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    Prof. Reshef Tenne

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    Inorganic nanotubes and inorganic fullerene‐like materials: new materials with cage structure. From basic science to applications.
    Collaboration with:  Prof. H.DE. Wagner, Prof. E. Joselevich
    Nanomaterials, nanotechnology

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  • Prof. Dan Tawfik

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    Evolution and mechanism of enzymes
    Molecular evolution in man-made cell-like compartments.
    Directed evolution of tailor-made hydrolases (esterases, phosphoesterases, organophosphate hydrolases, and amidases) and DNA-modifying enzymes.
    Structure, mechanism and evolution of serum paraoxonases (PONs)
    The role of promiscuity and conformational plasticity in protein evolution.
    Directed evolution of DNA-methyltransferases and DNase inhibitors
    The stability effects of mutations
    Protein evolvability
    Chaperones and protein evolution
  • Picture of Prof. David Tannor

    Prof. David Tannor

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    Control of chemical reactions with tailored femtosecond pulses.
    Laser cooling of molecules.
    Quantum theory of dissipation and chemical reactions in solution.
    Semiclassical theory of reactive scattering.

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  • Prof. Joel Sussman

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    3D Structure/function of nervous system proteins
    Collaboration with:  Israel Silman, Sarel Fleishman, Tamar Unger, Yoav Peleg, Shira Albeck, Orly Dym & Gershom Martin
    Acetylcholinesterase relation to Alzheimer’s disease & nerve agents
    Design and expression of more stable variants of acetylcholinesterase
    Molecular flexibility of acetylcholinesterase
    β-glucosidase: Mutants linked to Gaucher & Parkinson disease
    Collaboration with:  Israel Silman & Anthony Futerman
    Visualization of 3D Protein Structures via new web based tool Proteopedia
    Collaboration with:  Jaime Prilusky & Israel Silman
    Proteopedia: A way to communicate biomolecular concepts in 3D
    FoldIndex: Intrinsically Disordered Protein (IDP)
  • Picture of Prof. Adi Stern

    Prof. Adi Stern

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    Quantum interference phenomena in the fractional Quantum Hall effect. Electronic transport in strong magnetic fields.
    Non-abelian electronic states - quantum Hall states, topological superconductors and Majorana fermions.
    Fractionalized topological phases - how to construct them, how to measure them, and how to use them for topological quantum computation
    Low density two dimensional electronic systems.
    One dimensional electronic systems - electronic transport in the presence of interactions.
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    Prof. Victor Steinberg

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    Physical hydrodynamics, hydrodynamics of complex fluids, dynamics of single flexible micro-objects (molecules, membranes, etc) in complex fluid flows
    Hydrodynamics of polymer solutions. Search for direct relation between elastic turbulence and turbulent drag reduction in various polymer solution flows.
    Experimental test of the similarity law in von Karman swirling flow driven inertially
    Dynamics and conformations of a single polymer molecule in elastic turbulence: 3D imaging of polymer molecules and a random flow.
    Development of non-invasive local sensors for measurements of stress field in a fluid flow

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    Prof. Joel Stavans

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    Statistical Mechanics
    Single-Molecule Biological Physics.
    RNA interference
    Homologous recombination
    Genetic Networks and Systems Biology
    Regulation of gene expression by small RNAs
    Developmental decision making
    Noise and adaptation

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    CRISPR-Cas
    Phage biology
    Regulation of antibiotics resistance
    Microbiome research
    Communication between viruses
    Computational microbial genomics and metagenomics
    Microbial transcriptomics
    Computational discovery of novel natural antibiotics
    Next generation sequencing

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    Prof. Uzy Smilansky

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    Mathematical methods for Archaeological research.
    Semi-classical quantization.
    Chaotic scattering.
    Quantum chaos.

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  • Prof. Israel Silman

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    Localization and anchorage to the plasma membrane of acetylcholinestera.
    Regulation of folding and assembly of acetylcholinesterase.
    Three-dimensional structure of acetylcholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase-anticholinesterase complexes.

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