Kobi Rosenblum is the head of the Department of Neurobiology and Ethology. He is an expert in molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and synaptic plasticity. He pioneered the research of how taste sensory information is encoded and maintained in the cortex.
Haifa University is the youngest university in Israel with 17,000 students. In the 4-year-old Department for Neurobiology and Ethology, there are 8 independent research groups with 50 graduate students. Work in the Department of Neurobiology and Ethology is focused on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cognitive functions. All research groups are committed to reveal the biological process underlying behaviour, mainly learning and memory.