Events / 2010

January
03
Sunday
2010

"Gut, germs and genes: The tumorigenic triad"

Prof. Eyal Raz
UCSD
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
05
Tuesday
2010

"Immunology of the mind in health and disorders"

Prof. Michal Schwartz
Dept. of Neurobiology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
12
Tuesday
2010

" Harnessing Human Dendritic Cell subsets for Novel Vaccine Development"

Eynav Klechevsky
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
19
Tuesday
2010

"Selective T-cell targeting to amyloid plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease"

Alon Monsonego
BGU
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
26
Tuesday
2010

"Tumor immunotherapy using chimeric receptor redirected allogeneic T cells across MHC barriers"

Assaf Marcus
Zelig Eshhar's lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
07
Sunday
2010

Joint Symposium University of Strasbourg-Weizmann Institute of Science

Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
February
23
Tuesday
2010

Obesity promotes kidney and prostate cancer initiation and progression- the adiponectin link

Prof. Jehonathan Pinthus
Division of Urology, Jurvavinski Cancer Program, McMaster University, Canada
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
23
Tuesday
2010

"Immune privilege, T regulatory cells and autoimmunity"

Prof. Rachel Caspi
National Eye Institute, Laboratory of Immunology, NIH
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
15
Monday
2010

The younger brother steals the show - myths & facts about dendritic cells

Prof. Steffen Jung
WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
16
Tuesday
2010

"The V3 region of HIV-1 - from NMR structure to vaccine design"

Jacob Anglister
Structural biology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
22
Monday
2010

Natural Killer cells involvement in response to a pathogenic stimulus: looking through the prism of the NK receptors

Prof. Angel porgador
Ben-Gurion University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
23
Tuesday
2010

"Mapping the active site of proteases, Rational design of inhibitors / drugs , and Protease activation by inhibitors (1960s to 2000s)"

Prof. Israel Schechter
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
24
Wednesday
2010

"Ignoring Cell Boundaries - Cell-to-Cell Transfer of small RNAs and Signaling Proteins"

Oded Rechavi
Department of Neurobiochemistry, In Prof. Yoel Kloog's lab Tel Aviv University, Israel,
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
06
Tuesday
2010

The molecular mechanisms regulating cytoskeleton re-organization of immune cells

Dr. Mira Barda-Saad
The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
11
Sunday
2010

"Exploring the Immune System Using Movie-making and Computational Modeling"

Prof. Ronald N. Germain
Head, Laboratory of Immunology, DIR, NIAID
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
22
Thursday
2010

"Hematopoietic stem cell decision-making in vivo”

Prof. Janis Abkowitz
Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of Hematology, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, U.S.A,
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
26
Monday
2010

NK cell receptors

Prof. Marco Colonna
Washington University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
27
Tuesday
2010

“Natural Killer Cells in Mucosal Immunity and Beyond"

Prof. Marco Colonna
Washington University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
03
Monday
2010

"Immunotherapy of cancer; a scientists daydream or clinical reality ?"

Prof. Rolf Kiessling
Karolinska, Sweden
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
04
Tuesday
2010

To be announced

Prof. Rolf Kiessling
Karolinska, Sweden
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
10
Monday
2010

Lymphoid organ development and organization

Prof. Reina Mebius
VU University Medical Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
11
Tuesday
2010

The cellular and molecular mechanisms of lymphoid organ development in health and disease

Prof. Reina Mebius
VU University Medical Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
13
Thursday
2010

Basic mechanisms of venous thrombosis: lessons from knockout mice

Dr. Alexander Brill, M.D., Ph.D.
Denisa Wagner's lab Immune Disease Institute Department of Pathology Harvard Medical School
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
16
Sunday
2010

"Nef-trafficking intercellular highways for HIV evasion of antibody production"

Prof. Andrea Cerutti
Cornell University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
17
Monday
2010

“Innate signaling networks in mucosal immunity”

Prof. Andrea Cerutti
Cornell University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
24
Monday
2010

'Self and non-self' from a different point of view: how plants recognize and survive pathogens

Prof. Robert Fluhr
WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
25
Tuesday
2010

To be announced

Inbal Binsky
Idit Shachar's lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
30
Sunday
2010

"Anti-viral instruction of bone marrow leukocytes during respiratory viral infections"

Tamar Hermesh
Thomas M Moran laboratory Microbiology Department Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
31
Monday
2010

“Antigen degradation by enzymes, abzymes and proteasome”

Prof. Alexander Gabibov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
01
Tuesday
2010

“Catalytic antibodies in autoimmunity. Possible application in medicine”

Prof. Alexander Gabibov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
03
Thursday
2010

Influenza and interferon: the yin and yang of survival

Prof. Eleanor Fish
Department of Immunology, University of Toronto
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
07
Monday
2010

"Systems Immunology: Numbers, Networks and Noise"

Dr. Nir Friedman
Immunology,WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
08
Tuesday
2010

The AM and FM of NFAT signaling

Dr. Nissan Yissachar
(From Nir Friedman's Lab)
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
10
Thursday
2010

The immunobiology of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Prof. Nicholas Chiorazzi
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
14
Monday
2010

Regulation of the bone marrow reservoir of immature and maturing leukocytes: the cross talk between the nervous and immune systems with the microenvironment.

Prof. Tsvee Lapidot
Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
17
Thursday
2010

Guest Lecture

Bruce L. Levine, Ph.D.
Director, Clinical Cell & Vaccine Production Facility Abramson Cancer Center of University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
21
Monday
2010

"The Biology of Lymphocyte Trafficking"

Prof. Robert Sackstein
Harvard Medical School
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
22
Tuesday
2010

"GPS: Creating a Roadmap for Stem Cell Therapeutics"

Prof. Robert Sackstein
Harvard Medical School
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
27
Sunday
2010

Genomic Characterization of Human Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells

Anita Bringmann
University of Bonn, Dpt. of Hematology and Oncology
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
28
Monday
2010

Allelic exclusion in the immune system

Prof. Yehudit Bergman
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
30
Wednesday
2010

Insights from Live 2-photon Microscopy into Antigen Specific Rejection of Melanoma

Yoav Manaster
from Guy Shakhar's Lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
October
14
Thursday
2010

SHIP: Repressor or Promoter of Immune Function?

William G. Kerr, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Pediatrics SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
09
Tuesday
2010

The role of Th17 and IL-17 in autoimmunity

Prof. Ari Waisman
Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
23
Tuesday
2010

The Immune System that Bacteria Have

Dr. Rotem Sorek
Department of Molecular Genetics, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
30
Tuesday
2010

Don’t judge the endothelial cell by its cover: Endothelial chemokines in control of lymphocyte transendothelial migration

Ziv Shulman
Ph.D. Student in the lab of Prof. Ronen Alon
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
07
Tuesday
2010

TBA

Liat Bar-On
Ph.D. Student in the lab of Dr. Steffen Jung
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
13
Monday
2010

Th17 subset: Differentiation, transcriptional program and phenotype

Prof. Eyal Raz, MD
Department of Medicine University of CA San Diego, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
14
Tuesday
2010

Antigen potency and maximal efficacy reveal the mechanism of efficient T cell activation

Dr. Omer Dushek
University of Oxford NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow Junior Research FellowW ,olfson College SirW illiamD unn Schoolof P athology & Centref orM athematical Biology
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
16
Thursday
2010

Schlafen-2: a new gene involved in host resistance through regulation of immune cell quiescence

Dr. Micha Berger
Department of Genetics The Scripps Research Institute
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
19
Sunday
2010
Prof. Hartmut Wekerle and Prof. Klaus Ley
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium