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February 01, 2010
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Date:22SaturdayMarch 201426WednesdayMarch 2014Conference
Mechanisms of Neuronal Remodeling
More information Time All dayChairperson Oren SchuldinerContact -
Date:22SaturdayMarch 2014Cultural Events
A Family Affair
More information Time 20:30 - 20:30Title The Cameri theaterLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 201427ThursdayMarch 2014Conference
COST Meeting on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
More information Time All dayLocation The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Eli PollakHomepage Contact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
Improve Metabolism and Delay Disease by Limiting Glycemia
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Allen Taylor
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging Tufts University,USAContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
Structurally Tuned Hierarchically Self-Assembled Membranes
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr. Ronit Bitton
Department of Chemical Engineering, University Ben GurionOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
Rearrangement Reactions and Total Synthesis of Natural Products
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title Special Departmental Seminar - Organic ChemistryLocation Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Yong-Qiang Tu
Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, ChinaOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
A Convex Formulation for Mixed Regression: Minimax Optimal Rates
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Constantine Caramanis
University of Texas, AustinOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
The ambivalent phosphatase: The role of PTPROt in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Jean Wakim
Ari Elson's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
AERI Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative Seminar Series
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Title The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar CellsLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley, USAOrganizer Weizmann School of ScienceContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Abstract: Solar cell science and technology is changing. ...» Abstract:
Solar cell science and technology is changing. New efficiency records have been set. Alta Devices has reached 28.8% efficiency in a thin film single-junction cell at 1-sun, and 30.8% efficiency in a thin-film dual junction cell at 1-sun.
Counter-intuitively, efficient external fluorescence is a necessity for approaching the ultimate limits. A great Solar Cell also needs to be a great Light Emitting Diode. Why would a solar cell, intended to absorb light, benefit from emitting light? Although it is tempting to equate light emission with loss, paradoxically, light emission actually improves the open-circuit voltage, and the efficiency.
The single-crystal thin film technology that achieved these high efficiencies, is created by epitaxial liftoff, and can be produced at cost well below the other less efficient thin film solar technologies. The path is now open to a 30% efficient photovoltaic technology that can be produced at low cost.
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Date:23SundayMarch 2014Lecture
Perovskite oxides for visible-light-absorbing ferroelectric and photovoltaic materials
More information Time 14:30 - 14:30Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Jonathan E Spanier
Department of Materials Science & Engineering A J Drexel Institute for Energy & the Environment Drexel University, PhiladelphiaOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:23SundayMarch 2014Cultural Events
Under the Moonlight: Gil Shohat hosts Ido Tadmor
More information Time 20:30 - 20:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:24MondayMarch 2014Lecture
Deciphering allergic immune responses
More information Time 09:15 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Marc E. Rothenberg
University of Cincinnati College of MedicineOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:24MondayMarch 2014Lecture
Women's day 2014 - Prof. Rivka Carmi , President of Ben-Gurion University
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Rivka Carmi Organizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact -
Date:24MondayMarch 2014Lecture
"Regulation of vascular morphogenesis and disease by mechanical forces"
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Title JOINT DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR (MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY)Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Martin A. Schwartz
Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Yale School of MedicineOrganizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:24MondayMarch 2014Lecture
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More information Time 14:15 - 15:00Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics BuildingLecturer Sjoert van Velzen Organizer Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for AstrophysicsContact -
Date:25TuesdayMarch 2014Lecture
Penicillin – a tale of scientific discovery.
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Dan Tawfik
Department of Biological Chemistry-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:25TuesdayMarch 2014Lecture
Head and neck cancer: a major challenge for experimental and translational oncology
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Jochen Hess
Head, Joint Research Group Section Experimental and Translational Head and Neck Oncology Dept of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery University Hospital Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Heidelberg GermanyContact -
Date:25TuesdayMarch 2014Lecture
Highly Efficient Organocatalytic Domino Reactions
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title Departmental Seminar- Organic ChemistryLocation Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Guofu Zhong
College of Materials, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hangzhou Normal University, ChinaOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:25TuesdayMarch 2014Lecture
The virus, the sea and the honeybee conundrum
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Dr. Declan Schroeder
Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, Devon, UKOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:25TuesdayMarch 2014Lecture
Compensatory boosting of cortical inputs to striatal cholinergic interneurons in mouse models of Huntington's disease
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Joshua A. Goldberg
Dept of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel–Canada The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about In Huntington’s disease (HD) – a devasta...» In Huntington’s disease (HD) – a devastating autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disease – the striatum displays reduced cholinergic markers, despite the resiliency of cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) – the source of striatal acetylcholine – to the neurodegeneration that decimates striatal projection neurons. Autonomous spiking of ChIs is unchanged in transgenic HD mice, suggesting a functional deficit in extrinsically driven activity. Using two transgenic mouse models of HD, we show that ChI responses to cortical input are boosted by a post-synaptic up-regulation of the persistent sodium current. This boosting is replicated by in wild-type mice by diminished activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs). Activation of group I mGluRs in HD mice counters the boosting. We propose that the recently described loss of thalamic synapses in striatum, reduces group I mGluR activation in ChIs which promotes boosting of cortical inputs. The augmentation of cortical inputs may function to compensate for the lost thalamic glutamatergic drive.