Israeli-American Symposium
Israel Academy of Science and Humanities – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
June 16-18, 2013
Irvine, California, USA
Sessions:
- Cellular Proteostasis
- Cosmic Explosions
- Cyber-Security
- Global Change and the Future of Biodiversity
- Neural Circuits, Synaptic Plasticity and the Brain Basis of Memory
- Nanophotonics and the Art of Invisibility
- Renewable Energy
- Systems Immunology
Video Available
Cellular Proteostasis
Organizers: Benjamin Tu and Herman Wolosker
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: The Opportunity of Proteostasis
James Shorter, University of Pennsylvania
SPEAKERS: How Cellular Infidelity and Evolution Shape Protein Misfolding
Allan Drummond, University of Chicago
Proteostasis Collapses Early in Caenorhabditis Elegans Adulthood
Anat Ben-Zvi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Cosmic Explosions
Organizers: Uri Alon and J. Mathias Weber
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Nature's Wild Side
Rosalba Perna, JILA, University of Colorado
SPEAKERS: Cosmic Fireworks: Theory and Universal Implications
Hagai Perets, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Super Nova Forensics
Alicia Soderberg, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cyber-Security
Organizers: Gillian Hayes and Eran Rabani
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Cyber Security
Eran Tromer, Tel Aviv University
SPEAKERS: Why Humans Are the Weak Link In Cyber-Security, and How Can We Help Them
Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University
BitBlaze-WebBlaze-DroidBlaze: Automatic Security Analysis in Binary, Web and Android
Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley
Global Change and the Future of Biodiversity
Organizers: Simon Emmanuel, Jay Lennon and Elizabeth Sbrocco
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Global Change and the Future of Biodiversity
Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder
SPEAKERS: What Biology Matters For Forecasting Species’ Response To Environmental Change?
Lauren Buckley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Understanding Species Invasions: Red Sea Fish in the Mediterranean
Jonathan (Yoni) Belmaker, Tel Aviv University
Neural Circuits, Synaptic Plasticity and the Brain Basis of Memory
Organizers: Shahar Arzy, Amit Etkin and Herman Wolosker
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: The Mechanisms Underlying Sexual Dimorphic Reproductive Behavioral Responses
Tali Kimchi Weizmann Institute
SPEAKERS: Neural Circuits, Synaptic Plasticity and Brain Basis Of Memory
Amar Sahay, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard University
Linking Synaptic Plasticity to Operant Learning
Yonatan Loewenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nanophotonics and the Art of Invisibility
Organizers: Deborah Fass, Song Jin and Eran Rabani
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Nanophotonics and the Art of Invisibility
Michal Lipson, Cornell University
SPEAKERS: Controlling Light with Nanophotonics
Uriel Levy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nanolasers with the Size of Virus Particles
Teri Odom, Northwestern University
Renewable Energy
Organizers: Hossam Haick, Song Jin, Eran Rabani and J. Mathias Weber
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Scientific Frontiers in Renewable Generation of Fuels
Gordana Dukovic, University of Colorado
SPEAKERS: Optimizing Photosynthesis to Create Hydrogen Power
Iftach Yacoby, Tel Aviv University
Making Liquid Fuel from H2O, CO2 and Renewable Energy
Matthew Kanan, Stanford University
Systems Immunology
Organizers: Uri Alon and Jay Lennon
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Systems Immunology – Embracing Complexity
Nir Friedman, Weizmann Institute of Science
SPEAKERS: Biological and Clinical Implications of Immune System Variation
Shai Shen-Orr, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Crowdsourcing Self/Non-Self Discrimination in the Immune System
Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The Israeli-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation with additional support from the National Academy of Sciences.
