Nervous System and Brain Disorders

Dr. Tal Laviv

Cognitive decline and neurodegeneration

The brain has an amazing capacity to change throughout our life, a process essential for our most basic functions : experiencing the world through our senses, learning a new task or remembering past events This involves highly synchronized changes in electrical activity of cells within the brain, much like individual orchestra tools playing together to achieve harmony Inside cells, complex array of proteins provide the molecular instructions for this process We develop biosensors, sensitive https://www.lavivlab.com / biological devices and specialized microcopy to visualize them in the brain . Our main goal is to explore the protein landscape in the living brain, during processing of information from the environment This approach, first of its kind in Israel, will allow us to better understand the inner workings of the healthy brain, and identify critical failure points leading to detrimental conditions such as cognitive decline and neurodegeneration .

Dr. Laviv, PhD, is at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and the Sagol School of Neuroscience. His PhD in neurobiology was conducted in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Neurosciences at Tel Aviv University. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (Jupiter, Florida). He received a BSc in the Joint Program in Life and Medical Sciences at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Laviv received two international postdoctoral fellowships, from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP).