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ADAMS CONFERENCE 2019 כנס אדמס 2019 פברואר February 2019 כנס אדמס ADAMS CONFERENCE יום רביעי, ב' דר"ח אדר א', תשע"ט Wednesday, February 6, 2019

מושב בוקר Morning Session התאספות וכיבוד קל Gathering and Refreshments 9:30-10:00 פרופ' משה אורן, ,Prof. Moshe Oren חבר אקדמיה, יו"ר ועדת מלגות Academy Member, Chair of the 10:00-10:10 אדמס – הקדמה Adams Committee – Introduction Prof. David Harel, פרופ' דוד הראל, – Vice President of the Academy 10:10-10:30 סגן נשיאת האקדמיה – דברי פתיחה Opening Remarks on “Excellence or על "מצוינות או מקצוענות?" ”?Professionalism פרופ' נעמה ברקאי, Prof. Naama Barkai, Academy חברת אקדמיה, פרופסור לגנטיקה Member, Professor of Molecular מולקולרית, מכון ויצמן למדע, Genetics, The Weizmann Institute of 10:30-11:10 על "רעד ויציבות במעגלי חישוב Science, on “Noise and Robustness ביולוגיים" ”in Bio-molecular Circuits שאלות ותשובות Questions & Answers 11:10-11:20 פרופ' מוטי שגב, ,Prof. Moti Segev Academy Member, Distinguished חבר אקדמיה, פרופסור מחקר 11:20-12:00 לפיזיקה, הטכניון על "פוטוניקה ,Professor of Physics, The Technion טופולוגית" ”on “Topological Photonics שאלות ותשובות Questions & Answers 12:00-12:10 Prof. Yosef Yarden, פרופ' יוסף ירדן, Academy Member, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, The חבר אקדמיה, פרופסור לביולוגיה 12:10-12:50 מולקולרית, מכון ויצמן, על "מחלת ,Weizmann Institute of Science הסרטן: אתמול, היום ומחר" on “The Current State of Cancer Research and Therapy”

שאלות ותשובות Questions & Answers 12:50-13:00

ארוחת צהריים LUNCH 13:00-14:00 מושב אחר הצהריים Afternoon Session Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss, פרופ' אילון לינדנשטראוס, Academy Member, Professor of Mathematics, The Hebrew חבר אקדמיה, פרופסור למתמטיקה, 14:00-14:40 האוניברסיטה העברית, על “דינמיקה University of , on וגיאומטריה של מספרים” Dynamics and Geometry of" Numbers"

שאלות ותשובות Questions & Answers 14:40-14:50 פרופ' יואל רק, ,Prof. Yoel Rak חבר אקדמיה, פרופסור לאבולוציה Academy Member, Professor of ולאנטומיה, אוניברסיטת תל אביב Anatomy and Human Evolution, Tel 14:50-15:30 על "אבולוציית מוח האדם: עדות Aviv University, on “Evolution of the המאובנים" ”Human Brain: The Fossil Evidence Tour of the Academy’s Exhibition סיור מודרך ע"י פרופ' רק בתערוכת 15:30-16:30 האקדמיה לאבולוציה on Evolution Guided by Prof. Rak Adams Conference 2019

Greetings from Prof. David Harel Prof. Moshe Oren Academy Vice President, Professor of Computer Academy Member, Chair of the Adams Fellowships Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science Steering and Approval Committee Professor David Harel is the Vice President of the Israel Warm greetings to all our Adams Fellows, Adams Alumni, Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and has been at the Adams Committee Members, Academy President Prof. Nilli Cohen, Academy Weizmann Institute of Science since 1980. He was Department Head from 1989 to Vice-President Prof. David Harel, Academy Members and dear members of the 1995, and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science between Adams family. 1998 and 2004. He was a co-founder of I-Logix, Inc., which is no part of IBM.

Marcel Adams, who generously established the Adams Fellowships Program, He received his PhD from MIT in 1978, and has spent time at IBM Yorktown Heights, was born in 1920 and lived in Europe through the years of the Second World War and sabbaticals at Carnegie-Mellon University, Cornell University and the University and the Holocaust. He never had a chance to complete his formal education, of Edinburgh. In the past he worked mainly in theoretical computer science (logic, but this only increased his excitement for learning and his admiration for computability, automata, database theory), and he now works mainly on software human knowledge. As a strong supporter of Israel, it was therefore only and systems engineering, modeling biological systems, and the synthesis and natural for him to decide that he should invest in advancing knowledge in this communication of smell. He is the inventor of the language of Statecharts and co- country. And what better way is there than investing in our future generation inventor of Live Sequence Charts (LSCs), and was part of the team that designed of scientific leaders? the tools Statemate, Rhapsody, the Play-Engine and PlayGo.

This entrusts you, Adams Fellows, with a special mission: you are expected not He devotes part of his time to expository work, including series on Israeli radio only to advance your own career, but also to fulfil a dream – Marcel’s dream and TV, and some of his writing is intended for a broad audience (see, for example, of making Israel a hub of scientific excellence and a powerhouse of human Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do (2000, 2012), and Algorithmics: The Spirit of knowledge. Computing (1987, 1992, 2003, 2012). He has received a number of awards, including the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding We, members of the Adams Committee, make every effort to ensure that we Educator Award (1992), the Israel Prize (2004), the ACM Software System Award pick the best of the best. You, in turn, should never let your curiosity and your (2007), the Emet Prize (2010), and five honorary degrees. He is a Fellow of the ACM passion for knowledge fade out. And when your time comes to be mentors (1994), the IEEE (1995) the AAAS (2007) and the EATCS (2016), a member of the to the next generation of students, please make sure that you keep their Academia Europaea (2006) and the Israel Academy of Sciences (2010), and a foreign passion as intense as yours and that they remain driven by curiosity and not member of the US National Academy of Engineering (2014), and the American by convenience. Indeed, we are beginning to see new Adams Fellows whose Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014). mentors were earlier recipients of Adams Fellowships and as committee members this gives us great joy. I hope that whoever stands on this podium He is an ardent peace and human rights activist, and his main hobbies are ten or twenty years from now will be greeting your students. In the meantime, photography and choir singing. I would like to wish you all a lot of satisfaction in your scientific endeavors and in moving successfully to the next stages of your career.

Sincerely,

Moshe Oren

4 5 Yoav Bauman PhD student of Prof. Ofer Mandelboim, Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation topic: Pathogen Recognition by Natural Killer Cells Yoav Bauman was born and raised in Jerusalem. During high school, Yoav became increasingly interested in the life sciences field and subsequently decided to major in biology. Following his military service as a combat soldier he started his studies in the Life Sciences undergraduate program at the Hebrew University where he graduted magna cum laude. During his studies, Yoav became acquainted with the field of Immunology and was amazed by the complexity of the immune system and how little is known about the .interaction of immune cells with pathogens In order to pursue these topics, Yoav joined Ofer Mandelboim›s laboratory in the third year of his BSc studies and continued to his PhD in the direct track. Mandelboim’s lab investigates the biology of Natural Killer (NK) cells which are part of the innate immune system. NK cells provide the first line of defense against virally infected or cancerous cells by rapidly killing these hazardous cells. NK cell recogni- tion of the virally infected cells is the first and pivotal process in the execution of NK cell killing. Yoav’s research focused on vi- ral mechanisms hampering the ability of NK cell recognition of infected cells, thus enabling the virus to evade the immune system. Yoav’s latest findings demonstrate how two viruses of the human polyomaviruses family, found in the majority of the human population ,use an miRNA mediated mechanism to evade NK cell attack and remain undetected by our immune system. Yoav’s findings were recently published in the Cell Host &Microbe journal. Yoav is currently broadening the scope of his research by investigating the novel field of NK cell recognition of

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applied this principle to reveal design principles and operational mechanisms of of mechanisms operational and principles design reveal to principle this applied

positions in industry. in positions dependency on the kinetics of quantitative parameters. Over the years, Barkai has has Barkai years, the Over parameters. quantitative of kinetics the on dependency

USA, Germany, Taiwan, Croatia, Italy, India and Israel and many hold senior R&D R&D senior hold many and Israel and India Italy, Croatia, Taiwan, Germany, USA, they perform their function reliably in a noisy environment, showing minimal minimal showing environment, noisy a in reliably function their perform they

graduate students and postdocs, among them 21 are currently professors in the the in professors currently are 21 them among postdocs, and students graduate suggests that the biological circuits selected by evolution are robust; that is, is, that robust; are evolution by selected circuits biological the that suggests

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man-made computation devices, work within what is inherently a highly noisy noisy highly a inherently is what within work devices, computation man-made Israel). Israel).

application of the robustness principle. Biological circuits, in contrast (perhaps) to to (perhaps) contrast in circuits, Biological principle. robustness the of application of America. In 2014 Moti Segev won the Israel Prize in Physics (highest honor in in honor (highest Physics in Prize Israel the won Segev Moti 2014 In America. of

at the genomic level. A central contribution of Barkai’s work is the formulation and and formulation the is work Barkai’s of contribution central A level. genomic the at 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Science (NAS) of the United States States United the of (NAS) Science of Academy National the to elected was he 2015

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subfields of systems biology: understanding the design principles of biological biological of principles design the understanding biology: systems of subfields Society, which are the highest professional awards of the three scientific societies. societies. scientific three the of awards professional highest the are which Society,

core of the emergent field of systems biology. Barkai’s work contributed to two two to contributed work Barkai’s biology. systems of field emergent the of core Society of America, and the 2014 Arthur Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Physical American the of Prize Schawlow Arthur 2014 the and America, of Society

how cellular computation systems are designed. This group was the founding founding the was group This designed. are systems computation cellular how Prize of the European Physics Society, the 2009 Max Born Award of the Optical Optical the of Award Born Max 2009 the Society, Physics European the of Prize

who were applying tools and concepts from the quantitative sciences to study study to sciences quantitative the from concepts and tools applying were who won numerous international awards, among them the 2007 Quantum Electronics Electronics Quantum 2007 the them among awards, international numerous won

getting underway. She was fortunate to be among the physics-trained biologists biologists physics-trained the among be to fortunate was She underway. getting entertainment in more demanding fields such as basketball and hiking. He has has He hiking. and basketball as such fields demanding more in entertainment

Barkai joined the Weizmann Institute in late 1999, just as the genomic revolution was was revolution genomic the as just 1999, late in Institute Weizmann the joined Barkai imaging, lasers, quantum simulators and quantum electronics, although he finds finds he although electronics, quantum and simulators quantum lasers, imaging,

Moti's interests are mainly in nonlinear optics, photonics, solitons, sub-wavelength sub-wavelength solitons, photonics, optics, nonlinear in mainly are interests Moti's this bacterial sensing pathway as a main model for systems biology studies. studies. biology systems for model main a as pathway sensing bacterial this

Her theoretical studies, and the experimental studies that followed, established established followed, that studies experimental the and studies, theoretical Her Distinguished Professor. Professor. Distinguished

joined a group at that was studying a bacterial sensing system. system. sensing bacterial a studying was that University Princeton at group a joined in 1999. Subsequently, Moti went back to Israel, and in 2009 was appointed as as appointed was 2009 in and Israel, to back went Moti Subsequently, 1999. in

interests then shifted to computation systems that function within cells, and she she and cells, within function that systems computation to shifted then interests Assistant Professor (1994), becoming Associate Professor in 1997, and Professor Professor and 1997, in Professor Associate becoming (1994), Professor Assistant

and began using tools of statistical physics to study models of neural networks. Her Her networks. neural of models study to physics statistical of tools using began and Technion in 1985 and 1990. After his postdoc at Caltech, he joined Princeton as as Princeton joined he Caltech, at postdoc his After 1990. and 1985 in Technion

the Hebrew University, she became interested in biological computation systems systems computation biological in interested became she University, Hebrew the Professor of Physics, at the Technion, Israel. He received his BSc and PhD from the the from PhD and BSc his received He Israel. Technion, the at Physics, of Professor

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Prof. Naama Barkai Barkai Naama Prof. Prof. Mordechai (Moti) Segev (Moti) Mordechai Prof. Adams Conference 2019 Conference Adams Yoav Bauman PhD student of Prof. Ofer Mandelboim, Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation topic: Pathogen Recognition by Natural Killer Cells Yoav Bauman was born and raised in Jerusalem. During high school, Yoav became increasingly interested in the life sciences field and subsequently decided to major in biology. Following his military service as a combat soldier he started his studies in the Life Sciences undergraduate program at the Hebrew University where he graduted magna cum laude. During his studies, Yoav became acquainted with the field of Immunology and was amazed by the complexity of the immune system and how little is known about the .interaction of immune cells with pathogens In order to pursue these topics, Yoav joined Ofer Mandelboim›s laboratory in the third year of his BSc studies and continued to his PhD in the direct track. Mandelboim’s lab investigates the biology of Natural Killer (NK) cells which are part of the innate immune system. NK cells provide the first line of defense against virally infected or cancerous cells by rapidly killing these hazardous cells. NK cell recogni- tion of the virally infected cells is the first and pivotal process in the execution of NK cell killing. Yoav’s research focused on vi- ral mechanisms hampering the ability of NK cell recognition of infected cells, thus enabling the virus to evade the immune system. Yoav’s latest findings demonstrate how two viruses of the human polyomaviruses family, found in the majority of the human population ,use an miRNA mediated mechanism to evade NK cell attack and remain undetected by our immune system. Yoav’s findings were recently published in the Cell Host &Microbe journal. Yoav is currently broadening the scope of his research by investigating the novel field of NK cell recognition of

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to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities in 2007. in Humanities and Science of Academy Israel the to

Michael Bruno Prize of the Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild) Fund (2000). He was elected elected was He (2000). Fund (Rothschild) Hanadiv Yad the of Prize Bruno Michael

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the U.S. National Cancer Institute (2005), the TEVA Founders Prize (2004), and the the and (2004), Prize Founders TEVA the (2005), Institute Cancer National U.S. the

Award of the European Societies of Clinical Oncology (ESMO), the MERIT award of of award MERIT the (ESMO), Oncology Clinical of Societies European the of Award

University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center (2010), the 2008 Hamilton Fairly Fairly Hamilton 2008 the (2010), Center Cancer Anderson MD Texas’ of University

Distinction in Basic Research (2012), the Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award of the the of Award Memorial Bertner W. Ernst the (2012), Research Basic in Distinction

le Cancer (2015), the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Brinker Award for Scientific Scientific for Award Brinker Cure® the for Komen G. Susan the (2015), Cancer le

(2007), the 43rd Leoplod Griffuel Award of Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur sur Recherche la pour ARC Fondation of Award Griffuel Leoplod 43rd the (2007),

awards are the Israel Prize in Life Sciences (2017), the EMET Prize in Biochemistry Biochemistry in Prize EMET the (2017), Sciences Life in Prize Israel the are awards

Societies of Experimental Biology (FISEB/ILANIT). Among his many honors and and honors many his Among (FISEB/ILANIT). Biology Experimental of Societies

From 2011 till 2014 Prof. Yarden served as President of the Federations of Israeli Israeli of Federations the of President as served Yarden Prof. 2014 till 2011 From

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a foundation for new cancer treatments based on “silencing” the molecular molecular the “silencing” on based treatments cancer new for foundation a

membranes, especially in breast, ovary, and gastric tumors. This finding established established finding This tumors. gastric and ovary, breast, in especially membranes,

amplifier is an enzyme and a receptor found in large quantities on cancerous cell cell cancerous on quantities large in found receptor a and enzyme an is amplifier

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Prof. Yarden discovered the function of a molecular amplifier, called HER2, that that HER2, called amplifier, molecular a of function the discovered Yarden Prof.

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shed light on the way growth factors and their receptors promote tumor growth. growth. tumor promote receptors their and factors growth way the on light shed

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wound healing; and, particularly, on a group of four membrane-bound cellular cellular membrane-bound four of group a on particularly, and, healing; wound

hormone-like molecules that play a critical role in embryo development and in in and development embryo in role critical a play that molecules hormone-like

Prof. Yarden’s research focuses on a vital family of proteins called “growth factors,” factors,” “growth called proteins of family vital a on focuses research Yarden’s Prof.

Goldenberg Professor of Molecular Cell Biology. Biology. Cell Molecular of Professor Goldenberg

the Department of Biological Regulation in June, 2017. He is the Harold and Zelda Zelda and Harold the is He 2017. June, in Regulation Biological of Department the

of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academia Europaea. Europaea. Academia the and Humanities and Sciences of Academy Israel the of

Therapy Research of the Moross Integrated Cancer Center and became the head of of head the became and Center Cancer Integrated Moross the of Research Therapy

Mathematics Society Prize, the , and the . He is a member member a is He Medal. Fields the and Prize, Fermat the Prize, Society Mathematics

Graduate School (2001-2007). He is the new director of the Institute for Cancer Cancer for Institute the of director new the is He (2001-2007). School Graduate

Institute, the Erdos Award of the Israel Mathematical Union, the European European the Union, Mathematical Israel the of Award Erdos the Institute,

MD Moross Institute for Cancer Research (1999-2001) and Dean of the Feinberg Feinberg the of Dean and (1999-2001) Research Cancer for Institute Moross MD

the Clore Fellowship, the Long Term Prize Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Mathematics Clay the from Fellowship Prize Term Long the Fellowship, Clore the

1999), Vice President for Academic Affairs (1999-2001), the first Director of the the of Director first the (1999-2001), Affairs Academic for President Vice 1999),

Lindenstrauss received several prizes for his mathematical achievements, including including achievements, mathematical his for prizes several received Lindenstrauss

faculty. At the Institute, he has served as Dean of the Faculty of Biology (1997- Biology of Faculty the of Dean as served has he Institute, the At faculty.

Kurt Vorreuter University Chair. Chair. University Vorreuter Kurt

Institute of Technology. In 1988, he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Science’s of Institute Weizmann the joined he 1988, In Technology. of Institute

2008 where he is currently a Professor of Mathematics, holding the Alice Kusiel And And Kusiel Alice the holding Mathematics, of Professor a currently is he where 2008

was undertaken at Genentech, Inc., in San Francisco and at the Massachusetts Massachusetts the at and Francisco San in Inc., Genentech, at undertaken was

University and Princeton University before returning to the Hebrew University in in University Hebrew the to returning before University Princeton and University

biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1985). His postdoctoral training training postdoctoral His (1985). Science of Institute Weizmann the from biology

MSc degrees there. Lindenstrauss held positions at the IAS in Princeton, Stanford Stanford Princeton, in IAS the at positions held Lindenstrauss there. degrees MSc

sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1980), and a PhD in molecular molecular in PhD a and (1980), Jerusalem of University Hebrew the from sciences

under the guidance of in 1999, after also obtaining his BSc and and BSc his obtaining also after 1999, in Weiss Benjamin of guidance the under

Born in Israel, Prof. Yosef Yarden received his BSc in biological and geological geological and biological in BSc his received Yarden Yosef Prof. Israel, in Born

He obtained his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem of University Hebrew the at PhD his obtained He

Science Science Professor Elon Lindenstrauss was born in Jerusalem in 1970. 1970. in Jerusalem in born was Lindenstrauss Elon Professor

Therapy Research, MICC, The Weizmann Institute of of Institute Weizmann The MICC, Research, Therapy

Regulation; Director, Dwek Institute for Cancer Cancer for Institute Dwek Director, Regulation; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem of University Hebrew The

Academy Member, Head, Department of Biological Biological of Department Head, Member, Academy Academy Member, Professor of Mathematics, of Professor Member, Academy

Yarden Yarden Yosef Prof. Lindenstrauss Elon Prof. Adams Conference 2019 Conference Adams Yoav Bauman PhD student of Prof. Ofer Mandelboim, Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation topic: Pathogen Recognition by Natural Killer Cells Yoav Bauman was born and raised in Jerusalem. During high school, Yoav became increasingly interested in the life sciences field and subsequently decided to major in biology. Following his military service as a combat soldier he started his studies in the Life Sciences undergraduate program at the Hebrew University where he graduted magna cum laude. During his studies, Yoav became acquainted with the field of Immunology and was amazed by the complexity of the immune system and how little is known about the .interaction of immune cells with pathogens In order to pursue these topics, Yoav joined Ofer Mandelboim›s laboratory in the third year of his BSc studies and continued to his PhD in the direct track. Mandelboim’s lab investigates the biology of Natural Killer (NK) cells which are part of the innate immune system. NK cells provide the first line of defense against virally infected or cancerous cells by rapidly killing these hazardous cells. NK cell recogni- tion of the virally infected cells is the first and pivotal process in the execution of NK cell killing. Yoav’s research focused on vi- ral mechanisms hampering the ability of NK cell recognition of infected cells, thus enabling the virus to evade the immune system. Yoav’s latest findings demonstrate how two viruses of the human polyomaviruses family, found in the majority of the human population ,use an miRNA mediated mechanism to evade NK cell attack and remain undetected by our immune system. Yoav’s findings were recently published in the Cell Host &Microbe journal. Yoav is currently broadening the scope of his research by investigating the novel field of NK cell recognition of .bacteria

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Prof. Yoel Rak Academy Member, Professor of Anatomy and Evolution, Tel Aviv University

Professor Yoel Rak teaches anatomy and human evolution at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, in Israel, which he joined after completing his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Beginning with his doctoral dissertation on the architecture and morphology of the australopithecine face, he has devoted most of his research efforts to understanding facial anatomy and the masticatory system in the hominid record, particularly as related to Australopithecus and early Homo from eastern and southern Africa (at the early end of the human fossil sequence), and Neandertal and early Homo sapiens in the Levant and Europe (at the more recent end). For the last twenty years, Rak has been engaged in fieldwork in the Hadar region of Ethiopia and in Israel, at the Neandertal sites of Amud and Kebara. By integrating an anatomical approach with functional morphology, Rak hopes to gain a deeper insight into human taxonomy and phylogeny. In 2008 he was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences.

Adams Seminar, June 2018

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