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    Prof. Marvin Edelman

    Duckweed biotechnology
    Collaboration with:  Barak Cohen, Ron Vunsh
    Volumetric growth of Wolffia
    Polyploidization of duckweeds for biomass increase and metabolic vigor
    Mutagenesis from photoautotrpphy to photoheterotrophy
    Transgenic duckweed for veterinary products
    Genomic analysis of calcium dependent protein kinases in duckweeds
  • Prof. Harry Dym

    Classical analysis.
    Operator theory.
    Collaboration with:  Damir Z. Arov, Vladimir Derkach
    Inverse problems.
    Collaboration with:  Damir Z. Arov
  • Picture of Prof. Nirit Dudovich

    Prof. Nirit Dudovich

    Attosecond Physics
    Strong field light matter interactions

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  • Picture of Prof. Yadin Dudai

    Prof. Yadin Dudai

    The role of saliency-and novelty-detectors in the acquisition and retention of memory in brain.
    Mechanisms of memory consolidation, reconsolidation and extinction in the mammalian brain.
    Theories of learning and memory.

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  • Picture of Prof. Ehud Duchovni

    Prof. Ehud Duchovni

    Hardware: the construction of sTGC (stripped Thin Gap Chambers) for the ATLAS new small wheel
    Search for "Physics Beyond the Standard Model" by studying super energetic events with large number of jets
    Search for micro black holes
    Search for RPV SUSY
    Search for RPC SUSY
    Search for very heavy resonance decaying into jets
  • Picture of Prof. Eytan Domany

    Prof. Eytan Domany

    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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  • Picture of Dr. Ron Diskin

    Dr. Ron Diskin

    Viral glycoproteins - Structure, Function, & Immunogenicity
    Novel drug targets against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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  • Picture of Prof. Irit Dinur

    Prof. Irit Dinur

    Probabilistically Checkable Proofs
    Hardness of Approximation

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  • Picture of Prof. Rivka Dikstein

    Prof. Rivka Dikstein

    Transcription and translation control in health and disease
    Collaboration with:  Yuki Yamaguchi, Idit Shachar, Nahum Sonenberg, Yuri Svitkin, Franck Martin, Katsura Asano, Igor Ulitsky, Michael Walker, Neta Regev-Rudsky
    Mechanism of rapid transcriptional induction of inflammatory genes
    Links between mammalian transcription and mRNA translation
    Developing pharmacological tools to address fundamental questions in mRNA translation and for therapeutic purposes
    Mechanism of start site selection in transcription and translation and its role in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases

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  • Picture of Prof. Nava Dekel

    Prof. Nava Dekel

    Molecular characterization of the ovulatory cascade
    Mechanisms involved in successful implantation.
    Regulation of the meiotic cell cycle: use of rodent oocytes as a model system.
    Cell-to-cell communication: regulation of expression, posttranslational modification, degradation and function of the gap junction proteins, Cx43 and Cx37.

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