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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. Ephraim Yavin

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    Signal transduction and protein kinase C isozymes in brain of normal and growth-retarded fetuses.
    Free radicals and lipid modulators in the developing and aging brain.
    Novel genes during oxidative stress in utero and role of docosahexaenoic acid.
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    Prof. Avraham Yaron

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    Signaling mechanisms of axonal guidance cues
    Mechanisms of axonal degeneration

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    Prof. Sergei Yakovenko

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    Analytic theory of ordinary differential equations.
    Singularity theory. Singular foliations, limit cycles, holonomy.

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    Prof. Dan Yakir

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    Developing the use of stable isotopes (in particular, 13C, 18O, 15N, 2H) as tracers of biogeochemical cycles on land.
    Environmental and climatic influence on the exchange of trace gases and energy between plants, soil and the atmosphere.
    Climatic influence on the natural abundance of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in CO2, O2, H2O and organic matter.

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  • Picture of Prof. Meir Wilchek

    Prof. Meir Wilchek

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    Study and application of molecular biorecognition
    Collaboration with:  retired, Dr. Talia Miron.
    Avidin-biotin system: Studies of the strong binding using chemical, physical and biological methods; new applications of the system.
    Affinity chromatography: Studies to improve purification of protein by developing new carriers, new activation methods and new principles.
    Affinity therapy: Development of methods to couple drugs and toxins to biological carriers, such as antibodies, and their delivery to target cells.
    Fluorescence, FRET.

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    Prof. Stephen Weiner

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    Structure-function relations in vertebrate mineralized tissues
    Collaboration with:  Ron Shahar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Archaeological science: revealing the microscopic archaeological record
    Collaboration with:  Elisabetta Boaretto,
    Biomineralization: mechanisms of mineral formation.
    Collaboration with:  L. Addadi, Leeor Kronick, Dan Oron
    Uptake, transport and deposition of ions. With Lia Addadi Bone formation. With Lia Addadi Manipulation of light with organic crystals in biology. With Dan Oron and Leeor Kronik

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    Prof. David Wallach

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    Regulation of cell death and tissue damage:
    Proteins involved in the signaling for the cell-killing (apoptotic and necrotic), immunoregulatory, and inflammatory functions of cytokines of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) family, and in the regulation of these functions.
    In vivo models for the functions of the signaling mechanisms activated by ligands of the TNF family and for their pathological aberrations.
    Natural antagonists to ligands of the TNF family, for protection against the deleterious effects of these cytokines in autoimmune and infectious diseases.
    Regulation of the activity of the NF kappa B transcription factors.
    The caspases, their functions and mechanisms of activation.
    Molecular mechanisms for chronic inflammatory skin diseases.
    Contributions of aberrations in the function of signaling proteins activated by ligands of the TNF family to cancer
    cancer-cells' survival factors
    Molecular mechanisms of programmed necrotic cell death, and of its regulation

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    Prof. Michael Walker

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    Selective gene expression in pancreatic beta cells:
    Role of specific transcription factors in expression of the insulin gene in pancreatic beta cells and in control of pancreatic development.
    Novel beta cell specific genes: isolation, characterization and use as potential tools in diagnosis and therapy of diabetes.

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    Molecular mechanisms of opiate addiction, tolerance and withdrawal.
    The cannabinoid ligands, their endogenous ligands and signal transduction.
    Collaboration with:  Raphael Mechoulam
    Regulation of microglial activation by cannabinoids: Possible role in neurodegenrative and neuroinflammatory diseases

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