General Information
Local organizers:
Prof. Christoph Rummel, Prof. Eva Peters, Prof. Karsten Krüger, Prof. Adriana del Rey;
Justus Liebig University Giessen and University of Marburg
European Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Autumn School Series:
- The lung-brain axis in health and disease, 03-11.09.2022
- The skin-brain axis and the breaking of barriers, 02-10.09.2023
What we offer:
exciting program with well-known experts in the filed
accomodation & board
a beautiful venue
funding of travel costs
one week training in the fields of:
- neuroscience
- immunology
- mental health/stress research from basic to clinical science
- lung-, sports-, nutritional- sciences
Conference Venue
Castle Rauischholzhausen (http://schloss.faber-management.de), close to Giessen / Marburg, Germany
For more information and program please visit:
https://www.uni-giessen.de/epn-autumn-school-series
English Summary
The European Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Autumn School Series explores innovative ideas and research avenues in a multidisciplinary field that includes neuroscience, immunology, and mental health / stress research from basic to clinical science. Complex interdisciplinary interactions emerge as an important melting pot for the development of new integrative approaches addressing modern civilization health challenges. The activation of the immune system in interaction with the brain in health and disease forms the core of this multidisciplinary bio-psycho-social research approach. Immune-derived messengers originating from peripheral inflammatory insults contribute to immune-brain communication while neurogenic mediators can modulate the peripheral immune response. Recent evidence showed that these reciprocal processes have high similarities in different organs, but organ-specific disease relevance. Besides the largely investigated gut-brain axis, the to date understudied lung-brain and skin-brain axes deserve attention. PNI research is instrumental to achieve breakthroughs in these research fields with a high potential to spread these concepts to further and more research areas. While the present COVID-19 crisis highlights the importance of infection trespassing body barriers, these relatively new research fields remain poorly understood. Here, we combine the expertise of the German-Endocrine-Brain-Immune-Network (GEBIN) and the recently established European-PNI-Network (EPN) with specialists in lung and skin research to establish a training event for a new generation of young, motivated and focused researchers. The scope is to promote novel research on health challenges of substantial relevance. As a third step, we consider it highly promising to complete the series with the study of lifestyle effects that combat civilization threats. This series of Autumn Schools would foster interactions between leaders and trainees in traditionally separated research fields within the framework of PNI. We aim at creating an attractive atmosphere to increase the interest of a new generation of scientists who should contribute to the development of an urgently needed integrative multidisciplinary medicine.