Program
IBB 2017 Program
Print Full program| Time | Session/Lecture info |
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| 09:00-09:30 | Registration and Coffee
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| 09:30-09:40 | Opening Remarks
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| 09:40-12:25 | MECHANOBIOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT AND CANCER
Chair: Ronen Alon |
| 09:40-10:25 |
Plenary speaker: Denis Wirtz , John Hopkins University
The perinuclear actin cap in health and disease
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| 10:25-10:50 |
Ronen Zaidel-Bar, Tel Aviv University
Regulation of cortical contractility in the C. elegans zygote
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| 10:50-11:15 |
Haguy Wolfenson, Technion
Mechanisms of short- and long-term mechanosensing
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| 11:15-11:40 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:40-11:55 |
Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon, University of Haifa
Highly conserved developmental program for tubulogenesis driven by VEGF signaling and cytoskeleton remodeling proteins
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| 11:55-12:00 |
Maya Malik Garbi, Technion
Flash Talk:Scaling behavior in contractile actomyosin networks with turnover
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| 12:00-12:05 |
Himanshu Pandey, Ben-Gurion University
Flash Talk:Factors that Regulate the Directionality of the Kinesin-5 Nano-motor Cin8
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| 12:05-12:10 |
Ohad Cohen, Weizmann Institute of Science
Flash Talk:Entrainment and persistence time of beating cardiomyoscytes
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| 12:10-12:15 |
Tamar Segal, Ariel University
Flash Talk:Whole genome mapping of heterochromatin markers and their effects on transcription in migrating cells
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| 12:15-12:20 |
Assaf Zaritsky, Weizmann Institute of Science
RhoA-GEFs/RhoA/Contractility control of long-range intercellular communication in collective cell migration
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| 12:25-13:45 | Lunch break and poster session
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| 13:45-16:00 | CYTOSKELETAL ASSEMBLIES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Chair: Arnon Henn |
| 13:45-14:30 |
Plenary speaker: Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University
Mechanisms of microtubule-based control of cell polarity and motility
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| 14:30-14:55 |
Hava Gil Henn, Bar Ilan University
FAK family kinases: the Yin and Yang of cancer metastasis
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| 14:55-15:10 |
Ilan Zarfaty, Tel Aviv Medical School
HGF/SF-Met signaling plays a major role in sarcoma cells motility plasticity by altering cell cytoskeleton and cellular morpho-kinetics
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| 15:10-15:25 |
Yaniv M Elkouby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Medical School
Tumbling nuclei, busy cytoplasm: cellular mechanisms of early oocyte differentiation by a novel centrosome organizing center
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| 15:25-15:35 |
Aviad Ben-Shmuel, Bar Ilan University
Mechanotransduction in the service of NK cell cytotoxicity
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| 15:35-16:00 |
Talila Volk, Weizmann Institute of Science
Mechanotransduction across the nuclear membrane in mature myofibers
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| 16:00-16:25 | Coffee Break
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| 16:25-18:00 | CYTOSKELETON: STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS
Chair: Leah Gheber |
| 16:25-16:40 |
Yosef Gruenbaum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Molecular dissection of the cellular response to mechanical stress
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| 16:30-16:40 |
Eyal Karzbrun, Weizmann Institute of Science
Human brain organoids on a chip reveal the physics of folding
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| 16:40-16:55 |
Ron Orbach , Yale University
Tubulins from Cilia: Purification and Dynamic Properties
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| 17:05-17:30 |
Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Ben Gurion University
Spontaneous buckling of contractile poroelastic actomyosin sheets
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| 17:30-17:55 |
Uri Raviv, Hebrew University
Dynamics of tubulin nucleation and assembly
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| 17:55-18:00 |
Closing remarks
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