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October 01, 2009
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Date:01TuesdayDecember 2009Lecture
"Mitochondrial Genomes in Maize and its Relatives"
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Prof. Kathleen J. Newton
Biological Sciences University of Missouri, Columbia, USAOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:01TuesdayDecember 2009Lecture
Evolvability of sequence dependent promoter properties.
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Gil Hornung Organizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Promoters can be divided into two classes based on their nuc...» Promoters can be divided into two classes based on their nucleosome architecture and existence
of a TATA box. These two classes differ in three levels: evolvability of their expression, sensitivity to signals and finally cell-to-cell variability in expression ("noise"). Using random mutagenesis, we show that these
promoters also have striking differences in their ability to withstand (or respond to) mutations in the
promoter region, consistent with the different evolvabilities.We further investigate the noise properties of these two promoters and show that sequence differences can (in some cases) impact noise, suggesting that noise in expression may be an evolvable trait. -
Date:01TuesdayDecember 2009Lecture
"Predicting and controlling the reactivity of immune cell populations against cancer"
More information Time 13:30 - 13:30Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Eran Eden
Department of Molecular Cell Biology (Uri Alon's lab)Organizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:01TuesdayDecember 2009Lecture
Protein Intrinsic Disorder and Cell Signaling
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Keith Dunker
Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Indiana University, USA Indiana University, USAOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:01TuesdayDecember 2009Lecture
On the determinantal representations of plane curves
More information Time 16:00 - 16:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science -
Date:01TuesdayDecember 2009Colloquia
Special Physics Colloquium
More information Time 16:15 - 17:30Title Testing the Foundations of Quantum Physics with Photons Locally and NonlocallyLocation Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Professor Anton Zeilinger
University of Vienna And Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum InformationOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The quest for quantum quantum computation and quantum commun...» The quest for quantum quantum computation and quantum communication has led to an increased interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics. New experimenst have also become possible because of the development of new experimental techniques. In the talk I will review some of the recent experiments done in Vienna including a first implementation of the free will requirement in Bell tests, nonlocal delayed-choice and quantum eraser experiments and local tests of noncontextuality. -
Date:02WednesdayDecember 2009Lecture
Flicking the angiogenic switch: Lipoproteins as modulators of blood vessel growth
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Karina Yaniv
Dept. of Biological Regulation, WISContact -
Date:02WednesdayDecember 2009Lecture
Around the g-conjecture
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Eran Nevo
Cornell UniversityOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science -
Date:03ThursdayDecember 2009Lecture
Moving Tube NMR
More information Time 09:00 - 09:00Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Kevin Donovan
University of California, IrvineOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Moving tube NMR is a technique based on using an unusually l...» Moving tube NMR is a technique based on using an unusually long 5 mm sample tube (1520 mm) filled with excess sample volumes that is moved through the sample coil to access different parts of the sample tube. The hardware consists of an apparatus that gives precise, automated tube motion, that is controlled by the spectrometer console. The applications of such hardware are numerous but perhaps the most salient is to eliminate the need for a relaxation delay by replacing the relaxing sample increment with an already equilibrated sample increment. This application is demonstrated in the most basic way, by collecting a quantitative carbon-13 NMR spectrum in much less time. Additionally, moving tube NMR was found to increase sensitivity. Other moving-tube experiments will be explored, including faster 2D experiments, faster more quantitative NOE experiments, parallel pulse sequences acquiring data from different parts of the tube, and other new applications. -
Date:03ThursdayDecember 2009Lecture
Ergodic theory and additive combinatorics
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Michael Bj"orklund
Royal Institute of TechnologyOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science -
Date:03ThursdayDecember 2009Colloquia
Physics Colloquium
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Title "ANDERSON LOCALIZATION OF LIGHT"Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer PROF. MORDECHAI (MOTI) SEGEV
PHYSICS DEPARTMENT, TECHNION, ISRAELOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Anderson localization is one of the basic concepts in solid ...» Anderson localization is one of the basic concepts in solid state physics, yet its experimental observation has eluded scientists for many years. Two years ago, Anderson localization has been demonstrated in photonic lattices, which are excellent model systems for studying wave localization due to disorder. The recent progress on Anderson Localization of light will be reviewed, including the additional effects of nonlinearity, with an
emphasis on generic features common to other wave systems in nature.
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Date:03ThursdayDecember 2009Lecture
Coordinates for Instant Image Cloning
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Dani Lischinski
Hebrew UniversityOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science -
Date:03ThursdayDecember 2009Lecture
"The involvement of Toll like receptors in CNS plasticity"
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Eitan Okun
National Institute of Aging, NIHOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:03ThursdayDecember 2009Lecture
Structural kinetics of promoter recognition by E. coli RNA polymerase
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Bianca Sclavi
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, FranceOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:04FridayDecember 2009Lecture
A generalization of Richardson and Bala-Carter components of Springer fibers
More information Time 10:40 - 10:40Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Lucas Fresse
Organizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science -
Date:05SaturdayDecember 2009Cultural Events
Miki Kam - Stand up
More information Time 21:00 - 21:00Title A new comic performanceContact -
Date:06SundayDecember 2009Lecture
Mineral Aspect of a Dust Strom as Obtain from Hyperspectral Imagery from Space: A Case Study Over Bodele Depression, Northern Chad
More information Time All dayLocation Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Dr. Alexandra Chudnovsky
Department of Environmental Sciences The Weizmann Institute of ScienceOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:06SundayDecember 2009Lecture
"Understanding and Improving Platinum Anticancer Drugs"
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title Organic Chemistry - Special Departmental SeminarLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Professor Stephen J. Lippard
Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, USAOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:06SundayDecember 2009Lecture
Cryptography by Cellular Automata or How Fast Can Complexity Emerge in Nature?
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Benny Applebaum
Organizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science -
Date:06SundayDecember 2009Lecture
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of hydrated DNA
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Erik T.J. Nibbering
Max-Born Institut, BerlinOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Hydrogen bonds are ubiquitous in nature. They not only deter...» Hydrogen bonds are ubiquitous in nature. They not only determine many special properties of water, but also the structure of biological systems, including proteins and DNA. In addition to this the interactions between water and biological systems are mediated by hydrogen bonds. Because hydrogen bonds interactions have moderate magnitudes, for condensed pahse sytsems at room temperature the time scale of fluctuations and dissipation of excess energy lies in the ultrafast time scale, ranging from tens of femtoseconds to several tens of picoseconds. In this talk I will highlight some of our recent advances in exploring hydrogen bond dynamics using ultrafast mid-infrared spectroscopy, with which we have direct access to fluctuations, spectral diffusion and vibrational energy flow of hydrogen bonds.