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Scientific Activities Span Several Areas in the Life Sciences Table of Contents The Board of Governors..........................................................................................................1 The Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee...............................................................9 Institute Officers.....................................................................................................................13 The Weizmann Institute of Science.......................................................................................17 Faculty of Biochemistry.........................................................................................................21 Faculty of Biochemistry...............................................................................................22 Biological Chemistry....................................................................................................24 Molecular Genetics.......................................................................................................35 Plant Sciences...............................................................................................................46 Biological Services.......................................................................................................55 The Avron-Wilstätter Minerva Center for Research in Photosynthesis.......................58 The Y. Leon Benoziyo Institute for Molecular Medicine............................................60 The Dr. Josef Cohn Minerva Center for Biomembrane Research................................62 The Crown Human Genome Center.............................................................................64 The Mel Dobrin Center for Nutrition...........................................................................67 The Leo and Julia Forchheimer Center for Molecular Genetics..................................68 The Kekst Family Center for Medical Genetics...........................................................69 The Charles W. and Tillie K. Lubin Center for Plant Biotechnology..........................70 The M.D. Moross Institute for Cancer Research..........................................................71 The David and Fela Shapell Family Center for Genetic Disorders Research.............73 The Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Center for Plant Molecular Genetics Research....74 Faculty of Biology...................................................................................................................77 Faculty of Biology........................................................................................................78 Biological Regulation...................................................................................................80 Immunology.................................................................................................................90 Molecular Cell Biology................................................................................................99 Neurobiology..............................................................................................................110 Veterinary Resources..................................................................................................117 The Norman and Helen Asher Center for Brain Imaging..........................................119 The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases..............................120 The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurosciences..........................................122 The Carl and Micaela Einhorn-Dominic Center for Brain Research.........................123 The Murray H. and Meyer Grodetsky Center for Research of Higher Brain Functions...................................................................................................................124 The Helen and Martin Kimmel Institute for Stem Cell Research..............................125 The Kirk Center for Childhood Cancer and Immunological Disorders.....................126 The Belle S. and Irving E. Meller Center for the Biology of Aging..........................127 The Gabrielle Rich Center for Transplantation Biology Research.............................128 The Willner Family Center for Vascular Biology......................................................130 Table of Contents Faculty of Biology The Women's Health Research Center.......................................................................134 The Yad Abraham Research Center for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy................135 Faculty of Chemistry............................................................................................................137 Faculty of Chemistry..................................................................................................138 Chemical Physics........................................................................................................142 Environmental Sciences and Energy Research..........................................................149 Materials and Interfaces..............................................................................................154 Organic Chemistry......................................................................................................162 Structural Biology......................................................................................................170 Solar Research Facilities Unit....................................................................................176 Chemical Research Support........................................................................................179 The Center for Energy Research................................................................................195 The Fritz Haber Center for Physical Chemistry.........................................................197 The Ilse Katz Institute for Material Sciences and Magnetic Resonance Research....199 The Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Archaeological Sciences.........................200 The Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Molecular Design....................................202 The Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Nanoscale Science..................................203 The Helen and Milton A.Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly...................................................................................................................204 The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Center for Structural Biology........................................206 The Gerhardt M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center on Supramolecular Architecture..........207 The Moskowitz Center for Nano and Bio-nano Imaging...........................................209 The Sussman Family Center for the Study of Environmental Sciences.....................210 Additional Institutes that have contributed to Scientific Advancement.....................215 Faculty of Physics.................................................................................................................217 Faculty of Physics.......................................................................................................218 Condensed Matter Physics..........................................................................................220 Particle Physics...........................................................................................................228 Physics of Complex Systems......................................................................................237 Physics Services.........................................................................................................244 The Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics......................................................................246 The Center for Experimental Physics.........................................................................247 The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics................................248 The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Center for Submicron Research..........................251 The Albert Einstein Minerva Center for Theoretical Physics....................................254 The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Center for Nanophysics.............................257 The Minerva Center for Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems..............................258 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science................................................................265 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.........................................................266 Computer Science and Applied Mathematics............................................................267 Table of Contents Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Mathematics................................................................................................................276 The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science....284 The Ida Kohen Center for Mathematics.....................................................................286 The John von Neumann Minerva Center for the Development of Reactive Systems......................................................................................................................287 The Prospective Institute for Biomatics.....................................................................288 Feinberg Graduate School...................................................................................................291 Feinberg Graduate School..........................................................................................292 The Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Center.......................................................................356
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