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October 01, 2009
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Date:15SundayApril 2012Lecture
How deeply cells feel: from soft matrices of controlled thickness to nuclear readouts
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Dr. Amnon Buxboim
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PAOrganizer Clore Center for Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Tissue cells constantly probe their surroundings. They lack ...» Tissue cells constantly probe their surroundings. They lack eyes to see and ears to hear but sense their microenvironment by adhering and physically deforming, which allows cells to feel into the depths of a matrix. To address how deeply cells feel we cultured mesenchymal stem cells, as prototypical but particularly sensitive adhesive cells, on collagen-coated gels-made microfilms of controlled elasticity (E) and thickness (h). After just 36 hrs in culture, cell spread area was distinctively smaller on thick and soft compared to either thin or stiff films, correlating well with nuclei morphology. Transition from small-to-large spread area transition was obtained at -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Colloquia
Life Sciences Colloquium
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title 'We have never been individuals: How molecular studies of symbiosis reformulate biological ideas of life'Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof.Scott Gilbert
Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, USAContact -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
"Novel regulatory mechanisms in T-cell mediated autoimmunity"
More information Time 11:00 - 13:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Nathan Karin
Department of Immunology, Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,Organizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
Generalized Harish-Chandra isomorphism
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Maxim Nazarov
University of York, UKOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
Chemical feedback microprocessors for constructive DNA processing
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Prof. John McCaskill
Ruhr-University-Bochum Biomolecular Information Processing (BioMIP) Bioorganische ChemieOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
Faculty of Chemistry Colloquium - Prof. Jacob Klein
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title Hydrophobic interactions: not what you thinkLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Jacib Klein
Deptartment of Materials and InterfacesOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Hydrophobic surfaces are common in nature and technology. Su...» Hydrophobic surfaces are common in nature and technology. Surfactant monolayers are a standard method of hydrophobizing surfaces, and interactions between such monolayer-coated surfaces have been measured directly for decades: but they are not well understood. One frequent but puzzling observation is that of long-ranged (up to 100 nm) attractions between such surfaces across water, which are orders of magnitude larger than van der Waals forces. This was long attributed to water structuring near the hydrophobic surfaces, but such structuring is unlikely to exceed some nanometers at most. We now elucidate the origin of these long-ranged attractions, which resides in a subtle and counterintuitive electrostatic effect, even between overall neutral surfaces. -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
The Sun's Shadow: Astronomy in Renaissance Art on the Verge of the Scientific Revolution.
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Meital Shai
Theories and History of the Arts, IUAV and Ca' Foscari Universities Venice, ITALYOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about During the Renaissance, the study of Astronomy stood at the ...» During the Renaissance, the study of Astronomy stood at the core of the philosophical discourse of the Western World; its eventual consequence was the acceptance of the Heliocentric Model and the launch of the Scientific Revolution. The development of the new approach to science was a gradual process that owes much debt to the intellectuals who studied and worked in the Italian peninsula. At times, they chose to manifest their opinions through visual means, in the architecture and decoration of their private households. The lecture will present the case of a noble Venetian family, the Barbaro, whose villa decoration reveals a particularly detailed and practical level of scientific interest in Astronomy. The central theme of the mural paintings is a representation of an important solar eclipse that occurred in the sixteenth century, a discovery that was obtained through traditional methods of art history research combined with the use of modern Planetarium computer software. -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
More information Time 14:30 - 14:30Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
TechnionOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:16MondayApril 2012Lecture
מפגשים בחזית המדע
More information Time 19:15 - 21:00Location Davidson Institute of Science EducationOrganizer Science for All UnitHomepage Contact -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
Fishing for novel regulators of angiogenesis.
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location To be announcedLecturer Prof. Karina Yaniv
Department of Biological Regulation - WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
Exact spectrum of the planar AdS5/CFT4
More information Time 10:30 - 12:00Location Neve ShalomLecturer Volodya Kazakov
Ecole normal ParisOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
"The rise and fall of corals" CANCELLED!
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Dr. Dan Tchernov
Marine Biology Department, The Leon H.Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of HaifaOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
THE FLUID/GRAVITY DUALITY AND THE MEANING OF BLACK HOLE ENTROPY
More information Time 12:00 - 13:30Location Neve ShalomLecturer YASHA NEIMAN
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITYOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about I describe the fluid/gravity dictionary, with an emphasis on...» I describe the fluid/gravity dictionary, with an emphasis on horizon dynamics. I discuss black hole entropy and its extension into a local current, in GR and in higher-curvature theories. I propose a tentative, non-statistical interpretation of black hole entropy. I discuss its relation to the usual interpretation by analogy with the role of charge currents in the fluid/gravity duality.
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Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
The hippocampal-prefrontal circuit in psychiatric disease models
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Joshua Gordon
Dept of Psychiatry, Columbia University and The New York State Psychiatric InstituteOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, two brain regions fre...» The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, two brain regions frequently implicated in psychiatric illness, must cooperate to regulate both cognitive and emotional behaviors. We and others have shown that these two brain regions synchronize their activity during behavior. I will discuss the dynamics of this synchrony during working memory and anxiety, how it shapes neuronal responses in the prefrontal cortex, and how it is altered by genetic manipulations of relevance to psychiatric disease. -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
From Cancer metabolism to glycosylation and back: chemical reporters of O-GlcNAc modification
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Matthew Pratt
Depts. of Chemistry & Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los AngelesOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about O-GlcNAc modification (O-GlcNAcylation) is a highly abundant...» O-GlcNAc modification (O-GlcNAcylation) is a highly abundant protein posttranslational modification that is dramatically altered in several human diseases including cancer. We are investigating any links between O-GlcNAcylation, cancer-specific metabolism, and survival in human cancers. To enable our studies, we have developed chemical tools to robustly visualize, identify, and manipulate O-GlcNAcylation in living cells. In this presentation, I will describe the development and characterization of a metabolic chemical reporter of O-GlcNAc modification created in our laboratory, the subsequent identification of 374 potentially O-GlcNAc modified proteins from mammalian cells, and our efforts to understand O-GlcNAc modification of the ubiquitin ligase NEDD4. -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
First and second universalities-Phenomena and Modelling
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Location Michael Sela AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Klaus Funke
Munster University, GermanyOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Abstract: Ion-conducting materials with quite different k...» Abstract:
Ion-conducting materials with quite different kinds of disordered structures have been found to show an unexpected degree of similarity in their broadband conductivity spectra. In particular, two surprising "universalities" have been detected. One of them, the "first universality", is a fingerprint of activated hopping along interconnected sites, while the other, the "second universality", reflects non-activated, strictly localised movements of the ions. The former is observed at sufficiently high temperatures, while the other is found at sufficiently low ones, e.g., in the cryogenic temperature regime. In either case, rate equations have been found that reproduce the relevant time dependence of the ion dynamics as well as the spectra themselves. Therefore, these equations may be regarded as manifestations of the underlying common laws. At the same time, they also form a sound basis for understanding and visualising the phenomena in terms of simple physical pictures.
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Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Cultural Events
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
More information Time 17:30 - 17:30Title Production of the Israel BalletLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:17TuesdayApril 2012Lecture
קפה מדע
More information Time 19:30 - 21:00Location Davidson Institute of Science EducationOrganizer Science for All UnitHomepage Contact -
Date:18WednesdayApril 2012Lecture
Manipulating the TGF-beta pathway to shape neuronal remodeling
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Oren Schuldiner
Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology, WISHomepage Contact -
Date:18WednesdayApril 2012Lecture
"Energy transport and conversion at the nano-Scale"
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr. Yoni Dubi Organizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Finding new ways and improving old ways for energy conversio...» Finding new ways and improving old ways for energy conversion are a necessity if we are to face the future global energy challenges. One of the most promising and fascinating channels for achieving these goals is the use of nano-scale junctions for energy conversion, for example by utilizing thermo-electric effects. Understanding the processes that affect the energy transport and conversion at the nano-scale are thus a necessary mile-stone, and form a great challenge, both experimentally and theoretically. In this talk I review some recent advances in the theory of energy transport and conversion in nano-junctions. I describe several novel theories which have been developed for studying thermo-electric effects in nano-junctions, temperature distributions, energy transport in DNA nano-junctions, and energy to magnetization current conversion. These theories can be used to study basic physical phenomena (for instance local temperature fluctuations, the onset of Fourier’s law, DNA denaturation etc.) and can also lead to novel concepts and devices for energy transport and conversion such as thermal switches and thermal diodes.