Topic: neuroimmune regulation

Celina Valencia examines how social and environmental conditions may alter susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias through neuroendocrine and immune adaptation. The talk presents a contextual-stress framework connecting cumulative exposures across the lifespan with neurodegenerative vulnerability. Evidence from the NIH All of Us Research Program, the Precision Aging Network, and longitudinal studies of menopausal aging links neighborhood deprivation, depression, inflammatory signaling, and biomarkers of vulnerability. These findings motivate an integrated account of how con

The Brain-Body Interaction RIKEN ECL Research Team, led by Tomoe Ishikawa and scheduled to be established on 1 December 2026, seeks one or two research scientists or postdoctoral researchers. Research will use mouse models, neurophysiology, biology and immunology to investigate how social behaviour and neural circuits affect responses to pathogen infection. The programme aims to understand brain–body and neuroimmune regulation of physiological functions and whether neural activity can modulate immune responses. The appointment is based at the Wako campus; employment is planned from 1 April 202