Events / 2007

January
02
Tuesday
2007

Novel Insights into Immune Escape Mechanism of cancer

Prof. Barbara Seliger
Dept. of Medicine, University of Halle, Germany
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
07
Sunday
2007

A novel molecular mechanism controlling calcium entry in T lymphocytes

Dr. Didi Matza
Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
14
Sunday
2007

Life at low copy numbers: regulation and variability in protein expression at the single molecule level

Dr. Nir Friedman
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
18
Thursday
2007

Antitumor and anti-angiogenic activity of tellurium compounds via inhibition of tumor IL-10 secretion and integrin

Prof. Benjamin Sredni
Director, Cancer, AIDS and Immunology (C.A.I.R.) Research Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
01
Thursday
2007

Innate and adaptive immunity regulate adult brain plasticity and neurogenesis in health and disease

Prof. Michal Schwartz
Dept. of Neurobiology
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
04
Sunday
2007

"Identification of the individuals' sensitivity to oxidative stress: Towards better triage of localized prostate cancer patients to therapy

Dr. Yoni Pinthus
Dept. of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Juravinski Cancer Center, McMaster University, canada
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
04
Sunday
2007

"Identification of the individuals' sensitivity to oxidative stress: Towards better triage of localized prostate cancer patients to therapy"

Dr. Yoni Pinthus
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences Juravinski Cancer Center, McMaster University Canada
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
14
Wednesday
2007
February
14
Wednesday
2007
February
15
Thursday
2007

Selective breakdown of Immunological tolerance participates in the regulation of destructive autoimmunity and cancer diseases

Prof. Nathan Karin
Dept. of Immunology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
25
Sunday
2007

Lentiviral Mediated Gene Transfer into Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Biological and Clinical Implications

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
25
Sunday
2007

Lentiviral Mediated Gene Transfer into Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Biological and Clinical Implications

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Dept. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
29
Thursday
2007

A dual role of IL-1 alpha and its pro-piece in the antiviral response

Prof. Menachem Rubinstein and Dr. Ariel Werman
Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
29
Thursday
2007

A dual role of IL-1 alpha and its pro-piece in the antiviral response

Prof. Menachem Rubinstein and Dr. Ariel Werman
Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
12
Thursday
2007

Crk adaptor proteins are involved in T lymphocyte early activation events

Prof. Noah Isakov
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
26
Thursday
2007

PLASTICITY OF NKT REGULATORY LYMPHOCYTES

Prof. Yaron Ilan
Gastroenterology & Liver Units Director, Department of Medicine Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
09
Wednesday
2007

Zebra fish elucidate the genetic basis of immunoregulation

Dr. Francisco Quintana
Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
10
Thursday
2007

The pro-malignancy chemokines CCL5 and CCL2 in breast cancer: Regulation, activities and clinical implications

Prof. Adit Ben-Baruch
Head, Cancer Biology Research Center, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
24
Thursday
2007

Transcriptional regulation of Hematopoiesis and Stem cell Function

Professor Boris Reizis
Dept. of Microbiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
24
Thursday
2007

Transcriptional regulation of Hematopoiesis and Stem cell Function

Professor Boris Reizis
Dept. of Microbiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
03
Sunday
2007

Inhibition of CD26 and other means to enhance hematopoiesis and stem cell engraftment: The roles of SDF-1/CXCR4 interactions

Dr. Hal E. Broxmeyer
Head of Research Institute, the Walther Oncology Center Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
04
Monday
2007

Unexpected chemokines emerging from studies of HIV

Prof. David M. Markovitz
Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
07
Thursday
2007

Pattern Recognition by Natural Killer Cells

Professor Angel Porgador
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
13
Wednesday
2007

Development of Human Cancer Immunotherapy

Dr. Steven Rosenberg
Chief of Surgery, The National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
June
21
Thursday
2007

Biology of CD81, the receptor for hepatitis C virus

Professor Shoshana Levy
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
21
Thursday
2007

Lymphoma, a malignancy that responds to immune signals

Professor Ronald Levy
Chief of the Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
21
Thursday
2007

Lymphoma, a malignancy that responds to immune signals

Professor Ronald Levy
Chief of the Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
04
Wednesday
2007

"Neutrophil Recognition of Pathogens: Sugar Preferences in Candy Land"

Dr. Ifat Rubin-Bejerano
Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
04
Wednesday
2007

"Neutrophil Recognition of Pathogens: Sugar Preferences in Candy Land"

Dr. Ifat Rubin-Bejerano
Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
05
Thursday
2007

Micro RNAs in Cancer and Viral Diseases

Professor Zvi Bentwich
Head of the Center for Infectious Diseases and AIDS at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University and Chief Scientist of Rosetta Genomics.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
05
Thursday
2007

Micro RNAs in Cancer and Viral Diseases

Professor Zvi Bentwich
Head of the Center for Infectious Diseases and AIDS at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University and Chief Scientist of Rosetta Genomics.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
12
Thursday
2007

Reversible real-time alteration and imaging of endothelial sinus barrier function in vivo

Professor Hugh Rosend
Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
12
Thursday
2007

Reversible real-time alteration and imaging of endothelial sinus barrier function in vivo

Professor Hugh Rosen
Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
September
18
Tuesday
2007

New insights in cell biology and immunology gained from 4D live cell imagingwith photostable quantum dot ligands: Examples from studies of growth factor signaling and antigen processing

Dr. Donna Arndt-Jovin
Dept. of Molecular Biology, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
04
Sunday
2007

'Th2 cells: Mechanisms of induction and repertoire=dependent immunopathology.'

Professor William E. Paul
National Institute of Health, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Maryland, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
04
Sunday
2007

'Th2 cells: Mechanisms of induction and repertoire=dependent immunopathology.'

Professor William E. Paul
National Institute of Health, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Maryland, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
20
Tuesday
2007

"Systemic leukocyte-directed siRNA delivery reveals cyclin D1 as an anti-inflammatory target"

Dr. Dan Peer
Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
04
Tuesday
2007

"Cellular orchestration of T cell activation and function"

Dr. Philippe Bousso
Department of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
16
Sunday
2007

"Cell-mediated mechanism of immunological tolerance"

Prof. Alexander Y. Rudensky
Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
December
16
Sunday
2007

Anual Symposium in honor of Prof.Michael Sela

December
16
Sunday
2007

"Regulatory T cells for immune tolerance and homeostasis"

Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi
Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences,department of Experimental Pathology , Kyoto University, Japan
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
December
25
Tuesday
2007

"To the follicle and back: New insights to marginal zone B cell function"

Dr. Guy Cinamon
Teva Pharmaceuticals, Israel
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
25
Tuesday
2007

"To the follicle and back: New insights to marginal zone B cell function"

Dr. Guy Cinamon
Teva Pharmaceuticals, Israel
Wolfson Building for Biological Research