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May 01-31, 2016

  • Date:01SundayMay 201602MondayMay 2016

    The 2016 Justen Passwell Symposium: Gaps in Translational Hemato-Oncology

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    08:00 - 08:00
    Location
    David Lopatie Conference Centre
    Chairperson
    Benjamin Geiger
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  • Date:01SundayMay 2016

    The oscillating fringe and paleo-intensity of the East Asian monsoon reconstructed using closed-basin lake-area and Dleafwax

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    Time
    11:00
    Location
    Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
    M. Magaritz Seminar Room
    Lecturer
    Yoni Goldsmith
    Columbia University
    Organizer
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Understanding the response of East Asian monsoon (EAM) rainf...»
    Understanding the response of East Asian monsoon (EAM) rainfall patterns to different climate forcings is cardinal for constraining future climate change over East Asia. The magnitude and rate of EAM rainfall changes during the late Pleistocene-Holocene is reconstructed using the first well-dated Northeastern China lake-area record from a closed-lake basin, which enables reconstructing quantitative absolute paleo-rainfall amounts. In addition, compound specific hydrogen isotopes from long-chain alkanes (Dleafwax) in the lake-sediments were used to reconstruct the isotopic composition of rainwater and lake water. Lake-levels were 60m higher than present during the early and middle Holocene. This requires an absolute increase in mean annual rainfall to at least two times higher than today. The EAM intensity and northern extent alternated abruptly between wet and dry periods on time scales of a few centuries. Both the onset (~60 m rise at 11.5 ka BP) and termination (~35 m drop at 5.5 ka BP) of the Holocene humid period occurred abruptly, within centuries. The co-variation of lake-area and Dleafwax show, for the first time, that the “amount effect” is the cardinal driver of the isotopic composition of paleo tropical rainfall. Thus, resolving a current debate regarding the ability to use the isotopic composition of rainwater as a proxy for rainfall amount and validating the “intensity-based” interpretations of the Chinese cave deposit records.
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  • Date:01SundayMay 2016

    Motor neurons get excited by a miRNA

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    Time
    13:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Irit Reichenstein
    Eran Hornstein's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WIS
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    Department of Molecular Genetics
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  • Date:01SundayMay 2016

    The genome in the nucleus: snaky, soft and well organized

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    Time
    13:00
    Location
    Dannie N. Heineman Laboratory
    Drory Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Prof. Yuval Garini
    Physics Department & Institute of Nanotechnology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
    Organizer
    Clore Center for Biological Physics
    Biological Physics Group
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about The DNA in a human cell is ~2 meters long. Although there ar...»
    The DNA in a human cell is ~2 meters long. Although there are no definite structures that maintain the order in the nucleus, the genome is well organized, though dynamic. What are the mechanisms that organizes the DNA in the nucleus?
    Dynamic methods in live cells are ideal for studying the genome organization, which is a soft-matter structure that have no definite structure. We currently used a whole spectrum of dynamic methods in live cells that will be briefly described.
    We used single particle tracking (SPT) and continuous photobleacing (CP) that are adequate for live-cell imaging. The data is analyzed according to diffusion analysis methods that we developed. In normal cells, all the sites in the genome exhibit anomalous diffusion (viscoelastic) where <r with a power law of ~0.3-0.5 and the diffusion was found to belong to the family of fractional Brownian motion ! anomalous diffusion.
    We identified a protein, lamin A, which provides the elasticity to the genome. Removal of lamin A drastically changes the diffusion type from slow anomalous diffusion to fast and normal diffusion. We suggest a rather simple mechanism that explains the organization maintenance of the chromosomal territories and is strongly supported by the whole set of our dynamic data.
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  • Date:01SundayMay 2016

    In-toto Live Imaging of the Mouse Embryo Using Confocal and Wide-Field Microscopy

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    Time
    15:00 - 16:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Rada massarwa
    Group of Dr. Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna
    Organizer
    Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities
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  • Date:02MondayMay 2016

    Lifson Lecture (colloquium) - "Light-Matter Interactions and Excitons in Emerging Materials"

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    Time
    11:00 - 12:00
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Prof. David R. Reichman
    University of Columbia
    Organizer
    Faculty of Chemistry
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  • Date:02MondayMay 2016

    Applying carbonate clumped-isotope thermometry to study basin geodynamics

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    Time
    11:00
    Location
    Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
    M. Magaritz Seminar Room
    Lecturer
    Uri Ryb
    Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Caltech University
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    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about The reconstruction of thermal history is key to study the ge...»
    The reconstruction of thermal history is key to study the geodynamic evolution of sedimentary basins through burial, metamorphism, magmatism, deformation and exhumation. Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry enables such reconstructions in carbonate minerals, and complements ‘conventional’ low-temperature thermochronometers (e.g. apatite and zircon fission-tracks or U-Th/He systems) by constraining the peak burial temperature and the cooling rate.
    Most published uses of carbonate clumped isotope thermometry aim to measure depositional temperatures of Earth-surface sedimentary carbonates. However, it has also been shown that carbonate clumped-isotope measurements of minerals formed or re-equilibrated at elevated temperatures can constrain thermal histories of sub-surface rocks. Only very recently have we had the experimental constraints on solid-state isotopic reordering to translate clumped-isotope measurements of such materials into quantitative statements about burial and exhumation. These data have led to a new generation of conceptual models describing changes in clumped-isotope composition during heating and cooling; taken together, these experiments and models enable a new approach to the study of burial, metamorphism and exhumation over long timescales and large areas. This presentation will discuss applications of this approach to constrain the thermal history of carbonate rocks exhumed in back-arc (Naxos, Greece) and mid-continental (Colorado Plateau) basins.
    The exhumation of Naxos metamorphic core-complex entailed a complex thermal history, mineral-mineral and water-rock reactions, and deformation. These processes were registered in the bulk and clumped isotope composition of marbles. Calcite and dolomite marbles from Naxos show large variation of carbonate clumped-isotope values, in association with deformation and secondary mineralization fabrics. Results suggest that dynamic recrystallization of calcite can reset the carbonate clumped-isotope signal, which consequentially records the minimum temperature of dynamic recrystallization in natural samples. Carbonate clumped isotope data from the center of Naxos core-complex are consistent with the thermal history as recorded by multiple ‘conventional’ thermochronometers, but require a faster cooling rate than previously suggested, consistent with a heat shock driven by magmatic and hydrothermal activities.
    Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry is used to study the burial, uplift and exhumation histories of the Colorado Plateau (USA). There, carbonate rocks were not recrystallized to marbles, and therefore their clumped isotope signals are expected to be sensitive to the peak-burial temperature. Given such constrains on the thermal history, it is straightforward to infer the thermal gradients during peak burial, and calculate total-exhumation (i.e. the volume of rock removed) in-situ. Preliminary results from the southwestern rim and the interior of the Plateau are so far consistent with published constrains on peak burial temperatures.
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  • Date:02MondayMay 2016

    When enhancers drive the wrong genes - mechanisms and role in tumorigenesis

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Location
    Raoul and Graziella de Picciotto Building for Scientific and Technical Support
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    Lecturer
    Dr. Yotam Drier
    Organizer
    Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    TOOKAD®-soluble VTP: milestones on the road from local tumor ablation to systemic cancer control.

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    Time
    10:00 - 11:00
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Prof. Avigdor Scherz
    Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences - WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Biomolecular Sciences
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    DetailsShow full text description of In collaboration with Prof. Yoram Salomon of the Institute’s...»
    In collaboration with Prof. Yoram Salomon of the Institute’s Department of Biological Regulation, Prof. Scherz has designed a new approach to cancer therapy, termed Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy (VTP), in which illumination of tumors after the infusion of novel compounds derived from chlorophylls causes highly confined non-thermal tumor ablation by generating high intensity pulse of oxygen and nitric oxide radicals. This method has been recently granted first approval for the treatment of early stage, localized prostate cancer after accomplished phase III clinical trials in 43 and 8 hospitals in Europe and Latin America, respectively. Recent findings in collaboration with researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Institute (MSKCC) unveiled systemic antitumor immunity following VTP that is highly augmented by various immune modulators. These and previous data have provided the ground to four new clinical studies that are currently lunched in MSKCC including urinary, breast, esophageal and more advanced prostate cancers.
    In the last 5 years the lab of Prof. Scherz is also developing novel approaches for the treatment of keratoconus and degenerative myopia. In the field of photosynthesis, Prof. Scherz’s group has recently resolved structural elements that enable different organisms to perform photosynthesis in extreme conditions; the group has developed a new thermo-tolerant species for increased biomass production under stress.

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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    To be announced

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    Time
    10:30 - 11:00
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
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    Lecturer
    Dr. Meir Rozenbaum
    Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences
    Organizer
    Department of Biomolecular Sciences
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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    E FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH

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    Time
    10:30
    Location
    Neve Shalom
    Lecturer
    Amos Yarom
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    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
    High Energy Theory Joint Seminar
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about I will consider properties of a non equilibrium steady state...»
    I will consider properties of a non equilibrium steady state generated by placing two initial heat baths in contact with each other. The dynamics of the system under consideration are governed by a conformal field theory. When the number of spacetime dimensions is very large the equations of motion for the system simplify. The ``phase diagram'' associated with the steady state, the dual, dynamical, black hole description of this problem, and its relation to the fluid/gravity correspondence will be discussed.
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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    Investigating plant immune responses to bacterial pathogens

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    Time
    11:15
    Location
    Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
    Aharon Katzir Hall
    Lecturer
    Prof. Gitta Coaker
    Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, USA
    Organizer
    Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    “LAGRANGIANS'' FOR NON-LAGRANGIAN THEORIES”

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    12:00
    Location
    Neve Shalom
    Lecturer
    Shlomo Razamat
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    Organizer
    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
    High Energy Theory Joint Seminar
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about We will discuss a procedure to construct N=1 (singular) Lagr...»
    We will discuss a procedure to construct N=1 (singular) Lagrangians describing some of the N=2 strongly coupled SCFTs believed to be non-Lagrangian. we will apply the same procedure to study some of the properties of a putatively new N=1 SCFT which otherwise does not have, at the moment, a description in terms of a Lagrangian.
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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    The origin of synchronized synaptic activities in the barrel cortex

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    Time
    12:30
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Prof. Ilan Lampl
    Department of Neurobiology, WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Brain Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about In all sensory modalities the response of cortical cells to ...»
    In all sensory modalities the response of cortical cells to repeated stimulus is highly variable from trial to trial and it is often correlated in nearby cells. Spiking mechanisms are highly reliable, suggesting that correlated variability of cortical response results from fluctuations in shared synaptic inputs, as we showed in our previous studies. However, the origin of correlated synaptic activities in the cortex is under dispute. Whereas some studies suggest that correlated variability originates from thalamic inputs, others claim that it emerges in the cortex due to recurrent local activity. By combining optogenetic silencing and paired intracellular recordings in the barrel cortex of anesthetized mice as well as using paired LFP-intracellular recordings in awake mice, we revealed the origin of synchronized ongoing and sensory evoked cortical activities.
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  • Date:03TuesdayMay 2016

    MCB Student Seminar

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    Time
    12:30
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    A regulatory module involving FGF13, miR-504 and p53 regulates ribosomal biogenesis and supports cancer cell survival. Neuron-neuron interactions during neuronal remodelling in the Drosophila
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
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    Lecturer
    Debora Bublik; Oded Mayseless
    Organizer
    Department of Molecular Cell Biology
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  • Date:04WednesdayMay 2016

    To be announced

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    Time
    10:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Avraham Yaron
    Dept. of Biological Chemistry, WIS
    Organizer
    Life Sciences
    Developmental Club
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  • Date:04WednesdayMay 2016

    Recent Progress in (the Standard Model) Effective Field Theory

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    Time
    11:00 - 12:30
    Location
    Technion, Lidow 502
    Lecturer
    Rodrigo Alonso
    UC San Diego
    Organizer
    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
    Joint particle physics seminar
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  • Date:05ThursdayMay 2016

    The Quantum Way of Doing Computations

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    11:15 - 12:30
    Location
    Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
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    Lecturer
    Rainer Blatt
    Innsbruck
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    Faculty of Physics
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Since the mid-nineties of the 20th century it became apparen...»
    Since the mid-nineties of the 20th century it became apparent that one of the centuries’ most important technological inventions, computers in general and many of their applications could possibly be further enormously enhanced by using operations based on quantum physics. This is timely since the classical roadmaps for the development of computational devices, commonly known as Moore’s law, will cease to be applicable within the next decade due to the ever smaller sizes of the electronic components that soon will enter the quantum physics realm. Computations, whether they happen in our heads or with any computational device, always rely on real physical processes, which are data input, data representation in a memory, data manipulation using algorithms and finally, the data output. Building a quantum computer then requires the implementation of quantum bits (qubits) as storage sites for quantum information, quantum registers and quantum gates for data handling and processing and the development of quantum algorithms.
    In this talk, the basic functional principle of a quantum computer will be reviewed. It will be shown how strings of trapped ions can be used to build a quantum information processor and how basic computations can be performed using quantum techniques. In particular, the quan-tum way of doing computations will be illustrated by analog and digital quantum simulations, which reach from the simulation of quantum many-body spin systems over open quantum systems to the quantum simulation of a lattice gauge theory.
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  • Date:05ThursdayMay 2016

    Changes to the peripheral nervous system during infections with alpha-herpesviruses

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    Time
    12:15 - 13:00
    Title
    Virology club meeting
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Dr. Rebekah Warwick
    Organizer
    Faculty of Biology
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  • Date:05ThursdayMay 2016

    Highlights in Immunology 2016

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    Time
    13:30
    Title
    New physiological roles of ACKR1 (DARC)
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
    Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Prof. Antal Rot
    York University
    Organizer
    Department of Systems Immunology
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