Scientific Program

9:15 - 9:30

Plenary Session
Chairperson: Benny Shilo, Dean, Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
Chairperson: Benny Geiger, Dean, Faculty of Biology,Weizmann Institute of Science, Wix Auditorium

9:30 - 10:45

Guest Lecture: Ada Yonath
The amazing ribosome and its antibiotics: from the genetic code to partially folded proteins
Department of Structural Biology,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Wix Auditorium

Posters Session, Wix Library

Lunch , next to Wix library

Life Sciences Open Centers Demonstrations of technology and methodology infrastructure centers in the institute.
A new presentation will start every 30 min.

	Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
	Electron Microscopy
	Plant Sciences
	Automated high throughput microscopy
	MAMTAK (from 14:00)

17::00 - 18:15

Special Session
News of the Test Tube

Moderator:
Oren Nahari, Israeli News Corresponden

Participants
Yuval Dror,
Science Journalist and Author

Prof. Yadin Dudai, Head,
Department of Neurobiology

Yon Feder,
Editor-in-Chief of YNET,
Israel’s largest News and Content Website

Dolfi and Lola Ebner Auditorium