Events / 2012

January
03
Tuesday
2012

αSMA+ Monocytes preserve hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in the BM via Cox-2

Aya Ludin
Tsvee Lapidot's lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
10
Tuesday
2012

"The search for functional elements in the Genome"

Dr. Manuel Garber
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
17
Tuesday
2012

GSK3b Signaling Promotes Physiological Motility of Hematopoietic Progenitors via Cytoskeletal Rearrangement

Kfir Lapid
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
24
Tuesday
2012

Myeloid-wide microRNome analysis identifies miR-142 as critical regulator of murine dendritic cell development

Dr. Alexander Mildner
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
January
30
Monday
2012

Introducing the Ion Torrent Technology:Semiconductor Sequencing for Life

Dr. Marco L. Pirotta
Life Technologies
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
January
31
Tuesday
2012

TBA

Julia Farache-Pinto
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
13
Monday
2012

Capture crawl cross: the T cell code to break the blood brain barrier

Professor Britta Engelhardt
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
14
Tuesday
2012

"Molecular and Cellular cross talk in Germinal Centers and Plasma Cell Niches"

Prof. Michael Cancro
Michael P. Cancro Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
15
Wednesday
2012

"Multiple Sclerosis"

Prof. Howard L. Weiner
Brigham & Women’s Hospital Center for Neurologic Diseases Harvard Medical School
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
February
23
Thursday
2012

"B cell dysfunctions during HIV-1 infection: mechanisms and altered homeostasis"

Prof. Francesca Chiodi
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology Karolinska institute
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
06
Tuesday
2012

"Functional Analysis of Antigen-Redirected Regulatory T cells in Models of Ulcerative Colitis"

Dan Blat
From Zelig Eshhar's lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
12
Monday
2012

"Force generation and force transduction in migrating leukocytes"

Prof. Michael Sixt
IST Austria , Austria
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
13
Tuesday
2012

"Chemotactic guidance of dendritic cells in vivo"

Prof. Michael Sixt
IST Austria , Austria
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
18
Sunday
2012

"From plant to transplant: How chili affects immunity?"

Prof. Eyal Raz, MD
Department of Medicine University of CA San Diego, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
19
Monday
2012

A role for the microbiome in intestinal neoplasia

Prof. Sergio Lira
Immunology Institute Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
19
Monday
2012

"Transcriptional control in the immune system: from long-term developmental process to rapid Inflammation responses"

Dr. Ido Amit
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
20
Tuesday
2012

Immune regulation by STAT3 in cancer and diabetes

Prof. Hua Yu
Associate Chair, Dept. of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology Co-Leader, Immunotherapeutics Program, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
20
Tuesday
2012

“Immune regulation by STAT3 in cancer and diabetes”

Prof. Hua Eleanor Yu
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
26
Monday
2012

T cell differentiation and plasticity

Prof. FEDERICA SALLUSTO
Head of the Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
March
27
Tuesday
2012

Human T cell subsets in infection and inflammation

Dr. Federica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
02
Monday
2012

"T lymphocyte development"

Prof. Kristin Hogquist
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
03
Tuesday
2012

To be announced

Prof. Kristin Hogquist
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
04
Wednesday
2012

"Effects of inflammasome activation on memory formation in Listeria infection"

Dr. Ofir Goldberger
Stanford University Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
16
Monday
2012

"Novel regulatory mechanisms in T-cell mediated autoimmunity"

Prof. Nathan Karin
Department of Immunology, Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
22
Sunday
2012
David Lopatie Conference Centre
April
23
Monday
2012

"Understand DC biology and you will understand asthma"

Prof. Bart N. Lambrecht
University Ghent, Belgium
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
24
Tuesday
2012

Exogenous and endogenous danger control DC activation in the lung

Prof. Bart N. Lambrecht
University Ghent, Belgium
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
April
30
Monday
2012

"Immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment"

Prof. Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
Professor of Biological Sciences Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Professor of Biochemistry University of Maryland, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
01
Tuesday
2012

"Suppressing the suppressors: turning the tables on myeloid-derived suppressor cells"

Prof. Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg
University of Maryland, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
02
Wednesday
2012

"Harnessing invariant NKT cells to optimize vaccination strategies"

Prof. Vincenzo Cerundolo
Head, MRC Human Immunology Unit University of Oxford UK
The principal aim of the Research in my laboratory is to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms that control the cell-cell interplay required for optimal expansion and activation of tumour-specific T cell populations and to apply this knowledge to
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
06
Sunday
2012

An Update on the Inflammatory Cytokine Interleukin-32

Dr. Soohyun Kim
Laboratory of Cytokine Immunology, Department of Biomedical Science and Technology, Konkuk University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
07
Monday
2012

"The roadmap for leukocyte adhesion to and crossing of endothelial barriers"

Prof. Ronen Alon
Department of Immunology, WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
08
Tuesday
2012

"Human Embryonic Lung Stem Cells for Lung Repair"

Dr. Chave Rosen
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
14
Monday
2012

Synthetic biology and lymphocyte signalling

Prof. Michael Reth
Institute of Biology III, University of Freiburg, Germany and MPI of immunobiology and epigenetics
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
15
Tuesday
2012

The dissociation activation model (DAM) of B cell activation

Prof. Michael Reth
Dept. of Molecular Immunology MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
16
Wednesday
2012

Genomic and Epigenomics club

Dr. Chad Nusbaum
Co-Director, Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute, USA
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
May
21
Monday
2012

"Contemporary neuroimmunology: The immunology of the brain and the mind"

Prof. Michal Schwartz
WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
22
Tuesday
2012

Twitching motility toward the tight junctions

Prof. Benjamin Aroeti
Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences Faculty of Sciences Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
22
Tuesday
2012

Twitching motility towards the tight junctions

Benjamin Aroeti, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Silberman Life Sciences Institute Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat-Ram The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
24
Thursday
2012

“Microglial Phagocytosis in Health & Disease”

Prof. Amanda Sierra
Ikerbasque Foundation, Leioa, Spain
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
May
24
Thursday
2012
Prof. Giacchino Natoli
European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milano
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
May
28
Monday
2012

"Translational immunology: From NOD mouse diabetes  through a successful Phase III clinical trial"

Prof. Irun Cohen
WIS
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
May
29
Tuesday
2012

TBA

Dr. Anat Globerson
Zelig Eshhar's lab
May
30
Wednesday
2012

Methods and use of strand specific RNA-seq in bacteria to study microbial transcriptomes

Omri Wurtzel
from Rotem Sorek's lab
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
June
04
Monday
2012

"Thymic epithelial cells - the masters of self-tolerance"

Dr. Jakub Abramson
Dept. of Immunology, WIS
June
11
Monday
2012

"Immunotherapeutic approaches against cancer"

Prof. Cyril Cohen
Head, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Gonda Building (204), Room 105 The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. Bar-Ilan University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
12
Tuesday
2012

An aptamer strategy to target oncogenic signaling in human cancers

Dr. Georg Mahlknecht
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
13
Wednesday
2012
Eilon Sharon
from Eran Segal's lab
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
June
20
Wednesday
2012
Dr. Giacomo Cavalli
Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, France
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
June
21
Thursday
2012

Role of SHIP in Cancer, Mucosal Inflammation and Stem Cells

Prof. William G. Kerr (PhD)
Upstate Medical University Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
June
26
Tuesday
2012

“The Genomics of Birth Timing”

Prof. Lou Muglia
Co-Director, Perinatal Institute, Director, Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
June
26
Tuesday
2012

“Light-dependent regulation of eye development”

Prof. Richard Lang
Director of the Visual Systems Group and Professor, Divisions of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Developmental Biology
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
July
03
Tuesday
2012

An aptamer strategy to target oncogenic signalling in human cancers

Dr. Georg Mahlknecht
(Prof. Michael Sela's lab)
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
04
Wednesday
2012
Dr. Itay Tirosh
From Naama Barkai's lab
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
July
17
Tuesday
2012

TWEAKing the Immune System:

Prof. Chaim Putterman
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
July
18
Wednesday
2012
Dr. Zohar Itzhaki and Dr. Daniela Zalcenstein
From Ido Amit's lab
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
August
28
Tuesday
2012

Mobilization and Recruitment of Antigen-Presenting Cells in Skin

Dr. Jea-Hyun Baek
Institute of Biomedical EngineeringCell BiologyUniversity Medical SchoolRWTH Aachen University
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
September
04
Tuesday
2012
Prof. Cornelis Murre
Univ. of California, San Diego, Div. of Biological Sciences
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
September
09
Sunday
2012

The role of donor central memory CD8 T cells in transplantation tolerance induction

Yaki Eidelstein
Yair Reisner's Lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
September
24
Monday
2012

APC - T cell interactions in immune-mediated diseases of kidney and Intestine

Prof. Christian Kurts
Institutes of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology (IMMEI) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
October
22
Monday
2012
Nir Toib and Hovav Nechushtan MD PhD; Hadassah Hebrew University Medical center
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
October
30
Tuesday
2012

Critical IL-23 based cross regulation of colonic DCs by macrophages protects mice from Citrobacter challenge

Tegest (Tigi) Aychek
Steffen Jung's lab
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
06
Tuesday
2012
Gilad Landan and Eitan Yaffe
From Amos Tanay's lab
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
November
06
Tuesday
2012

Yes We Can: Long term imaging of primary T cells

Ira Zaretsky
(Nir Friedman's lab)20-minute talk
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
13
Tuesday
2012

Lectures on "Cancer Resistance" and "Our harmonious coexistence with the Epstein-Barr-Virus"

Prof. Eva Klein & Prof. Georg Klein
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
20
Tuesday
2012
Dr. Sten Linnarsson and Dr. Itai Yanai
Karolinska Institute Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
November
20
Tuesday
2012

Molecular control of dendritic cell function

Prof. Boris Reizis
Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology Columbia University Medical Center, NY, USA
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
November
26
Monday
2012
December
04
Tuesday
2012
Eric Shifrut and Dr. Asaf Madi
From Nir Friedman and Irun Cohen’s lab
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
December
04
Tuesday
2012

Food and colorectal cancer: A spicy twist

Prof. Eyal Raz M.D.
Department of Medicine University of California
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
11
Tuesday
2012

Mechanisms of Pluripotency and Epigenetic Reprogramming

Dr. Yaqub (Jacob) Hanna
Department of Molecular Genetics, WIS PI of the lab researching Mechanisms of Pluripotency and Epigenetic Reprogramming
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
12
Wednesday
2012

Single-cell transcriptome analyses of early mouse development

Prof. Rickard Sandberg
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB) Karolinska Institutet
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
16
Sunday
2012
Prof. Moshe Oren Dep. of Molecular Cell Biology, WISandProf. Richard A. FlavellChairman Dep. of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
December
18
Tuesday
2012
Dr. Nurit Gal-Mark and Chen Hermesh
From Dr. Erez Levanon's lab, Bar-Ilan University
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
December
18
Tuesday
2012

Decoding Human Cytomegalovirus by ribosome profiling

Dr. Noam Stern-Ginossar
University of California, San Francisco, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
24
Monday
2012

Tumor microenvironment-mediated drug resistance

Ravid Straussman, M.D. Ph.D.
The Broad institute of Harvard and MIT
December
25
Tuesday
2012

Reversal of paralysis and reduced inflammation from peripheral administration of β-amyloid in TH1 and TH17 versions of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Prof. Lawrence Steinman
Stanford University, Professor of neurology and neurological sciences, pediatrics, and genetics. Chair of the Stanford University Program in Immunology
Wolfson Building for Biological Research
December
27
Thursday
2012

NLRP1 inflammasome, more than just IL-1b processing

Dr. Motti Gerlic
Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Wolfson Building for Biological Research