February 01, 2015
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Date:01SundayFebruary 2015Lecture
Biological Services Forum Seminar - Dr. Oded Singer
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumOrganizer Department of Life Sciences Core FacilitiesContact Details Show full text description of Viral vectors are tools commonly used to efficiently deliver...» Viral vectors are tools commonly used to efficiently deliver genetic material into cells.
This technology has been identified as an important bottleneck in the development of WIS gene transfer capabilities.
The new viral vector core will accommodate for the growing need for gene delivery technology.
Today we will discuss how the unique abilities of different viral vectors can be used to modify
And alter gene gene expression with focus on AAV vectors and their use for in vivo gene function studies.
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Date:01SundayFebruary 2015Lecture
The IceCube Puzzle
More information Time 12:30 - 13:30Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building
Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar RoomLecturer Markus AhlersOrganizer Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Astrophysical neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic ...» Astrophysical neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic interactions of cosmic rays (CRs) in our Universe. With this in mind, high energy neutrino astronomy has long been anticipated to help uncover the orgin of high energy CRs. The recent detection of a flux of high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos by the IceCube Observatory is an important step in this direction. However, the low statistics and angular resolution of the signal makes an identification of the neutrino sources challenging. I will review various scenarios for the IceCube signal, ranging from exotic PeV dark matter decay to the more conventional candiate sources of high energy CRs. I will finally discuss various multi-messenger observations that can help us to solve the IceCube Puzzle. -
Date:01SundayFebruary 2015Lecture
In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Alexander Borst
Dept of Systems and Computational Neurobiology Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology Martinsried, GermanyOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Details Show full text description of Prof. Alexander Borst is visiting as a Special Guest of &quo...» Prof. Alexander Borst is visiting as a Special Guest of "Students-Invited Lecture Series in Brain Sciences" and will give 2 seminars on
Feb 1 & 2, 2015.Abstract Show full text abstract about Alexander Borst aims at understanding the foundations of inf...» Alexander Borst aims at understanding the foundations of information processing at the level of small neural circuits, focusing on the visual course control system in Drosophila. Borst’s lab uses a comprehensive approach , combining electron microscopy-aided anatomical reconstructions of the circuit, physiological characterization by both imaging and whole cell patch recordings, genetic circuit manipulation in behaving flies, computational modeling and last but not least, engineering of fly-inspired robots that implement the theoretical principles and test their functionality.
Borst’s outstanding research has yielded a very precise and detailed description of the circuit at the single cell resolution as well as a thorough understanding of the computations it performs.
Several of his major scientific contributions include the discovery that the direction of visually perceived motion is calculated following the Reichardt Model (Single & Borst, Science 1998), the separation of visual information in the fly brain into ON- and OFF-channels, similar to bipolar cells in the retina of vertebrate eyes (Jösch, Schnell, Raghu, Reiff & Borst, Nature 2010) and the existence of four types of neurons in each channel, tuned to one of the four cardinal directions (right, left, up, down) that project into four separate neuronal layers based on their preferred direction (Maisak et al, Nature 2013).
https://www.neuro.mpg.de/borst
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Date:01SundayFebruary 2015Lecture
Morphogen patterning by Toll in a diffusible environment
More information Time 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Michal Haskel-Ittah
Benny Shilo's group, Dept. of Molecular GeneticsOrganizer Life SciencesContact