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A Conference Dedicated to the International Day of Immunology

30 04 2025

The conference ‘Are all diseases really caused by nerves? The cross-talk of the immune system and the nervous system’ dedicated to the International Day of Immunology took place on 29 April 2025 in the Small Hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The conference was organised by the Lithuanian Society for Immunology (LSI) and the Academy.  As announced by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), this year's topic of the Day of Immunology was ‘Brain and Immunity: Immunological Insights into Neurological Disorders’. Thus, the advances in immunology and neuroscience were discussed at the conference.

 

Professor Osvaldas Rukšėnas from Vilnius University explained the causes and symptoms of emotional stress, the differences between acute and chronic stress, and the impact of stress on brain functions and all systems of the body. Professor Jurgita Skiecevičienė of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences presented recent studies on the communication network within the gut-brain-immune axis with a particular emphasis on the critical role of immune signaling as a molecular translator between the gut microbiota and the brain. Mantas Vaišvilas, a neurologist from Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, reviewed the perspectives of neuroimmunology and shared clinical cases of how immunology knowledge and technologies are changing the practice of neurology.

 
The speakers received a number of questions from the conference participants and continued their communication during an informal discussion.

Aurelija Žvirblienė, Full Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Photography Virginija Valuckienė

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