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September 01-30, 2016
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Date:02FridaySeptember 2016Cultural Events
Nathan's Friends - Greek love
More information Time 20:00 - 22:45Title With DionysisLocation Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact Details Show full text description of Happy Greek music ...» Happy Greek music -
Date:04SundaySeptember 201606TuesdaySeptember 2016Conference
Minerva Weizmann-MPI atmospheric dynamics group visit
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location Koffler Accelerator of the Canada Center of Nuclear PhysicsChairperson Yohai KaspiHomepage Contact -
Date:04SundaySeptember 201606TuesdaySeptember 2016Conference
Exploring New Ground in Basic and Translational Cancer Research (1st Weizmann-NKI Conference)
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumChairperson Moshe OrenHomepage Contact -
Date:04SundaySeptember 2016Lecture
Guest Seminar
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Title "The role of Stablin-1 in fibrogenesis and repair"Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Shishir Shetty
entre for liver research, Institute of Immunotherapy and Immunology, University of BirminghamOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:06TuesdaySeptember 2016Lecture
The Self and the Friend in Space
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Pia Rotshtein
School of Psychology, Birmingham University Imaging Centre, University of Birmingham UKOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Details Show full text description of For assistance with accessibility issues, please contact nao...» For assistance with accessibility issues, please contact naomi.moses@weizmann.ac.ilAbstract Show full text abstract about Understanding the Self has fascinated artists, writers, phil...» Understanding the Self has fascinated artists, writers, philosophers and psychologist for generation. In the past two decades cognitive and neurocognitive tools have been applied to the study of the Self. The talk will present research on the Self and the Friend. Not surprisingly, it is consistently found that our brain prioritize the Self. For example, deciding whether a face looks to the left or right is faster on one’s own face than on a face of a friend. This prioritization transcend time, showing similar prioritization to one’s face in the past as in the present. Lesions to the fusiform gyrus hinders Self facilitation, while lesions to lateral frontal cortices amplifies it. Associating a simple geometric shape to oneself is done much more efficiently than to a stranger an effect that is mediated via the left STS, medial and lateral frontal cortices. Participants are also better at judging a perspective of an avatar if it is tagged as them than as a stranger. But in all these studies the Friend is also prioritized relative to a stranger. Why is the friend prioritized, is it because it is relevant, or because it is liked? In a simple shape-identity matching task, we manipulated orthogonally the valence and relevance of familiar identities. We found that prioritization is given based on relevance and valence in Western culture, but primarily based on valance in Asian cultures. Using spatial maps to represent the social space, we observed consistent representation of social relations as physical distances. Physical distance between identities was affected by the valence and relevance factors, though this was modulated by the participants’ culture. Finally, presenting participants with incongruent spatial maps of their social relations, resulted in increase and decrease responses in a large network of regions including the Amygdala and superior temporal structure known to play a rule in social cognition. Taken together this body of work highlight neurocognitive mechanism by which our brain prioritize information based on social rules.
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Date:07WednesdaySeptember 2016Lecture
G-INCPM - Special Seminar - Prof. Eran Hornstein, the Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann - "MicroRNA Dysfunction in Neurodegeneration"
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Eran Hornstein, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WeizmannOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Interest in RNA dysfunction in ALS recently aroused upon dis...» Interest in RNA dysfunction in ALS recently aroused upon discovering causative mutations in RNA-binding protein genes. Focusing on the causes and consequences of miRNA dysregulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) we will understand how advances in sequencing and molecular technologies enable deciphering the contribution of noncoding RNAs to Neurodegeneration. In the past, we identified extensive down-regulation of miRNA levels is a common molecular denominator for multiple forms of human ALS. We further demonstrated that pathogenic ALS-causing mutations are sufficient to inhibit miRNA biogenesis at the Dicing step. These works position miRNAs downstream of the initiating mutations that drive ALS and encourage testing what are the specific miRNAs that play roles in motor neurons and whether mutations in miRNA genes will be able to causatively initiate the disease.
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Date:07WednesdaySeptember 2016Lecture
"The Formation and Light Manipulation Properties of Biogenic Guanine Based Photonic Crystal"
More information Time 13:00Location Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium
Small WixLecturer Dvir GurOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:07WednesdaySeptember 2016Cultural Events
Kidnapped
More information Time 21:00Title Family drama - National tragedyLocation Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact Details Show full text description of This is a true and sad story about one Yemenite family that ...» This is a true and sad story about one Yemenite family that are looking for their kidnapped twins, they are still looking for them
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Date:08ThursdaySeptember 2016Conference
Life Sciences Open Day
More information Time All dayLocation David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Elior PelesContact -
Date:08ThursdaySeptember 2016Colloquia
Observation of quantum Hawking radiation and its entanglement in an analogue black hole
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Jeff Steinhauer
Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyOrganizer 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 We observe spontaneous Hawking radiation, stimulated by quan...» We observe spontaneous Hawking radiation, stimulated by quantum vacuum fluctuations, emanating from an analogue black hole in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The Hawking radiation is observed via the correlations between the Hawking radiation exiting the black hole and the partner particles falling into the black hole. The quantum nature of the Hawking radiation is observed through entanglement, by comparing the Fourier transform of the corre-lations to a measurement of the population. This comparison shows that the experiment is well within the quantum regime, since the measured Hawking temperature determined from the population distribution is far below the upper limit for quantum entanglement. A broad energy spectrum of entangled Hawking pairs are observed. Maximal entanglement is ob-served for the high energy part of the Hawking spectrum, while the lowest energies are not entangled. Thermal behavior is seen at very low energies where the finite extent of the corre-lation function implies <image001.png>frequency dependence. Thermal behavior is also seen at high energies through the agreement of the correlation spectrum with the appropriate function of the Planck distribution. Further insight is obtained by a preliminary experiment in which the horizon is caused to oscillate at a fixed frequency, which stimulates waves travelling into and out of the black hole. The rate of particle production by the oscillating horizon is consistent with the measured Hawking temperature. Furthermore, the observed ratio of the phase velocities of the Hawking and partner particles are consistent with this preliminary ex-periment, as is the width of the Hawking/partner correlation feature. Additional confirmation of the results is obtained through a numerical simulation, which demonstrates that the Hawk-ing radiation occurs in an approximately stationary background. It also confirms the width of the Hawking/partner correlation feature. The measurement reported here verifies Hawking’s calculation, which is viewed as a milestone in the quest for quantum gravity. The observation of Hawking radiation and its entanglement verifies important elements in the discussion of information loss in a real black hole.
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Date:11SundaySeptember 201615ThursdaySeptember 2016Conference
From Quantum Chaos to Graphs and Spectral Patterns
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumChairperson Uzy SmilanskyHomepage Contact -
Date:12MondaySeptember 201615ThursdaySeptember 2016Conference
3rd Solar Fuels I-CORE Workshop
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Chairperson Ronen LeviHomepage Contact -
Date:12MondaySeptember 2016Lecture
Dopamine receptors in breast cancer: Overexpression, signaling and Therapeutic targeting
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Title CANCER RESEARCH CLUBLocation Raoul and Graziella de Picciotto Building for Scientific and Technical Support
LobbyLecturer Professor Nira Ben-Jonathan
Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USAOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact -
Date:14WednesdaySeptember 2016Lecture
"Studying dynamics of DNA methylation in single cells during development and disease"
More information Time 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Yonatan Stelzer
Whitehead Institute of MITOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:14WednesdaySeptember 2016Lecture
Studying dynamics of DNA methylation in single cells during development and disease
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Dr Yonatan Stelzer
Whitehead Institute of MITOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
Joint SeminarContact Details Show full text description of Joint seminar - Departments of Molecular Cell Biology, and B...» Joint seminar - Departments of Molecular Cell Biology, and Biological Regulation -
Date:14WednesdaySeptember 2016Cultural Events
Wonder child - children's theater
More information Time 17:30Location Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumHomepage Contact -
Date:15ThursdaySeptember 2016Lecture
An evolution-based approach to de novo protein design
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Prof. Pralay Mitra
Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:18SundaySeptember 201619MondaySeptember 2016Conference
BioSoft Frontiers: Physics of Soft and Biological Matter
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Nir GovHomepage Contact -
Date:18SundaySeptember 2016Lecture
Unlocking the Combinatorial Epigenetic Code at a Single-Molecule Level
More information Time 09:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Efrat Shema
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:18SundaySeptember 2016Lecture
The contribution of ventromedial prefrontal cortex to memory and decision making
More information Time 12:30Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain ResearchLecturer Prof. Asaf Gilboa
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences and Dept of Psychology, University of TorontoOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Details Show full text description of ROOM 113 Host: Prof. Rony Paz rony.paz@weizmann.ac.il te...» ROOM 113
Host: Prof. Rony Paz rony.paz@weizmann.ac.il tel: 6236
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