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פברואר 05, 2018

  • Date:13רביעייוני 2018

    G-INCPM - Special Seminar - Prof. Asaph Aharoni, Dept. of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann - "The Plant Metabolome in Action"

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    11:00 - 12:30
    מיקום
    המרכז הישראלי הלאומי לרפואה מותאמת אישית על-שם ננסי וסטיבן גרנד
    מרצהProf. Asaph Aharoni
    Dept. of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann
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    המחלקה למדעים ביומולקולריים
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about The regulation of metabolic pathways in plants is constantly...»
    The regulation of metabolic pathways in plants is constantly tuned in order to suit the needs of development and fitness. Our main research objective is to unravel networks of genes and proteins which coordinate the activity of metabolic pathways, predominantly secondary metabolism, during plant development and stress response. An integrated investigation of several members of the Solanacea family rather than studying a single plant, provided us with unprecedented insights to metabolic biology in these species. Most if not all processes characterized, impact to a certain degree key quality, nutritional and post-harvest traits of these crop plants. Integrating cutting-edge transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics tools together with genes co-expression assays were of great value in making several key discoveries. In a recent example, combined co-expression analysis and metabolic profiling in tomato and potato led to the discovery of the multi-step, core pathway leading to the formation of the renowned Solanum alkaloids including the biosynthesis of their precursor, cholesterol. This class of molecules represent important anti-nutritional compounds in these crop plants. In the presentation, I will highlight several advanced technologies and genetic research tools and the invaluable knowledge on core metabolic traits obtained through combining them in a single study.
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  • Date:13רביעייוני 2018

    Organic Bio-crystallization: Optically Functional Organic Crystals in Animals Provide Inspiration for New Materials

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    14:00 - 15:00
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    אולם הרצאות ע"ש גרהרד שמידט
    מרצהDr. Benjamin Palmer
    Department of Structural Biology, WIS
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    המחלקה לכימיה מולקולרית ולמדע חומרים
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  • Date:14חמישייוני 2018

    A. Screening surface properties of mesoporous carbon-based materials; B. Biomimetic CaCO3 crystallization and stability regulated by L-Asp

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    09:30 - 10:30
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    אולם הרצאות ע"ש גרהרד שמידט
    מרצהProf. Asher Schmidt
    Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion
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    המחלקה לכימיה מולקולרית ולמדע חומרים
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  • Date:14חמישייוני 2018

    Making Faces: Universal Inverse Design of Surfaces with Anisotropic Soft Materials

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    11:15 - 12:30
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    בניין הפיזיקה ע"ש עדנה וק.ב. וייסמן
    מרצהDr. Hillel Aharoni
    University of Pennsylvania
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    הפקולטה לפיזיקה
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about Elastic bodies can be programmed to take different shapes in...»
    Elastic bodies can be programmed to take different shapes in different environments using stimulus-responsive anisotropic materials, where the route of shape changes is encoded in the local direction of material anisotropy at every point. In this talk I tackle the key theoretical question underlying many recent efforts to implement this approach — the inverse design problem — namely, given an arbitrary shape, constructing the anisotropy field that would induce it. I show analytical solutions to certain classes of this problem and a numerical algorithm to construct any surface geometry, and I resolve the problem of properly converting these 2D geometries into their destined 3D shapes. Finally, I team up with an experimental group in realizing this scheme by imprinting our numerical solutions into liquid crystalline elastomer sheets. We show success in experimentally producing flat rubber-like sheets that, upon heating, take an arbitrary preprogrammed desired shape, such as a face.
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  • Date:14חמישייוני 2018

    A ubiquitous human carcinogen guiding the early diagnosis of cancer

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    שעה
    14:00 - 15:00
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    Special Guest Seminar
    מיקום
    בניין ע"ש מקס ולילאן קנדיוטי
    מרצהProf. Arthur Grollman
    Stony Brook University School of Medicine USA
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    המחלקה לאימונולוגיה ורגנרציה ביולוגית
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about Aristolochic acid (AA) is now recognized as a causative agen...»
    Aristolochic acid (AA) is now recognized as a causative agent of several types of human cancer. Moreover, as a component of Aristolochia, a widely used medicinal herb, it is now clear that people have been exposed to toxic levels of AA for hundreds of years, worldwide. Today, tens of millions of people are at risk of developing AA-induced cancers of the upper urothelium, kidney, liver and biliary tract. In addition, aristolochic acid was proven to be the environmental agent responsible for Balkan endemic nephropathy and its associated urothelial cancer. And, exposure to AA accounts for the high prevalence of upper urothelial cancer in Taiwan, the highest in the world. It has also been shown that AA-induced cancers are accompanied by a unique mutational signature, which can be used to identify AA-induced cancers in individuals who would otherwise be undiagnosed until the later stages of disease. Such analyses have established the foundation for a noninvasive approach for detection of urothelial cancer in patients at risk.
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  • Date:17ראשוןיוני 201828חמישייוני 2018

    RADIATION TRANSFER AND EXPLOSIVE THERMONUCLEAR BURNING IN SUPERNOVAE

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    שעה
    08:00 - 08:00
    מיקום
    ספרית הפיסיקה על שם נלה וליאון בנוזיו
    יושב ראש
    Doron Kushnir
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    הפקולטה לפיזיקה
    דף בית
    כנסים
  • Date:17ראשוןיוני 201828חמישייוני 2018

    RADIATION TRANSFER AND EXPLOSIVE THERMONUCLEAR BURNING IN SUPERNOVAE

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    שעה
    08:00 - 08:00
    מיקום
    ספרית הפיסיקה על שם נלה וליאון בנוזיו
    יושב ראש
    Doron Kushnir
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    הפקולטה לפיזיקה
    דף בית
    כנסים
  • Date:17ראשוןיוני 2018

    Molecular Genetics Departmental Seminars 2017-2018

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    13:00 - 13:00
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    בניין ארתור ורושל בלפר למחקר ביורפואי
    מרצהRonit Suissa
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    המחלקה לגנטיקה מולקולרית
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  • Date:18שנייוני 2018

    Shneior Lifson Memorial Lecture: "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion"

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    שעה
    11:00 - 12:15
    מיקום
    אולם הרצאות ע"ש גרהרד שמידט
    מרצהProf. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
    Department of Chemistry, Yale University
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    הפקולטה לכימיה
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  • Date:19שלישייוני 2018

    FROM CANCER GENOMICS TO IMMUNOTHERAPY

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    שעה
    08:00 - 14:00
    מיקום
    אולם ע"ש דולפי ולולה אבנר
    יושב ראש
    Yardena Samuels
    דף בית
    כנסים
  • Date:19שלישייוני 2018

    Chemical and Biological Physics Guest Seminar

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    09:30 - 09:30
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    The fascinating photochemistry of Photosystem II unraveled with the use of low temperature EPR spectroscopy
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    בניין פרלמן למדעי הכימיה
    מרצהDr Andrea Pavlou
    Molecular Biomimetics, Ångström Laboratory Uppsala University Sweden
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    המחלקה לפיזיקה כימית וביולוגית
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  • Date:19שלישייוני 2018

    Mechanisms of sparse coding in the dentate gyrus

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    שעה
    12:30 - 13:30
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    אולם הרצאות ע"ש גרהרד שמידט
    מרצהProf. Dr. Heinz Beck
    Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn Medical Center
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    המחלקה למדעי המוח
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  • Date:19שלישייוני 2018

    Mini Symposium: Biophysical Characterization by Light Scattering

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    שעה
    13:00 - 16:00
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    בניין הלן ומילטון קימלמן
    מרצהDr. Dan Some
    Wyatt Technology
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    המחלקה לביולוגיה מבנית וכימית
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  • Date:20רביעייוני 201821חמישייוני 2018

    The Annual Conference for Science and the Environment

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    שעה
    08:00 - 08:00
    מיקום
    מרכז כנסים על-שם דויד לופאטי
    יושב ראש
    Dan Yakir
    דף בית
    כנסים
  • Date:20רביעייוני 2018

    Developmental Club Series 2017-2018

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    10:00 - 10:00
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    Elucidating membrane dynamics across scales
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    בניין ארתור ורושל בלפר למחקר ביורפואי
    מרצהProf. Ori Avinoam
    מארגן
    המחלקה לגנטיקה מולקולרית
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  • Date:20רביעייוני 2018

    Special Guest Seminar

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    14:00 - 14:00
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    “Regulation and coordination of intracellular trafficking pathways by molecular switches”
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    בניין ארתור ורושל בלפר למחקר ביורפואי
    מרצהNava Segev
    Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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    המחלקה לגנטיקה מולקולרית
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  • Date:21חמישייוני 2018

    New era in cryo electron microscopy reflected in studies of a bacteriophage phage at near atomic resolution

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    11:00 - 12:00
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    בניין הלן ומילטון קימלמן
    מרצהProf. Elena Orlova
    Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London
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    המחלקה לביולוגיה מבנית וכימית
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about During the last decade electron microscopy become a powerful...»
    During the last decade electron microscopy become a powerful tool in structural studies of large biological complexes. Cryo electron microscopy enabled us to reveal molecular dynamics of the complexes by analysis of samples in solution. This was made possible by long-standing efforts in sample preparations (cryo-EM imaging), in development of hardware, automation in data collection, methods in image analysis and, eventually, interpretation of results. Here I would like to share my experience in using these approaches in analysis of structural organisation of bacteriophages exemplified by the SPP1 phage. It is important to highlight critical steps in obtaining near-atomic resolution structures of the biocomplexes. We have obtained high resolution structures of main components of the phage such as a capsid and its nano-motor engaged into packaging of genome and its release.
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  • Date:21חמישייוני 2018

    Multiple Scale Structures:From Faraday Waves to Soft Quasicrystals

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    11:15 - 12:30
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    בניין הפיזיקה ע"ש עדנה וק.ב. וייסמן
    מרצהRon Lifshitz
    Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics & Astronomy Tel Aviv University
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    הפקולטה לפיזיקה
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about For many years, quasicrystals were observed only as solid-st...»
    For many years, quasicrystals were observed only as solid-state metallic alloys, yet current research is actively exploring their formation in a variety of soft materials, including systems of macromolecules, nanoparticles, and colloids. Much effort is being invested in understanding the thermodynamic properties of these soft-matter quasicrystals in order to predict and possibly control the structures that form, and hopefully to shed light on the broader, yet unresolved, general questions of quasicrystal formation and stability. I shall give an explanation for the stability of certain soft-matter quasicrystals---inspired by the physics of a different phenomenon known as Faraday waves---and provide a recipe for designing pair potentials that yield so-called
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  • Date:21חמישייוני 2018

    What the nose tells the brain

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    12:30 - 13:30
    מרצהProf. Dmitry Rinberg
    Dept of Neuroscience & Physiology NYU Neuroscience Institute
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    המחלקה למדעי המוח
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    תקצירShow full text abstract about All living organisms extract chemical information from the s...»
    All living organisms extract chemical information from the surrounding world. We know a lot about the genetic, cellular, and anatomical organization of our sense of smell, which has similar organization from insects to mammals. However, we still do not know basic principles of odor coding, organization of the odor parameter space, and how odors are represented in the brain. In humans, odors are sensed by millions of receptor cells using ~350 types of receptor cells. Flies have 60 and mice ~1000 receptor types. An odor evokes a concentration-dependent spatial-temporal pattern of receptor cell activity. We are presented with an immensely complex combinatorial computation. And the central question of my research is to understand how these patterns are read by the brain.
    In this talk I will present our recent results on testing a novel model for concentration-invariant odor coding based on temporal ranking of receptor. And then I will discuss our attempt to build a theory of odor space representation in the brain based on this model.
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  • Date:21חמישייוני 2018

    Pelletron meeting - by invitation only

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    16:00 - 16:00
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