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January 01-31, 2017

  • Date:19ThursdayJanuary 2017

    Clinical and biological implications of replication repair deficiency in cancer: from cancer predisposition to novel therapies

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    14:00 - 14:00
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    Cancer Research Club
    Location
    Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
    LecturerDr. Uri Tabori
    The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,Canada
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    Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about We recently discovered a unique group of cancers with by far...»
    We recently discovered a unique group of cancers with by far the highest mutational load ever described. These “ultrahypermutant” cancers arise in the setting of biallelic germline mutations in mismatch repair genes and somatic mutations in DNA polymerase. Together, complete replication repair deficiency constitute a unique paradigm of cancer development and progression.
    These ultrahypermutant cancers can be used to study several key concepts in cancer including identifying drivers and passenger mutations in cancer development and early vs late cancer processes. Importantly, ultrhypermutation can be used as “Achilles’ heel” to uncover susceptibility and novel therapies to patients with replication repair deficient cancers.
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  • Date:19ThursdayJanuary 2017

    PLASMA SEMINAR- Mach Probes

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    14:15 - 15:30
    Location
    Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
    LecturerKyu-Sun Chung
    Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about A Mach probe (MP) is an electric probe system to deduce the ...»
    A Mach probe (MP) is an electric probe system to deduce the plasma flow velocity from the ratio of ion saturation currents. Generally, a typical MP is composed of two directional electric probes located at opposite sides of an insulator, which is mostly used as a parallel MP, but there are other MPs such as perpendicular MP (PMP), Gundestrup probe (GP) or rotating probe (RP), and visco-MP (VMP), depending on the shape of the probe holder, location of different probes or the method of collecting ions. For the parallel MP (to be called simply an MP), the relation between the ratio of the upstream ion saturation current density (Jup) to the downstream (Jdn) and the normalized drift velocity (M∞ = vd/√Te/mi) of the plasma has generally been fitted into an exponential form (R = Jup/Jdn ≈ exp[KM∞]). For the GP or RP, with oblique ion collection, the relation becomes R = exp[K(M∞ −M⊥ cot θ)], where K = 2.3~2.5, M∞ is the normalized parallel flow, and M⊥ is the normalized perpendicular flow to the magnetic field, and θ is the angle between the magnetic field and the probe surface. The normalized drift velocity of flowing plasmas is deduced from the ratio (Rm) measured by an MP as M∞ = ln[Rm]/K, where K is a calibration factor depending on the magnetic flux density, collisionality of charged particles and neutrals, viscosity of plasmas, ion temperature, etc. Existing theories of MPs in unmagnetized and magnetized flowing plasmas are introduced in terms of kinetic, fluid and particle-in-cell models or self-consistent and self-similar methods along with key physics and comments. Experimental evidence of relevant models is shown along with validity of related theories. For probes other than the typical parallel MP, the relation between the ratio of ion saturation currents and M∞ can be expressed as a combination of the functional forms: exponential and/or polynomial form of M∞ for PMP; two Rs of two separate MPs for VMP. Collisions of ions/electrons/neutrals, asymmetries of ion temperatures and the existence of hyperthermal electrons, existence of ion beam, supersonic flow and negative ions can affect the deduction of flow velocities by an MP.
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  • Date:21SaturdayJanuary 2017

    Shauli Badishi - Stand Up

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    21:30 - 22:45
    Location
    Michael Sela Auditorium
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  • Date:22SundayJanuary 2017

    TBA

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    Time
    11:00 - 11:00
    Location
    Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences
    LecturerProf. Raffaele Ferraru
    Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Organizer
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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  • Date:22SundayJanuary 2017

    Enhanced Human Naïve Pluripotency Growth Conditions That Endow Tolerance for Loss of Epigenetic Repressors

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    Time
    13:00 - 13:00
    Location
    Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research
    LecturerJonathan Bayerl
    Yaqub Hanna's group, Dept. of Molecular Genetics, WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Molecular Genetics
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  • Date:23MondayJanuary 2017

    Tailored Therapy in in Lung Cancer: early diagnosis, targeted & immune therapy

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    Time
    14:00 - 14:00
    Title
    Special Guest Seminar
    Location
    Max and Lillian Candiotty Building
    LecturerProf. Nir Peled
    Head of the Thoracic Cancer Unit and the Center for Personalized Medicine, Davidoff Cancer Center, RMC
    Organizer
    Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
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  • Date:23MondayJanuary 2017

    Operettas from around the globe

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    Time
    20:00 - 22:30
    Location
    Michael Sela Auditorium
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 201725WednesdayJanuary 2017

    Workshop on Mathematical Physics

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    Time
    08:30 - 18:30
    Location
    Weissman Auditorium
    Organizer
    Faculty of Physics
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    Triple-stage mass spectrometry unravels the heterogeneity of endogenous protein complexes

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    Time
    10:00 - 10:30
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
    LecturerDr. Gili Ben-Nissan
    Member - Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences-WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Biomolecular Sciences
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    “Formation of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate in Sea Urchin Embryos”

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    10:00 - 10:00
    Location
    Herman Mayer Campus Guesthouse. Maison de France
    LecturerKeren Kahil
    M.Sc. student of Prof. Lia Addadi and Prof. Steve Weiner Department of Structural Biology
    Organizer
    Department of Chemical and Structural Biology
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    Towards engineering of hyperthermophilic designer cellulosomes

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    Time
    10:30 - 11:00
    Location
    Wolfson Building for Biological Research
    LecturerAmaranta Kahn
    Member - Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences-WIS
    Organizer
    Department of Biomolecular Sciences
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    Mechanisms of Root regeneration

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    11:15 - 11:15
    Location
    Ullmann Building of Life Sciences
    LecturerDr. Idan Efroni
    The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at Rehovot, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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    Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    Reverse-engineering the sense of touch in mice

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    Time
    12:30 - 12:30
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    LecturerProf. Samuel Andrew Hires
    Dept of Neurobiology University of Southern California, Los Angeles
    Organizer
    Department of Brain Sciences
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about Touch is vital for many human and animal behaviors, but our ...»
    Touch is vital for many human and animal behaviors, but our understanding of it lags other senses. We have deployed a suite of techniques to dissect mechanisms of touch perception in the mouse, from the biophysics of whisker bending to optogenetic manipulation of specific cortical circuits. I will present our recent work exploring how circuits of primary somatosensory cortex process sensory and motor signals to create a neural representation of tactile features during whisker-based object exploration.

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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    'Recognition determinants of broadly neutralizing human antibodies against dengue viruses and structural basis of their potent Zika/dengue cross-neutralization.'

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    Time
    14:00 - 15:00
    Location
    Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building
    LecturerDr. Alexander Rouvinski
    Faculty of Medicine The Hebrew University
    Organizer
    Department of Chemical and Structural Biology
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  • Date:24TuesdayJanuary 2017

    WIS Theater ensemble - Krum

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    20:00 - 20:00
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    Michael Sela Auditorium
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  • Date:25WednesdayJanuary 2017

    "The photo-philic QCD axion"

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    11:00 - 11:00
    Location
    Weismann Aquarium
    LecturerMarco Farina
    Rutgers
    Organizer
    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
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    AbstractShow full text abstract about We propose a framework in which the QCD axion has an exponen...»
    We propose a framework in which the QCD axion has an exponentially large coupling to photons, relying on the “clockwork” mechanism. We discuss the impact of present and future axion experiments on the parameter space of the model. In addition to the axion, the model predicts a large number of pseudoscalars which can be light and observable at the LHC. In the most favorable scenario, axion Dark Matter will give a signal in multiple axion detection experiments and the pseudo-scalars will be discovered at the LHC, allowing us to determine most of the parameters of the model..
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  • Date:25WednesdayJanuary 2017

    Spotlight on Science: A Science-based approach to nutrition: The Personalized Nutrition Project

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    Time
    12:00 - 13:00
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    LecturerDr. Adina Weinberger
    Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
    Organizer
    Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities
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  • Date:25WednesdayJanuary 2017

    "Neutral Naturalness, fine tuning, and the LHC"

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    13:00 - 13:00
    Location
    Weismann Aquarium
    LecturerDiego Redigolo
    TAU & Weizmann
    Organizer
    Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
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  • Date:25WednesdayJanuary 2017

    The Israel Camerata Jerusalem - Fantasy of a New Life

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    20:00 - 22:00
    Location
    Michael Sela Auditorium
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  • Date:26ThursdayJanuary 2017

    Magnetic Resonance Seminar

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    Time
    09:30 - 09:30
    Title
    New microstructural and functional MRI contrasts at ultrahigh field
    Location
    Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Lecture Hall
    LecturerDr. Noam Shemesh
    Champalimaud Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
    Organizer
    Department of Chemical and Biological Physics
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