Liat Benmoyal-Segal is a biochemist and physiologist working at Beilinson Hospital. Liat is focusing on the involvement of the cholinergic system in the progression of Parkinson’s Disease (PD), particularly from the genetic perspective. Although PD was first described in 1815 by Dr. James Parkinson, its etiology is not fully understood, and no cure has been […]
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July 16, 2013
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July 16, 2013
Eran SegevEran Segev is an electrical engineer researching nanotechnology,specifically Quantum Nano-Mechanics. He chose nanotechnology because it is a revolutionary technological innovation that will create a massive change in all aspects of people’s lives. Quantum Nano-Mechanics is an emerging field in which the mechanical behavior of nano-scale systems in the quantum domain is studied. Eran explores ways to […]
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July 16, 2013
Efrat Shema-YaacobyEfrat Shema-Yaacoby is a Fulbright Scholar doing postdoctoral research in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in the lab of Dr. Bradley Bernstein. Research topic: analysis of combinatorial epigenetic modifications in cancer.
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July 16, 2013
Efrat MashiachEfrat Mashiach, a computer scientist and software engineer at Google, received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2013. Her thesis, “Structural Bioinformatics: Flexible Molecular Docking,” was written under the supervision of Prof. Haim Wolfson and Prof. Ruth Nussinov. The new methods that Efrat developed, designed and programmed (C++) for computational prediction of protein complexes […]
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July 16, 2013
Avital AdlerBiosketch Avital Adler is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in neuro-computation in the Molecular Neurobiology Program and the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience at the Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the role of inhibition in experience-dependent synaptic plasticity Avital received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. Her […]
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July 16, 2013
Eran SmallEran Small is a physicist and Project Leader at The Samsung Electronics Medical Lab. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. His thesis, “Statistical Properties of Light Propagating in Non-Linear Systems”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Yaron Silberberg as part of the Ultrafast Optics Group in […]
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July 16, 2013
Tal Lev-AmiTal Lev-Ami is a computer scientist, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary, a cloud-based image management system. Tal received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Shmuel Sagiv. His PhD research, “Efficient Transformers for the Verification of Heap Manipulating Programs”, explored the problem of automatically verifying computer programs operating on the […]
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July 16, 2013
Nathan KellerNathan Keller is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. His current research focuses on probabilistic combinatorics, the application of analytical tools to combinatorics and in particular the influences of variables on functions in product spaces. His secondary interest lies in cryptography, specifically cryptanalysis. Nathan received his PhD from […]
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July 16, 2013
Yael Eshed-EisenbachYael Eshed-Eisenbach is a biologist, currently working as a staff scientist in the Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Molecular Cell Biology in Prof. Elior Peles’ laboratory. Yael received her PhD in 2009. Her thesis, “Mechanisms of Node of Ranvier Formation”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Elior Peles, and won the J.F. Kennedy […]
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July 16, 2013
Noam Stern-GinossarNoam Stern-Ginossar is an immunologist and molecular geneticist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on profiling viral infections, and she is the Principle Investigator in a lab within the Department of Molecular Genetics, which aims to elucidate the complex cellular changes that occur during encounters between viruses and human cells. Her lab […]