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April 23, 2012
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Date:08TuesdayOctober 2013Lecture
On Beauty, Precision, Electronics and Quantum Mechanics
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Title Physics Now lectureLocation Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Ady Stern
Condensed Matter Physics DepartmentOrganizer Communications and Spokesperson DepartmentContact -
Date:08TuesdayOctober 2013Lecture
Predicting deliberate decisions and the onset of conscious intention
More information Time 13:15 - 13:15Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr. Uri Maoz
Div. of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CAOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Human behavior was shown to be predictable from neural activ...» Human behavior was shown to be predictable from neural activity before subjects reported having decided on the contents or onset of their actions. This was suggested to challenges the role of consciousness intentions in decision making, and through it have far reaching implications for the notions of free will and moral responsibility. However, these studies focused on non-ecological, arbitrary decisions – like raising the left or right hand for no reason or purpose and with no consequences – which are not typically held to be the hallmarks of freedom, not to mention assigning blame or praise. We wanted to understand to what degree this ability generalizes to deliberate actions, so we analyzed intracranial, human brain activity in a competitive environment – a matching-pennies game. We were increasingly better able to predict such actions with time before movement onset, retrospectively and even online and in real time. We further discovered specific neural differences between deliberate and arbitrary decision making using EEG. And we also found bias activity in monkey DLPFC and striatum that may help explain the early predictions in arbitrary decisions. I will sketch some features of a model of action selection that is congruent with the above findings. -
Date:09WednesdayOctober 2013Lecture
Neutron Diffraction to study the Ferrites Spinel
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr. Davide Levy
Research Associate, Tel Aviv UniversityOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:09WednesdayOctober 2013Lecture
New views of Type Ia Supernovae: exploring explosion properties with UV spectra and with larger spectral samples
More information Time 11:15 - 12:00Location Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics BuildingLecturer Stephan Hachinger Organizer Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for AstrophysicsContact -
Date:09WednesdayOctober 2013Lecture
Exact relation between Eulerian and Lagrangian velocity increment statistics
More information Time 14:15 - 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Rainer Grauer
Institute für theoretische Physik I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GermanyOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about We present a formal connection between Lagrangian and Euler...» We present a formal connection between Lagrangian and Eulerian velocity
Increment distributions which is applicable to a wide range of turbulent
systems. In order to get insight into the role played by the dissipative structures
we compare different turbulent systems e.g. 2D and 3D Navier-Stokes flows, 3D
MHD flows.
In addition I will present results on conditional Lagrangian statistics where we
propose a novel condition for Lagrangian increments which is shown to reduce
the flatness of the corresponding PDFs substantially and thus intermittency in
the inertial range of scales. The conditioned PDF corresponding to the smallest
increment considered is reasonably well described by the K41-prediction of the
PDF of acceleration
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Date:10ThursdayOctober 2013Conference
The 26th meeting of the Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry (ISMS)
More information Time 08:00 - 17:00Location The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Asaph AharoniHomepage Contact -
Date:10ThursdayOctober 2013Lecture
YANGIAN SYMMETRY OF SMOOTH WILSON LOOPS IN N=4 SYM
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer JAN PLEFKA
Humboldt University, BerlinOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:10ThursdayOctober 2013Lecture
"A systems biology and computational approach to understand the regulation of aspartate metabolism in plants"
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Prof. Athel Cornish-Bowden
Directeur de Recherche Emerite, CNRS, Marseille, FranceOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:12SaturdayOctober 2013Cultural Events
VOCA PEOPLE
More information Time 21:30 - 21:30Title International musical sensationLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:13SundayOctober 201316WednesdayOctober 2013Conference
Synthetic Life: Molecules, Cells and Tissues
More information Time 13:00 - 21:30Location The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Eyal KarzbrunHomepage Contact -
Date:13SundayOctober 2013Lecture
Addiction of t(8;21) and inv(16) Acute Myeloid Leukemia to Native RUNX1
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Oren Ben-Ami
Yoram Groner's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:13SundayOctober 2013Lecture
Development of potent leptin antagonists and their use for research and for potential therapy
More information Time 15:00 - 15:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Arieh Gertler
The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Organizer Faculty of BiologyContact -
Date:14MondayOctober 2013Lecture
Ubiquitin proteolytic system with its ever changing paradigms: novel modes of ubiquitination in chemical, biological and pathological eyes
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Aaron Ciechanover
Technion, HaifaOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact -
Date:14MondayOctober 201317ThursdayOctober 2013Cultural Events
Horses on the Gaya Highway
More information Time 20:30 - 20:30Title Bet Lesin TheaterLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:15TuesdayOctober 2013Lecture
"Stem Cells and Apoptosis- a Matter of Life and Death".
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Yaron Fuchs, Howard Hughes Medical Inst. The Rockefeller University Organizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:15TuesdayOctober 2013Lecture
"Fuels of the future - Using diatoms as a platform for renewable energy"
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Dr. Orly Levitan
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, USAOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:15TuesdayOctober 2013Lecture
"The Pup-proteasome system: Physiological role and mechanism of proteasomal degradation in bacteria"
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Dr. Eyal Gur
Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion UniversityOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:15TuesdayOctober 2013Lecture
Water Forum Lecture:
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Title Dynamics of Biomolecules: Combining Neutron Scattering, MD Simulations and Dielectric Spectroscopy StudiesLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumLecturer A. P. Sokolov
Department of Chemistry, University of TennesseeOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Dynamics of Biomolecules: Combining Neutron, MD-Simulations ...» Dynamics of Biomolecules: Combining Neutron, MD-Simulations and Dielectrics Spectroscopy Studies
A. P. Sokolov
Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA and
Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
We present an attempt to classify different dynamic processes in biological macromolecules on the ns-ps time scale. It is based on analysis of quasileastic neutron scattering (QENS) data, dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and MD-simulations studies of dynamics of proteins, RNA and DNA. We identify four relaxation processes in dynamics of biomolecules on the picoseconds-nanosecond time scale: (i) fast picosecond relaxation that is strongly coupled to the solvent dynamics and is traditionally ascribed to a caged motion of residues; (ii) methyl groups dynamics that seems to play an important role in proteins; (iii) “localized diffusion” that seems to be strongly coupled to dynamics of hydration water; (iv) larger scale relaxation process in the ns-time scale that we ascribed to motions of domains or secondary structures. The microscopic nature of these processes and their dependence on hydration water are discussed. We propose a general picture of biomolecular dynamics on the ps-ns time scale. At the end we emphasize the difference in dynamics between proteins and nucleic acids and address the question of their evolutionary evolvements.
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Date:16WednesdayOctober 2013Colloquia
Life Sciences Colloquium
More information Time 09:45 - 09:45Title "Reading neural codes in freely behaving mice, in ~1000 neurons per mouse"Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Mark J. Schnitzer Contact -
Date:16WednesdayOctober 2013Lecture
Affymetrix seminar: Affymetrix Human Transcriptome Array 2.0, New Transcriptome Analysis Software (TAC) and Comparisons to RNA-Seq
More information Time 10:00 - 12:00Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Amos Grundwag
Manager, Genomics and BioInformatics. Biotechnology Department. Eisenberg Bros. Ltd.Contact Abstract Show full text abstract about Affymetrix Human Transcriptome Array 2.0, New Transcriptome ...» Affymetrix Human Transcriptome Array 2.0, New Transcriptome Analysis Software (TAC) and Comparisons to RNA-Seq!
Research has shown that the tens of thousands of human genes contain hundreds of thousands of exons, which produce hundreds of thousands of different transcript isoforms. Until now, measuring and analyzing these transcript isoforms has been nearly impossible due to technology limitations, sample input requirements, and lack of analysis capabilities/tools.
Designed to empower next-generation expression profiling studies, GeneChip Human Transcriptome Array 2.0 (HTA 2.0) provides the ability to go beyond gene-level expression profiling by providing the coverage and accuracy required to accurately detect all known transcript isoforms produced by a gene.
This high-resolution array design contains >6.0 million probes covering coding transcripts and non-coding transcripts. 70% of the probes on this array cover exons for coding transcripts, and the remaining 30% of probes on the array cover exon-exon splice junctions and non-coding transcripts.
The free TAC software is designed and intended for investigators allowing quick and easy visualization and detection of the transcriptome.
In this talk I will try to illustrate how most researchers who run RNA-Seq do not sequence deep enough and are missing important changes which are easily accessible on microarrays.
Amos Grundwag
Manager, Genomics and BioInformatics.
Biotechnology Department.
Eisenberg Bros. Ltd.
Tel: +972 (0)3 9777037
Mobile: +972 (0)528 910960