4th Israeli-American Symposium
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Yehuda Hotel - Jerusalem, Israel
September 16-18, 2019
Sessions:
- A Warming Planet: Polar Changes and Global Sea Levels
- Bioinspired Materials and Self-assembly
- CRISPR: The Game-changing Gene Editing Technology
- Immune Therapy for Treatment of Cancer
- Mysteries of High Dimensions
- Single Molecule Spectroscopy
- Ultracold Atoms: A Window to the Quantum World
- Viruses – Zika, Evolution and New Virus types
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A Warming Planet: Polar Changes and Global Sea Levels
Organizers: Beverly Goodman and Tessa Hill
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Melting Ice: Context, Causes, and Consequences of Polar Amplification
Zach Labe, University of California, Irvine
SPEAKERS:Meltdown in the Arctic: A perspective from the Greenland Ice Sheet
Asa Rennermalm, Rutgers University
Sea Levels Change During Past Warm Periods – Exploring the Unique Case Study of the Israeli Coast
Guy Sisma Ventura, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research
Bioinspired Materials and Self-assembly
Organizers: Adam Feinberg and Rachela Popovtzer
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Bio-Inspired Materials: Fundamentals to Applications
Boaz Mizrahi, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS: Molecular imaging at a cellular resolution in vivo using Optical Coherence Tomography
Adam de la Zerda, Stanford University
Protein Self-Assembly: From Neurodegenerative Disorders to Functional Biomaterials
Ulyana Shimanovich, The Weizmann Institute of Science
CRISPR: The Game-changing Gene Editing Technology
Organizers: Yaniv Ziv, Cyrille Cohen and Anna Selmecki
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Rotem Sorek, The Weizmann Institute of Science
SPEAKERS: Genome-Wide CRISPR Screens, How To Find The Right Genes To Target?
Oren Parnas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Methods to Boost Precision Gene Editing
Wendy Gordon, University of Minnesota
Immune Therapy for Treatment of Cancer
Organizers: Cyrille Cohen
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:Immune Therapy for Treatment of Cancer
Cyrille Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
SPEAKERS:
Rony Dahan, Weizmann Institute of Science
Cancer Immunotherapy - Transforming Cancer Treatment
Ilan Volovitz, The Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Mysteries of High Dimensions
Organizers: Ramon van Handel, Uri Shapira and Yaniv Ziv
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: What is High-Dimensional Geometry and why is it good for us?
Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute of Science
SPEAKERS: Convexity-Related Phenomena in High Dimensions
Bo'az Klartag, Weizmann Institute of Science
On the Mathematics of Modern Machine Learning
Rachel Ward, University of Texas, Austin
Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Organizers: Shane Ardo and Aharon Blank
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Towards Quantitative Protein Separations: Imaging Protein Dynamics at Nanoscale Interfaces
Christy Landes, Rice University
SPEAKERS: Chromatin Dynamics and Gene Expression Regulation, One Molecule at a Time
Ariel Kaplan, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Technologies for Making Measurements on Single Molecules
Randall Goldsmith, University of Wisconsin
Ultracold Atoms: A Window to the Quantum World
Organizers: Rafael Fernandes and Barak Kol
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: What is Quantum Matter, and Why Does it Matter?
Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
SPEAKERS:How to not forget your quantum memory
Ehud Altman, University of California, Berkeley
Quantum Computing with Trapped Atomic Ions
Roee Ozeri, Weizmann Institute of Science
Viruses – Zika, Evolution and New Virus types
Organizers: Nikki Traylor-Knowles and Eyal Privman
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: The Hidden Genetic Diversity of Viruses during Acute Infection
Adi Stern, Tel Aviv University
SPEAKERS: Viral Reefscapes: Microbial Interactions with Threatened Coral Hosts and Reef Ecosystems
Adrienne Correa, Rice University
Restrictions of Herpes Simplex Virus -1 Recombination
Oren Kobiler, Tel Aviv University
The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.
