Genetic regulation of apoptosis and its molecular mechanisms.

Roles of caspases in “conventional” apoptosis and during cellular remodeling.

The structure of the membrane proximal extra-cellular region of HIV-1 gp41 and its role in viral fusion

The structure of the V3 loop of the HIV-1 envelope protein gp120 and its interactions with chemokines receptors

NMR structure of alpha Interferon complex with its receptor

The interactions of scorpion toxins with sodium channels and the structures of the channels extra-cellular loops

Plasticity of gene expression during differenatiation in the gonads.

Crosstalk amond signals that control apoptosis.

Carcinogenesis in endocrine glands.

Genomics and Systems Biology of the Immune System.

Decoding the mammalian transcriptional Regulatory Code in health and disease.

Combining theoretical and experimental methods to discover design principles of biological circuits

Systems level analysis of gene regulation networks, with E. coli as a model system.

Systems Immunology

Evolution

The role of talin1 and Kindlin-3 in integrin activation and lymphocyte adhesiveness to inflamed vessels under shear stress.

Mice models for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) .

Role of lymph node chemokines in lymphocyte scanning of dendritic cells.

Effector lymphocyte trafficking to sites of inflammation.

The functions of endothelial and myeloid ICAM-1 in adaptive and innate immunity.

Endothelial stores of chemokines and their function in leukocyte extravasation.

Chemokine activation of leukocyte integrins at endothelial contacts under shear stress.

Circum-nuclear accretion disks

The growth of black holes in the early universe

Gravitational wave sources

Massive black holes

Dynamic of galactic nuclei

Stellar phenomena in the center of the Milky Way

Algebraic geometry: Algebraic groups, Singularity theory Geometric invariant theory

Representation theory of real and p-adic groups: Harmonic analysis on Spherical varieties, Gelfand pairs, asymptotic representation theory

Functional analysis: Distributions and generalized functions, Microlocal analysis, Topological vector spaces.

Active sensing: Mechanisms of closed loop perception.

Biomimetic technology for active vibrissal touch

Object localization

Sensory substitution - from vision to touch

Weakly coupled versions of the AdS/CFT correspondence and possible derivations

General properties of field theories with quenched disorder

Dualities between field theories in various dimensions

Conformal bootstrap at large N and quantum gravity