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January 01, 2015
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Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015Lecture
Faculty Day - Chemistry
More information Time All dayLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Please see program linkOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryHomepage Contact -
Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015Lecture
Avoidance Coupling
More information Time 11:05Location Jacob Ziskind Building
Room 261Lecturer Ohad Feldheim
University of MinnesotaOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Geometric Functional Analysis and Probability SeminarContact -
Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015Lecture
Quantum Design in Carbon Nanotubes
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Shahal Ilani
WISOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Details Show full text description of 11:00 Coffee, Tea and more...» 11:00 Coffee, Tea and moreAbstract Show 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 2015Lecture
Towards Dense Correspondences Between Any Two Images
More information Time 12:15Location Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1Lecturer Tal Hassner
Open University of IsraelOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Vision and Robotics SeminarContact -
Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015Lecture
New strategies for Improving Melanoma Immunotherapy
More information Time 14:00 - 14:30Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Adi Sharbi-Yunger
Lea Eisenbach labOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015Lecture
Degrade or not Degrade... Influenza infection fate is governed by the balance of extra cellular matrix remodeling: Applications for therapy
More information Time 14:30 - 15:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dalit Talmi-Frank
Dr. Ido Amit & Prof. Irit SagiOrganizer Department of Systems Immunology
System BiologyContact -
Date:01ThursdayJanuary 2015Lecture
Peletron meetings
More information Time 16:00 - 18:00Contact -
Date:04SundayJanuary 201508ThursdayJanuary 2015Conference
The 3rd Seminar on Integrative Perspectives on Musculoskeletal Development
More information Time All dayLocation Ein Gedi, IsraelChairperson Elazar ZelzerHomepage Contact -
Date:04SundayJanuary 2015Lecture
Tropical Plumes over the Middle East: Climatology and synoptic conditions
More information Time 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
M. Magaritz Seminar RoomLecturer Uri Dayan
Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact Abstract Show 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. -
Date:04SundayJanuary 2015Lecture
Emerging roles of astrocytes in driving chronic CNS inflammation
More information Time 11:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Lior Mayo
Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical SchoolOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:04SundayJanuary 2015Lecture
Polyamines and cellular differentiation
More information Time 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Shirly Brenner
Chaim Kahana's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:04SundayJanuary 2015Lecture
Forrelation: A Problem that Optimally Separates Quantum from Classical Computing
More information Time 13:00Location Jacob Ziskind Building
Room 261Lecturer Scott Aaronson
MITOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Foundations of Computer Science SeminarContact -
Date:04SundayJanuary 2015Lecture
How the Genome Folds:Now In the Loop
More information Time 13:30Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Room 18Lecturer Miriam Huntley
Harvard UniversityOrganizer Department of Systems Immunology
System BiologyContact -
Date:04SundayJanuary 2015Lecture
Regulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance in cortical circuits by sensory-induced gene programs
More information Time 14:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Ivo Spiegel
Dept of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MAOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show 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. -
Date:05MondayJanuary 2015Lecture
From 1D to 3D and back: Explaining and exploiting genome structure
More information Time 10:30Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Noam Kaplan
Program in Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Medeical School, USAOrganizer Life SciencesContact -
Date:05MondayJanuary 2015Colloquia
"Inorganic voltage nanosensors"
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Shimon Weiss
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLAOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryContact -
Date:05MondayJanuary 2015Lecture
Tumor suppressor crosstalk: Depletion of Lats kinases alters p53 to promote cell migration
More information Time 12:15Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Noa FurthOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:05MondayJanuary 2015Lecture
The effects of evolutionary trade-offs on the genetic structure
More information Time 12:30Lecturer Hila SheftelOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:05MondayJanuary 2015Lecture
Clumped isotope thermometry as a tool for reconstructing terrestrial environments: case studies from the Levant and East Africa
More information Time 13:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
M. Magaritz Seminar RoomLecturer Shikma Zaarur
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact Abstract Show 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. -
Date:05MondayJanuary 2015Lecture
miR-122*, the passenger strand of mi-122, acts as a tumor suppressor by modulating the p53-Mdm2 circuitry
More information Time 14:00Location Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Seminar RoomLecturer Prof. Eithan GalunOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact