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The 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 April 29, 2025 at the Small Hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LAS). The conference was organized by the Lithuanian Society for Immunology (LSI) and the LAS.  This year's topic of the Day of Immunology was “Brain and Immunity: Immunological Insights into Neurological Disorders” as announced by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). Therefore, 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, the impact of the stress on brain functions and all body systems. Professor of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Jurgita Skiecevičienė 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. The neurologist of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinics Mantas Vaišvilas 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.

Prepared by LAS member Aurelija Žvirblienė
Photography Virginija Valuckienė

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