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December 15, 2014
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Date:14SundayDecember 2014Lecture
Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative Seminar Series: Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Plan for the State of Israel: Strategies, Incentives and Reporting
More information Time 13:00Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Ofira Ayalon
Director - Natural Resource and Environmental Research Center, University of Haifa, Head of Environment Cluster Samuel Neaman Institute, TechnionOrganizer Feinberg Graduate School
Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative (AERI)Contact Details Show full text description of Gathering and refreshments at 12:40...» Gathering and refreshments at 12:40 -
Date:14SundayDecember 2014Lecture
Eradication of rival colonies through a highly coordinated group behavior
More information Time 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Eliane Hadas Yardeni
Ilana Kolodkin-Gal's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:14SundayDecember 2014Lecture
Keeping it personal: novel aspects in metabolic syndrome research
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Location
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Jotham Suez and Tal Korem
Dr. Eran Elinav's lab; Pro. Eran Segal's lab Weizmann Institute of ScienceOrganizer Life Sciences
Metabollic Research ForumContact -
Date:15MondayDecember 2014Lecture
A role of G protein-coupled receptor for the intrinsic homeostasis of oligodendrocytes
More information Time 12:15Location Camelia Botnar Building
AuditoriumLecturer Hyun-Jeong YangOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:15MondayDecember 2014Lecture
Losing the brakes- The onset of p53 loss of heterozygosity in various stem cell types
More information Time 12:30Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Yoav ShetzerOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:15MondayDecember 2014Lecture
What's better than CRISPR?
More information Time 14:00Location Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Seminar RoomLecturer Dr Adi Barzel
Depts. of Pediatrics and Genetics Stanford University, Ca., U.S.A.Organizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact -
Date:15MondayDecember 2014Lecture
Theory of the many-body localization transition in one dimensional systems
More information Time 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room ALecturer Ronen Vosk
WISOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Statistical Physics SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about It has been argued recently that, through a phenomenon of ma...» It has been argued recently that, through a phenomenon of many-body localization, closed interacting quantum systems subject to sufficiently strong disorder would undergo localization transtion and fail to thermalize. Although both the physics of the many-body localized state, as well as the ergodic state, are well understood, there is no theory for the transition between them. In this talk I will describe a theory of the many-body localization transition based on a novel real-space renormalization group approach. The method becomes asymptotically exact near the critical point, and predict the universal aspects of the transition. The results of this theory are corroborated and intuitively explained with a phenomenological effective description of the critical point and of the “badly conducting” state found near the critical point on the delocalized side. -
Date:15MondayDecember 2014Lecture
Guilt-Free Interactive Data Analysis: The Reusable Holdout
More information Time 14:30Location Jacob Ziskind Building
Room 261Lecturer Omer Reingold
Stanford UniversityOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Foundations of Computer Science SeminarContact -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
GENERALIZED INDICES FOR N=1 THEORIES IN FOUR-DIMENSIONS
More information Time 10:30Location Neve ShalomLecturer ITAMAR YAAKOV
PRINCETONOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
High Energy Theory Joint SeminarContact Details Show full text description of 10:20 Gathering and coffee ...» 10:20 Gathering and coffee
Abstract Show full text abstract about I’ll describe how to define and compute Euclidean ...» I’ll describe how to define and compute Euclidean partition functions of 4d N=1 theories on spaces that look like a circle times a simple three manifold. These partition functions can be interpreted as supersymmetric indices: supertraces over the Hilbert space resulting from quantizing the theory on the three manifold, analogous to the Witten index. I’ll show how to calculate these indices using localization and describe some applications of the results. -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
"Infrared-derived parameters for selectivity prediction and mechanism elucidation"
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Dr. Anat Milo
University of UtahOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
On the vortex-wave system
More information Time 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1Lecturer Milton Lopes Filho
Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Mathematical Analysis and Applications SeminarContact -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
Fine scale diversity in microbial populations and its impact on community resilience
More information Time 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Dr. Itai Sharon
University of California, Berkeley, USAOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Microbial communities often consist of many closely related ...» Microbial communities often consist of many closely related strains or species that exhibit small genomic differences compared with one another. These variations are thought to play crucial roles in maintaining community resilience and in the evolution of new species. Multiple examples now exist for the impact of species and strain variations on community outcome and its environment as in the cases of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and pathogenic Escherichia coli. However, very little is known about the scale and dynamics of these variations in natural environments.
In this talk I will discuss species- and strain-variations in two distinct environments: the simple developing microbial community in the gut of newborns and the complex microbial communities in terrestrial sediments. Using new methods for the recovery of dozens of genomes from environmental DNA sequencing (metagenomics) data and an analysis of synthetic long reads we were able to thoroughly describe systems of species- and strain- variations in both environments. These include strain-specific phage predation during infant gut colonization, and also complex populations of dozens of species and strains in terrestrial sediments. The implications of our findings as well as future directions will also be presented.
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Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
THE CONFORMAL BOOTSTRAP FOR MAXIMALLY SUPERSYMMETRIC THEORIES IN THREE DIMENSIONS
More information Time 12:00Location Neve ShalomLecturer RAN YACOBY
PRINCETONOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
High Energy Theory Joint SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about I will discuss the recent application of the conformal boots...» I will discuss the recent application of the conformal bootstrap program to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 3d, focusing on maximally supersymmetric theories. In particular, the constraints from unitarity and crossing symmetry on the 4-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet can be implemented numerically, and lead to stringent bounds on OPE coefficients and operator dimensions. Moreover, in these SCFTs it is possible to derive relations between certain OPE coefficients analytically. These relations are obtained by restricting the operator algebra to the cohomology of a certain supercharge, and then solving the associativity constraints in the resulting truncated algebra. We will see that the numerical results are consistent with the above analytic relations. In addition, for the interacting SCFT that constitutes the IR limit of O(3) maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills, the above constraints are powerful enough to allow for an explicit computation of 3-point functions of 1/2-BPS operators. -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
Can you take the ant out of the nest?
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Ofer Feinerman
Department of Physics and Complex SystemsOrganizer Communications and Spokesperson DepartmentContact -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
Intercellular Communications in Sensory Ganglia Involving Neurons and Satellite Glial Cells: Implications for Chronic Pain
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Menachem Hanani
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, JerusalemOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Abstract: Current information indicates that glial cells pa...» Abstract:
Current information indicates that glial cells participate in most normal and pathological processes of the central nervous system. Although much less is known about satellite glial cells (SGCs) in sensory ganglia, it appears that these cells share many characteristics with their central counterparts. We found that SGCs in sensory ganglia of mice undergo major changes in a variety chronic of pain models such as axotomy, local and systemic inflammations, neuropathy induced by chemotherapeutic drugs, and diabetic neuropathy. These changes include upregulation of the glial marker glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), increased cell coupling by gap junctions, and augmented responses to ATP via P2 receptors.
We also showed that intercellular communications in the ganglia are mediated by calcium waves, which depend on gap junctions and P2 receptors. Our main hypothesis is that augmentation of these two factors leads to increased excitability of sensory neurons and pain. In support of this idea, blocking gap junctions reduced neuronal excitability and pain. We propose that SGCs play a major role in chronic pain and may be a suitable target for pain therapy.
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Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
The Bromodomain protein, BRD4, links cell cycle and transcription
More information Time 13:30 - 14:30Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Dinah Singer
Chief, Molecular Regulation Section, Experimental, Immunology Branch, DCBDC, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MDOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
"Macromolecular structure and dynamics from integration of multiple experimental methods"
More information Time 14:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Dr. Dina Schneidman
University of CaliforniaOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:16TuesdayDecember 2014Lecture
MNF Seminar
More information Time 15:00Title Altered α-Synuclein degradation and augmentation of phenotype, in a transgenic Parkinson mouse heterozygous for a Gaucher mutationLocation Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Ianai Fishbein
UCSFOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesHomepage Contact -
Date:17WednesdayDecember 2014Lecture
High resolution mapping of bimolecular properties
More information Time 10:00 - 10:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Lecture HallLecturer Shira Warszawski
Members-Department of Biological Chemistry-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:17WednesdayDecember 2014Lecture
“Genetics never lie!”, but what does the phenotype tell us?
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Gil Levkowitz
Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, WISOrganizer Life Sciences
Developmental ClubContact