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2010

Event:

International Summit on Personaized Health, P4H Thinking Global Treating Personal
Date:

10 - 11 October, 2010
Location:

Dan Carmel Hotel, Haifa, Israel
Website: Conference Website

Co-Chairpersons
Ariel Miller, Israel & Vincenzo Costigliola, Belguim
Hosted by The City of Haifa, The Rappaport Research Institute and Rambam Medical Center
Event:

University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center: Harnessing vascular defenses against atherosclerosis and stroke
Date:

18 August, 2010
Location:

at 14:00, Red Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

David J. Pinsky, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Director, Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI , USA

* Introduction by Prof. Michael Aviram, Director, Legacy Heritage Clinical Research Institute at Rambam, and the Technion Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Event:

A TRIPARTITE APPROACH FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF OUR GENETIC PAST: THE CAUCASUS AND BEYOND
Date:

17 August, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Prof. Richard Villems
Professor of Archaeogenetics, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Director of the Estonian Biocentre
President, Estonian Academy of Sciences
Event:

From Diagnosis to Drug Development for Rett syndrome
Date:

21 July, 2010
Location:

at 11:00, Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Eva Gak PhD
Head of Molecular Unit
Sagol Neuroscience Center,
Sheba Medical Center
Affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University
Event:

Perception and Action in the Human Brain: from Single Cell Recordings to Functional MRI
Date:

12 July, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Roy Mukamel, Ph.D
Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine
Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Behavior, University of California
Event:

Organogenesis of the Vertebrate Kidney
Date:

22 June, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Tom Schultheiss, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Event:

Molecular and Functional Characterization of Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem cells
Date:

15 June, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Prof. Ofer Binah, Department of Physiology, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Event:

Induction of Non-classical, Cancer Cell-specific Apoptosis by the Adenovirus E4orf4 Protein
Date:

8 June, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Prof. Tamar Kleinberger, Department of Molecular Microbiology, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Event:

Cancer Stem cells in Pancreatic Cancer: Researcher’s View and Clinical Impact
Date:

25 May, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Prof. Christiane Josephine Bruns, Department of Surgery, Ludwig-Maximillian-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Event:

The Basic Leucine Zipper Transcription Inhibitors, JDP2 and ATF3 , from protein-protein Interaction to Liver Cancer and Atrial Signaling
Date:

11 May, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Prof. Ami Aronheim, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Event:

Antidepressant Drug Response: Lessons from Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines
Date:

4 May, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

David Gurwitz, PhD
Director, National Laboratory for the Genetics of Israeli Populations
Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Tel-Aviv University
Event:

Role of Heparan Sulfate in the Development of Proteinuria and Glomerular Inflammation
Date:

28 April, 2010
Location:

at 09:00, Seminar Room 11th floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Johan van der Vlag
Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, The Netherlands
Event:

Together, Two Ubiquitin-binding Proteins Can Serve as a Ubiquitin-chain Length Filter
Date:

27 April, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Prof. Michael Glickman, Department of Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Event:

Regulation of Angiogenesis by Signal Transduction Pathways
Date:

14 April, 2010
Location:

at 16:00, Seminar Room 11th floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Jack Arbiser
Emory University School of Medicine
Winship Cancer Institute
Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, Atlanta Georgia, USA
Event:

The Mammalian Circadian Timing System: Coordination of Cell Clockwork and Metabolism
Date:

7 April, 2010
Location:

at 13:00, Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Charna Dibner
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Switzerland
Event:

DUAL FUNCTION OF POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEINS IN T HELPER (CD4+) CELLS
Date:

23 March, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Orly Avni
Immunology, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Event:

Advanced Clinical and Animal Imaging Techniques in 3T MRI
Date:

9 March, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Speakers :
1. ABC of MRI – Dr. Nemirovsky (15min)
2. Advanced imaging techniques in MRI – Dr. Eran (15min)
3. Animal research on a 3T clinical MRI scanner – Dr. Manor (20min)
4. Technical research collaborative opportunities – Prof. Azhari (15min)
Event:

Dynamics of ERK2 in Individual Living Cells
Date:

2 March, 2010
Location:

at 12:30, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Cellina Cohen Saidon, Ph.D
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Event:

Longevity genes: Past, Present and Future
Date:

24 February, 2010
Location:

at 11:00, Seminar Room, 4th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Gil Atzmon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetic Director of the Genetic Core for LonGenety Institute for Aging Research and the Diabetes Research Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Event:

Synthetic Enhancers: Precision Regulatory Characteristics, Discretization, and Code
Date:

16 February, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Roee Amit, Ph.D
California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology
Event:

Control of Immune Responses by Natural and Adaptive T Regulatory Cells
Date:

9 February, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Ethan M. Shevach, M.D.
Chief, Cellular Immunology Section
Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Event:

Molecular Mechanism of Cohesin: A Complex Story
Date:

7 February, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Itay Onn, Ph.D
Carnegie Institution, Department of Embryology, Baltimore, USA
Event:

Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Human Tumor Dormancy
Date:

26 January, 2010
Location:

at 11:30, Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Nava Almog, Ph.D
Senior Research Associate
Center of Cancer Systems Biology
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
TUFTS University School of Medicine
Boston, MA, USA
Event:

Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts Mediate Tumor-promoting Inflammation
Date:

26 January, 2010
Location:

at 12:30, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Neta Erez, Ph.D
University of California, San Francisco
Event:

Mutational Analysis of the Melanoma Genome
Date:

25 January, 2010
Location:

at 11:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Yardena Samuels
NHGRI/NIH
Bethesda, MD, USA
Event:

Axonal Transport in Health and Disease
Date:

24 January, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Eran Perlson, Ph.D
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology
Event:

Sleep, Circadian Rhythms and Hypo-cretin Neuronal Networks in Zebrafish
Date:

20 January, 2010
Location:

at 11:00, Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Lior Appelbaum, Ph.D
Howard Hughes Institute and Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo-Alto, USA
Event:

Studying the Organization of the Genome in the Nucleus by High Precision Microscopy and Diffusion Analysis
Date:

19 January, 2010
Location:

at 13:30, Blue Hall, Entrance Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Yuval Garini
Physics Department & Institute of Nanotechnology
Bar Ilan University
Event:

Harnessing Human Dendritic Cell Subsets for Novel Vaccine Development
Date:

18 January, 2010
Location:

at 13:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Einav Kelchevsky, Ph.D
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
Dallas, Texas, USA
Event:

Cell Growth and Size Homeostasis in Mammalian Cells – an Inquiry into the Physiology of Growth for Proliferating Cells
Date:

14 January, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Amit Tzur, Ph.D
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Event:

Current Management of Postinjury Coagulopathy: Goal Directed Therapy with Thrombelastography
Date:

13 January, 2010
Location:

at 9:30, Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Jeffrey L. Kashuk, MD
Department of Surgery
Denver Health Medical Center
Event:

A Brain Full of Maps
Date:

11 January, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Dori Derdikman, Ph.D
Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway
Event:

Unlocking the Secrets of Pheromone Processing Pathways: from Early Representations to Circuit Organization
Date:

7 January, 2010
Location:

at 13:00, Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Yoram Ben Shaul, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
Event:

Connective Tissues in Embryonic Patterning
Date:

4 January, 2010
Location:

at 12:00, Glaris Hall, -1 Floor, Medicine Faculty Building

Dr. Peleg Hasson, Ph.D.
Department of Developmental Biology, NIMR, London, UK
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