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March 25, 2015
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Date:15WednesdayApril 2015Lecture
G-INCPM - Special Guest Seminar - Prof. Ray Cooper, Dept. Applied Biology & Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. - Chinese and Botanical Medicines: Myth or Treasure?
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about There is a need to improve and promote the scientific inquir...» There is a need to improve and promote the scientific inquiry on the study and use of botanicals, natural products and Chinese Medicine, in order to secure global acceptance. Although there is an enormous history of use of Chinese medicines a better understanding of these preparations and formulae within the scientific and international community is needed. The aim is to present case studies on select botanicals and natural products to provide scientific data that could substantiate the health claims. One example is the inhibition of ENOX2 (tNOX), a molecular target to examine anticancer activity of green tea catechins. The relation between green tea catechins and cell protection through a cell surface protein, ENOX2 has been identified. When the ENOX2 of cells is inhibited, the cells fail to enlarge after division, cease to divide, and after a few days undergo apoptosis. To date, EGCg in green tea is the most effective polyphenol ENOX2 blocker found without any adverse effects on normal cells. Synergistic combinations of green tea concentrate and powdered Capsicum reduces oxidative stress as an approach to elimination of malignant cells in both cancer (HeLa) and non-cancer (MCF-10A) cells. Some preliminary data on green tea and other examples of well-known botanical medicines descibed in Chinese folklore will be presented.
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Date:15WednesdayApril 2015Lecture
Slepton Flavor post the 8 TeV LHC: A Simplified Model Analysis of Low-Energy Constraints and LHC SUSY Searches
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Yael Shadmi
TechnionOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:15WednesdayApril 2015Lecture
POPULAR LECTURES - IN HEBREW
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Title על תזונה מותאמת אישית והחיידקים שבתוכנוLocation Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Eran Segal Contact -
Date:16ThursdayApril 2015Lecture
A memorial Ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day
More information Time 10:00 - 10:45Contact -
Date:16ThursdayApril 2015Colloquia
Are ants fluid or a solid
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer David Hu
Georgia Institute of TechnologyOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The wetlands of Brazil can be a dangerous place, especially ...» The wetlands of Brazil can be a dangerous place, especially if you are an ant. To keep their colonies together during flash floods, ants link their bodies together to build waterproof rafts. Ten thousand ants can build a raft in under two minutes. The cluster of ants can drip can flow like a fluid, or spring back like an elastic material. We use time-lapse photography, CT-scanning and rheological force measurement to elucidate how ants perform these feats. -
Date:17FridayApril 2015Cultural Events
Adir Miller - Stand up
More information Time 22:00 - 22:00Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:19SundayApril 2015Lecture
Motile cells within a static structure: Sensing the extracellular matrix maintains motility inside bacterial biofilms
More information Time All dayLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Nitai Steinberg
Ilana Kolodkin-Gal's group, Dept. of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:19SundayApril 2015Lecture
Physics Wins, Biology is How it’s Done:An Exploration of Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Dennis Baldocchi
Professor of Biometeorology Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of CaliforniaOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact -
Date:19SundayApril 2015Lecture
a special session in honor of Weizmann Institute’s 2015 Israel Prize Recipients
More information Time 11:00 - 12:30Location Michael Sela AuditoriumContact -
Date:19SundayApril 2015Lecture
Block copolymer-mediated nanoscale assembly
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingLecturer Prof. Roy Shenhar
Department of Chemistry, Hebrew UniversityOrganizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:19SundayApril 2015Lecture
AERI Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative Seminar Series
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Title A combined sustainability index for energy efficiency measures in IsraelLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Tal Goldrath
Environmental Management, University of HaifaOrganizer Weizmann School of ScienceContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Three major goals for 2020 were set by the Israeli governmen...» Three major goals for 2020 were set by the Israeli government in recent years: 10% renewable energy in the electricity fuel mix; 20% improvement in energy efficiency; and 20% greenhouse gasses emission reduction.
Current reports show that in all three goals milestones had not been reached, and without clear regulation and allocated budgets, major progress cannot be expected.
Our research defines a combined sustainability index used for evaluating common technologies in the Israeli electricity production market, and energy efficiency measures in the main consumption sectors. The goal is to enable a holistic decision making process, taking into account economic, technological, environmental, social and political considerations.
Using multi-criteria analyses of both the production and consumption indices, we find that outdoor lighting in the municipal sector is expected to be the preferable energy efficiency measure in all expected scenarios of electricity production fuel mix.
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Date:19SundayApril 2015Lecture
Redistribution of conventional and non-conventional body fat depots across lifestyle strategies: preliminary results of the CENTRAL MRI randomized trial
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer prof. Iris Shai
S. Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben-Gurion UniversityContact -
Date:20MondayApril 2015Lecture
Citrobacter rodentium-induced colitis: from type III secretion system effectors to probiotics
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Prof. Gad Frankel Organizer Department of Systems ImmunologyContact -
Date:20MondayApril 2015Lecture
Heat shock proteins as polypeptide unfolding nanomachines that
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Title combat plant stresses and animal degenerative diseasesLocation Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Prof. Pierre Goloubinoff
Plant molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne University, Lausanne, SwitzerlandOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:20MondayApril 2015Lecture
Student Seminar
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Title Mechanical interplay between invadopodia and the nucleus in cancer cells 3'UTR Shortening: a Switch that Activates microRNA RegulationLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Yonit Hoffman + Or-Yam Revach Organizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
HOLOGRAPHIC ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPY AND THE INTERNAL SPACE
More information Time 10:30 - 10:30Location NeveOrganizer Faculty of PhysicsContact -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
HOLOGRAPHIC ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPY AND THE INTERNAL SPACE
More information Time 10:30 - 10:30Location Neve ShalomLecturer CHRISTOPH UHLEMANN
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Extensive studies of entanglement correlations have led to r...» Extensive studies of entanglement correlations have led to remarkable insights in recent years. Much of the focus has been on correlations between different regions in spacetime and the corresponding geometric entropies, which can be computed efficiently using AdS/CFT. The subject of this talk are non-geometric definitions of subsystems and the relation of the corresponding entanglement entropy to minimal surfaces probing the internal space in AdS/CFT. A recent proposal attempts to relate such surfaces in AdS5xS5 to entanglement entropies between U(n) and U(m) subsectors of U(n+m) N=4 SYM. To sharpen this proposal we will study it for N=4 SYM on the Coulomb branch, which reveals an interesting phase structure and explicitly shows limitations to the proposed identification. This leads us to a refined proposal, based on the relation of the internal space to the R-symmetry of N=4 SYM. -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
Genetic Diversity for Drought Resistance in Wild Emmer Wheat and its Potential for Wheat Improvement
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Yehoshua (Shuki) Saranga Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Crop Science, The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of JerusalemOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
GEOMETRY AND ENTANGLEMENT IN TYPE IIB HOLOGRAPHY
More information Time 12:00 - 12:00Location Neve ShalomLecturer Francesco Aprile
UNIVERSITY OF CRETEOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:21TuesdayApril 2015Lecture
Major Depression: Recent Developments and Challenges in Treatment
More information Time 12:30 - 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Hilik Levkovitz
Deputy Director, Beer- Yakov Nees-Ziona Mental Health Center Chair Continuous Medical Education (CME), Sackler School of Medicine, Tel–Aviv UniversityOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The talk will provide an overview of recent developments in ...» The talk will provide an overview of recent developments in major depression, with emphasis on problem of predicting the clinical effects of the new antidepressants. I will discuss research findings both at the clinical level and at the levels of the biology of antidepressant action and of neuromodulation.