Dean Susan Birren writes:
I am pleased to announce the Leir Foundation Neuroscience Symposium to be held at Brandeis on Monday and Tuesday August 26-27.
Funded by a grant from the Leir Foundation to facilitate collaborations between Brandeis and Israeli neuroscientists, the Symposium will include talks and informal discussions with Israeli neuroscientists. The Symposium will provide a framework for establishing Leir-funded postdoctoral fellowships and funding for collaborative projects to uncover new avenues of inquiry on existing projects.
Schedule of talks by invited speakers:
| 9 am | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Eytan Domany (Weizmann Institute) | |
| Pathway-based Personalized Analysis of Cancer | |
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| 9:45 am | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Noam Ziv (Technion) | |
| Activity, Synapses & Cholinergic tone: A Bedtime Story | |
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| 10:45 am | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Avraham Yaron (Weizmann Institute) | |
| Mechanisms of axonal pruning | |
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| Mon 8/26/13 11:30 am | Gerstenzang 121 |
| Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann Institute) | |
| Information storage and retrieval in neural network models of long-term memory | |
The Henry J. Leir Brandeis-Israel Research Initiative, funded by the Connecticut-based Leir Charitable Foundations, will provide postdoctoral felloships for up-and-coming Israeli scientists at Brandeis, and will provide starter funding for collaborative projects between Israeli and Brandeis neuroscientists.
see story at BrandeisNOW: Brandeis Israel research initiative starts strong
