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Prof. Ronen Alon
The role of talin1 and Kindlin-3 in integrin activation and lymphocyte adhesiveness to inflamed vessels under shear stress.Mice models for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) .Role of lymph node chemokines in lymphocyte scanning of dendritic cells.Effector lymphocyte trafficking to sites of inflammation.The functions of endothelial and myeloid ICAM-1 in adaptive and innate immunity.Endothelial stores of chemokines and their function in leukocyte extravasation.Chemokine activation of leukocyte integrins at endothelial contacts under shear stress.
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Prof. Avraham Aizenbud
Algebraic geometryCollaboration with: Nir Avni, Dmitry GourevitchAlgebraic groupsSingularity theoryGeometric invariant theoryRepresentation theory of real and p-adic groupsCollaboration with: Dmitry Gourevitch, Eitan Sayag, Nir AvniHarmonic analysis on Spherical varietiesGelfand pairsAsymptotic representation theoryFunctional analysisCollaboration with: Dmitry Gourevitch, Eitan Sayag, Yiannis Sakellaridis Shachar carmeliDistributions and generalized functionsMicrolocal analysisTopological vector spaces.
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Prof. Ehud Ahissar
Embodiment of perceptionUnderstanding active vibrissal touch in rodents • Understanding the principles of human touch • Understanding the principles of human vision • Constructing synthetic (robotic) perceiving agents • Characterizing the principles of efficient sensory substitution (SenSub) for the blind • Constructing a theory of perception that is consistent with the tactile and visual dataBiomimetic perceiving modulesActive sensingSensory substitution - from vision to touchClosed-loop perception
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Prof. Ofer Aharony
Quantum field theory, in particular strongly coupled field theories like QCDString theory and Quantum gravityExact dualities and low-energy dualities between different quantum field theoriesEquivalence of field theories to gravitational theories in general, and to theories of high-spin gravity in particularField theories with disorder
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Prof. Asaph Aharoni
Genetic Regulation of Metabolic Pathways and its Co-ordination with Developmental and Stress Response Programs in Plant BiologyThe Primary-Secondary Metabolism InterfaceRegulation of Plant Surface FormationRegulation of Secondary Metabolism Associated Metabolic PathwaysPlant and Yeast MetabolomicsRiboswitches in Plants: Post Transcriptional Regulators of Metabolic Pathways
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Prof. Lia Addadi
Chlosterol crystal formation and atherosclerosisCollaboration with: Leslie Leizerowitz, Howard Kruth, Gilad Haranantibody recognition of crystal surfacescholesterol segregation in 2D crystalline domains in lipid bilayer membranescholesterol crystal growth from lipid membranescholesterol crystal growth in atherosclerosisImaging Cells with Correlative Cryo-soft X-ray Tomography and Stochastic Reconstruction MicroscopyBiomineralizationCollaboration with: S. WeinerMolecular, Structural and Functional Investigation of Biological Reflectors and photonic crystals: fish scales, crustacean cuticles, scallop and crayfish eyesPlant leaves manipulate light: calcium carbonate, calcium oxalate and silica deposits and their relation to photosynthesisExtracellular vesicles and their role in breast cancer bone metastasis (additional collaborators Peter Fratzl, Claudia Fischbach and Lara Estroff)Understanding Ion Transport and mineral deposition pathways in biomineralization: sea urchin larvae, foraminifera and zebrafish boneMechanism of cell adhesion using crystalline substrates.Collaboration with: B. Geigerosteoclast adhesion to bone
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