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    Prof. Boris Rybtchinski

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    Organic self-assembly: nanoreactors and nanocapsules
    Solar fuels: photoinduced water splitting for hydrogen production
    Artificial photosynthesis: light-harvesting materials for solar energy conversion

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    Prof. Alex Tsafriri

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    Molecular regulation of ovulatory changes in mammals.
    Collaboration with:  Helena Ashkenazi, Shmulik Motola, Xiumei Cao, Malka Popliker, Seymour Pomerantz, Marco Conti, Stanford
    The roles of gonadotropins and EGF-like factors in triggering ovulation.
    The resumption of meiosis and its regulation.
    Ovulation as a tissue remodeling process.
    The development and demise of ovarian follicles <I>in vivo</I> and <I>in vitro</I>: the role of apoptosis.
    Collaboration with:  Atan Gross, KerenYacobi

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  • Prof. Avihai Danon

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    RNA-binding proteins controling light-regulated translation.
    Redox-signaling controling light-regulated translation. Mechanisms of disulfide bond formation and isomerization in the chloroplast.
    Mode of action of redox-signal transduction factors.
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    Prof. Yoram Shechter

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    Mechanism of insulin action: Post-binding events in insulin action
    Post-receptor agents mimicking insulin.
    Effect of vanadium <I>in vivo</I> and <I>in vitro</I>.
    Role of protein tyrosine kinases and protein phosphotyrosine phosphatases in insulin effects.
    Inhibitors of tyrosine kinases.
    Chemical modifications of peptides and protein drugs.
    Novel technologies to prolong life time of peptide and protein drugs.

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    Prof. Michail Tsodyks

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    Information transmission through dynamic synapses.
    Collaboration with:  H. Markram
    Modeling of cortical neuronal populations: From microcircuits to large scale networks.
    Population activity in visual cortex.
    Collaboration with:  A. Grinvald, D. Sagi

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    Prof. Matityahu Fridkin

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    Chemical-Biological and Clinical studies on novel drugs, primarily of peptidic nature,related to therapy of infectious ,inflamatory and neoplastic diseases.
    Collaboration with:  Y. Koch I. Gozes (TAU ) I. Offek (TAU ) R. Catane (TEL-HASHOMER )
    Anticancer, Antibacterial Antiinflammatory
    Novel synthetic and analytical methdologies are being developed.
    Solid-phase synthesis
    Classical solution chemistry
    Combinatorial technologies
    Studies include: drug design, pro-drugs, long-acting drugs and drug delivery.
    Collaboration with:  Y. Shechter
    Novel iron chelatores as potential drugs for neurodegenarative diseases
    Collaboration with:  M. Youdim ( Technio9n )
    small-molecules
    amino acids and peptides

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    Prof. Elazar Zelzer

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    the roles of the VEGF pathway in different steps during skeletal development.
    Studying the role of mechanical load on embryonic bone development

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    Prof. Eytan Domany

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    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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  • Prof. Yoseph Imry

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    Mesoscopic physics: persistent currents, classical and quantum fluctuations, quantum interference effects on transport, decoheherce.
    Collaboration with:  see below.
    Effects of interaction on localization and on single-electron resonances. Many-electron effects and phase-shifts. Dephasing of Quantum interference in mesoscopics. Quantum noise and its detection. Effects of quantum fluctuations on nanosuperconductors.
    Collaboration with:  Y. Levinson, A. Aharony and E. Entin-Wohlman (TAU and BGU), Y. Ovadyahu and A. schiller (HU), P. Silvestrov (Leiden), M. Schechter and P, Stamp (UBC).

  • Prof. Amiram Grinvald

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    The Interactions between evoked and on-going activity and their potential functional role in cortical processing.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, M. Tsodyks
    The space-time dynamics of cortical activity as revealed by population activity (EEG, LFP and real-time optical imaging) coupled with single-unit and intracellular recordings.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, L. Rom M. Tsodyks
    Cortical correlates of attention in behaving monkeys.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, L. Rom
    The functional architecture underlying visual perception.
    Collaboration with:  D. Omer, L. Rom,
    The dynamics of cortical representations in the visual cortex.
    Collaboration with:  S. Naaman

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