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May 01-31, 2017
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Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Novel role of autophagy in the regulation of the TNFR family member, Fn14
More information Time 10:00 - 10:30Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Hila Winer
Member - Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 (Fn14) belongs to ...» The fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 (Fn14) belongs to the TNF receptor superfamily. Fn14 is a unique receptor being highly inducible, mainly in response to tissue injury and solid tumor formation. The only ligand it is known to bind is the TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK), which activates the NF-kB signaling pathway. Fn14 is constitutively synthesized and cycle between the Golgi and the plasma membrane, internalized and dispatched for lysosomal degradation independently on ligand binding. In the present study we tested the relationship between autophagy, a major stress-activated cellular pathway, and Fn14 subcellular localization. Our data shows that deletion of several key autophagic factors leads to an increase in Fn14 levels. Importantly, we found that members of the mammalian ATG8s protein family regulate different stages of Fn14 trafficking: GABARAP or LC3C regulate Fn14 autophagic turnover while GATE-16 or LC3B regulate Fn14 trafficking within the endolysosomal system.
Taken together our results provide a new link between the autophagic machinery and the trafficking and function of a TNF receptor family member.
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Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Malaria parasites use DNA-harbouring vesicles as a mechanism to activate cytosolic immune sensors
More information Time 10:30 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Yifat Ofir-Birin
Members - Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Malaria is one of the most devastating infectious diseases i...» Malaria is one of the most devastating infectious diseases in humans, with over 450,000 deaths caused by Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) parasites each year. These pathogens face a very hostile environment during their complex life cycle and have to develop means to escape and alter their hosts' response.
Here we show that while growing within human red blood cells, the parasites secrete exosomes (nano-vesicles) containing Pf-DNA. These vesicles are taken up by human monocytes and the DNA species are released within the host cytosol leading to cytosolic STING-dependent DNA sensing. This may represent a decoy mechanism developed by the parasites and employed from a distance to promote their infection.
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Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Tree-ring anatomy and carbon isotope show complex climate control on bimodal xylem formation in Pinus pinea
More information Time 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Dr. Daniele Castagneri
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry - TESAF, University of Padua, ItalyOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences -
Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Image recurrence across saccades is encoded in the retina
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Vidhyasankar Krishnamoorthy
University of GottingenOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesDetails Show full text description of Host: Dr.Michal Rivlin michal.rivlin@weizmann.ac.il tel: 27...» Host: Dr.Michal Rivlin michal.rivlin@weizmann.ac.il tel: 2792
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Abstract Show full text abstract about The neural network of the retina processes the stream of vis...» The neural network of the retina processes the stream of visual signals falling onto the eye. When a visual image is presented to the retina, retinal ganglion cells, which form the output of this network, encode changes in local visual contrast inside their receptive fields. In natural vision, however, images do not arrive in isolation, but are structured in rapid sequences, separated by frequent saccades, which activate some types of ganglion cells and suppress others. Yet, little is known about how the rapid succession of images induced by saccades affects the encoding of spatial visual information. We found that a specific type of retinal ganglion cells, recorded in mouse retina, displays unexpected responses to saccade-like image transitions; the cells elicit a distinct spike burst when the same visual pattern reappears after the transition, providing a special code for such transitions or image parts that lead to a recurrence of stimulus patterns. This sensitivity to image recurrence is mediated by a circuit of serial inhibition, allowing a rapid reappearance of the image to suppress transition-induced inhibition of the ganglion cell. Our results show that saccade-like image transitions trigger interactions in the complex inhibitory network of the retina that lead to a dynamical gating of the information flow through the retina and provide a mode of operation that differs from the processing of simple, standard laboratory stimuli. -
Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
AMO Journal Club
More information Time 13:00 - 14:00Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Drory AuditoriumOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Optics and Atomic Physics SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Speakers: Yuval Rosenberg, Barry Bruner ...» Speakers: Yuval Rosenberg, Barry Bruner -
Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
The Relation Between Cell Fusion and Aneuploidy
More information Time 14:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Alan TartakoffOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
"Single-molecule spectroscopy of the Myc-Max-Mad transcription factor network "
More information Time 14:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Dr. Renee Vancraenenbroeck
Dr. Hagen Hofmann’s groupOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural Biology -
Date:16TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Molecular Neuroscience Forum Seminar
More information Time 15:00Title Exploring epilepsy mechanisms across evolution: seizing Drosophila, zebrash, mice, and humansLocation Wolfson Building for Biological Research
AuditoriumLecturer Alexander Bassuk
University of IowaOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesHomepage Contact -
Date:17WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Counting to One: A compartmentalized circuit controls crossover interference in meiosis
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Dr. Abby Dernburg
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USAOrganizer Life Sciences
Developmental ClubContact -
Date:17WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
You can hide but you have to run: new theory tools to unveil the mystery of dark matter
More information Time 10:45Location TAU (Melamed Hall)Lecturer Francesco D’Eramo
UCSCOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Joint SeminarDetails Show full text description of 10:45 Coffee 12:15 Lunch ...» 10:45 Coffee
12:15 LunchAbstract Show full text abstract about The origin and composition of 85% of the matter in the unive...» The origin and composition of 85% of the matter in the universe is completely unknown. Among several viable options, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are motivated dark matter candidates that can be tested by different and complementary search strategies. Crucially, different searches probe WIMP couplings at different energy scales, and such a separation of scales has striking consequences in connecting different experimental probes. This motivates the development of theoretical tools to properly connect the different energy scales involved in constraining WIMP models. I will introduce these tools and I will illustrate with several examples how crucial the inclusion of these effects in WIMP searches is. -
Date:17WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Sgoldstino-less inflation and low energy susy breaking
More information Time 12:15Location TAU (Melamed Hall)Lecturer Alberto Mariotti
VUBOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Joint SeminarAbstract Show full text abstract about Abstract: I will first review basic aspects of models of inf...» Abstract: I will first review basic aspects of models of inflation in supergravity and introduce the framework of sgoldstino-less inflation. Then I will discuss the conditions that a theory with the inflaton and the sgoldstino superfield should satisfy to be consistently described by a sgoldstino-less model. I will then combine in a simple model the alpha-attractor inflation scenario and gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking. In this framework, one can derive the superpartner spectrum as well as compute inflation observables, the reheating temperature and address the gravitino overabundance problem. The non trivial interplay among these predictions characterize the phenomenology of the model and will impose stringent constraints on the allowed parameter space.
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Date:17WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
IDEA Bio-Medical- WiScan® Live Cell Imaging System Hermes
More information Time 14:30 - 15:30Location Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Seminar RoomOrganizer Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities
SeminarDetails Show full text description of IDEA Bio-Medical's Hermes WiScan® High Content Screeni...» IDEA Bio-Medical's Hermes WiScan®
High Content Screening Imaging System
A Wide Field Fluorescence & Bright Field Scanner for Rapid Acquisition of High Quality Images -
Date:17WednesdayMay 2017Cultural Events
Habait shel Yael - Children's theater
More information Time 17:30 - 19:00Location Michael and Anna Wix AuditoriumContact Details Show full text description of Yael find a box and decide that it's her home. One da...» Yael find a box and decide that it's her home.
One day she is being carried with her box with other junk from the yard .
yael is going through adventures on her way home successfully. -
Date:17WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Feinberg Graduation Ceremony
More information Time 19:00 - 21:00Organizer Feinberg Graduate School -
Date:18ThursdayMay 2017Conference
Conference in honor of Prof. David Milstein
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Moran FellerHomepage Contact -
Date:18ThursdayMay 2017Lecture
Measuring Metabolic Engines and Fuels
More information Time 09:00 - 15:00Title The 1st Israeli Seahorse Users MeetingLocation Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Seminar RoomOrganizer Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities
SeminarHomepage Contact Details Show full text description of Please subscribe at: http://eldan.biz/registration-to-the-s...» Please subscribe at:
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Date:18ThursdayMay 2017Lecture
Magnetic Resonance Seminar
More information Time 09:30Title The utility of measuring extracellular free-water by diffusion MRILocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Ofer Pasternak
Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical SchoolOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological Physics -
Date:18ThursdayMay 2017Lecture
"A human mammary epithelial cell culture model of in vivo breast biology and carcinogenesis"
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Raoul and Graziella de Picciotto Building for Scientific and Technical Support
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Martha R. Stampfer
LBNL, Berkeley, CA USAOrganizer Life SciencesContact -
Date:18ThursdayMay 2017Lecture
“The heart as a vessel - how chambers form in the developing heart and iPS cell modelling of congenital heart disease"
More information Time 11:15Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Professor Richard P. Harvey
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, AustraliaOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell Biology -
Date:18ThursdayMay 2017Lecture
“The heart as a vessel - how chambers form in the developing heart and iPS cell modelling of congenital heart disease"
More information Time 11:15Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Professor Richard P. Harvey
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, AustraliaOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell Biology