Group Activities

• The Physics & Biology Lunch Club
  Meetings are held weekly on Sundays at 13:15 in the Physics building, seminar room B.

Current Activities

• May 26, 2013 Examples of phenomena in cell physics : cell motility and cell division

Past Activities

• March 12, 2013 Biophysical and microfluidic manipulation of stem cell fate
• March 12, 2013 Biophysical and microfluidic manipulation of stem cell fate
• July 1, 2012 Resonance-Induced Multimodal Body-Size Distributions In Ecosystems
• June 28, 2012 Fluctuating motion in cells
• May 20, 2012 Physicists' view of auto- and para-crine signaling in T-cell communication
• May 9, 2012 Imaging voltage with microbial rhodopsins
• April 29, 2012 Self-synthesizing Materials
• April 24, 2012 The ribosome as an optimal decoder: a lesson in molecular recognition
• April 15, 2012 How deeply cells feel: from soft matrices of controlled thickness to nuclear readouts
• March 25, 2012 Conformational dynamics of biopolymers studied by fluorescence spectroscopy
• January 30, 2012 Minsymposium on Biological Machines: Physics and Bioengineering
• January 22, 2012 Anomalous diffusion and ergodicity breaking in the plasma membrane: the role of endocytosis
• December 4, 2011 THz spectroscopy a novel experimental tool to study water network dynamics
• December 4, 2011 THz spectroscopy a novel experimental tool to study water network dynamics
• Symposium, September 18, 2011 Minisymposium on Cells under stress: physical mechanobiology
• July 17, 2011 Engineering a long-lived worm
• Lecture, July 10, 2011 Substrate induced ordering in biological cells: implications for stem cell development
• June 26, 2011 Is the ribosome an optimized molecular decoder?: the role of deformations in tRNA recognition
• June 19, 2011 Neurons in microfluidic devices: Nerve growth cones as chemical sensors, filters and amplifiers
• June 19, 2011 Neurons in microfluidic devices: Nerve growth cones as chemical sensors, filters and amplifiers
• Lecture, June 12, 2011 Effective temperature of active systems
• Lecture, April 17, 2011 Biology in drop-based microfluidics
• Lecture, March 27, 2011 The spatial organization of chromosomes is linked to expression patterns
• Lecture, February 20, 2011 How can we learn to read the code of large groups of neurons?
• Lecture, January 23, 2011 Regulation by small RNA in bacteria
• Lecture, December 19, 2010 Towards an Understanding of Eukaryotic Chemotaxis
• Lecture, November 28, 2010 Novel High-Throughput Single Molecule Mechanical Sequencing of DNA
• October 7, 2010 Annual Meeting og the Israel Biophysical Society
• Lecture, June 27, 2010 Random Walks in the Cell Nucleus: directions in horizontal gene transfer
• Lecture, June 13, 2010 Play your cards right: Optimality of proteins under constraints
• Lecture, May 30, 2010 Molecular origins of biological lubrication
• Lecture, May 16, 2010 Physical Properties of Retroviral Replication: The Ins and Outs
• Lecture, April 25, 2010 To fold or not to fold: following the fate of individual protein molecules
• Lecture, April 18, 2010 So, do worms sleep?
• Lecture, April 11, 2010 Computing with Neurons
• Lecture, February 14, 2010 Adaptive response by state-dependent inactivation
• Lecture, February 7, 2010 Scaling pattern with size during the development of an embryo
• January 31 - February 3, 2010 De Gennes Days: Physics of Cellular Mechanosensing
• Lecture, January 31, 2010 Aspiration of soft objects: From polymersomes to cellular aggregates
• Lecture, January 31, 2010 Sensing of force and rigidity by protein unfolding
• Lecture, January 31, 2010 Cell adhesion and mechanics
• Lecture, January 31, 2010 Integrating actin dynamiocs with adhesion during cell migration
• Lecture, January 31, 2010 The orientation of division in animal cells
• Lecture, January 31, 2010 Actin-myosin treadmill in the membrane bag
• Lecture, December 20, 2009 To send or receive but not both: An inter-cellular signaling switch for multi-cellular pattern formation
• November 22, 2009 The Hierarchical Phase Model of Cell Motility
• Lecture, October 11, 2009 Stretch, traction and mechanoregulation in single cells and confluent monolayers
• August 9, 2009 Mammalian photoreceptor nuclei adapt to vision
• Lecture, July 19, 2009 The influence of molecular anisotropy on stability and formation of monolayer and bilayer lipid nanotubes
• Lecture, June 14, 2009 A necessary condition for robustness in a large class of chemical reaction networks
• Lecture, May 24, 2009 Cooperative effects in interacting motor-filaments systems
• Lecture, March 29, 2009 Selective transport through nanochannels: biology, physics and nano-technology
• March 17, 2009 PALM imaging of protein distribution and dynamics
• Joint Seminar, March 10, 2009 HOW CELLS DECIDE: A SINGLE-MOLECULE VIEW
• Lecture, February 22, 2009 Simulations of self-assembly of cationic lipids and DNA into structured complexes
• Lecture, February 15, 2009 Robustness in biochemical reaction networks
• February 8, 2009 Stochastic and Deterministic Switching Mechanisms in Time and Space
• February 5, 2009 Different perspectives to model raft phenomena in cell membranes
• Lecture, January 25, 2009 Cellular heterogeneity and cooperativity shape decision-making in the immune system
• Lecture, January 11, 2009 Modeling Viral Traffic through the Cytoplasm
• Lecture, December 14, 2008 Molecular interactions of human papillomavirus E6 and E7 oncoproteins: implications for carcinogenesis
• November 23, 2008 Going beyond entropy in analysis of evolving information exchange: from communication to sex.
• November 3, 2008 Cell movements and cytoskeletal self-organization
• Lecture, October 29, 2008 MechanoBiology of Genome Assembly & Regulation
• Lecture, October 26, 2008 Active Organization of Cell Surface Molecules by Cortical Actin
• September 7 - 11, 2008 3rd Curie-Weizmann Symposium - At the Interface of Physics and Biology
• July 13, 2008 Muscle contraction is necessary to maintain joint progenitor cell fate
• Lecture, June 30, 2008 Solid state nanopores for single-molecule studies
• Lecture, June 22, 2008 Cells in Gels: Exploring Cellular Morphogenesis and Differentiation in 3-D Culture
• Lecture, May 18, 2008 Dynamic Logic, Neural Fields, Engineering Applications, and the Mind
• Lecture, April 13, 2008 How do focal adhesions probe the mechanical environment of cells?
• April 7, 2008 "Watching sound encoding - the first auditory synapse"
• Lecture, April 6, 2008 The domino effect and the flagellar motor
• Lecture, March 25, 2008 Control of collective synchrony: An approach to manipulation of pathological brain rhythms
• Lecture, March 13, 2008 Modelling generation and propagation of force in cellular systems
• Lecture, February 17, 2008 Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage
• Lecture, January 27, 2008 Principles for maintaining multi-cellular tissue: The fate of mammalian skin cells
• Lecture, January 6, 2008 Structural similarity enhances interaction propensity of proteins
• Lecture, December 23, 2007 Ice binding proteins, their interaction with ice and their applications
• December 9, 2007 Collective switch in bacterial thermotaxis
• December 9, 2007 Cell motility as persistent ransom motion or “how to read the body language of motile cells”
• December 9, 2007 Cell motility as persistent ransom motion or “how to read the body language of motile cells”
• December 3, 2007 How proteins find and recognize their targets on DNA: Mechanism of facilitated diffusion
• November 25 - 28, 2007 Minerva Weizmann Conference
• November 4, 2007 Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of dividing cell populations
• September 2 - 7, 2007 Physics of Biological Matter
• May 2, 2007 Mechanism of centriole duplication: Template or no template?
• March 25, 2007 The involvement of the musculature on skeletal development
• February 21, 2007 Actin-based motility of bacterial pathogens

Our activities are coordinated with the Clore Center for Biological Physics.