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    Prof. Edit Yerushalmi

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    Development implementation and evaluation of a 2-year interdisciplinary program for high school chemistry and physics students on
    Collaboration with:  A. Hofstein, S. Livne, Y. Roth, R. Blonder, A. Yarden, S. Safran, B. Eylon, B. Geiger
    Instructional strategies intended to develop reflective problem solving skills in high school physics students
    Collaboration with:  C. Singh, E. Cohen, E. Bagno, B. Eylon
    Study of the effects of self-diagnosis tasks on learning from physics problem solving.
    Development, implementation and evaluation of web-based test preparation modules aimed at organizing students’ knowledge and developing awareness of common misconceptions (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism).
    Development, implementation and research of long-term professional development frameworks for physics high school teachers
    Collaboration with:  R. Safadi, E. Bagno, A. Rozen
    Workshops for Arab high school physics teachers intended to develop reflective problem solving skills in their students through alternative assessment activities. Workshop approach: Collaborative inquiry into students' self diagnostic activities.
    Models for collaborative action research workshops for high school physics teachers.
    Long-term didactical courses introducing pre-service teachers to current research in physics education and its implications to the learning/teaching process.
    University physics faculty perceptions of learning and teaching problem solving.
    Collaboration with:  C. Henderson, K. Heller, P. Heller, V. Quo, E. Cohen

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    Prof. Yehiam Prior

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    Strong field nonlinear optics.
    Alignment and orientation of atoms and molecules in strong laser fields.
    Collaboration with:  Ilya Averbukh
    Molecular Dynamics with ultrashort shaped femtosecond pulses.
    femtosecond laser material processing

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    Prof. Boris Rybtchinski

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    Organic self-assembly: nanoreactors and nanocapsules
    Solar fuels: photoinduced water splitting for hydrogen production
    Artificial photosynthesis: light-harvesting materials for solar energy conversion

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    Prof. Alex Tsafriri

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    Molecular regulation of ovulatory changes in mammals.
    Collaboration with:  Helena Ashkenazi, Shmulik Motola, Xiumei Cao, Malka Popliker, Seymour Pomerantz, Marco Conti, Stanford
    The roles of gonadotropins and EGF-like factors in triggering ovulation.
    The resumption of meiosis and its regulation.
    Ovulation as a tissue remodeling process.
    The development and demise of ovarian follicles <I>in vivo</I> and <I>in vitro</I>: the role of apoptosis.
    Collaboration with:  Atan Gross, KerenYacobi

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  • Prof. Avihai Danon

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    RNA-binding proteins controling light-regulated translation.
    Redox-signaling controling light-regulated translation. Mechanisms of disulfide bond formation and isomerization in the chloroplast.
    Mode of action of redox-signal transduction factors.
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    Prof. Yoram Shechter

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    Mechanism of insulin action: Post-binding events in insulin action
    Post-receptor agents mimicking insulin.
    Effect of vanadium <I>in vivo</I> and <I>in vitro</I>.
    Role of protein tyrosine kinases and protein phosphotyrosine phosphatases in insulin effects.
    Inhibitors of tyrosine kinases.
    Chemical modifications of peptides and protein drugs.
    Novel technologies to prolong life time of peptide and protein drugs.

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    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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    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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