December 14, 2015
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Date:13SundayDecember 2015Lecture
Disturbance of the bacterial cell wall specifically interferes with biofilm formatio
More information Time All dayLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Tabitha Bucher
Ilana Kolodkin-Gal's group, Dept. of Molecular GeneticsOrganizer Department of Molecular GeneticsContact -
Date:13SundayDecember 201514MondayDecember 2015Conference
McGill -Weizmann 2nd Zavalkoff Symposium
More information Time All dayLocation David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumChairperson Yehiel ZickHomepage Contact -
Date:13SundayDecember 2015Lecture
Advanced Biomaterials for Mending Broken Hearts
More information Time 11:00Location Perlman Chemical Sciences Building
Room 404Lecturer Dr. Tal Dvir
Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Department of Biotechnology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Tel Aviv University.Organizer Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science
Soft Matter and BiomaterialsContact Details Show full text description of The heart is a non-regenerating organ. Consequently, the los...» The heart is a non-regenerating organ. Consequently, the loss of cardiac cells and formation of scar tissue after extensive myocardial infarction frequently leads to congestive heart failure. Given the scarcity of cardiac donors, a potential approach to treat the infarcted heart is to repopulate the ‘dead zone’ with cells capable of spontaneous contraction. Cellular therapy evolved to introduce cells into diseased areas and regain function. However, two main drawbacks of this approach are the lack of control of cell accumulation site after injection, and cell death before forming cell-cell or cell-matrix interactions. These shortfalls motivated the development of the tissue engineering concept, where 3-dimensional (3D) biomaterials serve as extracellular matrix-like scaffolds to the cells, enabling the cells to assemble into effective tissue substitutes, that may restore tissue or organ function. After transplantation the scaffolds either degrade or metabolize, eventually leaving a vital tissue instead of the defected tissue. In this talk I will describe cutting-edge technologies for engineering functional cardiac tissues, focusing on the design of new biomaterials mimicking the natural microenvironment of the heart, or releasing biofactors to promote stem cell recruitment and cardioprotection. I will also describe the concept of 3D bioprinting of tissues and organs, and the use of inorganic nanostructures and devices for monitoring, actuating and regulation of tissue performances in vitro and in vivo.
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Date:14MondayDecember 2015Lecture
Cellular heterogeneity: differences that make a difference in cancer and drug treatment
More information Time 09:00 - 11:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Steve Altschuler
UCSFOrganizer Department of Systems Immunology
System Biology CourseHomepage Contact Details Show full text description of ‘Contemporary Systems Biology’ course ...» ‘Contemporary Systems Biology’ course -
Date:14MondayDecember 2015Lecture
Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse Brain
More information Time 12:30Location Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Catherine Dulac
Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Cambridge, MAOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact -
Date:14MondayDecember 2015Lecture
Random matrices and cold fermions in harmonic traps
More information Time 14:15Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room ALecturer Ricardo Marino
WISOrganizer Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Statistical Physics SeminarContact Abstract Show full text abstract about Random matrix theory has found many applications spanning a ...» Random matrix theory has found many applications spanning a vast number of fields in physics and mathematics in the last two decades. Most recently, the equivalence between the statistics of eigenvalues of Gaussian Hermitian matrices and the position of ground-state harmonically confined 1-D fermionic particles has been studied to obtain many interesting and universal results in cold atoms. In my talk, I explore this connection to solve the problem of determining quantum fluctuations of cold fermions using techniques from random matrix theory, expanding previous results that were restricted only to specific scaling limits of the spectrum to yield a full picture of the behavior of fluctuations of fermionic particles in one dimensional traps. -
Date:15TuesdayDecember 2015Lecture
Reverse engineering wiring principles of the fly eye: how flies avoid double, double, double vision
More information Time 10:00 - 11:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Steve Altschuler
UCSFOrganizer Department of Systems Immunology
System BiologyHomepage Contact -
Date:15TuesdayDecember 2015Lecture
Recent advances in algal hydrogen production
More information Time 11:15Location Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
Aharon Katzir HallLecturer Dr. Iftach Yacoby
Laboratory for renewable energy studies, Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv UniversityOrganizer Department of Plant and Environmental SciencesContact -
Date:15TuesdayDecember 2015Lecture
Science Time - Popular Lecture
More information Time 12:00 - 13:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Igor Ulitsky
RNA - taking the long road from the origin of life to the pharmacyOrganizer Communications and Spokesperson DepartmentHomepage Contact Details Show full text description of In Hebrew...» In Hebrew -
Date:15TuesdayDecember 2015Lecture
LC-MS/MS and Next Generation Sequencing for High-resolution analysis of the breadth and polarization of human antibody repertoires
More information Time 14:00 - 15:00Location Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
Dov Elad RoomLecturer Dr. Yariv Wine
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel-Aviv UniversityOrganizer Department of Chemical and Structural BiologyContact -
Date:16WednesdayDecember 2015Lecture
Microbiome-Germline Interactions
More information Time 10:00Location Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Yoav Soen
Dept. of Biological Chemistry, WISOrganizer Life Sciences
Developmental ClubContact -
Date:16WednesdayDecember 2015Lecture
The Composite Twin Higgs and Anarchic Flavor
More information Time 11:00Location Tel Aviv University, Schreiber 008Lecturer Michael GellerOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Joint particle physics seminarHomepage Contact Details Show full text description of 10:45 Refreshments 12:30 Lunch...» 10:45 Refreshments
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Date:16WednesdayDecember 2015Lecture
ATLAS Progress in Boosted Top Quark Physics
More information Time 13:30Location Tel Aviv University, Schreiber 008Lecturer Pekka Sinervo
TorontoOrganizer Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Joint particle physics seminarHomepage Contact -
Date:16WednesdayDecember 2015Lecture
The Neuroscience of Avatars
More information Time 14:00Location Dolfi and Lola Ebner AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Mark Sagar
Laboratory for Animate Technologies Auckland Bioengineering Institute The University of Auckland New ZealandOrganizer Department of Brain SciencesContact Details Show full text description of Supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgetin...» Supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 51/11)Abstract Show full text abstract about Mark Sagar is the director of the Laboratory for Animate Tec...» Mark Sagar is the director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and a leading expert on creating interactive autonomously animated systems which will help defi the next generation of human-computer interaction and facial animation. He started his career building computer simulations of the human eye for virtual surgery, and later worked as the Special Projects Supervisor at Weta Digital and was involved with the creation of technology for the digital characters in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spiderman 2. His pioneering work in computer-generated faces was recognized with two consecutive Oscars at the 2010 and 2011 Sci-tech awards, a branch of the Academy Awards that recognizes movie science and technological achievements.
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Date:17ThursdayDecember 2015Conference
Michael Sela Symposium
More information Time 08:00 - 16:30Location David Lopatie Conference Centre
Kimmel AuditoriumChairperson Idit ShacharContact -
Date:17ThursdayDecember 2015Lecture
Magnetic Resonance Seminar
More information Time 09:30Title Tracking conformations of proteins by EPR distance measurements: from in-vitro to in-cellLocation Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture HallLecturer Prof. Daniella Goldfarb
Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of ScienceOrganizer Department of Chemical and Biological Physics
Magnetic Resonance SeminarContact -
Date:17ThursdayDecember 2015Colloquia
Neutrino masses go to Stockholm
More information Time 11:15 - 12:30Location Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
AuditoriumLecturer Yossi Nir
WISOrganizer Faculty of Physics
Lipkin memorial colloquiumContact Details Show full text description of 11:00 – coffee, tea, and more...» 11:00 – coffee, tea, and moreAbstract Show full text abstract about The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was given to the leaders of ...» The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was given to the leaders of two experiments that discovered neutrino flavor transitions. This discovery shows that neutrinos have mass. I will describe the experiments and their results, and explain the implications for theory and their significance. -
Date:17ThursdayDecember 2015Lecture
Virology club (special seminar)
More information Time 12:30 - 13:30Title Evolution and pathogenesis of human papillomavirusesLocation Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
Botnar AuditoriumLecturer Prof. Robert D. Burk
Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research Department of Pediatrics (Division of Genetics) Professor, Departments of Microbiology & Immunology; Epidemiology & Population Health; and, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women's Health Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NYOrganizer Life SciencesContact