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“Herstory” of a Journey (Page 17) Ben-Gurion ASSOCIATES ORGANIZATIONS University WINTER 2 0 0 8 / 9 www.bgu.ac.il “Herstory” of a Journey (page 17) Ben-Gurion ASSOCIATES ORGANIZATIONS University of the Negev ARGENTINA MEXICO NATIONAL AND LONDON REGION Nava Rubenzadeh, President Ing. Pedro Dondisch, ORT House Honorary President 126 Albert Street Roy J. Zuckerberg ASOCIACIÓN ARGENTINA DE Yoje Dondich, President London NW1 7NE Chairman, Board of Governors AMIGOS DE LA UNIVERSIDAD Message from the President 1 Robert H. Arnow BEN GURIÓN DEL NEGUEV ASOCIACIÓN MEXICANA DE AMIGOS BRIGHTON COMMITTEE Chairman Emeritus, Suipacha 531 piso 9 DE LA UNIVERSIDAD BEN GURIÓN c/o Sam Barsam, Chairman C-1008 AAM Ciudad Autónoma EN EL NEGUEV (AMAUBG) 47 Hove Park Road Board of Governors Lord of the Flies 2 de Buenos Aires Río Tiber 78 Hove Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea Colonia Cuauhtémoc East Sussex BN3 6LH BELGIUM C.P. 06500 México, D.F. 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Box, 653 Beer-Sheva 84105 BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AABGU NORTHWEST REGION Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Cell Divisions and Inhibitions 42 Vice-President for Harold Paisner, Executive President 240 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Suite 260 External Affairs JAPAN Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, Corte Madera, CA 94925 P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel Koji Akatsuka, President Vice-President AABGU SOUTHWEST REGION Fax: 972-8-647-2803 Prof. Yael Edan Suzanne Zlotowski, Vice-President From Hot to Cold 44 FRIENDS OF BGU JAPAN CHAPTER 9911 West Pico Boulevard, Suite 710 David Wernick, Chairman E-mail: [email protected] Deputy-Rector 75-1, Otobe, Tsu Los Angeles, CA 90035 Website: www.bgu.ac.il A Chemical Reaction 46 Prof. Lily Neumann 514-0016 MIE Vice-Rector From the President Dear Friends, The University has come alive with activity now that the new academic year is underway. This is no small accomplishment. It took a collective protest by students, faculty and presidents of universities nation-wide to avert yet another crisis in Israeli higher education. In late October, a somewhat satisfactory budgetary solution was reached with the prime minister that we hope the Finance Ministry will respect and uphold. Despite these challenges, we are now looking forward to a year of productivity and accomplishment thanks to the commitment of our wonderful students, faculty and staff who strive for excellence, in both teaching and research. By all objective standards, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is a success story. This is evident in the quality of students who have chosen to study in one of our myriad of academic programs and in the noteworthy increase in the competitive research grants that our faculty have received over the past few years. More than ever, we are focusing on issues of great importance to the Negev and the world, with our mission inextricably linked to the fate of the region. With the aim of both advancing research and promoting development of the Negev, the University continues to reinforce its relationship with industry via both academic collaboration and development of our Advanced Technologies Park, whose infrastructure is currently under construction. Parallel to the setting of research priorities in the areas of water and alternative and renewable energy – all in the general context of promoting the sustainability of drylands – a new University-wide initiative has been launched to “color the campus green.” This includes initiatives that range from creating educational programs that encourage energy conservation and environmental preservation, while investing in a long-term plan to make our infrastructure more harmonious with the environment. Continuing to mark a special year – the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel – the University recently marked Ben-Gurion Day, commemorating our first prime minister, by recognizing several important personalities in the arts, history, law, politics, philanthropy and the sciences from Israel and around the globe. During these days of economic turmoil around the world, it is all the more important to thank our friends and supporters who have made all of this possible and encourage you to continue seeing in us an important and sustainable investment. In friendship, Prof. Rivka Carmi, M.D. Lord of the Flies Dr. Uri Abdu Asked to name the positive characterii external factors such as radiation, istics of the pest known as the common chemical or UV light exposure, as fruit fly, most people will draw a blank. well as internal factors like cellular Not Dr. Uri Abdu from the Department metabolism and replication errors. of Life Sciences and the National “These ‘DNA damage checkpoints’ It quickly became Institute for Biotechnology in the repair damage done to genes,” he Negev, whose work on understanding explains. “They apparently detect the apparent that at the development of cancerous cells in presence of damage in the genome and least 50 percent humans has led him to study the genetic relay a message to other components of model of the fruit fly, the Drosophila the cell that give the cell enough time to of fly genes have melanogaster. repair it.” direct counterparts “The fruit fly genome was mapped So here is the riddle that Abdu is about ten years ago,” Abdu explains. trying to solve: Why do certain cancer – homologous “It quickly became apparent that at cells have dysfunctional checkpoints genes – in man least 50 percent of fly genes have direct that allow these cells to continue to counterparts – homologous genes – in mutate and proliferate uncontrollably? man. Even more important, 75 percent Born and raised in the Negev, Abdu of human genes known to be associated received his undergraduate and gradui with disease have homologous genes in ate degrees from the University’s the fruit fly,” he says excitedly. Department of Life Sciences. “I did my To understand the research postidoctorate research in Princeton performed in his lab and its connection University’s Department of Molecular to cancer, Abdu says that it's important Biology. When it was time to come to understand the function of “DNA back to Israel, it was a noibrainer that Other proteins are emerging as key damage checkpoints” in the human I'd want to return to my roots in the And here he returns to the “players” in DNA damage checkpoints body. These are the proteins that repair Negev,” relates Abdu, whose wife, advantages of the common fruit fly in a with a welliestablished position as genetic mutations that cause cancer. Dr. Sigal Abramovich, is a researcher laboratory setting. “The drosophila works as an excellent Abdu is specifically looking at the a bonaifide tumor suppressor.
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