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January 01, 2013
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Date:09TuesdayFebruary 2016Lecture
The neurobiology of visual search in barn owls
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Yoram Gutfreund
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, HaifaOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Nature has created mechanisms to detect salient objects like...» Nature has created mechanisms to detect salient objects like food, prey or mates. Visual search is the process of shifting gaze from one salient object to another. It has both a stimulus driven bottom-up component as well as a task-driven top-down component. This is well studied in human and primates but not so much in other animals. It is, therefore, a challenge to increase our understanding of visual search in non-primate animals. The barn owl is a predator having frontally oriented eyes, but lacking eye movements. Because of such specializations, this bird offers itself for the study of visual search. We study mechanisms of visual search in this animal on both the behavioural and neurophysiological levels. In this talk I will present our main findings on these matters. -
Date:10WednesdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Nuclear mechanics controls synchronised DNA replication in muscle nuclei
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Prof. Talila Volk
Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISContact -
Date:10WednesdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Chemical Physics Department Guest Seminar
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Title Directing Charge Transfer in Nanoparticle AssembliesLocation Perlman Room 402Lecturer Prof David Waldeck
Pittsburgh UniversityOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact -
Date:11ThursdayFebruary 2016Lecture
From Molecular Gyroscopes to Homeo¬morphic Isomerization: Molecules that Turn Themselves Inside-Out
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Dr. John A. Gladysz
Department of Chemistry Texas A&M UniversityOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:11ThursdayFebruary 2016Colloquia
A spins-inside quantum processor
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Lieven Vandersypen
DelftOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about A quantum computer holds the promise of solving some problem...» A quantum computer holds the promise of solving some problems that are beyond the reach of the most powerful supercomputers. Due to theoretical and experimental breakthroughs in the last few years, we are now at a point where the feeling grows that a large-scale quantum computer can actually be built. Increasingly, this requires bridging the disciplines, from physics to engineering, materials science and computer science. In this talk, I will present the start-of-the-art in quantum computing and outline the challenges ahead, with a focus on electron spin qubits in semiconductors. -
Date:11ThursdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Learning Nature’s Strategies for Making Unusual Sugars:
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Title Biosynthesis of 2-thioglucose in BE-7585ALocation Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Hung-wen Liu
University of Texas at Austin, AustinOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science , Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:11ThursdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Lee A. Segel Prize in Theoretical Biology
More information Time 15:00 - 15:00Title ceremonyLocation Jacob Ziskind BuildingOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:11ThursdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Shimon Even Prize in Theoretical Computer Science
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:11ThursdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Interdisciplinary discussion club – by invitation
More information Time 16:30 - 18:15Location PeletronContact -
Date:12FridayFebruary 2016Cultural Events
Magician tricks bubble show - children's theater in Russian
More information Time 17:00 - 18:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:13SaturdayFebruary 2016Cultural Events
The City - Hip Hop Opera
More information Time 21:00 - 22:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:14SundayFebruary 201616TuesdayFebruary 2016Conference
From host genetics to microbiome: Immunity in the genomic era
More information Time All dayLocation The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Ido AmitHomepage Contact -
Date:14SundayFebruary 2016Lecture
Metal Organic Frameworks: a Platform for Electrocatalytic Fuel Generation
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr. Idan Hod
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern UniversityOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:14SundayFebruary 2016Lecture
Buffering variability of morphogen gradients
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Neta Strasser
Benny Shilo's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:14SundayFebruary 2016Lecture
Friction is Fracture: Classical shear cracks drive the onset of frictional motion
More information Time 13:15 - 13:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Prof. Jay Fineberg
The Racah Institute of Physics The Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Clore Center for Biological PhysicsContact -
Date:15MondayFebruary 2016Lecture
Chemical Physics Department Guest Seminar
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Title Brain cells under controlled micro-environmentsLocation Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr Catherine Villard
CNRS/UPMC/Institut CurieOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Working on the cellular microenvironment by using microengin...» Working on the cellular microenvironment by using microengineering tools is pivotal for the implementation of neuronal circuits in vitro. On the other hand, the interaction between specific environnements involving topographies, adhesive constraints or soft materials may give a novel access to some characteristics of brain cells (e.g. mechanosensitivity or axonal affinity for edges).
I will illustrate these two points by presenting some results obtained at the Institut Néel (my former lab in Grenoble) and now at Physico-chimie Curie (Paris) on axonal specification and guidance, from the scale of single neurons to that of brain cell populations. I will in particular focus on the dynamics of neuronal growth and address the issues of neuronal length and volume.
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Date:15MondayFebruary 2016Colloquia
Life Science Colloquium
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Title Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of life and deathLocation Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Luca Scorrano
Director, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Chair of Biochemistry, Dept. of Biology, University of Padua, ItalyContact -
Date:15MondayFebruary 2016Lecture
G-INCPM-Special Seminar: Prof. Emeritus Ira Krull, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northwestern University, USA - "Top-Down Protein Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry, Quo Vadis?
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized MedicineLecturer Prof. Emeritus Ira Krull
Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Northwestern University, USAOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:15MondayFebruary 2016Lecture
Mechanical Yield to Plastic Flow in Amorphous Materials
More information Time 14:15 - 14:15Lecturer WIS, Prof. Itamar Procaccia Organizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Materials that exhibit a "yield" phenomenon respon...» Materials that exhibit a "yield" phenomenon response elastically to small strains or stresses, but at some critical value of the stress they yield mechanically and exhibit a complex plastic flow. The search of criteria to distinguish the properties of the material before and after the yield was long and futile; none of the standard signatures like correlation functions, Voronoi tesselations or any other "structural" measure succeeded to clarify the difference between pre-yield and post-yield configurations. I willexplain in this talk how to construct a new order parameter that allows us to show that the yield phenomenon is a bona-fide first order thermodynamic phase transition, shedding an entirely new light on the
phenomenon.
Materials that exhibit a "yield" phenomenon response elastically to small strains or stresses, but at some critical value of the stress they yield mechanically and exhibit a complex plastic flow. The search of criteria to distinguish the properties of the material before and after the yield was long and futile; none of the standard signatures like correlation functions, Voronoi tesselations or any other "structural" measure succeeded to clarify the difference between pre-yield and post-yield configurations. I willexplain in this talk how to construct a new order parameter that allows us to show that the yield phenomenon is a bona-fide first order thermodynamic phase transition, shedding an entirely new light on the
phenomenon.
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Date:16TuesdayFebruary 2016Lecture
Autophagy as housekeeping machinery to balance proteasomal degradation.
More information Time 10:00 - 10:30Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Dr. Alik Demishtein
Dept. of Biological Chemistry-WISOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Protein homeostasis in the cell is regulated by two highly c...» Protein homeostasis in the cell is regulated by two highly conserved pathways, the UPS and the autophagy. So far the link between these pathways was mainly evaluated by blocking the degradation flux through either pathway, thus limiting the ability to accurately assess the cross talk between the two systems. Here we demonstrate that knockdown of the proteasome integral ubiquitin receptors S5a and ADRM1, impairs polyubiquitinated substrate degradation by the 26S proteasome, while avoiding the global deleterious outcomes associated with proteasome inhibitors. We demonstrate that p62-mediated autophagy effectively balances the reduced proteasome capacity. Finally, we provide evidence for the mechanism linking the regulation of p62 expression with proteasome activity. We propose that upon impairment of the proteasomal flux short-lived transcription factors constitute an inherent feedback loop that upregulate p62 dependent autophagy, thereby maintaining cellular proteostasis and prevent the formation of protein aggregates.