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    Prof. Samuel Safran

    Biological Physics - mesoscale theory
    Collaboration with:  Dennis Discher, Univ. Pennsylvania - DNA damage in migrating cells as a model of metastasis. Talila Volk, Weizmann Institute - muscle cells and nuclear deformation. Gary Karpen, Berekely - phase separation in the cellular nucleus: experiments; Frank Juilicher - MPI Dresden - phase separation theory. Prof. Zheng Gang Wang - CalTech - thoery of polymer interactions applied to chromosome ovelap. Tony Hyman - MPI Dresden - phase separation in cells.
    Soft matter physics - theory
    Cell cytoskeletal mechanics - theory
    Mesoscale chromatin organization - theory
    Cell shape and volume - theory
    Phase separation and condensates in cells - theory

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    Prof. Boris Rybtchinski

    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. Yinon Rudich

    Health effects of atmospheric particulate matter
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Ralf Zimmermann - Helmholtz Center Munich and University of Rostock, Germany Prof. Astrid Kiendler-Scharr - Hemholtz Ceter Juelich, Germany
    Ice nucleation by atmospheric particles
    Collaboration with:  Prof. Ido Braslvski - Hebrew University
    The transport of microorganisms in the atmosphere and their possible biogeochemical effects. Atmospheric microbiome.
    Optical properties of atmospheric organic aerosols
    Collaboration with:  Dr. Steve Brown - NOAA, Boulder CO Prof. Alexander Laskin - Purdue University

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  • Picture of Prof. Menachem Rubinstein

    Prof. Menachem Rubinstein

    In vivo gene therapy and targeted viral oncolysis
    Collaboration with:  Gideon Schreiber
    In vivo targeting of viral vectors. In vivo targeting of oncolytic viruses

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  • Picture of Prof. Varda Rotter

    Prof. Varda Rotter

    Molecular mechanisms controlling the expression of p53 in normal cells and its deregulation in cancer cells
    Involvement of p53 in cell differentiation and apoptosis: <I>in vivo</I> and in vitro models.
    Cellular proteins that specifically complex with the p53 protein.
    Cellular proteins that are induced upstream or downstream to the p53 protein following genotoxic stress.

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    Dr. Rina Rosenzweig

    Chaperone interactions with substrates
    Protein disaggregation machinery
    NMR of large proteins

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  • Picture of Dr. Serge Rosenblum

    Dr. Serge Rosenblum

    Superconducting qubits
    Decoherence and quantum error correction
    Bosonic quantum computing
    Superconducting microwave circuits

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  • Picture of Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar

    Prof. Vered Rom-Kedar

    Hamiltonian systems - theory and applications
    Collaboration with:  M. Radnovic, A. Rapoport, E. Shlizerman, D. Turaev
    Near-integrable systems
    The Boltzmann ergodic hypothesis and soft billiards.
    Chaotic scattering.
    Resonant surface waves.
    Perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
    Mathematical models of the hematopoietic system and their medical implications
    Collaboration with:  R. Malka, E. Shochat.
    Chaotic mixing of fluid flows
    Collaboration with:  R. Aharon, H. Gildor

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    Dr. Michal Rivlin

    Mechanisms underlying the computation of motion direction in the retina.
    Dynamic computations in retinal circuits.
    How do retinal targets integrate and interpret the visual signal?
    Role of dopamine in retinal processing.
    Brain-to-retina projections modulate the retinal code to match behavioural requirements

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    Prof. Michel Revel

    Applications of IL-6 Chimera and Interferon-beta in neurology, hematopoiesis, and oncology.
    Collaboration with:  J. Chebath
    Interleukin-6 Chimera, a superactivator of the gp130 receptor system: role in nerve myelination, neuroprotection and in the development of neuro-glial cells from embryonic tissues and stem cells.
    Collaboration with:  J. Chebath
    Transdifferentiation of neural crest cell derived melanoma into myelinating Schwann cell. Genes controlling cell growth, differentiation, melanogenesis and synthesis of myelin proteins.
    Collaboration with:  J. Chebath

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