• Prof. Abraham Amsterdam

    Plasticity of gene expression during differenatiation in the gonads.
    Crosstalk amond signals that control apoptosis.
    Carcinogenesis in endocrine glands.
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    Prof. Ido Amit

    Genomics and Systems Biology of the Immune System.
    Decoding the mammalian transcriptional Regulatory Code in health and disease.

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    Prof. Uri Alon

    Combining theoretical and experimental methods to discover design principles of biological circuits
    Systems level analysis of gene regulation networks, with E. coli as a model system.
    Systems Immunology
    Collaboration with:  Nir Friedman
    Evolution

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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. Tal Alexander

    Circum-nuclear accretion disks
    The growth of black holes in the early universe
    Gravitational wave sources
    Massive black holes
    Dynamic of galactic nuclei
    Stellar phenomena in the center of the Milky Way
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    Prof. Avraham Aizenbud

    Algebraic geometry
    Collaboration with:  Nir Avni, Dmitry Gourevitch
    Algebraic groups
    Singularity theory
    Geometric invariant theory
    Representation theory of real and p-adic groups
    Collaboration with:  Dmitry Gourevitch, Eitan Sayag, Nir Avni
    Harmonic analysis on Spherical varieties
    Gelfand pairs
    Asymptotic representation theory
    Functional analysis
    Collaboration with:  Dmitry Gourevitch, Eitan Sayag, Yiannis Sakellaridis Shachar carmeli
    Distributions and generalized functions
    Microlocal analysis
    Topological vector spaces.

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  • Picture of Prof. Ehud Ahissar

    Prof. Ehud Ahissar

    Embodiment of perception
    Understanding 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 data
    Biomimetic perceiving modules
    Active sensing
    Sensory substitution - from vision to touch
    Closed-loop perception

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    Prof. Ofer Aharony

    Quantum field theory, in particular strongly coupled field theories like QCD
    String theory and Quantum gravity
    Exact dualities and low-energy dualities between different quantum field theories
    Equivalence of field theories to gravitational theories in general, and to theories of high-spin gravity in particular
    Field 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 Biology
    The Primary-Secondary Metabolism Interface
    Regulation of Plant Surface Formation
    Regulation of Secondary Metabolism Associated Metabolic Pathways
    Plant and Yeast Metabolomics
    Riboswitches in Plants: Post Transcriptional Regulators of Metabolic Pathways

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    Prof. Lia Addadi

    Chlosterol crystal formation and atherosclerosis
    Collaboration with:  Leslie Leizerowitz, Howard Kruth, Gilad Haran
    antibody recognition of crystal surfaces
    cholesterol segregation in 2D crystalline domains in lipid bilayer membranes
    cholesterol crystal growth from lipid membranes
    cholesterol crystal growth in atherosclerosis
    Imaging Cells with Correlative Cryo-soft X-ray Tomography and Stochastic Reconstruction Microscopy
    Biomineralization
    Collaboration with:  S. Weiner
    Molecular, Structural and Functional Investigation of Biological Reflectors and photonic crystals: fish scales, crustacean cuticles, scallop and crayfish eyes
    Plant leaves manipulate light: calcium carbonate, calcium oxalate and silica deposits and their relation to photosynthesis
    Extracellular 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 bone
    Mechanism of cell adhesion using crystalline substrates.
    Collaboration with:  B. Geiger
    osteoclast adhesion to bone

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