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April 27, 2017
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Date:21SundayMay 2017Lecture
Paleo-hydrologic interpretation of a late Pleistocene/Holocene Sediment core in Nizzanim, Israel
More information Time 11:00 - 11:00Location Sussman Family Building for Environmental SciencesLecturer Israel Carmi
Tel Aviv UniversityOrganizer Department of Earth and Planetary SciencesContact Abstract Show full text abstract about A sediment core was collected from the unsaturated zone of N...» A sediment core was collected from the unsaturated zone of Nizzanim, Israel, from the surface to the water table at 20m. At 3m depth a live root of retama was found and at 10.5m depth a live rootlet was found.
The mineralogy of the sediment core alternated between high quartz (low clay) and low quartz (high clay) due to variation in climate regimes. 14C in the organic fraction of the sediment core was measured to 14m depth. The data divides into two groups: insitu, at the extant surface, and exsitu, at the depth of the roots from the extant insitu data.
The correlation of the insitu data is 0.9897 and the average rate of sedimentation is 0.77mm/yr. The average depth of the roots below the extant surface is 8.6±2.6m.
The dating of the core made possible attributing geologic information to different depths:
1. The little ice age
2. The flooding of the black sea
3. The younger Dryas
The age of the sediment at the depth of 12m is 14Kyear. Thus it seems that there was no unsaturated zone in the site and therefore no Coastal Aquifer. The sea level was at that time 80 below the present level and 15km to the west. Our ancestors followed the coast westward the then returned eastward.
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Date:21SundayMay 2017Lecture
Understanding HCMV latency by looking at transcription at the single cell level
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Miri Shnayder
Noam Ginossar's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WISOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:21SundayMay 2017Lecture
Photosynthesis efficiency: Biology beyond stress
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Title Sustainability And Energy Research Initiative (SAERI) Seminar SeriesLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Avihai Danon
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of ScienceOrganizer Weizmann School of ScienceContact -
Date:21SundayMay 2017Lecture
Worms care about what they eat and what other worms think
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesLecturer Prof. Erel Levine
Department of Physics and Center for Systems Biology Harvard UniversityOrganizer Clore Center for Biological PhysicsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Animals have evolved mechanisms for gathering information fr...» Animals have evolved mechanisms for gathering information from the environment to make apt decisions. An important example is the regulation of feeding, where animals weigh nutritional value with the associated energetic costs and risks of pathogens and toxins. Here we will measure quantifiable feeding behaviors by the nematode C. elegans, observe unknown
communications between tissues and among animals, and learn how these behaviors are designed to collect both energy and information.
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Date:21SundayMay 2017Lecture
Cellular heterogeneity and maturation in the mouse brain revealed by single-cell transcriptomics
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Max and Lillian Candiotty BuildingLecturer Dr. Amit Zeisel
Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, SwedenOrganizer Department of Immunology and Regenerative BiologyContact Abstract Show full text abstract about The mammalian central nervous system is arguably the most co...» The mammalian central nervous system is arguably the most complex system studied in biology. Normal function of the brain relies on the assembly of a diverse set of cell-types, including most prominently neurons, but also glial cells and vasculature. We developed and applied large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing for unbiased molecular cell-type classification in various regions of the mouse brain. First, I will describe our initial work on the cortex and hippocampus, and later give two examples where we dissect the maturation process of (I) cells from the oligodendrocyte lineage across the CNS, and (II) granule cells in the dentate gyrus. These results and our ongoing efforts demonstrate the importance of systematic molecular approaches to understanding cellular organization and dynamics in tissues. -
Date:22MondayMay 201723TuesdayMay 2017Conference
ISM2017- The 51st Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Microscopy
More information Time 08:00 - 08:00Location The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Eyal ShimoniHomepage -
Date:22MondayMay 2017Lecture
Mitochondrial DNA transcription regulation - not as simple as once thought
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dan Mishmar, PhD
Head, Center of Evolutionary Genomics and Medicine Department of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion UniversityOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:22MondayMay 2017Colloquia
Chemistry colloquium - title tbd
More information Time 11:00 - 12:15Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. A. Dean Sherry
Medical Center, UT SouthwesternOrganizer Faculty of ChemistryContact -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Plasma membrane-bound proteasomes modulate neuronal function by generating extracellular signaling peptides
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchLecturer Kapil Ramachandran
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineOrganizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesContact -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Special Magnetic Resonance Seminar
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Title Imaging Physiology & Metabolism by MRILocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof Dean Sherry
UT Southwestern Medical Center, University of DallasOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Synthetic Chemistry as a Window into Biology
More information Time 11:00 - 12:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman BuildingLecturer Prof. Andy Borovik, Department of Chemistry, University of California-Irvine Organizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials ScienceContact -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Combining Disciplines for Understanding Complex Phenomena: The Impact of Microbial Communities on Health and Environmental Processes
More information Time 11:15 - 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life SciencesLecturer Dr. Naama Lang-Yona
Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, GermanyOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
MCB - Students seminar
More information Time 12:15 - 12:15Title TBALocation Wolfson Building for Biological ResearchOrganizer Department of Molecular Cell BiologyContact -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
AMO Journal Club
More information Time 13:15 - 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical SciencesOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex SystemsContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Speakers: Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Gal Winer ...» Speakers: Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Gal Winer -
Date:23TuesdayMay 2017Lecture
Molecular Neuroscience Forum Seminar
More information Time 15:00 - 16:00Title SIFamide translates hunger signals into appetitive and feeding behavior in DrosophilaLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Thomas Riemensperger, University of Goettingen Organizer Department of Biomolecular SciencesHomepage Contact -
Date:24WednesdayMay 2017Conference
Oncogenesis: WIS-McGill Cancer Symposium
More information Time 08:00 - 13:00Location The David Lopatie Conference CentreChairperson Ari ElsonOrganizer The M.D. Moross Institute for Cancer ResearchHomepage -
Date:24WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Distant-Acting Enhancers in Development, Disease, and Evolution
More information Time 10:00 - 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical ResearchLecturer Dr. Axel Visel
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CAContact -
Date:24WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Low mass dark matter detection with superfluid helium
More information Time 10:45 - 10:45Location Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Physics (Lidow) room 502Lecturer Tongyan Lin, Berkeley Organizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:24WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Cosmological constraints on dark matter: status and prospects
More information Time 12:45 - 12:45Location Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Physics (Lidow) room 502Lecturer Vincent DesJacques
Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsContact -
Date:24WednesdayMay 2017Lecture
Chemical Physics Guest Seminar
More information Time 13:00 - 13:00Title Geometrical Quantification of Chirality in Bare and Ligand-Protected Gold ClustersLocation Perlman Chemical Sciences BuildingOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological PhysicsContact