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January 01, 2015

  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    Faculty Day - Chemistry

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    Time
    All day
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
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    Please see program link
    Organizer
    Faculty of Chemistry
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  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    Avoidance Coupling

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    Time
    11:05
    Location
    Jacob Ziskind Building
    Room 261
    Lecturer
    Ohad Feldheim
    University of Minnesota
    Organizer
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Geometric Functional Analysis and Probability Seminar
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  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    Quantum Design in Carbon Nanotubes

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    Time
    11:15 - 12:30
    Location
    Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
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    Lecturer
    Shahal Ilani
    WIS
    Organizer
    Faculty of Physics
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    DetailsShow full text description of 11:00 Coffee, Tea and more...»
    11:00 Coffee, Tea and more
    AbstractShow full text abstract about Recent years have seen the development of several experiment...»
    Recent years have seen the development of several experimental systems capable of tuning local parameters of quantum Hamiltonians, including ultracold atoms, trapped ions, superconducting circuits and photonic crystals. These systems excel in studying the physics of bosons in disorder-free settings. A solid state analog, in which Hamiltonians of interacting electrons are designed and studied, remains a major open challenge, since in conventional solids electrons exist inside an imperfect host material that generates uncontrolled disorder. In this talk, I will describe our newly-developed platform for realizing in suspended carbon nanotubes such disorder-free, locally-tunable electronic systems. This platform bcomes possible due to a new technique for nano-assembly of carbon nanotubes on complex electrical circuits without damaging their pristine electronic behavior. I will demonstrate how these systems enable us to modify the fundamental interactions in the solid-state, using two specific examples: The engineering of an artificial, tailorable coupling between electrons and phonons, and the creation of attraction between electrons using only their repulsion – a problem that has been open for half a century. These new interactions pave the way for the formation, in engineered solids, artificial superconductivity that is very different from that found in nature.

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  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    Towards Dense Correspondences Between Any Two Images

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    Time
    12:15
    Location
    Jacob Ziskind Building
    Lecture Hall - Room 1
    Lecturer
    Tal Hassner
    Open University of Israel
    Organizer
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Vision and Robotics Seminar
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  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    New strategies for Improving Melanoma Immunotherapy

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    Time
    14:00 - 14:30
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Adi Sharbi-Yunger
    Lea Eisenbach lab
    Organizer
    Department of Systems Immunology
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  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    Degrade or not Degrade... Influenza infection fate is governed by the balance of extra cellular matrix remodeling: Applications for therapy

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    Time
    14:30 - 15:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Dalit Talmi-Frank
    Dr. Ido Amit & Prof. Irit Sagi
    Organizer
    Department of Systems Immunology
    System Biology
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  • Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015

    Peletron meetings

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    16:00 - 18:00
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 201508ThursdayJanuary 2015

    The 3rd Seminar on Integrative Perspectives on Musculoskeletal Development

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    Time
    All day
    Location
    Ein Gedi, Israel
    Chairperson
    Elazar Zelzer
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 2015

    Tropical Plumes over the Middle East: Climatology and synoptic conditions

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    Time
    11:00
    Location
    Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
    M. Magaritz Seminar Room
    Lecturer
    Uri Dayan
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Organizer
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about A 10-yr climatological study of Tropical Plumes (TPs) observ...»
    A 10-yr climatological study of Tropical Plumes (TPs) observed over the Middle East was undertaken. Several tools were used to identify and analyze these mid-tropospheric elongated cloudbands: satellite images, reanalysis and radiosonde data, backward trajectories, and cluster analysis. In order to conduct an in-depth examination of the synoptic conditions controlling this tropical–extratropical phenomenon, a dual methodology was adopted. In the first analysis, the identified 45 plumes were classified to precipitative and non-precipitative. In the second analysis, backward trajectories of the plumes were clustered in order to detect their moisture origins and pathways. In addition to the well documented south-western plumes originating in West Africa, a more southern pathway was identified, in which moisture was transported from Central to East African sources. The ‘south-western’ plumes are associated with a southwards penetration of mid-latitude troughs, associated with an intensified thermal wind and a longer jet streak, extending as far as Northwestern Africa. In the ‘southern’ category the Sub-Tropical Jet is associated with an anticyclonic flow over the south of the Arabian Peninsula, serving as an essential vehicle advecting moisture from tropical origins. This moisture pathway is considerably shorter than the south-western one. Several conditions favor precipitation induced by TPs over the domain: a northward migration of the jet streak resulting in a weakening of the wind speed over the target area, a deeper trough at the 500 hPa level and a shorter moisture corridor.
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 2015

    Emerging roles of astrocytes in driving chronic CNS inflammation

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    Time
    11:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Dr. Lior Mayo
    Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
    Organizer
    Department of Systems Immunology
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 2015

    Polyamines and cellular differentiation

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    Time
    13:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Shirly Brenner
    Chaim Kahana's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Molecular Genetics
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 2015

    Forrelation: A Problem that Optimally Separates Quantum from Classical Computing

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    Time
    13:00
    Location
    Jacob Ziskind Building
    Room 261
    Lecturer
    Scott Aaronson
    MIT
    Organizer
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Foundations of Computer Science Seminar
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 2015

    How the Genome Folds:Now In the Loop

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    Time
    13:30
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
    Room 18
    Lecturer
    Miriam Huntley
    Harvard University
    Organizer
    Department of Systems Immunology
    System Biology
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  • Date:04SundayJanuary 2015

    Regulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance in cortical circuits by sensory-induced gene programs

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    Time
    14:30
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Dr. Ivo Spiegel
    Dept of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Organizer
    Department of Brain Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Abstract: The ability to adapt to and learn from sensory exp...»
    Abstract: The ability to adapt to and learn from sensory experiences is crucial for an animal’s survival and underlies many of our cognitive capabilities, and a central question in neurobiology thus concerns the place within a neural circuit where these adaptions happen and the molecular mechanisms that mediate them. Neural circuits in the neocortex adapt to sensory experience by the induction of genes that function at synaptic sites to regulate circuit activity and to maintain the balance between excitation and inhibition (E/I balance). While the molecular mechanisms associated with the modulation of specific synapses has been studied extensively in excitatory neurons, far less is known about how sensory experience regulates synaptic inputs to inhibitory neurons and how these mechanisms might regulate E/I-balance in cortical circuits. In my talk, I will discuss our recent findings regarding the nature of the gene programs that are induced by sensory experience in cortical inhibitory neurons and the molecular mechanisms through which these gene programs modulate specific synaptic inputs to functionally distinct inhibitory neuron subtypes and thereby regulate E/I-balance within cortical circuits. Our experiments reveal that experience-induced gene programs in cortical neurons are far more subtype-specific than previously appreciated and that these gene programs are adapted to the function of each neuronal subtype within the circuit in a manner that mediates circuit homeostasis and plasticity in the neocortex.
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  • Date:05MondayJanuary 2015

    From 1D to 3D and back: Explaining and exploiting genome structure

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    Time
    10:30
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Dr. Noam Kaplan
    Program in Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Medeical School, USA
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    Life Sciences
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  • Date:05MondayJanuary 2015

    "Inorganic voltage nanosensors"

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    Time
    11:00 - 12:30
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Prof. Shimon Weiss
    Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
    Organizer
    Faculty of Chemistry
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  • Date:05MondayJanuary 2015

    Tumor suppressor crosstalk: Depletion of Lats kinases alters p53 to promote cell migration

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    Time
    12:15
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Lecturer
    Noa Furth
    Organizer
    Department of Molecular Cell Biology
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  • Date:05MondayJanuary 2015

    The effects of evolutionary trade-offs on the genetic structure

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    Time
    12:30
    Lecturer
    Hila Sheftel
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    Department of Molecular Cell Biology
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  • Date:05MondayJanuary 2015

    Clumped isotope thermometry as a tool for reconstructing terrestrial environments: case studies from the Levant and East Africa

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    Time
    13:00
    Location
    Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
    M. Magaritz Seminar Room
    Lecturer
    Shikma Zaarur
    Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Earth climate varies on long and short time scales and its p...»
    Earth climate varies on long and short time scales and its patterns have been derived by a variety of geochemical proxies. The most commonly used paleoclimate proxy is the oxygen isotopic composition in carbonates (δ18O). δ18O, however, is not a direct paleo-thermometer, and temperature reconstructions rely on independent estimates of water isotopic compositions. This caveat is particularly challenging on land, due to the complexity of hydrological variations that control the δ18O of the relevant waters. Carbonate clumped isotope (Δ47) thermometry is a new method for estimating paleo-temperatures that is independent of water isotopic compositions. It is therefore particularly useful as a temperature proxy in terrestrial environments. When combined with carbonate δ18O, it can also serve as a hydrological indicator. Here I will show the application of this method to the study of Late Pleistocene climate in terrestrial settings in the Levant and East Africa.
    Glacial-Interglacial climate in the Northern Jordan Rift Valley (Israel) was examined by applying the clumped isotope thermometer to modern and fossil fresh water snails from water bodies in the region. The observed Glacial-Interglacial temperature change is similar to regional records but absolute temperatures are warmer. Paleo-water δ18O values have an opposite trend for the last glacial termination compared to the global ocean trends and regional records that reflects a change in the snow-rain dominance of the region’s rivers and changes in evaporation. An integration of Δ47 and δ18O measurements of land and freshwater mollusks from Lake Victoria, East Africa, provide information on past climatic conditions in the region. Results show no significant increase in precipitation for a time interval during which lake levels were significantly higher than in modern-day. These findings support non-climatic mechanisms for the lake level increase, such as tectonically driven change in lake drainage.
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  • Date:05MondayJanuary 2015

    miR-122*, the passenger strand of mi-122, acts as a tumor suppressor by modulating the p53-Mdm2 circuitry

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    Time
    14:00
    Location
    Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
    Seminar Room
    Lecturer
    Prof. Eithan Galun
    Organizer
    Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
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