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December 01, 2013
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Date:31TuesdayDecember 2013Lecture
“Novel Technologies and Applications for Structure - Function Studies of Macromolecular Complexes”
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Dr. Ilona Nudelman
Rockefeller University NY-USAOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:31TuesdayDecember 2013Lecture
Shortest Path Queries: Static, Dynamic and Fault-tolerant
More information Time 14:30 - 14:30Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Shiri Chechik
Microsoft ResearchOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:31TuesdayDecember 2013Cultural Events
Shlomi Koriat hosts Ben Ben-Baruch
More information Time 22:00 - 22:00Title stand-upLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:01WednesdayJanuary 2014Lecture
"Faculty Day" - Faculty of Chemistry
More information Time All dayLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer TBD Organizer Faculty of ChemistryContact -
Date:01WednesdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Transeq: a rapid, accurate and high-throughput RNA-seq approach for novel biological discovery
More information Time All dayLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Yoav Voichek and Dr. Diego Jaitin
From Ido Amit and Naama Barkai’s labOrganizer Faculty of BiologyHomepage Contact -
Date:01WednesdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Hindbrain development; from pattern formation to neuronal networks
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Title Developmental ClubLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dalit Sela-Donenfeld
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, RehovotContact -
Date:01WednesdayJanuary 2014Colloquia
Using a Confocal Rheoscope to Investigate Soft Squishy Materials
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Itai Cohen Organizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Soft matter systems derive their bulk mechanical properties ...» Soft matter systems derive their bulk mechanical properties from their underlying microscale structure and it’s response to thermal fluctuations. This interaction between structure and mechanics leads to a variety of behaviors including, shear thinning, visco-elastic flows including rod climbing and self-siphoning, as well as shear thickening flows. In this talk, I will discuss how we are using our newly developed confocal rheoscopes to simultaneously measure changes in the mechanical behavior and structural organization of materials ranging from shear thinning and thickening colloidal suspensions to mechanically heterogeneous biological tissues. -
Date:01WednesdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Individual Genomes Reveal Deep Population Histories and Uncover the Evolutionary Roles of Non Coding DNA
More information Time 14:00 - 14:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dr. Ilan Gronau
Dept. of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology,Cornell University, USAOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about High throughput DNA sequencing has transformed the landscape...» High throughput DNA sequencing has transformed the landscape of genomic data and is expected to revolutionize our knowledge of evolution and genomic function. These data are expected to be of particular benefit to the study of recent
evolutionary processes, due to our ability to sequence multiple individuals from closely related species. While much excitement revolves around these emerging data sets, realizing this potential requires developing powerful and efficient inference methods that are capable of extracting insights on recent evolution from genome-wide sequence data. In this talk, I will be presenting some of my work in this area,
which examines what we can learn from complete individual genome sequences on population history and recent natural selection. I will start by describing a study on ancient human population demography in Africa, focusing on one of the deepest population divergence events in human history, dating roughly 130 thousand years ago.
I will then present work I did as part of a large-scale collaborative effort to study the early evolution of dogs using the complete genome sequences of two dogs and three gray wolves. I will show how we were able to settle several longstanding debates revolving around the origins of dogs using these genomes and an innovative computational approach. Lastly, I will introduce a line of research I recently
initiated, focused on studying the evolutionary roles of non coding regulatory elements in the human genome. I will present recently published work on natural selection on human transcription factor binding sites, and ongoing efforts to extend that approach to all functional non coding elements in the genome. The talk will focus on the main findings in these three studies and how they contribute to our understanding of recent evolution. I will highlight the computational challenges involved, and will conclude with a map of the opportunities and challenges we face in the study of evolution in a world of rapidly evolving genomic data sets.
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Date:02ThursdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Evolving and measuring individuals with Drop Based Microfluidics
More information Time 09:30 - 09:30Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dr. Assaf Rotem
Harvard University, Cambridge, USAOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:02ThursdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Phase Transitions in Random Cech Complexes
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Omer Bobrowski
Duke UniversityOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:02ThursdayJanuary 2014Colloquia
The Dark Energy Survey and Beyond
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer OFER LAHAV
University College LondonOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about After reviewing the status of the cosmological model post Pl...» After reviewing the status of the cosmological model post Planck and other surveys,
the talk will focus on the international Dark Energy Survey (DES). DES observations are already underway, aiming to map 300 million galaxies which will be used via multiple methods (galaxy clustering, clusters, weak lensing and supernovae).
These will be used to quantify the enigmatic Dark Energy and alternative models. Early DES science results will be presented.
Other science goals (e.g. neutrino mass) and future surveys (e.g. DESI, Euclid, LSST) will also be discussed.
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Date:02ThursdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Learning with Lower Information Costs
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Jacob Ziskind BuildingLecturer Sivan Sabato
Microsoft Research New EnglandOrganizer Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceContact -
Date:02ThursdayJanuary 2014Lecture
Life Science lecture-If only they could talk; what can the zebrafish tell us about our brain
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Gil Levkowitz Contact -
Date:04SaturdayJanuary 2014Cultural Events
QUINCE
More information Time 21:00 - 21:00Title the Israel Flamenco Group – COMPASLocation Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:05SundayJanuary 2014Conference
1st Nancy and Stephen Grand INCPM Workshop: Proteomics, Metabolomics and Cancer Drug Discovery
More information Time 08:30 - 18:00Homepage Contact -
Date:05SundayJanuary 2014Lecture
Iron reduction in sediments and its microbial redox coupling to the methane and sulfate cycles
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Dr. Orit Sivan
Geological & Environmental Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the NegevOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:05SundayJanuary 2014Lecture
Polymer Additives in Microemulsions Adjacent to Planar Walls
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Dr. Henrich Frielinghaus
1Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 85747 Garching, GermanyOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:05SundayJanuary 2014Lecture
CEST-MRI Biosensors: Chemical Design and Biological Applications
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Title Organic Chemistry - Special seminarLocation Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Amnon Bar-Shir
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:05SundayJanuary 2014Lecture
Regulated transcriptional termination in bacteria revealed via 3p-seq
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dr. Daniel Dar
Rotenm Sorek's group Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:05SundayJanuary 2014Lecture
Chemical Physics Guest Seminar
More information Time 14:30 - 14:30Title Strongly Correlated Quantum Impurities in NonequilibriumLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Dr Guy Cohen
Columbia UniversityOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Obtaining correlation functions in quantum impurity models, ...» Obtaining correlation functions in quantum impurity models, which are often to describe charge and spin transport through molecules and quantum dots, is a matter of major importance in condensed phase materials science. In particular, in the language of these functions a rigorous mapping exists between bulk strongly correlated electron systems (such as transition metal oxides) and interacting impurities embedded within a non-interacting effective bath, via the "dynamical mean-field theory" (DMFT). The extraction of dynamical properties like correlation functions from the imaginary-time Monte Carlo methods commonly used within DMFT is an ill-posed problem, and reliable results both for transport in molecular electronics and DMFT require real-time methods. Unfortunately, until now such methods have only addressed single-time properties such as state populations and transport, while correlation functions are two-time observables.
We have developed a numerically exact real time quantum Monte Carlo method for computing correlation functions of impurity models in equilibrium and nonequilibrium. We show that with this tool we can reliably resolve the spectral function of weakly and strongly correlated impurities at all frequencies. We go on to consider an impurity in a junction, where we show how the correspondence between the spectral function and the differential conductance breaks down when nonequilibrium effects are taken into account. Finally, a long-standing dispute regarding this model has involved the voltage splitting of the Kondo peak, an effect which was predicted over two decades ago by approximate analytical methods but was never successfully confirmed by reliable numerics. We finally settle this issue by demonstrating that the splitting indeed occurs.