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Day 1

Monday, March 5th

  • 9:00

    Organizing Committee

  • 9:00

    Shulamit Michaeli, Vice President for Research, BIU

    Opening and Greetings

  • 9:20

    Andrey Broisman, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space

    The mission of the Ministry of Science and Technology

  • Chair: Orit Shefi

  • 9:30

    Micha Spira, Hebrew University

    Overcoming incompatible boundaries between living cells and manmade electronics: multisite, long-term intracellular recordings by extracellular electrodes

  • 10:00

    Bianxiao Cui, Stanford University, USA

    Probing the interface between cells and nanoscale electrode

  • 10:30

    Coffee Break

  • Keynote Lecture, Chair: Micha Spira

  • 11:00

    Charles Lieber, Harvard University, USA

    Mesh electronics: A paradigm for tissue/neuron like brain probes

  • Chair: Micha Spira

  • 12:00

    Insung Choi, KAIST, South Korea

    Neurons on nanotopographies

  • 12:30

    Laura Ballerini, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

    Carbon based nanomaterials for active neuronal interfacing: impact on signaling and regrowth

  • 13:00

    Lunch & Poster

  • Chair: Insung Choi

  • 14:00

    Luca Berdendini, IIT, Genova, Italy

    Planar and implantable CMOS multielectrode arrays for high-resolution electrophysiology in neuronal networks and brain circuits

  • 14:30

    Prinz Christelle, Lund University, Sweden

    Nanowires: a promising material for designing neural implants

  • 15:00

    Avraham Yaron, Weizmann Institute of Science

    Intrinsic and extrinsic control of axonal pruning

  • 15:30

    Coffee Break

  • Chair: Laura Ballerini

  • 15:45

    Noam Ziv, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

    Using multielectrode arrays and automated microscopy to study relationships between synaptic remodeling and network activity

  • 16:15

    Lior Appelbaum, Bar-Ilan University

    Sleep regulates chromosome dynamics and nuclear maintenance in single wake-active neurons

  • 16:45

    Gilad Lerman, New York University, USA

    A rapid and deep all-optical interrogation of behaviorally relevant activity patterns

  • 17:15

    Closing comments

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Tuesday, March 6th

  • Chair: Guenther Zeck

  • 9:00

    Yossi Mandel, Bar-Ilan University

    Hybrid retinal implant for restoration of sight to the blind

  • 9:30

    Hamutal Slovin, Bar-Ilan University

    Spatio-temporal patterns of cortical responses underlying visual processing, perception and microstimulation in behaving monkeys

  • 10:00

    Daniel Palanker, Stanford University, USA

    Photovoltaic restoration of sight in retinal degeneration

  • 10:30

    Coffee break

  • Chair: Orit Shefi

  • 11:00

    Martin Oheim, CNRS Saint-Peres, Paris, France

    Imaging single-synaptic vesicle release

  • 11:30

    Eduardo Macagno, University of California, San Diego, USA

    Gap junctional proteins and the formation of coupled neural circuits

  • Keynote Lecture, Chair: Orit Shefi

  • 12:00

    Muming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    The Chinese Brain Project and non-human primate research in China

  • 13:00

    Lunch & Tour

  • Chair: Bianxiao Cui

  • 14:00

    Mark Kotter, University of Cambridge, UK

    Inducible and deterministic forward programming of human pluripotent stem cells into somatic cell types. The stem cell promise fulfilled?

  • 14:30

    Eran Perlson, Tel-Aviv University

    ALS as a spatiotemporal mis-localization disease

  • 15:00

    Gad Vatine, Ben-Gurion University

    Microphysiological iPSC-based Blood Brain Barrier platform for personalized medicine

  • 15:30

    Coffee break

  • Chair: Yossi Mandel

  • 15:45

    Urs Frey, MaxWell Biosystems

    CMOS-MEAs for characterizing neuronal dynamics in vitro at high spatiotemporal resolution

  • 16:15

    Geunther Zeck, NMI

    Electrical imaging and stimulation of retinal cells and circuits using CMOS-based electrode arrays

  • 16:45

    Tour & Dinner

    A short tour in Jaffa and dinner for invited speakers

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Day 3

Wednesday, March 7th

  • Chair: Eran Perlson

  • 9:00

    Orit Shefi, Bar-Ilan University

    From 2D to 3D platforms for directing neurons and neural growth

  • 9:30

    Shulamit Levenberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

    Spinal cord regeneration using stem cells and 3D scaffolds

  • 10:00

    Tal Dvir, Tel-Aviv University

    Engineering personalized tissue implants

  • 10:30

    Coffee break

  • Chair: Yossi Mandel

  • 11:00

    Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

    Scalable CMOS technology for volumetric deep brain recording

  • 11:30

    Mathieson Keith, University of Strathclyde, UK

    In-vivo optogenetic neural interfaces

  • 12:00

    Mark Shein, Tel-Aviv University

    Large scale functional connectivity mapping in cortical circuits

  • 12:30

    Lunch & Posters

  • Chair: Uri Nevo

  • 14:00

    Netta Cohen, University of Leeds, UK

    Neural computation in C. elegans

  • 14:30

    Ido Kanter, Bar-Ilan University

    New types of experiments reveal that a neuron functions as multiple independent threshold units

  • 15:00

    Uri Nevo, Tel-Aviv University

    Neurons as active gels: the mechanics of action potentials

  • 15:30

    Coffee break

  • Chair: Tal Dvir

  • 15:45

    Eran Meshorer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Modeling PolyQ diseases using pluripotent stem cells

  • 16:15

    Ben Maoz, Tel-Aviv University

    Revealing new physiology with brain in vitro models

  • 16:45

    Dror Fixler, BINA director

    12 years of Nanotechnology in Israel

  • 17:00

    Poster Award Ceremony and conclusion notes

    Supported by Nano Letters