Senior Scientist: Yaakov (Koby) Levy |
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| Personal Details |
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Place of Birth
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Tel-Aviv
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Citizenship
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Israeli
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Marital Status
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Married, two children
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Contact Information
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Languages
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Hebrew (mother language), English, Spanish
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6/1994 – 6/1997
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Military service in the Israel Defense Forces
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| Education |
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6/2002 – 6/2004
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at the Univ. of Califonia at San Diego. Worked with Profs. Jose' Onuchic and Peter Wolynes.
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6/1997 – 6/2002
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Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Ph.D., Department of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry
Theoretical and computational biophysics
Prof. Joshua Jortner and Dr. Oren Becker.
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1991 – ‘94
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Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
B.Sc., in Chemistry (summa cum laude).
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| Teaching Experience |
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1998 – ‘02
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Teaching special courses in General Chemistry (The School of Dental Medicine and the Pre-University project, Tel-Aviv University). Thesis title: "Multidimensional Potential Energy Surfaces of Biological Macromolecules".
Teaching Assistant in General and Physical Chemistry courses (The School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University), Laboratory course (General Chemistry), and in Statistical Thermodynamics as well as in analytical chemistry courses (The School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University).
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1999 – ‘01
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Member in the center for improving teaching in Tel-Aviv university.
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1993 – ‘94
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Teaching chemistry (for matriculation), “Shuv” High-School, Haifa.
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| Honors and Awards |
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1992, 1993, 1994
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President's award for high academic achievements (Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology).
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1994
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Amos de-Shalit scholarship in Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.
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1994
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Allen de Rothschild first prize for creative work (Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology).
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1998
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Award for excellence in teaching (School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv university).
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1998
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The Spanish ministry of foreign affairs grant for studying Spanish in Spain.
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1999
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The Wolf foundation grant for Ph.D. students.
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2000
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Travel award from the Protein Society (Philadelphia, USA).
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2000 - '02
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The Charles Clore fellowship for outstanding graduate students in natural sciences.
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2002 – ‘03
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Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship.
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2002 – ‘03
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Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship.
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2003
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Travel award from the Protein Society (Boston, USA).
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| Research Grants |
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2006-2007
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GIF – Young investigator award
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Biomolecular self-organization in the cell: mechanisms, kinetics, and specificities.
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| Referee Activity |
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Acting as a referee for Biophysical Journal, Proteins: Structure, function, and bioinformatics, Journal of Chemical Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy Science USA, Biopolymers, Journal of Molecular Biology, European Physics Journal D , Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Acting as a referee for grant proposal submitted to the NIH, ISF, and BSF.
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| Invited Lectures |
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Vienna, Austria, 1999
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The third international conference on molecular structural biology, “Mapping the energy landscape of the prion protein”.
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Vienna, Austria, 2003
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The fifth international conference on molecular structural biology, “Binding mechanisms of flexible proteins: traditional scenarios and beyond”.
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UIUC, IL, USA, 2004
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Materials Research ITR Computational Workshop, “Minimalist models and connections with large simulations for protein assembly and DNA recognition”.
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Toronto, Canada, 2005
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Chemical biophysics symposium, “Folding for binding or vice versa: New lessons from minimalist models”.
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Ventura, CA, USA, 2006
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Gordon conference on Protein Folding, “Folding for binding or vice versa: New lessons from minimalist models”
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San Jose, CA, USA, 2006
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National Society of Black and Hispanic Physicists, “Folding for binding or vice versa: New lessons from minimalist models”
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CECAM, Lyon, France, 2006
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Protein Folding and misfolding
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Tel Aviv, Israel, 2007
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The 72nd meeting of the Israel chemical society
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| Workshops |
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Dead sea, IL, 1998
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Conformational diseases
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Sicily, Italy, 1999
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Summer school for computational biology
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London, England, 2000
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Protein misfolding and diseases
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Telluride, CO, USA, 2001
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Grand vision of cluster cartography
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Irvine, CA, USA, 2004
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Frontiers in Bioinformatics
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Long beach, USA, 2005
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Biophysical society 49th annual meeting
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San Diego, USA, 2005
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229th ACS meeting
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Los Angeles, USA, 2005
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Multiscale Modeling in Soft Matter and Bio-Physics
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| Selected Poster Presentations |
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Tel-Aviv, IL, 1998
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The 63rd meeting of the Israel chemical society
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Germany, 1999
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The 3rd European symposium of the protein science
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Tel-Aviv, IL, 2001
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The 66th meeting of the Israel chemical society
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Paris, France, 2001
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The 4th European symposium of the protein science
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Eilat, IL, 2001
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The 10th Israeli neuroscience annual meeting
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Coolfont, WV, USA, 2003
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The 7th Johns Hopkins folding meeting
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Ventura, CA, USA, 2004
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Gordon conference on Protein Folding
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Lawrence, KS, USA, 2005
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Modeling of protein interactions in genomes
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Boston. MA, USA, 2005
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17th Protein Society meeting
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| Seminars |
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Rehovot, Israel, 1998
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The Bioinformatics and genome research open club, Weizmann Institute of science.
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Eilat, Israel, 1999
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The 8th Israeli neuroscience annual meeting, (Neurosci. Lett., S27, Suppl. 54, 1999).
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Eilat, Israel, 2000
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The 9th Israeli neuroscience annual meeting.
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Jerusalem, Israel, 2000
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Dept. of medicinal chemistry, School of pharmacy, Hebrew Univ., (Hosted by Prof. Amiram Glodblum).
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Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2001
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Dept. of Chemical Physics, School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv Univ.
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Zurich, Switzerland, 2001
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Biochemistry Institute, Zurich Univ., (Hosted by Prof. Amedeo Caflisch)
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La Jolla, USA, 2001
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Depts. Of Physics and Chemistry, Univ. of San-Diego, (Hosted by Prof. José Onuchic & Prof. Peter Wolynes).
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Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2001
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Dept. of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion Univ.
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Haifa, Israel, 2001
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Faculty of Chemistry, Technion- Israel Inst. of Technology.
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Jerusalem, Israel, 2001
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Fritz Haber center, Faculty of Chemistry, The Hebrew Univ.
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Rehovot, Israel, 2002
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Dept. of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science.
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Frederick, MD, USA, 2003
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National Institute of Cancer, SAIC, (Hosted by Prof. Ruth Nussinov).
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Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2003
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Dept. of Chemical Physics, Tel-Aviv Univ.
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Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2003
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Dept. of Biochemistry, Tel-Aviv Univ., (Hosted by Dr. Nir Ben-Tal).
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Zurich, Switzerland, 2003
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Biochemistry Institute, Zurich Univ., (Hosted by Prof. Amedeo Caflisch).
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La Jolla, USA, 2003
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Dept. of Molecular Biology, Scripps Institute, (Hosted by Prof. Charles Brooks III).
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La Jolla, USA, 2004
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Center of Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD.
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Pasadena, USA, 2004
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Faculty of Chemistry, Caltech, (Hosted by Prof. Harry Gray).
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Curriculum Vitae Landmarks
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