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  • Date:27WednesdaySeptember 2023

    Environmental performance using lifecycle assessment (LCA) for decision making - examples from NZ and AU

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    Time
    13:00 - 14:00
    Title
    SAERI - Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative Seminar Series
    Location
    Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences
    Room 690
    Lecturer
    Dr. Noa Meron
    Team lead LCA, thinkstep-anz
    Organizer
    Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative (SAERI)
    Contact
    DetailsShow full text description of Host: Prof. Ron Milo...»
    Host: Prof. Ron Milo
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  • Date:28ThursdaySeptember 2023

    Experience-dependent genetic and synaptic regulation of stability and plasticity in cortical circuits

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    Time
    11:00 - 12:15
    Location
    The David Lopatie Hall of Graduate Studies
    Room C
    Lecturer
    Dahlia Kushinsky-Student Seminar PhD Thesis Defense
    Advisor-Dr. Ivo Spiegel
    Organizer
    Department of Brain Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Neural circuits in the brain must be plastic enough to allow...»
    Neural circuits in the brain must be plastic enough to allow an animal to adapt to and learn from new experiences yet they must also remain functionally stable such that previously learned skills and information are retained. Thus, fundamental questions in neuroscience concern the molecular, cellular, and circuit mechanisms that balance the plasticity and stability of neural circuits. During my studies, I investigated these mechanisms in three studies that focused on sensory- and behavioral state-dependent changes in transcription and GABAergic inhibition in the visual cortex of adult mice. In my Ph.D. defense, I will elaborate on the novel molecular-cellular mechanisms that I discovered in these studies and discuss their role in conveying both plasticity and stability to visual processing and perception.
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  • Date:28ThursdaySeptember 2023

    Dissecting the immune-controlled signaling networks driving breast cancer progression

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Location
    Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Dr. Merav Cohen
    Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, The Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
    Organizer
    Dwek Institute for Cancer Therapy Research
    Cancer Research Club
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    DetailsShow full text description of Meeting URL: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/5065402023?pwd=a3Z6K...»
    Meeting URL: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/5065402023?pwd=a3Z6KzRCU0xJaUFoM2Y5emZwZm1oZz09

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  • Date:09MondayOctober 2023

    Joint Guest Seminar: Dr. Shira Weingarten-Gabbay

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    Time
    10:00 - 12:00
    Title
    Shedding light on the dark matter of viral proteomes to advance our understanding of antiviral immunity
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Dr. Shira Weingarten-Gabbay
    Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Organizer
    Department of Molecular Cell Biology
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  • Date:09MondayOctober 2023

    Dynamics of dry intrusion air streams and their relevance for extreme weather

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    Time
    11:00 - 12:15
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Dr. Shira Raveh-Rubin
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Dry intrusion (DI) air streams are fundamental to the global...»
    Dry intrusion (DI) air streams are fundamental to the global atmospheric circulation, typically comprising the cold sector of extratropical cyclones. These air parcels descend slantwise from the midlatitude upper troposphere towards the surface in lower latitudes, where the airstreams fan out behind the cyclone’s trailing cold front. In this talk I will review recent results based on a Lagrangian-based global climatology of DIs, allowing the quantification of the intrusions’ occurrence frequencies and key association with extreme weather for the first time.
    Using representative case studies and longer-term climatologies we find that DIs are generated in the upper troposphere behind anomalies in the tropopause. When interacting with cyclones in the storm tracks, they are associated with strong cold fronts and with marked dry and cold anomalies in the lower troposphere, inducing unstable conditions that strongly influence heat and moisture exchange with the oceans.
    The modification of the lower troposphere by DIs entails strong associations with a diverse set of weather extremes, from heavy precipitation ahead of the dry air, strong winds and extreme temperatures, to wildfires and dust storms. We further reveal that DI impact may extend beyond the midlatitudes, into the tropics, opening new directions in understanding tropical-extratropical interactions.
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  • Date:09MondayOctober 2023

    Life Science colloquium- Prof. David Bartel

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Title
    “Regulation of mRNA translation and decay”
    Location
    Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Prof. David Bartel
    “Regulation of mRNA translation and decay”
    Organizer
    Life Sciences
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  • Date:10TuesdayOctober 202312ThursdayOctober 2023

    Minerva Annual meeting 2023 - Confirmed

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    All day
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  • Date:10TuesdayOctober 202312ThursdayOctober 2023

    Minerva 2023

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    Time
    08:00 - 08:00
    Chairperson
    Igal Nevo
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  • Date:10TuesdayOctober 2023

    Roots, Cell Types and their Integration with the Environment

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    Time
    11:30 - 12:30
    Location
    Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Siobhan Brady
    University of California, Davis
    Organizer
    Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about A plant’s roots serve as a major line of defense against env...»
    A plant’s roots serve as a major line of defense against environmental stress to protect the plant as a whole. Roots of diverse plant species have found ways to deal with stress by devising responses, often within individual cell types, to resist drought, flooding, mineral deficiencies and other insults that impair plant growth. I will present my lab’s research that uses systems, synthetic and developmental biology approaches to interrogate the transcriptional networks that function in response to many of these environmental stresses in tomato and sorghum.

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  • Date:12ThursdayOctober 2023

    New Frontiers in Membrane Protein Research

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    Time
    08:00 - 08:00
    Location
    Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
    Chairperson
    Nir Fluman
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  • Date:12ThursdayOctober 2023

    From Morphology to Molecular Mechanisms in Cancer Medicine: Sarcomas as a Microcosm of Cancer Complexity

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Location
    Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Prof. George Demetri
    Senior Vice-President for Experimental Therapeutics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard; Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts USA
    Organizer
    Dwek Institute for Cancer Therapy Research
    Cancer Research Club
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    DetailsShow full text description of Meeting URL: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/5065402023?pwd=a3Z6K...»
    Meeting URL: https://weizmann.zoom.us/j/5065402023?pwd=a3Z6KzRCU0xJaUFoM2Y5emZwZm1oZz09

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  • Date:15SundayOctober 2023

    TBA

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    Time
    11:00
    Location
    Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
    M. Magaritz Seminar Room
    Lecturer
    Dr. Katinka Bellomo
    Organizer
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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  • Date:16MondayOctober 2023

    Israeli RNA Meeting 2023 in memory of Prof. Yossi Sperling

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    Time
    08:00 - 08:00
    Location
    The David Lopatie Conference Centre
    Chairperson
    Schraga Schwartz
    Organizer
    Abisch-Frenkel RNA Therapeutics Center
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  • Date:16MondayOctober 2023

    The Southern Lights — Rhodopsin Complexes Discovered in an Algae Near Antarctica Can Help Unravel the Secrets of the Brain

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    Time
    11:00 - 12:15
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami
    Department of Chemical & Structural Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Chemical and Structural Biology
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Rhodopsins are a ubiquitous family of light sensing/signalin...»
    Rhodopsins are a ubiquitous family of light sensing/signaling proteins. In recent work, our group discovered an intriguing family of rhodopsins in algae: the bestrhodopsins. Through cryo-EM and comprehensive biochemical and electrophysiological studies, we showed that bestrhodopsins are fusions of rhodopsins and ion channels which assemble as mega-complexes to enable light-controlled passage of ions across membranes. Regulation of a classical ion channel by an attached photoreceptor has never been found before in nature, and previous attempts to engineer light-regulated fused channels have yielded limited success. The discovery and characterization of bestrhodopsins thus provide a new template for designing proteins with light-sensing and ion-conducting activities, as well as represent a platform for regulating cellular signaling in living organisms using light. These findings are therefore not only important as a basic scientific discovery but also for the field of optogenetics where neural activity is controlled by light.
    In the present talk, I will present the discovery of the bestrhodopsins, and explain how we use our cryo-EM work for structure-based design of dramatically improved tools to manipulate signaling cascades in cells by light control, paving the way for the next generation of optogenetics tools to study brain function in vivo.
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  • Date:16MondayOctober 2023

    Rigidity at the Nanoscale: Engineering (super)selectivity at the bio-interface with DNA

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    Lecturer
    Prof. Maartje Bastings
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Organizer
    Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Understanding and manipulating precise interactions between ...»
    Understanding and manipulating precise interactions between materials and biology – the biointerface – is key to ensure optimal performance of diagnostics and therapeutics. Functional materials for biological applications, e.g. vaccines or implants, work best when their interaction with cells is precise. If not, side effects and toxicity might occur. Interactions are labeled superselective, when they happen only in a very specific (cellular) context and as such, present a strategy to enhance the therapeutic effect of bioactive materials.
    Selective multivalent interactions are traditionally engineered with a focus on the balance of valency and affinity, and often a good amount of structural flexibility is present. In my laboratory, we hypothesized that rigidity at the nanoscale could be a strong determinant of super-selectivity. We combine insights from biophysics and tools from DNA nanotechnology to engineer materials with a controlled flexibility/rigidity balance which allows to present molecules and organize interactions in precise spatial patterns. I will show how structural mechanical properties on the nanoscale determine the self-assembly mechanisms of supramolecular crystals, how they are critical for super-selective Multivalent Pattern Recognition (MPR) and how spatially controlled multivalent interactions are key in the fine-tuning of immune activation pathways. Exploiting programmable flexibility within the well-defined DNA molecule, our research presents a new engineering strategy to investigate the impact of nanorigidity in functional soft matter, surface order and communication with life.
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  • Date:18WednesdayOctober 2023

    Immunology and Regenerative Biology Colloquium

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    Time
    11:00
    Title
    Multi-Potent Lung Stem Cells for Lung Regeneration
    Location
    Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
    Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Prof. Yair Reisner
    Professor Emeritus, Weizmann Institute of Science Head, Stem Cell Research at the Department of Stem Cell Transplantation & Cellular Therapy; MD Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, Texas
    Organizer
    Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
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  • Date:22SundayOctober 202326ThursdayOctober 2023

    SAAC Meeting 2023 1/2

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    Time
    All day
    Location
    The David Lopatie Conference Centre
    Lecturer
    עינת דקל
    Contact
    International Board
  • Date:22SundayOctober 2023

    Using artificial intelligence to help cows go green

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    Time
    13:00 - 14:00
    Title
    SAERI - Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative Seminar Series
    Location
    Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences
    Room 690
    Lecturer
    Dr. Yaniv Altshuler
    MIT Media Lab
    Organizer
    Sustainability and Energy Research Initiative (SAERI)
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    DetailsShow full text description of Host: Prof. Ron Milo...»

    Host: Prof. Ron Milo
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  • Date:22SundayOctober 2023

    Special Guest Seminar with Prof. Ziv Bar-Joseph

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Title
    "AI / ML in big pharma – From omics to clinical trials"
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    Botnar Auditorium
    Lecturer
    Prof. Ziv Bar-Joseph
    Organizer
    Azrieli Institute for Systems Biology
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about While students and faculty are very aware of current state o...»
    While students and faculty are very aware of current state of the art experimental and computational technologies, there is less awareness of how these are used in practice by the pharma industry. I have been leading the AI / ML work for R&D at one of the largest pharma companies for almost two years and will share some of the methods we have been developing and using to address computational challenges across all stages of the drug discovery and development process. I Will also try to share some of the lessons I have learned over this period.

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  • Date:23MondayOctober 2023

    10x genomics User Group Meeting 2023

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    Time
    08:00 - 08:00
    Location
    Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium
    Chairperson
    Hadas Keren-Shaul
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