• Picture of Prof. Meir Lahav

    Prof. Meir Lahav

    Solid State Chemistry in 2- and 3-dimensions
    Organization of molecules at surfaces and interfaces; effects of environment on crystal growth
    Chirality, Chemistry and the origin of life

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  • Picture of Prof. Joel Sussman

    Prof. Joel Sussman

    3D Structure Funciton Studies or proteins related to Autism
    Collaboration with:  Israel Silman
    3D Structure Fucntions studies of Paraoxonase
    Collaboration with:  Dan Tawfik & Israel Silman
    Application of ultra rapid X-ray diffraction methods to study the enzymatic mechanism of AChE in real time.
    Collaboration with:  Israel Silman
    Structure based drug design studies on AChE and beta-secretase, including studies of complexes with transition state analogs; potential drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease; and snake neurotoxins.
    Collaboration with:  Israel Silman
    X-ray structural analysis and molecular biology studies on proteins from the nervous system, including acetylcholinesterase (AChE), human, torpedo, drosophila, and krait; butyrylcholinesterase; neural cell adhesion proteins with sequence similarity to ACh
    Collaboration with:  Israel Silman
    3D Structure Funciton of proteins related to Gaucher Disease
    Collaboration with:  Tony Futerman & Israel Silman
    Visualization of 3D Protein Structures via new web based tool Proteopedia
    Collaboration with:  Jaime Prilusky & Israel Silman

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  • Picture of Prof. Reshef Tenne

    Prof. Reshef Tenne

    Inorganic nanotubes and inorganic fullerene‐like materials: new materials with cage structure. From basic science to applications.

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  • Picture of Prof. Stephen Weiner

    Prof. Stephen Weiner

    Structure - mechanical function relations in mineralized tissues (bones and teeth) using Optical Metrology.
    Collaboration with:  Ron Shahar
    Archaeological science: revealing the microscopic archaeological record
    Collaboration with:  E. Boaretto, I Finkelstein, A. Maier, R. Shahack-Gross
    Biomineralization: mechanisms of mineral formation and growth in biology.
    Collaboration with:  L. Addadi, Irit Sagi, Leeor Kronick

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  • Picture of Prof. Eli Arama

    Prof. Eli Arama

    Genetic regulation of apoptosis and its molecular mechanisms.
    Roles of caspases in “conventional” apoptosis and during cellular remodeling.

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  • Picture of Prof. Barak Dayan

    Prof. Barak Dayan

    Experimental Quantum Optics
    Cavity QED with single atoms coupled to chip-based micro-resonators
    Nonclassical photon-photon interactions

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  • Picture of Prof. Victor Steinberg

    Prof. Victor Steinberg

    Physical hydrodynamics, hydrodynamics of complex fluids, dynamics of single flexible micro-objects (molecules, membranes, etc) in complex fluid flows
    Hydrodynamics of polymer solutions, Elastic turbulence and Turbulent mixing by polymers.
    Hydrodynamics and rheology of complex fluids (vesicle, capsule, worm-like micelle, etc suspensions)
    Dynamics and conformation of single polymer molecule, vesicle, micro-capsule, etc in complex fluid flows.
    Measurement of velocity and vorticity fields by sound scattering in a turbulent flow.
    Convective turbulence in a fluid near the gas-liquid critical point.
    Microfluidics: mixing, cell separation, random flows.
    Development of non-invasive local sensors for measurements of stress field in fluid flow

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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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  • Picture of Prof. David Mirelman

    Prof. David Mirelman

    Molecular pathogenesis of the human intestinal parasite <I>Entamoeba histolytica</I>.
    Collaboration with:  Rivka Bracha
    Molecular biology and genome organization in the lower eukaryot <I>Entamoeba histolytica</I>.
    Selective inhibition of expression of virulence genes by Antisense RNA.
    Transcriptional epigenetic gene silencing mechanisms
    Pathogenesis of Amoebiasis
    Development of vaccine against <I>Entamoeba histolytica</I>.
    Mode of action and therapeutical potential of Allicin from Garlic
    Collaboration with:  Aharon Rabinkov, Elena Appel
    Uses of derivatives of Allicin against hypertension and obesity
    Antifungal delivery system which produces in situ toxic allicin molecules
    A delivery system for the in-vivo killing of cancer cells by Allicin

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  • Picture of Prof. Rony Paz

    Prof. Rony Paz

    Psychiatric disorders from pathologies in the amygdala-preftonal pathway (e.g. autism, anxiety-disorders, post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD), epilepsy)
    Computational approaches to coding mechanisms in the brain
    Motivational and emotional modulation of memory
    Extinction of memory
    Generalization and specificity of learning
    Neurobiology of learning and memory
    Neuronal circuits and interactions between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex

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