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    Prof. Abraham Arcavi

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    Research on cognitive characteristics of non academically oriented math students.
    Collaboration with:  Dr. Ronnie Karsenty
    Design of curriculum materials as a research based activity
    Collaboration with:  Dr. Sue Magidson
    Long-term design of a new curriculum for grades 10, 11 and 12 for non-academically oriented students.
    Collaboration with:  Dr. Nurit Hadas

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    Prof. Varda Rotter

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    Molecular mechanisms controlling the expression of p53 in normal cells and its deregulation in cancer cells
    Involvement of p53 in cell differentiation and apoptosis: <I>in vivo</I> and in vitro models.
    Cellular proteins that specifically complex with the p53 protein.
    Cellular proteins that are induced upstream or downstream to the p53 protein following genotoxic stress.

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    Prof. David Milstein

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    Organometallic chemistry and catalysis
    Bond activation by electron-rich transition metal complexes.
    Rational design of homogeneous catalysis and synthetic methodology based on transition metal complexes.
    Impact of molecular order on catalysis and reactivity.
    Generation and stabilization of elusive (potentially biologically active) molecules

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  • Picture of Prof. Michail Tsodyks

    Prof. Michail Tsodyks

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    Information transmission through dynamic synapses.
    Collaboration with:  H. Markram
    Modeling of cortical neuronal populations: From microcircuits to large scale networks.
    Population activity in visual cortex.
    Collaboration with:  A. Grinvald, D. Sagi

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  • Picture of Prof. Matityahu Fridkin

    Prof. Matityahu Fridkin

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    Chemical-Biological and Clinical studies on novel drugs, primarily of peptidic nature,related to therapy of infectious ,inflamatory and neoplastic diseases.
    Collaboration with:  Y. Koch I. Gozes (TAU ) I. Offek (TAU ) R. Catane (TEL-HASHOMER )
    Anticancer, Antibacterial Antiinflammatory
    Novel synthetic and analytical methdologies are being developed.
    Solid-phase synthesis
    Classical solution chemistry
    Combinatorial technologies
    Studies include: drug design, pro-drugs, long-acting drugs and drug delivery.
    Collaboration with:  Y. Shechter
    Novel iron chelatores as potential drugs for neurodegenarative diseases
    Collaboration with:  M. Youdim ( Technio9n )
    small-molecules
    amino acids and peptides

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    Prof. Elazar Zelzer

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    the roles of the VEGF pathway in different steps during skeletal development.
    Studying the role of mechanical load on embryonic bone development

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    Prof. Eytan Domany

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    Computational Physics: equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of spin glasses
    Collaboration with:  A. P. Young (UCSC)
    Development of tools and algorithms for large scale data analysis. Bioinformatics.
    Analysis of high-throughput biological data (in particular, gene expression data)
    Collaboration with:  Several research groups at Weizmann, in the USA and in Europe; see below.
    Controlled experiments on cell lines and mice (with D. Givol, V. Rotter, Y. Groner, L. Sachs; D. Gazit (Hadassa))
    Development of antigen chips, applications for autoimmune diseases (with I. Cohen)
    Studies human cancer samples; leukemia (with E. Canaani; G. Rechavi S. Izraeli (Sheba))
    Colorectal cancer; (with D. Notterman (UMDNJ), F. Barany (Cornell), P. Paty (MSK), A. Levine (Princeton))
    Prostate cancer; (with Z. Eshhar, A. Orr (TA Sourasky));
    Glioblastoma; (with M. Hegi, R. Stupp (CHUV))
    Breast and cervical cancer (with J-P Thiery, F. Radvanyi, X. Sastre, C. Rosty (Inst Curie))

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  • Prof. Yoseph Imry

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    Mesoscopic physics: persistent currents, classical and quantum fluctuations, quantum interference effects on transport, decoheherce.
    Collaboration with:  see below.
    Effects of interaction on localization and on single-electron resonances. Many-electron effects and phase-shifts. Dephasing of Quantum interference in mesoscopics. Quantum noise and its detection. Effects of quantum fluctuations on nanosuperconductors.
    Collaboration with:  Y. Levinson, A. Aharony and E. Entin-Wohlman (TAU and BGU), Y. Ovadyahu and A. schiller (HU), P. Silvestrov (Leiden), M. Schechter and P, Stamp (UBC).

  • Prof. Amiram Grinvald

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    The Interactions between evoked and on-going activity and their potential functional role in cortical processing.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, M. Tsodyks
    The space-time dynamics of cortical activity as revealed by population activity (EEG, LFP and real-time optical imaging) coupled with single-unit and intracellular recordings.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, L. Rom M. Tsodyks
    Cortical correlates of attention in behaving monkeys.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, L. Rom
    The functional architecture underlying visual perception.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, L. Rom,
    The dynamics of cortical representations in the visual cortex.
    Collaboration with:  S. Naaman
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    Prof. Ilan Lampl

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    Synaptic plasticity inducted by sensory stimulation in the cortex
    Construction of receptive field properties in the somatosensory cortex
    studying functional connectivity in the barrel cortex
    Mechanisms of adaptation in the cortex
    Noise and synchrony in the mammalian cortex
    Dynamic properties and mechanisms of ongoing activity in the cortex
    Patterns in neuronal activity in the cortex

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