Integrated Calendar
April 2013
Lectures
Conferences/Retreats
Colloquia
Cultural
International Board
Academic
Date Time Event Sponsor Location Contact

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

09:00

Department of Chemical Physics

Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

10:00

"The landscape of Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing in human"
Dr. Erez Levanon,Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University

Department of Biological Chemistry

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

11:00

Mathematical models for cell polarization and motility
Leah Edelstein-Keshet, University of British Columbia

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

12:00

Department of Molecular Cell Biology

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

12:30

Empathic helping in rats and its modulation by social parameters
Dr. Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal ,Dept of Neurobiology, University of Chicago

Department of Neurobiology

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

14:00

"The heartbeat of transcription - dynamics of the transcription machinery studied by single-molecule FRET"
Dr. Dina Grohmann,Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie -NanoBioSciences, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Department of Structural Biology

Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad Room

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - Thursday, April 4, 2013

20:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

10:00

Department of Molecular Cell Biology

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

11:00

The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building
Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

12:00

Insights into the function of CHD7, an ATP dependent chromatin remodeling protein, in neural development
Prof. Donna M. Martin,Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, USA

Life Sciences

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Thursday, April 4, 2013

11:15

There's Life at Absolute Zero: Exotic Phases of Quantum Matter
EREZ BERG,WIS 13 Department of Condensed Matter Physics

Faculty of Physics

Weizmann House
Auditorium

Thursday, April 4, 2013

12:00

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Thursday, April 4, 2013

12:30

Neuronal signal integration in dendrites and axons of hippocampal neurons
Prof. Nelson Sprutson,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA

Department of Neurobiology

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research
Reich Seminar Room

Thursday, April 4, 2013

14:00

Weizmann Metabolic Forum - special seminar
Prof. Kitt Petersen and Prof. Gerald Shulman,Yale University, for more detailes kindly see below

Life Sciences

Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

Saturday, April 6, 2013

21:00

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Sunday, April 7, 2013

11:00

Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research

Sunday, April 7, 2013

13:00

Paternal Mitochondrial Destruction after Fertilization in Drosophila
Liron Gal,Eli Arama's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WIS

Life Sciences

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Monday, April 8, 2013

09:00

"Bioenergetics and calcium in cellular function"
Prof. Wayne Frasch from ASU and Prof. Gary Cecchini from UCSF,mini-symposium - organized by Steve Karlish and Michael Eisenbach

Department of Biological Chemistry

Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Auditorium

Monday, April 8, 2013

11:00

Let the Data Drive: From MOPED to DELSA Global
Dr. Eugene Kolker,Director Bioinformatics & High-throughput Analysis Lab, Seattle Children 19s Research Institute
Homepage: http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/BigRoc/

Life Sciences

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Monday, April 8, 2013

13:00

From the cradle to the grave: protein folding and misfolding in health and disease
Prof. Judith Frydman,Stanford University, CA, USA Biology Department

Department of Molecular Genetics

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Monday, April 8, 2013

14:15

Department of Physics of Complex Systems

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room A

Monday, April 8, 2013

14:30

The Space Complexity of Dynamic Approximate Set Membership
Udi Wieder, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Room 261

Monday, April 8, 2013

14:30

Mutational and fitness landscapes of an RNA virus: implications for adaptation and pathogenesis
Prof. Raul Andino,Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of California, San Francisco

Department of Molecular Genetics

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Monday, April 8, 2013

14:45

Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Monday, April 8, 2013

16:15

Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013


Department of Biological Regulation

David Lopatie Conference Centre

Tuesday, April 9, 2013


"The HIV-1 fusion protein exerts complex immunosuppressive effects"
Avi Ashkenazi,WIS-Department of Biological Chemistry

Department of Biological Chemistry

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

10:00

Department of Biological Chemistry

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

11:00

An estimate for the Morse index of a Stokes wave
Eugene Shargorodsky, King's College London

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

11:15

"Tomato glandular trichomes: cellular chemical factories with strong metabolic diversity"
Prof. Robert L. Last,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, USA http://www.bmb.msu.edu/faculty/last.html

Department of Plant Sciences

Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir Hall

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

13:30

Posttranscriptional control of inflammation
Osamu Takeuchi, M.D., Ph.D.,Laboratory of Infection and Prevention Institute for Virus Research Kyoto University

Department of Immunology

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

14:00

Department of Structural Biology

Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad Room

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

20:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

10:00

Life Sciences

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

11:00

TBD
Anastasia Fialkov

The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building
Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

11:00

Anisotropy, geometric structure and frustration effects in molecule-based nanomagnets
Prof. G. Kamieniarz,Faculty of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Department of Materials and Interfaces

Perlman Chemical Sciences Building
Room 404

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

12:00

Life Sciences

Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

12:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

13:00

Life Sciences

Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Auditorium

Thursday, April 11, 2013

09:30

Magnetic Resonance Seminar
Prof. Volker Doetsch,University of Frankfurt

Department of Chemical Physics

Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall

Thursday, April 11, 2013

11:00

The Skinny on Fat: Mechanisms of Lipid Homeostasis and Storage
Prof. Robert V. Farese, Jr.,Gladstone Institutes, Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF

Department of Molecular Genetics

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Thursday, April 11, 2013

14:00

Department of Structural Biology

Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad Room

Thursday, April 11, 2013

20:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Sunday, April 14, 2013

11:00

Some optimal lower bounds for information complexity
David Xiao, University of Paris-Diderot

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Sunday, April 14, 2013

13:00

To be announced
Asaf Biran,Yosef Shaul's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WIS

Life Sciences

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

10:00

Department of Molecular Cell Biology

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

12:00

Spotlight on Science
Dr. Nir Kampf,Department of Materials and Interfaces

Science for All Unit

Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
Auditorium

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

13:00

DOES LIFE EQUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING?
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari,Dept of History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Department of Neurobiology

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

20:30

Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium

Thursday, April 18, 2013

16:00

David Lopatie Conference Centre
Cafe Mada

Saturday, April 20, 2013

21:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Sunday, April 21, 2013

11:00

Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research

Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
Library Room

Monday, April 22, 2013

13:30

The network of antibiotic cross-resistance interactions
Dr. Csaba Pal,Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Biological Research Center, Hungary

Department of Molecular Genetics

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - Wednesday, April 24, 2013


David Lopatie Conference Centre

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

10:00

Department of Biological Chemistry

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

11:00

Dispersion for the Wave Equation Inside Strictly Convex Domains
Richard Lascar, Universit'e Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

12:00

Department of Molecular Cell Biology

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - Saturday, April 27, 2013


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

10:00

Developmental Club
Orly Reiner,Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WIS

Life Sciences

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

14:00

Drugs as goals and drugs as tools in a multiscale genomics world
Dr. Andrew Kasarskis,Vice Chairman and Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Co-Director, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Department of Biological Chemistry

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Auditorium

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

20:00

Science on Tap
Many scientists and students,Details to follow


Tel Aviv, various pubs

Thursday, April 25, 2013 - Friday, April 26, 2013


Department of Materials and Interfaces

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar Auditorium

Thursday, April 25, 2013


Department of Neurobiology

David Lopatie Conference Centre

Thursday, April 25, 2013

11:00

Viscosity limit of solutions of Navier-Stokes equations with rough initial data
Claude Bardos, Universiy Denis Diderot, Laboratoire J.L. Lions University Pierre and Marie Curie

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Thursday, April 25, 2013

15:00

Life Science Lecture
Prof. Idit Shachar,Department of Immunology

Life Sciences

Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium

Thursday, April 25, 2013

20:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - Friday, May 3, 2013


Department of Materials and Interfaces

Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium

Sunday, April 28, 2013 - Monday, April 29, 2013

08:00

Department of Biological Chemistry

David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel Auditorium

Sunday, April 28, 2013

16:00

Bifurcations of blowup in inviscid shell models of convective turbulence
Alexei A. Mailybaev, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada - IMPA

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Monday, April 29, 2013

11:00

Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Auditorium

Monday, April 29, 2013

14:00

To be announced
Prof. Zvi Livneh,Dept. Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute

Department of Biological Regulation

Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
Seminar Room

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - Thursday, May 2, 2013


Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

David Lopatie Conference Centre

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

10:00

"Hypertension: insights from a rare monogenic form"
Prof. Zvi Farfel,Dept. of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, School of Medicine

Department of Biological Chemistry

Isaac Wolfson Building
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

11:00

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Jacob Ziskind Building
Lecture Hall - Room 1

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

13:30

At the interface of inflammation and growth
Prof. Yinon Ben-Neriah,Department of Immunology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School

Department of Immunology

Wolfson Building for Biological Research
Auditorium

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

17:30

Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium

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