROFILE AS A MARKER FOR DISEASE ACTIVITY IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

14:30-14:40     Inbal Benhar –  MULTICELLULAR ANALYSIS OF THE CNS INJURY RESPONSE REVEALS A COORDINATED INTERFERON PROGRAM

14:40-14:50     Tal Friedman-Korn – THYROID HORMONE DYSFUNCTION IN MOGAD AND OTHER DEMYELINATING DISEASES

14:50-15:00     Tal Ganz – TARGETING CNS MYELOID INFILTRATES PROVIDES NEUROPROTECTION IN A PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MODEL

15:00-15:10     Jacob Golenser –  INHIBITION OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) SIGNALING PATHWAY PREVENTS CEREBRAL MALARIA (CM) IN A MOUSE MODEL

15:10-16:10       Poster Session 4: Guided Tour With Coffee

                         Chair and Moderator: Avi Gadoth

16:10 -16:50     Session 5: Immune Mediated Small Fiber and Autonomic Neuropathies

                         Chairs: Joab Chapman, Adi Vaknin

16:10-16:20   Yehonatan Sharabi – Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

16:20-16:30  Shani Berkowitz – THE COMPLEMENT C3A RECEPTOR IS EXPRESSED IN THE PARANODE OF THE SCIATIC NERVE AND MODULATES EXCITABILITY AND EXHAUSTION OF LARGE FIBERS IN MICE

16:30-16:40    Adi Wilf-Yarkoni –  MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATION FOR MYASTHENIA GRAVIS REGISTRY IN ISRAELI HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

16:40-16:50    Lior Fuchs REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE WITH EFGARTIGIMOD IN PATIENTS WITH MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

16:50-17:00      Coffee Break

17:00-18:00      Session 6: Emerging MS Therapies

                         Chairs: Adi Wilf-Yarkoni, Panaiota Petrou

17:00-17:20   Ariel Miller –  Aging with MS

17:20-17:30  Hadas Hardoon – DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS – ISRAEL DIETETIC ASSOCIATION POSITION PAPER

17:30-17:40   Ayal Rozenberg – UPREGULATION OF CCR5/CCR2 DURING IMMUNE CELL-ASSOCIATED NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROME FOLLOWING CAR-T CELL THERAPY

17:40-17:50   Ariel Rechtman –  A PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF LOWER MHC-II EXPRESSION IN MOGAD

17:50-18:00   Hadar Kolb –  INTRATHECAL METHOTREXATE TREATMENT FOR PROGRESSIVE FORMS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESULTS FROM A PHASE I STUDY AND OPEN LABEL EXPERIENCE

18:00-18:10     Closing Remarks