Full Schedule ILANIT 20th-23rd of February 2017

ILANIT / FISEB Federation of all the Israel Societies for Experimental Biology (FISEB) איגוד האגודות הישראליות לביולוגיה ניסויית )אילנית( ILANIT/FISEB is a federation of 31 Israeli societies of experimental biology. ILANIT’s conference is held every three years in Eilat, with attendance by researchers and students. This conference, held in February 2017, is the culmination of the most exciting research performed in Israel in a variety of biological disciplines.

Board

President Treasurer Secretary Karen B. Avraham Yaron Shav-Tal Eitan Yefenof (TAU) (BIU) (HUJI)

Scientific Organizing Committee

Conference President Conference Deputy Conference Vice Conference Vice Orna Amster-Choder President President President (HUJI) Angel Porgador (BGU) Maya Schuldiner (WIS) Eli Pikarsky (HUJI)

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Scientific Advisory Committee

Molecular and Structural Biology and Biochemistry  Orna Elroy-Stein, Tel Aviv University (Chair)  Ora Furman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  Shula Michaeli, Bar Ilan University

Neurobiology and Endocrinology  Yuval Dor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Chair)  Yadin Dudai, Weizmann Institute of Science  Assaf Rudich, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology  Tzachi Pilpel, Weizmann Institute of Science (Chair)  Ohad Birk, Ben Gurion University of the Negev  Howard Cedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  Yael Mandel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Medicine, Immunology and Cancer  Roni Apte, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Chair)  Neta Erez, Tel Aviv University  Yair Reisner, Weizmann Institute of Science

Cellular and Developmental Biology  Chaya Kalcheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Chair)  Chaim Cohen, Bar Ilan University  Benny Dekel, Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University

Microbiology and Plant Biology  Rakefet Schwartz, Bar Ilan University (Chair)  Avi Levy, Weizmann Institute of Science  Dana Wolf, Hadassah Medical Center

BioMed – the Journey of a New Drug from Bench to Bedside  Ronit Bendori, Evergreen Venture Partners, Tel Aviv (Chair)  Shirley Kutner, Independent senior strategic consultant for biotech, Madrid, Spain  Angel Porgador, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

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ACTIVLEY PARTICIPATING SOCIETIES Israeli Association of Crystallography (ICA) Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ISBMB) האגודה הישראלית לביוכימיה וביולוגיה מולקולרית

Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ISBCB) אגודה ישראלית לביואינפורמטיקה וביולוגיה חישובית

Israel Society for Skeletal Biology and Medicine האגודה הישראלית לביולוגיה ולרפואה של השלד

Israel Society for Cancer Research (ISCR) אגודה הישראלית לחקר הסרטן

Israel Society for Cell Biology (ISCB) אגודה ישראלית לביולוגיה של התא

Israel Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (ILMAR) איגוד ישראלי למדעי המעבדה הרפואית

Israeli Forum for Cytoskeleton and Motility (IFCM) הפורום הישראלי לשלד ותנועת התא

The Israeli Society for Developmental Biology (IsSDB) אגודה ישראלית לביולוגיה התפתחותית

Israel Endocrine Society (IES) אגודה ישראלית לאנדוקרינולוגיה

The Israeli Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ISGCT) האגודה הישראלית לתרפיה גנטית ותאית

Genetic Society of Israel (GSI) האגודה הישראלית לגנטיקה

Israel Society of Heart Research (ISHR) אגודה ישראלית לחקר הלב

Israel Immunological Society (IIS) אגודה ישראלית לאימונולוגיה

Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry Israel Society of Medical Genetics אגודה ישראלית לגנטיקה רפואית

Israel Society of Microbiology (ISM) אגודה ישראלית למיקרוביולוגיה

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Israel Society for Microscopy האגודה הישראלית למיקרוסקופיה

The Israeli Society for Neuroscience עמותה ישראלית למדעי המוח

Israel Society for Oxygen and Free Radicals Research האגודה הישראלית לחקר חמצן ורדיקלים חופשיים

Israel Society for Parasitology and Protozoology האגודה הישראלית לפרזיטולוגיה, פרוטוזואולוגיה ומחלות טרופיות

Israeli Society for Plant Sciences האגודה ישראלית למדעי הצמח

Israel Stem Cell Society (ISCS) אגודה ישראלית לתאי גזע

Zoological Society of Israel העמותה לזואולוגיה בישראל

Conference Secretariat

Ortra Ltd. 1 Nirim Street, P.O. Box 9352, 61092 Tel Aviv, Israel Tel: +972-3-6384444 Fax: +972-3-6384455 Email: [email protected] Conference Web Site: https://www.fiseb.org/ Ortra Web Site: www.ortra.com

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PARTNERS

Israeli Centers of Research Excellence

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SPONSORS

Danyel Biotech Mercury Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsorship

Zotal Rhenium Silver Sponsorship Silver Sponsorship

Bactlab Twist Silver Sponsorship Silver Sponsorship

Perkin Elmer Merck Silver Sponsorship Bronze Sponsorship

EXHIBITORS

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017

10:45-15:30 Registration and Refreshments - Dan hotel

15:30-16:00 Opening Ceremony -Herods hotel – Pavilion

16:00-17:00 PL1: PLENARY LECTURE: Regulation of microRNA Herods hotel - Pavilion Narry Kim is a Professor at Seoul National University and a founding director of RNA Research Center at Institute for Basic Science. Kim received her Ph.D. in 1998 from Oxford University on virology, and studied mRNA surveillance as postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania. Her group at SNU has been investigating how microRNAs are made and regulated, and what RNAs and RNA-binding proteins do to control cell fates. Kim received L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science (2008) and the Ho-Am Prize in Medicine (2009), and was elected as Foreign Associates of National Academy of Science and of European Molecular Biology Organization. Sponsored by: I-CORE Gene Regulation in Human Complex Disease

17:30-18:30 PL2: PLENARY LECTURE: Being at the Base of the Food Chain May Not Be So Bad After All Herods hotel - Pavilion Prof. Ian T. Baldwin received an AB from Dartmouth College in 1981, his PhD from Cornell University in 1989, rose through the academic ranks at the State University of New York at Buffalo and in 1996 became the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, where he heads the Department of Molecular Ecology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, and has published 430 peer-reviewed papers and one book on the Induced defenses of plants. Sponsored by: I-CORE Plant Adaptation to Changing Environment

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

07:30-08:30 EBT1: Early bird session of Eldan Electronic Instruments Co.Ltd., Herods hotel - Kings hall A Session participants will be enrolled in a lottery having the chance to win a tablet.

08:30 CRISPR Guide RNA Libraries for Functional Genomics Screening: Do You Know What’s in Your Library?

Dr. Carsten Carstens Agilent Technologies, Eldan Electronic Instruments Co.Ltd.

Screening of CRISPR libraries, either as a knock-out or as a CRISPR A/I approach, has become a very powerful tool for functional genomics approaches to gene function discovery. The quality of the library screen is strongly dependent on the quality of the input library. Based on Agilent’s capability to synthesize up to 2.44 x 105 high quality defined DNA oligomers of 230 nt in length in a single reaction, we have developed novel chemistries, and novel, overlap-based cloning method and workflows necessary for generating high quality, low-bias plasmid libraries. The session will present the procedures and tools required to generate highest quality plasmid libraries from complex oligomer pools.

08:00 Integrated Tools for Sensitive NGS Analysis of ccfDNA

Katja Schreiter Ph.D., Market Development Manager BRC & NGS Commercial Partners EMEA QIAGEN, Eldan Electronic Instruments Co.Ltd. Next generation sequencing analysis of free circulating DNA from plasma has quickly been adopted for cancer testing as well as for noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT). For cancer patients, this method enables the noninvasive diagnosis of actionable mutants to select a personalized anti-tumor therapy and could be used to monitor molecular changes upon cancer treatment or during tumor progression. The concentration of free circulating DNA in liquid biopsies usually is very low, which makes it very important to apply optimized protocols for cfDNA extraction as well as NGS DNA library construction to successfully establish robust test systems. In this scientific talk, we will introduce new technical solutions for Ion Torrent as well as Illumina sequencing platforms that combine optimized cfDNA isolation, highly advanced library construction, unbiased library amplification and integrated data analysis to sensitively and reliably analyze cfDNA samples. 10 Last updated 16.02.2017

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

07:30-08:30 EBT2: Early Bird session of Zotal Herods hotel - Kings hall B Session participants will be enrolled in a lottery having the chance to win a tablet.

07:30 RNA-Seq as an Efficient Tool for Gene Expression Profiling QuantSeq: High Multiplexing, Sensitivity, and Reproducibility with Lowest Costs and Efforts

Birgit Steinmetz Product Manager at Lexogen-Zotal With the discontinuation of microarray systems and the rapid development of NGS technologies, and declining sequencing costs, attention is now on RNA-Seq as the method-of- choice for gene expression (GEX) profiling. Lexogen’s QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq system offers a comprehensive and highly affordable solution for whole transcriptome GEX analyses: With a price from USD 19.80 per library prep and sequencing costs from USD 5.00 per sample, easy handling, and an all-in-one express protocol that is suitable for high throughput screening QuantSeq enables exceptionally precise and cost-effective gene expression experiments. Since only 1 fragment per transcript is generated, FPKM calculations are unnecessary, and a recommended read depth of 2-5 million short, single-end reads per sample is sufficient for expression profiling of eukaryotic transcriptomes.

08:00 Cisbio Help You Make Your Immunoassay a Success: from Research to Drug Development

Dr. Ullrike Esslinger Scientific Consultant at Cisbio Bio Assay. Cisbio-Zotal Cisbio Bioassays develops and markets products and technologies used in life sciences and diagnostics. With over 30 years' expertise in assay conception, the company has become the leader in the field of TR-FRET immunoassays with HTRF®, its proprietary technology. Based on this highly robust and reliable format, Cisbio Bioassays offers first class assays and services for drug discovery researchers, from basic research to all steps of new lead identification and optimization. Our kits are already adopted for different researches in CNS, Oncology, Metabolism and Cardiology, but not only. It can also help in your drug development process like HTS or leads optimization. Our scientists are ready to help you to develop custom kit that will perfectly fit your needs. in this session we will share insights about our technology and how it will help you to be successful with your immunoassay.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

07:30-08:30 EBT3: Early bird session of 3D-Biology – NanoString Technologies Dan hotel - Blue hall A Session participants will be enrolled in a lottery having the chance to win a tablet.

07:30 The Power of 3D-Biology™: Simultaneous Detection of DNA, RNA, and Proteins

Rudy van Eijsden, Ph.D. Field Application Specialist, nanoString Technologies The digital NanoString nCounter® technology enables you to count up to 800 molecules per sample in a highly multiplexed fashion. To meet the need for multi-analyte profiling in for example tumor biology, NanoString Technologies has expanded its single-molecule digital barcoding system to recognize DNA, RNA, fusions, proteins and phospho-proteins simultaneously from the same sample with its 3D Biology™ technology. Detection of DNA (e.g. SNVs), RNA, or proteins alone can provide significant information, but when data from multiple experiments are merged the integrated results can lead to novel hypotheses or more solid conclusions. Examples will be presented how 3D Biology™ can add extreme value to your research. Less sample, more data, easy to analyze!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

08:00-08:30 EBT4: Early bird session of Mercury Dan hotel - Blue hall B Session participants will be enrolled in a lottery having the chance to win a tablet.

08:00 Biomarkers Quantification using Multiplex Technology Improving Result Accuracy and Sensitivity Quantify a full panel of biomarkers is one assay!

Dr. Ben Levi Mercury

Milliplex® Multiplexing is highly validated and sensitive technique, which enables you to achieve reproducible data while saving precious time. Milliplex® is a lead multiplexing kit, utilizing Luminex

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technology, employing a simple protocol. Analysis of numerous factors simultaneously made possible within a small volume of biological sample, in a cost-effective manner.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE9: Motors and Machines in Cells Herods hotel - Kings hall A Joint session between Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Israeli Forum for Cytoskeleton and Motility Chair: Alexander Bershadsky, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Leah Gheber, Ben Gurion University 09:00 New Role for the Actin-Based Motor Myosin 19 in Mitochondria Localization Arnon Henn, Boris I. Shneyer, Marko Ušaj Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

09:20 New Insights into the Role and Regulation of Myosin II in Cytokinesis Shoshana Ravid, Daniel Ronen, Ari Babkoff, Einav Kfir-Cohen, Areen Mghndaf, Adam Gobi Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:40 Microtubule Stability and Motor Proteins Function Can Be Regulated by Neurotrophic Factors Eran Perlson Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 Cellular Mechanosensing of Extracellular Matrix Rigidity by Contractile Units Controlled by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases Haguy Wolfenson Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:15 Chlamydomonas Ciliary Tubulin: from Dynamic instability To Length Control Ron Orbach, Jonathon Howard Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, USA

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10:30 Systematic Mutagenesis of a Mitotic Motor Protein to investigate the Mechanisms of Phospho- regulation Alina Goldstein1,2, Darya Goldman1,2, Ervin Valk3, Mart Loog3, Liam Holt4, Leah Gheber1,2 1Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia 4Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley, USA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE3: DNA and RNA Processing Herods hotel - Kings hall B Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Israel Society for Cell Biology

Chair: Bat-Sheva Kerem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Mordechai Choder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 09:00 The Rich Repertoire of Pseudouridines on RNA and Unique Splicing Related Stress Response in Trypanosomes Shulamit Michaeli1, Vaibhav Chikne1, Tirza Doniger1, K. Shanmugha Rajan1, Osnat Bartok2, Dror Eliaz1, Ronen Hope1, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish1, Christian Tschudi3, Ron Unger1, Sebastian Kadener2 11The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Biological Chemistry, the Alexander Silberman inst. of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus,, Israel 3Department of Epidemiology and Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, USA

09:20 The Negative Elongation Factor, NELF-E, Facilitates Transcription Silencing at DNA Double- Strand Breaks and Promotes DNA Repair Nabieh Ayoub, Samah Awwad, Enas Abu-Zhaiya, Noga Gutmann-Raviv Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 3200003, Israel

09:40 Breaking Out of Silence - What Happens during Cellular Quiescence and Exit from It Michael Klutstein, Ronen Hazan, Daniel Gelman, Shira Simcha Nouriel Institute of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel

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10:00 Cell to Cell Transfer of mRNA via Membrane Nanotubes Gal Haimovich1, Chris Ecker2, Carolina Eliscovich3, Bin Wu4, Arjun Raj2, Robert H. Singer3,5,6, Jeffrey E. Gerst1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA 3Department of Anatomy & Structural biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 4Department of Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, USA 5Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA 6Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

10:15 Transcription Dictates Translation Efficacy via Co-transcriptional m6A Modification of mRNAs Boris Slobodin1, Ruiqi Han1, Vittorio Calderone1, Joachim Oude Vrielink1, Fabricio Loayza- Puch1, Ran Elkon1,2, Reuven Agami1 1Department of Stress Response, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 Nucleo-cytoplasmic Shuttling of mRNA Decay-Factors are Capable of Regulating Both Nuclear mRNA Synthesis and Cytoplasmic Decay Shiladitya Chattopadhyay1, Gal Haimovich1, Oren Barkai1, Ron Elran1,2, Reut Shalgi2, Silvia G. Chuartzman3, Maya Schuldiner3, Miriam Rosenberg1, Katherine E Sloan4, Marcus T Bohnsack4, Mordechai Choder1 1Department of Immunity, Microbiology and Inflammation, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel, Israel 2Department of Biochemistry, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel, Israel 3Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel, Israel 4Institute for Molecular Biology, University Medical Center Göttingen Georg-August- University, Göttingen, Germany Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August- University, Göttingen, Germany, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 BIO1: BioMed – the Journey of a New Drug from Bench to Bedside Session I: The Art of Translation of innovation into a Viable Product

Herods hotel - Queens hall Chair: Ronit Bendori, Ethos Ventures & Evergreen Venture Partners Chair: Ohad Birk, Genetic Institute, Soroka, Ben Gurion University In the BioMed sessions we will discuss the pathway of a drug from bench to bedside, aiming at opening a window to the potential of the Industry to scientists and students, introducing the various aspects of this exciting world from early stage of tech transfer to Industry stories of companies that accomplished their targets.

In session I major aspects of tech transfer from Academy to Industry as well as fundamental product development steps will be discussed by scientists, tech transfer professionals and entrepreneurs.

Opening lecture: the Israeli Industry in the Global Environment -An Overview of Current Status of the BioMed Industry: Performance, Trends and Opportunities Shirley Kutner, Senior Independent Advisor to BioTech

Panel: Technology Transfer A scientist, an entrepreneur and a tech transfer officer will discuss major aspects of tech transfer from Academy to Industry. Participants: Benny Soffer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Dan Peer, Tel Aviv University Yoram Reiter, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Panel: Pivotal Steps in Drug Development: Drug Discovery, Clinical and Preclinical Development Experts in drug development will present the pivotal steps in drug development: drug discovery, clinical and preclinical development. Participants: Michael Schickler, CureTech Ltd. Leah Klapper Regenovation Ltd.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 RT1: Methodology Round Tables Herods hotel - Laurence hall *By pre-registration The round tables enable personal interactions between experts in a specific method and people who would like to know more about this approach. Each expert can host up to 10 people at her/his table - it’s a unique platform and chance to discuss, learn more and consult with an expert in a more personal setting.

09:00 Image Processing Hosted by: Aryeh Weiss, Bar Ilan University The image processing round-table will focus on the problem of segmentation in image processing. A number of segmentation problems will be presented and discussed. Participants are encouraged to bring their image data and their own laptop, and these will be discussed as time permits.

09:00 Editing and Controlling Expression of Genomes with CRISPR-Cas9 Hosted by: Oren Parnas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center & Ayal Hendel Bar Ilan University CRISPR technology, which leads a revolution in the field of genome editing, enables targeting almost any locus in the mammalian genome. In this round table session we will discuss recent development in the field, including the discovery and usage of CAS9 equivalent enzymes, CRISPR screens, different editing options and CRISPR as a tool to explore genetic interactions. We will discuss current applications and future directions.

09:00 Producing Genetically Modified Mice with CRISPR/Cas9 Hosted by: Rebecca Haffner, Weizmann Institute of Science In the revolutionary and exciting era of genome modification, this round table session will provide important guidelines for producing genetically modified mice with CRISPR/Cas9. We will discuss the pros and cons of using CRISPR/Cas9 to produce targeted mutations in mice, with NHEJ and HDR. We will address the problems of off-targets, the choice and production of Cas9 and guide RNAs for injection, templates for HDR, screening for mutations, and finally we will take a look at future prospects for CRISPR in mice.

09:00 Microfluidics Hosted by: Yaakov Nahmias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem In this roundtable we will discuss microfluidics based methods used for biological applications. Focus will be on applications for live cell imaging and single cell analysis. Participants are invited and encouraged to present applications of microfluidics from their own research and raise related challenges. 17 Last updated 16.02.2017

09:00 High Resolution Live Cell Imaging Hosted by: Dan Kaganovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The tremendous advances of the past decade in live cell and super resolution imaging, as well as computational and biophysical methods, have sparked renewed interest in nano-scale (or meso- scale) cellular organization, it is the current frontier of cell biological research, promising important breakthroughs in understanding cell viability and pathology. A great deal of evidence now suggests that at the nano-scale the cytosol is not a mere inchoate jumble of occasionally colliding components, but rather an extremely crowded and exquisitely organized medium, in which the correlated transport, co-localization, and catalytic coordination of various macromolecular components underlies a high degree of functional complexity. In this round table we will discuss recent innovations in high-resolution imaging with a focus on imaging physiological processes in live cells. In particular, we will discuss light sheet microscope, photo conversion other laser manipulation techniques, and super-resolution imaging in live cells.

09:00 Profiling Glycobiology Hosted by: Vered Padler-Karvani, Tel Aviv University Glycoscience is a highly diverse and interdisciplinary research area aimed at deciphering the structure and function of glycans and their implications on biomedical, energy and technology sciences. In this round table we will discuss current biomedical applications and tools to profile glycans and their interacting counterparts, collectively referred to as functional glycomics.

09:00 Correlative EM Hosted by: Amnon Harel, Bar Ilan University, Safed campus Correlative microscopy attempts to bridge between the localization of specific molecules by light and fluorescence microscopy and the imaging of cellular ultrastructure at high resolution by electron microscopy. Ongoing development and the advent of commercial platforms for correlative microscopy leave the main challenges at the level of biological sample preparation.

09:00 The Biobank Platform as a Tool for Promoting 'State of the Art' Research Hosted by: Yehudit Cohen, MIDGAM In this session we will discuss the role of biobanking worldwide, MIDGAM’s (Israel's national biobank) services, as well as review some examples of studies using biobanked samples. We hope to learn from round table participants about your needs and dreams as researchers considering use of the biobank research platform, so that we may be able to provide for these needs, and match expectations.

09:00 Structure-based Computational Characterization, Prediction and Manipulation of Protein-Protein interaction Hosted by: Ora Furman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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In this roundtable we will discuss computational methods to model the structure and the binding affinity and specificity of protein interactions. Focus will be on new successful approaches and their impact on biological studies, as well as challenges ahead and ways to address them. The aim is to provide a stimulating encounter of various expertise and experiences to provide different views and generate a comprehensive and informed picture about communication between proteins.

09:00 Transparent Publishing, Preprints & Open Science: how to share reproducible data Hosted by: Bernd Pulverer, EMBO

Scientific progress depends on efficient mechanisms to select, quality control, archive, share and find reliable and reproducible research. The research paper remains the predominant mode of sharing peer-reviewed research findings, and a subset of scientific journals play important roles also as a proxy for quality and impact in research assessment. In this roundtable Bernd Pulverer will discuss how the editorial and peer review process at highly selective journals can be reformed to assess both the interest and quality of the claims made by a researcher, and also the reliability, reproducibility and integrity of the experimental data.Tuesday, February 21, 2017

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE5: Metabolism and Cancer Dan hotel - Blue hall A Session I of the Israeli Society for Cancer Research

Chair: Ilan Tsarfaty, Tel Aviv University Chair: Ayelet Erez, Weizmann Institute of Science 09:00 Tipping the Scales toward Anticancer Metabolism by SIRT6 Haim Cohen, Shoshana Naiman, Asael Roichman, Batia Lerrer, Yariv Kanfi Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

09:20 Cancer Cellular Metabolism at a Spatio-temporal Resolution Won Dong Lee2, Eunyong Ahn1, Praveen Kumar2, Dzmitry Mukha2, Hodaya Farber2, Elina Aizenshtein2, Tomer Shlomi1,2 1Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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09:40 Lysine Methylation Signaling at Chromatin Dan Levy The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Israel

10:00 Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2: Gateway for Metabolic Reprogramming in Breast Cancer Georgina Barnabas, Michal Harel, Yair Pozniak, Tamar Geiger Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:15 Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Proteome Remodeling Promote One-Carbon Metabolism for T Cell Activation and Survival Noga Ron-Harel1, Daniel Santos1, Jonathan Ghergurovich3, Peter Sage2, Steve Gygi1, Joshua Rabinowitz3, Arlene Sharpe2, Marcia Haigis1 1Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA 2immunology, Harvard Medical School, USA 3Chemistry, Princeton University, USA

10:30 ASS1 Downregulation is Essential for Cancer Cells’ Survival in Acidic Environment Alon Silberman1, Odeya Boukobza1, Shiran Rabinovich1, Yulia Frug1, Rom David Keshet1, Noa Stettner1, Adi Jacob5, Erez Persi2, Joo Sang Lee3, Miquel Duran Frigola3, Ben Pode6, Igor Ulitsky1, Raya Eilam4, Yair Anikster6, Eytan Ruppin2,3, Sandesh Nagamani7, Ayelet Erez1 1Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2The computational biology branch, the NIH/NLM/NCBI, USA 3Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology & Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA 4Biological services Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 5Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 6Metabolic Disease Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital,Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 7Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE6: Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Health and Disease Dan hotel - Blue hall B Session I of the Israel Immunological Society

Chair: Mira Barda-Saad, Bar Ilan University Chair: Ron N. Apte, Ben Gurion University 09:00 Recognition of Fungi by NK cells Ofer Mandelboim The Lauteberg Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:20 New Roles for Gastrointestinal Eosinophils in Inflammation and Cancer Hadar Reichman1, Perri Rozenberg1, Michal itan1, Tal Yarmolovsky1, Eli Brazowski2, Chen Carol2, Nathan Gluck2, Metsada Pasmanik-Chor3, James J. Lee5, Udi Qimron1, Ido Bachelet4, Danielle Karo-Atar4, Ariel Munitz1 1Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Research Center for Digestive Disorders and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Bioinformatics Unit, Israel 4BioTherapeutics Cluster, Augmanity Nano LTD, Rehovot, Israel 5Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Israel

09:40 Probing Contributions of Macrophages to Organismal Homeostasis Steffen Jung Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Preventing the Recurrence of Breast Cancer at the Metastatic Niche Using Resolution-phase Macrophages Odelya Gilon1, Sagie Schif-Zuck1, Yonatan Feuermann1, Marina Weissmann2, Pale Von Huth3, Amiram Ariel1, Dalit Barkan1 1Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 2Cancer Research and Vascular Biology Center, the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Center for Microscopy and Imaging, University of Haifa, Israel

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10:15 Akt and SHP1 are Dendritic Cell-Intrinsic Checkpoints for Tumor Immunity Yaron Carmi1, Tyler Prestwood2, Matthew Spitzer4, Ian Linde2, Nathan Reticker-Flynn2, Jonathan Chabon2, Bryan Burt3, Michael Alonso2, Edgar Engleman2 1Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Pathology, Stanford University, USA 3Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, USA 4Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

10:30 Widespread Parainflammation in Human Cancer Audrey Lasry1, Dvir Aran2, Adar Zinger1, Moshe Biton1, Eli Pikarsky1, Asaf Hellman3, Atul Butte2, Yinon Ben-Neriah1 1The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Institute for Computational Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA 3Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE10: Evolutionary Cell Biology Dan hotel - Tarshish A Student Organized Session

Chair: Idan Frumkin, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Shmuel Gleizer, Weizmann Institute of Science 09:00 Evolutionary Consequences of Phenotypic Variability Nathalie Balaban, Irit Levin-Reisman, Ofer Fridman Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:20 Proteins Evolve On the Edge of Supramolecular Self-Assembly Emmanuel Levy Dept of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

09:40 From Boom to Bust – Bacterial Adaptation to Prolonged Survival Following Resource Exhaustion Sarit Avrani, Evgeni Bolotin, Sophia Katz, Ruth Hershberg The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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10:00 Evolution of the Translation Machinery Yitzhak Pilpel Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:15 Multiple Venoms in a Single Species: Spatiotemporal Regulation of Toxin Production in the Starlet Sea anemone Nematostella vectensis Yaara Yam Shenkar, Kartik Sunagar, Maria Sachkova, Arie Fridrich, Yehu Moran The Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Co-Transcriptional-Translation Density in Escherichia Coli Tunes Protein Expression Orr Schlesinger1,2, Yonatan Chemla1, Eden Ozer1, Lital Alfonta1,2 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2-, the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology (IKI), Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE1: Advances in Mass Spectrometry for Biological Research Dan hotel - Tarshish B The session for the Israel Society for Mass Spectrometry

Chair: Tamar Geiger, Tel Aviv University Chair: Dana Reichmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 09:00 A Single Protein, Multiple Forms - Towards Uncovering the Inherent Complexity of Protein Complexes Gili Ben-Nissan1, Mikhail Belov3, Alexander Makarov3, Dror Chorev1, Ariel Levin2, Benjamin Geiger2, Michal Sharon1 1Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany

09:20 A Large-Scale Reference Library-Based Modular Approach for Metabolite Identification in Metabolomics Asaph Aharoni Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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09:40 Using Chemical Proteomics As A Tool To Unravel Small-Molecule Based Communication Between Species Michael Meijler Department of Chemistry and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:00 Biotinylation by Antibody Recognition - a Novel Method for Proximity Labeling Daniel Bar1, Kathleen Atkatsh1, Urraca Tavarez1, Michael R Erdos1, Yosef Gruenbaum2, Francis S Collins1 1National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA 2Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Life Sciences, Israel

10:15 Cross-Linking Reveals Laminin Coiled-Coil Architecture Gad Armony1, Yishai Levin2, Yaakov Levy1, Deborah Fass1 1Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2The Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:30 The Effects of Proteasomal Inhibition on Synaptic Proteostasis Vicky Hakim1, Laurie Cohen1, Rina Zuchman2, Tamar Ziv2, Noam Ziv1 1The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute & Israel Network Biology Research Laboratories, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Smoler Proteomics Center, Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE2: Neurodevelopment and Behavior Royal Beach hotel - Hadar Session I of the Israel Society for Developmental Biology

Chair: Avraham Yaron, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Galit Shohat-Ophir, Bar Ilan University 09:00 To Each Neuron its Own? Dynamic Regulation of Excitatory-Inhibitory Ratio and Cortical Circuit Plasticity by Experience-Induced Secreted Molecules Ivo Spiegel Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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09:20 Storing and Reactivating Aversive Memories - How and Why? Yifat Eliezer, Lihi Hoch, Christian Pritz, Shachar Iwanir, Alon Zaslaver Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Israel

09:40 Roles for Toll-like Receptors in Cognitive Learning and Memory Eitan Okun, Ravit Madar Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

10:00 Labeling Newly Synthesized Proteins in Zebrafish Neural Circuits Or Shahar, Alejandro Pinzon-Olejua, Erin Schuman Synaptic Plasticity, Max Planck Institute For Brain Research, Germany

10:15 Neural Pulses Code Chemical Gradients Dictating Chemotaxis Strategy Eyal Itskovits, Rotem Ruach, Alon Zaslaver Department of Genetics, the Edmond J. Safra Campus The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Autophagy Serves as a Backup Cell-Death Mechanism to Ensure the Removal of Unwanted Cells during Chordotonal Organ Development Adel Dunayevskyy, Adi Salzberg Department of Genetics, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE4: Genetic Analysis of Plant Biodiversity Royal Beach hotel - Shita Session I of the Israeli Society for Plant Sciences

Chair: Rakefet David-Schwartz, Volcani Center Chair: Naomi Ori, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture 09:00 Old Local Israeli Apples and their Use in Breeding Varieties Suitable for Warm Climate Taly Trainin, Matat Zohar, Einav Shimoni-Shor, Irit Bar Ya'akov, Kamel Hatib, Doron Holland, Tal Isaacson- Lustig Fruit Tree Sciences, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel

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09:20 Contribution of Genome Duplication to Speciation and Domestication Itay Mayrose Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants,, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:40 ‘La vie en rose’: Adding Color to Food Crops and Ornamentals Guy Polturak, Noam Grossman, Margarita Pliner, Ilana Rogachev, Asaph Aharoni Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

09:55 Improving Plant Response to Stress-Induced Senescence by the Conditional Silencing of Thylakoid Turnover in Crop Plants Nir Sade, Kamolchanok Umnajkitikorn, María del Mar Rubio Wilhelmi, Eduardo Blumwald Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, USA

10:10 The Alga That Never Read the Literature - Fastest Growing Photodamage Tolerant Alga Isolated from Desert Crust Haim Treves1, Hagai Raanan2, Omer Murik1, Isaac Kedem1, Nir Keren1, Itzhak Ohad1, Aaron Kaplan1 1Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, USA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE7: Genome Engineering and Genome-Wide Technologies Royal Beach hotel - Ella Session I of the Genetic Society of Israel

Chair: Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Gidi Rechavi, Sheba Medical Center 09:00 Therapeutic Levels of in Vivo Gene Targeting Without Nucleases Adi Barzel1, Mark Kay2 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University, USA

09:20 Charting the Mammalian Chromatin Landscape: from Mixed Populations to Single Cells Oren Ram1, Assaf Rotem2 1Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Physics and SEAS, Harvard University, USA 26 Last updated 16.02.2017

09:40 The Power of ONE: Immunology in the Age of Single Cell Genomics Ido Amit Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Gametogenesis Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers an Expression Switch Yonatan B. Tzur1,2, Eitan Winter3, Jinmin Gao2, Tamar Hashimshony3, Itai Yanai3, Monica P. Colaiácovo2 1Department of Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA 3Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:15 Developing Systematic Genetic Tools to Discover and Characterize Essential Genes and Pathways in the Plant Super Kingdom Michal Breker, Kristi Lieberman, Fred R Cross Laboratory of Cell Cycle Genetics, the Rockefeller University, USA 10:30 Deciphering Enhancers Regulatory Code Using Synthetic Biology Michal Meirom, Yeroslav Pollak, Roee Amit Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 TUE8: Neuroendocrinology Royal Beach hotel - Alon Joint session between Israeli Society for Neuroscience & Israel Endocrine Society

Chair: Alon Chen, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Hermona Soreq, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 09:00 Rhythmic Oxygen Levels Reset Circadian Clocks through HIF1α Gad Asher1, Yaarit Adamovich1, Benjamin Ladeuix1, Marina Golik1, Maarten Koeners2 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK

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09:00 Mechanisms of Adult Human β-Cell In-Vitro Dedifferentiation and Redifferentiation Shimon Efrat Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:40 Assembly and Function of Oxytocin Neuronal Circuits Savani anbalagan, Jakob Biran, Janna Blechman, Michael Gliksberg, Ludmila Gordon, Dvir Gur, Maayan Tahor, Einav Wircer, Gil Levkowitz Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Systemic and Organ Specific Mechanisms Leading to Diabetes Remission and Weight Loss Following Gastric bypass Surgery Danny Ben-Zvi1, Luca Meoli2, Douglas Melton3, Nicholas Stylopoulos2 1Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, USA 3Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, USA

10:15 Quantitative Morphological Reconstruction of Entire Cortical Cholinergic Neuronal Populations from Large Volume Imaging Nadav Yayon1,2, Oren Amsalem2, Nicolas Renier4, Idan Segev2,3, Mickey London2,3, Mark Tessier-Lavigne4, Hermona Soreq1,2 1The Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3The Department of Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, the Rockefeller University, USA

10:30 CRFR1 Inhibits AgRP Neurons to Allow Appropriate Sympathetic Nervous System Activity Following Challenge Yael Kuperman Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

09:00-10:45 SOF1: Soft skill. How to Write a Winning Post-doc Fellowship Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Chaim Cedar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center In this lecture/workshop we will attempt to review the general outlines of what goes into preparing a strong fellowship application. We will go over guidelines to work by such as how to report on doctoral work and how to describe proposed research in the most effective way. In addition we will talk about how personal career goals can function as a strengthening factor in one's application. The lecture will include workshop elements and personal advice.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE11: Mechanisms for Protein Degradation Herods hotel - Kings hall A Session I for the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Chair: Amnon Horovitz, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Michal Sharon, Weizmann Institute of Science 11:30 Garding the Secretory Pathway via Golgi Quality Control Yifat Merbl, Ron Benyair, Roey Maor Immunology, WIS, Israel

11:50 Myofibril Breakdown during Atrophy is a Delayed Response Requiring the Transcription Factor PAX4 and Desmin Depolymerization Alexandra Volodin1, Idit Kosti2, Shenhav Cohen1 1Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Computational Health Science, University of California San Francisco, USA

12:10 Reglulation of the Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C) by the Proteasome Mediated Degradation of its Catalytic Subunit, Apc11 Netanel Rosenstein, Marina Volpe, Nelly Levinton, Roy Avraham, Shay Ben-Aroya Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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12:30 High Throughput Identification of Sequences Regulating Protein Turnover Using a Synthetic Human Peptidome Library Itay Koren, Stephen J Elledge Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

12:45 Start Codon Sequestration of pafA Leaderless mRNA Regulates its Expression Shai Schlussel1,2, Yifat Elharar1, Eyal Gur1,2 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

13:00 Suppression of 19S Proteasome Subunits Marks Emergence of an Altered Cell State in Diverse Cancers

Peter Tsvetkov1, Ethan Sokol1,2, Dexter Jin1,2, Marc Mendillo1, Jinghui Zhao3, Alfred Goldberg3, Thijn Brummelkamp4, Zarina Brune1, Mahmoud Ghandi6, Levi Garraway6, Piyush Gupta1,2, Sandro Santagata5, Luke Whitesell1, Susan Lindquist1 1Whitehead Institute, for biomedical research, USA 2Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 3Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA 4Department of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands 5Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, USA 6Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE14: Frontiers in Computational Genomics and Proteomics Herods hotel - Kings hall B Session I for the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational biology

Chair: Chen Keasar, Ben Gurion University Chair: Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 11:30 Collective Action of MicroRNAs: Probabilistic and Dynamic Approaches Michal Linial1, Shelly Mahlab2, Nathan Linial2 1Biological Chemistry, Life Science Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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11:50 Deciphering Modes of Action of Long Noncoding RNAs Igor Ulitsky Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

12:10 Identifying Promoter-Enhancer Interactions from Hi-C Data Gil Ron, Dror Moran, Tommy Kaplan School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

12:30 Calling Mutation from Bulk and Single-cell RNA-seq Data for Studying Cancer initiation, Progression and Heterogeneity Keren Yizhak1, Hailei Zhang1, Jaegil Kim1, Paz Polak1, Nicholas Haradhvala1, Aviv Regev1,3, Gad Getz1,2 1Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA 2Pathology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA 3Department of Biology, MIT, Israel

12:45 Differential mRNA Decay Reshapes Operon Structures in Bacteria Daniel Dar, Rotem Sorek Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

13:00 Networks Reveal Active Retroelements and Trace their Proliferation Dynamics Binyamin Knisbacher1, Orr Levy2, Shlomo Havlin2, Erez Levanon1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 BIO2: BioMed – the Journey of a New Drug from Bench to Bedside Session II: Business Aspects of Building a Company

Herods hotel - Queens hall Chair: Guy Rosenthal, Teva Chair: Shirley Kutner, Senior Independent Advisor to BioTech In the BioMed sessions we will discuss the pathway of a drug from bench to bedside, aiming at opening a window to the potential of the Industry to scientists and students, introducing the various aspects of this exciting world from early stage of tech transfer to Industry stories of companies that accomplished their targets.

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In session II we will examine the financial aspects of a venture from early stage to advanced company, presenting the various resources along the life cycle of a company. This will be followed with panel of managers in the Industry discussing their challenges and achievements. At the end of the session both panels will answer questions from the audience. Panel: Financial Aspects of BioMed Initiatives A panel of investors will discuss and shed light on the financial resources for new entrepreneurship as well as advanced company. Participants: Ora Dar, CSO office Einat Zisman, FuturX incubator Yuval Cabilly, Israel Biotech Fund Pini Orbach, Arkin Holdings David Sidransky, Israel Biotech Fund

Panel: I Did it My Way - Industry Stories A panel of managers in the Industry will discuss challenges and achievements. Participants: Dror Harats,Vascular Biogenics Silvia Noiman, ELOXX Pharmaceuticals Yair Sapir, BiondBiologics WISe – Entrepreneurial initiative of Students at Weizmann Institute of Science Students from WIS will give short pitches about their initiatives. Participants: Dvir Gur, WIS Ruth Shiloh, WIS Yoav Politi, WIS Alon Silberman, WIS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 SOF2: Panel. Advancing Women in Science: Academic Career; Opportunities and Challenges for Female Scientists Herods hotel - Laurence hall Moderator: Bat-Sheva Kerem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Panelists: Liza Barkai-Harington, University of Haifa Asya Rolls, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Sharon Elizur-Schlesinger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Vered- Padler-Karavani, Tel Aviv University Natalie Elia, Ben Gurion University Galit Shohat-Ophir, Bar Ilan University The panel will discuss and share the experience and challenges of young female scientists: the decision to go for a post doc, how to choose a post doc group, personal and family experience 32 Last updated 16.02.2017

during the post doc period and challenges in early stages of establishing an independent research group. The panel will be delivered in Hebrew. The panel will be followed by a “Women in Science Lunch” (requires pre- registration)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE17: Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neuronal Function and Dysfunction Dan hotel - Blue hall A Joint session between the Israel Society for Cell Biology & Israeli Society for Neuroscience Chair: Uri Ashery, Tel Aviv University Chair: Elior Peles, Weizmann Institute of Science

11:30 Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Firing Set-Point Establishment in Hippocamapl Networks Inna Slutsky Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:50 Distinct Transcriptional Signatures Encode Salient Experiences in the Brain Ami Citri The Life Science Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Program in Child and Brain Development, Canadian Institutes for Advanced Research, Canada

12:10 From Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Cortical Dependent Memories to Cognitive Enhencers Kobi Rosenblum Sagol Department of Neurobiology (http://neuroethocms.Haifa.ac.il/rosenblum/), University of Haifa, Israel

12:30 Modified Toxins Enhance Memory of Alzheimer’s Disease Mice Gennadiy Fonar1, Dev Sharan Sams1, Assaf Malka1, Natalia Bal2, Alexander Maltsev2, Pavel Balaban2, Evan Elliot1, Abraham Samson1 1Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Cellular Neurobiology of Learning Lab, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS, Russia

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12:45 Identification of a Pharmacological Suppressor of Pathological Axon Degeneration that Acts by Preserving Mitochondria Konstantin Feinberg1, Adelaida Kolaj1, Chen Wu2, Natalie Grinshtein1, Jonathan R Krieger3, Michael F. Moran3, Lee L. Rubin2, Freda D. Miller1,4,5, David R. Kaplan1,4 1Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada 2Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, USA 3Program in Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada 4Departments of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada 5Departments of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada

13:00 The Role of Astrocyte Secreted Glypican 4 in Functional Synapse Formation Isabella Farhy-Tselnicker1, Adriana C. van Casteren1, Aletheia Lee2, A. Radu Aricescu2, Nicola J. Allen1 1Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA 2Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, UK

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE16: Novel Insights into Host-Microbe Interactions Dan hotel - Blue hall B Session I of the Israel Society for Microbiology

Chair: Ilan Rosenshine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Oren Kobiler, Tel Aviv University 13:15 The Birth of a Microbiome: Changes to the Gut Microbiota in Pregnancy and Early Infancy Omry Koren Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

11:50 Host and Pathogen Simultaneous Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Interacting Sub- Populations during Infection Roi Avraham Biological Reguation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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12:10 Recognition Determinants of Broadly Neutralizing Human Antibodies against Dengue Viruses and Structural Basis of their Potent Zika/Dengue Cross-Neutralization Alexander Rouvinski1, Giovanna Barba-Spaeth2, Pablo Guardado-Calvo2, Marie-Christine Vaney2, Stéphane Duquerroy2, Wanwisa Dejnirattisai3, Arvind Sharma2, Iris Medits6, Ahmed Haouz4, Xiaokang Zhang2, Carlos Kikuti2, Etienne Simon-Lorière5, Erika Navarro Sanchez2, Wiyada Wongwiwat3, William Shepard7, Christine Girard-Blanc4, Stéphane Petres4, Anavaj Sakuntabhai5, Patrick England4, Hong Zhou8, Karin Stiasny6, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya3,9, Franz Heinz6, Gavin Screaton3, Félix Rey2 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Research, Israel-Canada (IMRIC) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Département de Virologie, institut Pasteur, France 3Department of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Hammersmith campus, UK 4Citec, institut Pasteur, France 5Functional Genetics of infectious Diseases Unit, institut Pasteur, France 6Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria 7PX2, Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin, France 8Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles,, USA 9Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Research Unit, office for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

12:30 Thinking outside the Mouse: Dissecting Host-Microbiome Communications Ex-Vivo Nissan Yissachar, Diane Mathis, Christophe Benoist Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, USA

12:45 From Transmembrane Domains to Bacterial Virulence Avner Dagan, Sofia Rachmilevitch, Neta Sal-Man Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

13:00 HCMV Protein UL148A Downregulates MICA Liat Dassa, Ofer Mandelboim The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE12: Model Organisms from the Sea Dan hotel - Tarshish A Session I of the Zoological Society of Israel

Chair: Noa Shenkar, Tel Aviv University Chair: Maoz Fine, Bar Ilan University 11:30 How Microscopic injection Causes Fish to Roll in the River: High-Speed Imaging, Microfluidic Chips and Proteomics of Myxozoa Parasitic Spores Tamar Lotan1, Gadi Piriatinskiy1, Sinwook Park2, Stephen D. Atkinson4, David Morgenstern5, Jonathan Ben-David1, Gilad Yossifon2, Uri Shavit3, Jerri L. Bartholomew4 1Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 2Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, USA 5Bioinformatic Unit, University of Haifa, Israel

11:50 The Octopus as a Model for Understanding Successful Motor Control in a Soft-Bodied Animal Binyamin Hochner Departement of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel

12:10 Using Sparus Aurata to Understand the Causes and Consequences of the "Critical Period" in Fish Larvae Roi Holzman, Liat Koch, Stan Yavno, Victor China, Liraz Levi, Sarit Yaniv, Miri Zilka Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:30 Polycarpa Mytiligera- A New Model in Chordate Regeneration Studies Tal Gordon1,2, Noa Shenkar1,3 1Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2The interUniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Eilat, Israel 3The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, National Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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12:45 The Influence of Parental Feeding Upon the Fitness of Offspring under Thermal Stress; a Case Study from a Model Coral Species Jessica Bellworthy1,2, Maoz Fine1,2 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar- Ilan University, Israel 2Bar-Ilan University, The InterUniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel

13:00 Evolutionary Origin of the Mammalian Hematopoietic System Found in a Colonial Chordate: Functional and Molecular Characterization of Botryllus Schlosseri Immune System, HSCs and their Niches Benyamin Rosental1,2, Mark A. Kowarsky3, Daniel M. Corey1, Katherine J. Ishizuka1,2, Karla J. Palmeri1,2, Shih-Yu Chen4, Rahul Sinha1, Jun Seita1, Ayelet Voskoboynik1,2,5, Irving L. Weissman1,2,5 1Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 2Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, USA 3Departments of Applied Physics and Bioengineering, Stanford University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA 4Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 5* AV and ILW, are equal contributors, USA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE20: Circadian Clocks Dan hotel - Tarshish B Student Organized Session

Chair: Yaarit Adamovich, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Rona Aviram, Weizmann Institute of Science

11:30 Debates on the Role of the Pineal Gland in the Circadian Clock System in Zebrafish Yoav Gothilf, Zohar Ben-Moshe Livne Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:50 The EuroAnatomy of the Honeybee Cock and how it Helps us Understand Plasticity in Circadian Rhythms and the Evolution of Animal Clocks Guy Bloch1, Taro Fuchikawa1, Katherina Beer2, Charlotte Helfrich-Förster2 1Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Neurobiology and Genetics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Beer Katherina, Germany

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12:10 Timing and Biological Clocks in Cnidarians; Molecular and Behavioral Perspectives Oren Levy The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences Bar Ilan University, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

12:30 Artificial Light at Night Affects Neurogenesis in the Adult Avian Brain Stan Moaraf, Tatyana Pismenyuk, Yulia Vistoropsky, Anat Barnea Department of Natural andLife Sciences, the Open University of Israel, Israel

12:45 The New Plant Circadian Clock Components Ekaterina Shor, Rachel Green Plant and Environmental Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel

13:00 Time Dependent Variance in Mice Athletic Performance Ziv Zwighaft, Benjamin Ladeuix, Rona Aviram, Marina Golik, Yaarit Adamovich, Gad Asher Biomolecular sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE15: Structural Biology in Health and Disease Royal Beach hotel - Hadar The session for the Israeli Association of Crystallography

Chair: Joel Hirsch, Tel Aviv University Chair: Ron Diskin, Weizmann Institute of Science 11:30 Novel Mechanism of Ubiquitin-Like Protein Activation Revealed by a UBA5-UFM1 Complex Walaa Oweis1, Prasanth Padala1, Fouad Hassouna1, Einav Cohen-Kfir1, Dalton Gibbs2, Emily Todd2, Christopher Berndsen2, Reuven Wiener1 1Biochemistray and Molecular Biology, Hebrew University School of Medicine, Israel 2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, James Madison University, USA

11:30 New Structure-activity Paradigms for Amyloids from Pathogenic Microbes Einav Tayeb-Fligelman, Orly Tabachnikov, Asher Moshe, Nir Salinas, Sergei Perov, Michal Mayer, May Almog, Meytal Landau Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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11:30 Unleashing the Full Power of the Protein Disaggregation Machinery Rina Rosenzweig2, Lewis Kay1 1Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Canada 2Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:30 Inhibition of Amyloid Fibril Formation in Systemic Light-Chain Amyloidosis Boris Brumshtein Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, USA

11:30 Proteins Evolve on the Edge of Supramolecular Self-Assembly Hector Garcia Seisdedos1, Charlie Empereur-Mot2, Nadav Elad1, Emmanuel Levy1 1Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Laboratoire Génomique Bioinformatique et Applications, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France

11:30 Structural Evolution of Human Specific SRGAP2 Proteins Michael Sporny1, Julia Guez-Haddad1, Sivan Shakartzi1, annett Kreusch2, Michail Isupov3, Britta Qualmann2, Michael Kessels2, Yarden Opatowsky1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Institute for Biochemistry I, Jena University Hospital - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany 3Biosciences, University of Exeter, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE13: Plasticity of Plants in Response to Environmental Changes Royal Beach hotel - Shita Session II of the Israeli Society for Plant Sciences

Chair: Shimon Rachmilevitch, Ben Gurion University Chair: Menachem Moshelion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 11:30 Control over Photosynthetic Energy Transfer by Rearengment of its Basic Building Blocks Nir Keren Plant and Environmental Sciences,The Hebrew Universtiy of Jerusalem, Israel

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11:50 DELLA Proteins and Plant Response to Drought David Weiss, Hagai Shohat, Ido Nir Plant Sciences and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

12:10 Enhanced Thermotolerance in Pollen of Ascorbate Peroxides 2 -Deficient Arabidopsis Mutant Gilad Luria1, Adina Berger1, Karen Schlauch2, Jeff Harper2, Gad Miller1 1Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Biochemistry Department, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

12:30 Plant Transpiration and [CO2]: the Role of Guard-Cell Photosynthesis and Leaf Starch- Biosynthesis in Stomatal Turgor Production and in CO2-Induced Stomatal Closing Tamar Azoulay-Shemer1, Andisheh Bagheri1, Axxell Palomares1, Maria Israelsson- Nordstrom2, Cun Wang1, Bastiaan Bargmann3, Aaron Stephan1, Cawas Engineer1, Henning Hans-Kunz4, Julian Schroeder1 1Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA 2Umea Plant Science Centr, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 3Biology Department, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, USA 4School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, US

12:45 Push and Pull – Understanding the Role of Mechanical forces Maintaining inter-Tissue Growth Coordination Yulia Fridman, Neta Holland, Tom Shemesh, Sigal Savaldi-Goldshtein Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

13:00 Adaptation by Natural Improvisation Yoav Soen Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 TUE18: Endocrine Signaling in Bone Formation Royal Beach hotel - Ella Joint session between the Israel Society of Skeletal Biology and Medicine & the Israel Endocrine Society

Chair: Rivka Dresner-Pollak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Noam Levaot, Ben Gurion University 11:30 Regulation of Osteoclast Function by Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases Ari Elson, Jean Wakim, Elad Wasserman, Esther Arman, Moran Shalev Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:50 Advantages and Challenges of Zebrafish (D. Rerio) as a Model of Endochondral Bone Formation and Regeneration Chen Shochat, Yael Govezensky, Dana Gigi, David Karasik Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Israel

12:10 Regulating Cartilage Catabolism in Osteoarthritis Mona Dvir-Ginzberg, Jinan Elayyan, Eun-Jin Lee, Omar Qiq, Eli Reich Institute of Dental Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Israel

12:30 A Novel Role of GPR39 in Regulation of Osteoblast Differentiation and Bone Matrix Composition Milena Pesic, Gali Guterman Ram, Svetlana Katchkovsky, Ayelet Orenbuch, Noam Levaot Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

12:45 Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents Induce Dose-Dependent Bone Loss: Clinical Implications and Insights into Potentially Different Mechanisms of Skeletal Effects between Recombinant Erythropoietin and Darbepoetin-Α Albert Kolomansky1,3, Sahar Hiram-Bab2, Naamit Deshet-Unger1, Nathalie Ben-Califa1, Dafna Gilboa1, Tamar Liron2, Howard S. Oster3, Moshe Mittelman3, Yankel Gabet2, Drorit Neumann1 1Cell and Developmental Biology, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel 2Anatomy and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel 3Internal Medicine A, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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13:00 Erythropoietin Mediated Bone Loss - A Role for B cells? Naamit Deshet-Unger1, Sahar Hiram-Bab2, Nathalie Ben-Califa1, Dafna Gilboa1, Tamar Liron2, Albert Kolomansky1,3, Howard Oster3, Moshe Mittelman3, Yankel Gabet2, Drorit Neumann1 1Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Medicine A, Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:20 TUE19: The Role of Stem Cells in Development Royal Beach hotel - Alon Joint session between the Israel Society for Developmental Biology & the Israel Stem Cell Society

Chair: Benjamin Reubinoff, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center Chair: Tom Schultheiss, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 11:30 Endothelial Cell Differentiation and Formation of Tissue-Specific Vessels Karina Yaniv, Julian Nicenboim, Gideon Hen, Guy Malkinson, Moshe Grunspan Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:50 Use of iPSC for Modeling and Treatment of Cardiac Disease Lior Gepstein Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

12:10 Gene Regulatory Networks Controlling Retinal Pigmented Epithilum Differentiation and their involvement in the Organogenesis of the eye Ruth Ashery-Padan Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:30 Derivation and Characterization of Haploid Human Embryonic Stem Cells Nissim Benvenisty The Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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12:50 Planarian Stem Cells Decode their Position in the Animal to Promote Cell Type Diversity Omri Wurtzel, Isaac Oderberg, Peter Reddien MIT Biology, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA

13:05 Large Scale Analysis of Loss of Imprinting in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Shiran Bar, Maya Schachter, Nissim Benvenisty The Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

11:30-13:15 SOF3: Soft skill. Giving an Effective Presentation Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Michelle Stein Teer, Communication & Media Expert Our "global village" demands highly developed multi-cultural communication skills and sensitivity to verbal and nonverbal considerations. Awareness is a central key to understanding the meanings that derives from this connection that perfects our public speaking abilities. The lecture provides practical tools to analyze your Personal Communication Profile (PCP) and Rhetoric intelligences identify and strengthen positive behavioral patterns and correct those that do not serve your purposes.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE22: Cellular Responses to DNA Damage Herods hotel - Kings hall A Session II of the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Chair: Michal Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Nabieh Ayoub, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 14:30 The Different Layers Regulating Genomic instability in Cancer Batsheva Kerem Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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14:50 Harnessing DNA Repair Enzymes for Risk Assessment, Prevention and Early Detection of Lung Cancer Zvi Livneh1, Tamar Paz-Elizur1, Yael Leitner-Dagan1, Ziv Sevilya1, Laurence Freedman2, Gad Rennert3, Ran Kremer4, Mila Pinchev3, Bruce Ponder5, Robert Rintoul6, Kerstin Meyer5 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Israel 3Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 5Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK 6Department of Thoracic Oncology, Papworth Hospital, UK

15:10 Mapping DNA Damage and DNA Repair at Single Nucleotide Resolution across the Human Genome Sheera Adar Departmetn of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Israel 15:30 Common Fragile Sites and Genomic Instability during Cancer Development Rami Aqeilan Immunology & Cancer Research, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Israel

15:45 c-Abl Tyrosine Kinase Controls Genomic Stability by Regulating Shutdown of the DNA Damage- Induced G2-M Checkpoint Victoria Meltser, Nina Reuven, Yosef Shaul Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

16:00 Transient Centrosome Amplification is A Driver for Tumor Formation Ofer Shoshani1, Yin Wang1, Marcus Maldonado1, Matthew Demarest1, Melissa Mcalonis1, Andrew Holland2, Benjamin Vitre3, Don Cleveland1,4 1San Diego Branch, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, USA 2Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA 3Centre de Recherche en Biochimie Macromoleculaire, University of Montpellier, France 4Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego, USA

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE30: Data Analysis in Biology: from Techniques to Story-telling Herods hotel - Kings hall B Student Organized Session

Chair: Yoav Voichek, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Michal Chapal, Weizmann Institute of Science 14:30 Comparative Genomics of 500 Species Reveal New Insights about Superpowers, Drugs and Human Diseases Yuval Tabach Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Medical School, Israel

14:45 An Asymmetrically Balanced Organization of Kinases versus Phosphatases across Eukaryotes Determines their Distinct Impacts Ilan Smoly1, Netta Shemesh2, Michal Ziv-Ukelson1, Anat Ben-Zvi2, Esti Yeger-Lotem3 1Computer science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Life science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,, Israel 3Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

15:00 Elucidating Mechanisms of Cellular Decisions by Genetic Screens of Dynamic Transcriptional Response Jenia Gutin, Ronen Sadeh, Daphna Joseph-Strauss, Ma’ayan Baral, Adi Martinotti, Nir Friedman School of Computer Science & Engineering and Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

15:20 Induction of CD4 T cell Memory by Local Cellular Collectivity Michal Polonsky1, Nir Friedman1, Benjamin Chain2 1Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, UK

15:20 The Genome Organization in the Nucleus: from Live Cell Imaging to a Biological Model Yuval Garini Physics Department & Institute for nanotechnology, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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15:55 Deciphering the Epitranscriptome: the `Where`, `How`, and `Why` of Pseudouridine Modi Safra, Schraga Schwartz, Ronit Nir Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 BIO3: BioMed – the Journey of a New Drug from Bench to Bedside Session III: Finding a Job in the Industry

Herods hotel - Queens hall Chair: David Sidransky, Israel Biotech Fund Chair: Barry Schindler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP In the BioMed sessions we will discuss the pathway of a drug from bench to bedside, aiming at opening a window to the potential of the Industry to scientists and students, introducing the various aspects of this exciting world from early stage of tech transfer to Industry stories of companies that accomplished their targets. In session III we will examine the drug development process and the related professions required to accomplish it. We will also talk about career development in the Industry and how one crosses the boundary between science and Industry. We’ll wrap up with the position of the global Industry

Lecture: the Human Resource –Professional Horizons; Overview of Product Development and Related Professions Ronit Bendori, Ethos Ventures & Evergreen Venture Partners Lecture: Competencies for Success: Your Value Proposition to the Industry Orit Menkes, independent organization advisor Panel: How Did I Find My First Job in the Industry? Participants in the BioMed sessions will share their personal stories. Panel: the Message of Multi-National Companies Gobal strategic players, active in Israel will discuss their goals, needs and the relevance of Israeli Academy to their activities. Participants: Nurit Tweezer-Zaks, Sanofi Aventis Mark Feiglin, Merck-Serono Guy Rosenthal, Teva.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-17:00 RT2: Round Tables: Israeli PostDocs; The Way Back - Israeli Postdocs to Meet Heads of Search Committees & Deans* Herods hotel - Laurence hall Chair: Eitan Yefenof, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Many Israeli postdoctoral fellows begin planning their future careers a year or two prior to the end of their training abroad and are searching for career opportunities in Israel. in this round table session we will bring together the post-docs and leaders of Israeli Universities and Institutes to learn about opportunities for returning to Israel. (*by invitation only)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE28: Cancer and the Microbiome Dan hotel - Blue hall A Joint session between the Israeli Society for Cancer Research & Israel Society for Microbiology

Chair: Omry Koren, Bar Ilan University Chair: Ofer Mandelboim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center 14:30 Chronic Inflammation-Induced Immunosuppressive Cells and the Gut Microbiota as Intruders Supporting Colorectal Cancer: Clinical Implications Michal Baniyash1, Hadas Ashkenazi1, Atara Uzan2, Moshe Sade-Feldman1, Leonor Daniel1, Julia Kanterman1, Omry Koren2 1The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, Israel-Canada Medical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Microbiome Research, Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

14:50 Microbial Signatures of Pancreatic Cancer Elizabeth Half2, Nirit Keren1, Leah Reshef1, Fred Konikoff3, Uri Gophna1 1School of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotecnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Gastroenterology Institute, Rambam Medical Centre, Israel 3Gatsroenterology, Meir Medical Center, Israel

15:10 Bacterial Homing to Cancer Jawad Abed1, Lishay Pharhi1, Chamutal Gur2, Ofer Mandelbiom2, Gilad Bachrach1 1Institute of Dental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Israel

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2The Lautenberg Center of General and Tumor Immunology, IMRIC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

15:30 Redox Triggered Drug Delivery System Tomer Noyhouzer1, Chloé L'Homme2, Isabelle Beaulieu1, Stephanie Mazurkiewicz1, Sabine Kuss1, Bernhard Kraatz3, Sylvain Canesi2, Janine Mauzeroll1 1Chemistry, McGill University, Canada 2Méthodologie et Synthèse de Produits Naturels, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 3Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

15:45 SPAL1 is an E2F Regulated LncRNA that Promotes Cell Cycle Progression and Proliferation Tali Megnaji, Doron Ginsberg The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE24: From Immune Dysregulation to Disease Dan hotel - Blue hall B Session II of the Israel Immunological Society

Chair: Idit Shachar, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Nathan Karin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 14:30 Efficient Interclonal Competition Requires B cell ICAM Mediated Interactions with T Follicular Helper Cells Ziv Shulman, Ira Zaretsky, Ofir Atrakchi Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

14:50 The Primary Immunodeficiencies: WAS and XLT - from Molecular Mechanism to Potential Novel Therapeutic Approach Noah Joseph, Barak Reicher, Sophia Fried, Omer Levi, Guy Biber, Elad Noy, Mira Barda- Saad The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

15:10 Microenvironment IL-1β Regulates the Balance Between Inflammation and Immunity during Tumor Growth. Ron N. Apte, Irena Kaplanov, Rachel Kornetsky, Yaron Carmi, Elena Voronov The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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15:30 Local Communication Circuits of Colonic Macrophages Biana Bernshtein, Mor Gross, Caterina Curato, Eyal David, Steffen Jung Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

15:45 Irradiation-Induced Alopecia is Driven by Th17 Cells Mediated by a Crucial IL-6/CCR6 Axis and Reversed by Cyclosporine and JAK Inhibition Mor Paldor1, Amnon Peled1, Revital Adar1, Shiri Klein1, David Enk2, Yitzhak Marmary1, Stefan Rose-John3, Eithan Galun1, Jonathan H Axelrod1 1The Goldyne-Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 2Department of Dermatology, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 3Institut für Biochemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

16:00 The Role of Ceramide Synthase 2 in NKT Cell Development Ashish Saroha1, Pyush Sharma2, Karl Lang2, Anthony Futerman1, Yael Pewzner-Jung1 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Institute of Immunology, University of Essen, Germany

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE26: Protein Folding and Misfolding Dan hotel - Tarshish A Joint session between the Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry & the Israel Society for Cell Biology

Chair: Arie Admon, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Chair: Sivan Henis-Korenblit, Bar Ilan University 14:30 Cross-Talk between Redox Regulation and Protein Homeostasis Dana Reichmann, Rosi Gillin, Meytal Radzinski, Oded Rimon, Ohad Suss, Ohad Yogev Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

14:50 A Differentiation Transcription Factor Establishes Muscle-Specific Proteostasis in Caenorhabditis Elegans Yael Bar-Lavan1, Netta Shemesh1, Shiran Dror1, Rivka Ofir2, Esti Yeger-Lotem3, Anat Ben- Zvi1 1Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 49 Last updated 16.02.2017

3Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

15:10 Dynamic Regulation of Chaperone Interaction Networks in Stress and Neurodegeneration Reut Shalgi Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

15:30 Timing of Glycoprotein Targeting to ERAD by Novel Quality Control Vesicles Navit Ogen-Stern, Ron Benyair, Marina Shenkman, Gerardo Lederkremer Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:45 IRE1/XBP1 Pathway Constitutively Suppresses the Expression of NKG2D Activatory Ligand MICA- Implications to Cancer Immunotherapy Akram Obiedat1, Einat Seidel2, Orit Behani2, Boaz Tirosh1, Ofer Mandelboim2, 1Institute for Drug Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

16:00 Proteasome Storage Granules are Transiently Associated with the Insoluble Protein Deposit in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Ofri Karmon, Shir Miodownik, Lee Zeev Peters, Shay Ben Aroya, Shir Miodownik The Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE25: Antioxidants and Redox Signaling Dan hotel - Tarshish B The session for the Israel Society for Oxygen and Free Radicals Research

Chair: Yoav Sharoni, Ben Gurion University Chair: Jacob Vaya, MIGAL Research Institute 14:30 Mechanisms of H2S resistance in the Nematode C. elegans Einav Gross, Leonid Livshits, Arijit Kumar Chatterjee, Natanel Karbian, Rachel Abergel, Zohar Abergel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IMRIC, Ein Kerem., Israel

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14:50 Paraoxonase-1 Reduces Vasodilation in the Microcirculation by Regulating Arachidonic Acid- Derived Lactone Metabolites Reut Levi-Rosenzvig1,2, Dan Gilad1,2, Ziv Mozes-Autmazgin1,2, Shahar Atiya1,2, Rotem Ben- Sushan1, Elana Slutsky-Smith1, Snait Tamir1,2, Andrea Szuchman-Sapir1,2 1Human Health and Nutrition Sciences, MIGAL Research Institute, Israel 2Life Sciences, Tel-Hai academic college, Israel

15:10 New Insights into the Crosstalk between Nitric Oxide and the Thioredoxin and Glutathione Systems Moran Benhar Department of Biochemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

15:30 A Redox-Regulated Kinase? SELENOPROTEIN O-LIKE Function during Abiotic Stress Yosef Fichman1, ZsuzsAnna Koncz-Kálmán2, Noam Reznik1, Csaba Koncz2, Hillel Fromm1, Aviah Zilberstein1 1School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany

15:45 Cycles Of Oxygen Reset Circadian Clocks via HIF1a Yaarit Adamovich1, Benjamin Ladeuix1, Marina Golik1, Maarten Koeners2, Gad Asher1 1Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, University of Bristol, UK

16:00 A Novel Flow Cytometry-Based Method for Evaluation of Pollen Stress Response and Viability Gilad Luria, EItay Lazar, Gad Miller The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:20 TUE23: New Limits in Microscopy Royal Beach hotel - Hadar The session for the Israel Society for Microscopy

Chair: Eyal Shimoni, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Natalie Elia, Ben Gurion University 14:30 Cryo Electron Microscopy - a Bridge between Structure and Function Gabriel A. Frank Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

14:50 Resolving Microtubule End Structure Einat Schnur, Nicholas Cade, Thomas Surrey Synthetic and Systems Biochemistry of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton, the Francis Crick Institute, UK

15:05 Single-molecule Microscopy: Visualizing Epigenetic Patterns On individual DNA Molecules Yuval Ebenstein Department of Physical Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:25 Unraveling the Mechanisms Suppressing the Killer Instinct of Natural Killer Cells Omri Matalon, Aviad Ben-Shmuel, Sophia Fried, Noah Joseph, Danielle Keizer, Mira Barda- Saad The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

15:40 HIV-1 Uncoating is Mechanically Induced by Reverse Transcription Sanela Rankovic1, Ruben Ramalho1, Christopher Aiken2, Itay Rousso1 1Physiology and Cell Biology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA

14:30 New Horizons for Cryo-EM, using Cryo-STEM Michael Elbaum Department of Materials and interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE27: Probing Dynamics of Plant Metabolism Royal Beach hotel - Shita Joint session between the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Israeli Society for Plant Sciences

Chair: Asaph Aharoni, Weizmann Institute of Science 14:30 Glycosyltransferases: Substrate- and Site-Specific Players in the Combinatorial Modifications That Lead to the Vast Diversity of Flavonoids andOther Metabolites in Plants Raya Liberman1,2, Eva Schulze3, Silke Pienkny3, Ahuva Frydman1, Mira Weissberg1, Wolfgang Brandt3, Yoram Eyal1 1Plant Science, the Volcani Center, ARO, Israel 2Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem., Israel 3Computational Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany

14:50 Maize Plants Face a Metabolic Dilemma when Defending Against Caterpillar and Aphid Attacks Vered Tzin1,2, Penelope L. Lindsay1, Shawn A. Christensen3, Lisa N. Meihls1, Levi B. Blue1, Georg Jander1 1., Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, USA 2French Associates Institute for Agriculture & Biotechnology of Drylands, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-ARS Chemistry Unit, USA

15:10 CANCELLED Intimacies of Floral Scent Aexander Vainstein, Jasmin Ravid, Ben Spitzer-Rimon, Alon Cna'ani, Javiera Aravena-Calvo, Oded Scaliter, Gony Dvir The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

15:30 Exploring Novel Photosynthetic Functions during the Acclimation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii To Nitrogen Deprivation Shai Saroussi1, Tyler Wittkopp2, Arthur Grossman1 1Plant Science, Carnegie institution For Science, USA 2Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA

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15:45 How Does Dunaliella Tertiolecta Produce Triglycerides? Uri Pick1, Omri Avidan2 1Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Metabolic Networks, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Israel

16:00 Glycine to Proline Substitutions in Wild Barley and its Implications to Biochemical and Physiological Robustness under Abiotic Stress Dhruv Aditya Srivastava1,2, Keren Bendalak3, Tamar Ziv3, Arie Admon3, Wojciech Wietrzynski4, Katia Wostrikoff4, Francis-Andre Wollman4, Eyal Fridman2 1Plant Science, Hebrew University, Israel 2Plant Sciences Institute, Volcani Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel 3Smoler Proteomics Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Plant Biology, IBPC Pierre et Marie Curie, France

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE21: Stem Cells - Biology and Therapeutics Royal Beach hotel - Ella Session I for the Israeli Society of Gene & Cell Therapy

Chair: Eran Meshorer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Lior Gepstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 14:30 Stem Cells for Engineering Vascularized Tissue Grafts and Flaps Shulamit Levenberg Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

14:50 Long-Term Expansion of Human Nephron Stem/Progenitor Cells for Kidney Repair Benjamin Dekel The Pediatric Stem Cell Research Institute & Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Edmond & Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:10 Geometric Control of Early Human Germ Layer Segregation Yoel Goldstein1,2, Matan Hofree4, Ronit Malka2,3, Elishai Ezra1,2, Daniel Kitsberg1,2, Merav Cohen1,2, Aviv Regev4, Amnon Buxboim1,2, Yaakov Nahmias1,2,4 1Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 54 Last updated 16.02.2017

2Grass Center for Bioengineering, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA 4Klarman Cell Observatory, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA

15:30 Large Genetic Screen for Tumorigenesis-Related Genes in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Uri Weissbein, Omer Plotnik, Nissim Benvenisty Genetics Department , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Israel

15:45 Cap-Independent Protein Translation Controls Cell Fate Decisions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Yael Yoffe1, Maya David1, Rinat Kalaora1, Lital Povodovski1, Gilgi Friedlander2, Ester Feldmesser3, Elena Ainbinder4, ann Saada5,6, Shani Bialik1, Adi Kimchi1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Nancy and Stephan Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Bioinformatics unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Stem Cell Core Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 5Monique and Jacues Roboh Department of Gentics Research, Hadassah-Hebrew University medical Center, Israel 6Department of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Hadassah-Hebrew University medical Center, Israel

16:00 Mesenchymal Stem Cells Exert Therapeutic Effects in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Peter Berenstein1, Ariel Bier1, Noam Kronfeld1, Simona Cazacu2, Rachela Popovtzer3, Amir Dori4, Chaya Brodie1,2 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, USA 3Faculty of Engineering & Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University, Israel 4Department of Neurology, the Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 TUE29: Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins Royal Beach hotel - Alon Joint session between the Israeli Society for Neuroscience & the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Chair: Baruch Minke, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Edi Barkai, University of Haifa 14:30 Tightly Regulated TRPV1 Activation by Gq/GPCR Avi Priel The Institute for Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

14:50 A Role of the Mitochondrial Na +/Ca2+ Exchanger NCLX in Neurodegeneration and Pain Sensation. Israel Sekler1, Iulia I. Nita1, Marko Kostic1, Yaki Caspi2, Alexander Binshtok2 1The Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2The Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

15:10 Molecular Insights into KCNH1 Channels Current inhibition Yoni Haitin, Yoni Haitin, Yoni Haitin, Roi Strulovich, Roi Strulovich, Milit Marom David, Milit Marom David, Monika Witzenberger, Monika Witzenberger, Shahar Nisemblat, Shahar Nisemblat The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:30 α-Synuclein Overexpression Reduces Oxidative Stress in Vagal Motoneurons at Risk in Parkinson`s Disease via Transcriptional Down-Regulation of Voltage Activated Calcium Channels Efrat Lasser-Katz1, Wei-Hua Chiu1, Alon Simchovitz2, Hermona Soreq2, Jochen Roeper3, Joshua Goldberg1 1Medical Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Institute of Neurophysiology, Goethe University, Germany

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15:45 Emulating Proton Induced Conformational Changes in Vesicular Monoamine Transporter VMAT2 by Mutagenesis Dana Yaffe1, Ariela Vergara-Jaque2, Lucy Forrest2, Shimon Schuldiner1 1Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University, Israel 2Computational Structural Biology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health,, USA

16:00 Deciphering Ligand Induced Conformational Changes in Two Families of Sodium Dependent Sugar Transporters Aviv Paz1, Derek Claxton2, Paola Bisignano3, Shruti Sharma2, Amit Sharma4, Kelli Kazmier2, Michael Järvå4, Jay Prakash Kumar5, Shannon Nolte1, Terrin Liwag1, Richard Neutze4, Terrin Liwag, Richard Neutze, Michael Grabe3, Hassane Mchaourab2, Michael Grabe, Hassane Mchaourab, Jeff Abramson1,5 1Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA 2Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA 3Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, USA 4Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 5Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, India

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

14:30-16:15 SOF4: Soft skill. How to Write a Great Academic CV Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Neta Erez, Tel Aviv University The academic CV is often the only chance to make a good impression when applying for a position, or a competitive prize, fellowship etc. In this session we will learn how to create an appealing and clear academic CV, and how to avoid common mistakes.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 1 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Multiple Conformational States of a Unique Arabinanase Suggest a "Harpoon" Mechanism of Action Shifra Lansky1, Rachel Salama2, Omer Shwartshtien1, Dina Schneidman1, Yuval Shoham2, Gil Shoham1 1The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

17:30 Novel Covalent Inhibitors of the MKK7 Kinase Amit Shraga, Evgenia Olshvang, Nir London Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Detection of Breast Cell Death Using Methylation Patterns of Circulating DNA Ofri Abraham1, Joshua Moss1,2, Miriam Maoz3, Aharon Razin1, Itai Ben-Porath1, Benjamin Glaser4, Tamar Sella5, Beatrice Uziely3, Aviad Zick3, Ruth Shemer1, Yuval Dor1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem–Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Dept. of Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 4Dept. of Endocrinology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 5Breast Cancer Center, Dept. of Medical Imaging, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

18:30 Striking the Balance between Selectivity and Efficiency in Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Barak Raveh1, Benjamin Timney2, Samuel Sparks3, Jerome Karp3, David Cowburn3, Michael Rout2, andrej Sali1 1Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA 2Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, Rockefeller University, USA 3Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

19:00 Selection against Dysfunctional Protein Interactions Shapes Protein Sequences from Yeast to Human Benjamin Dubreuil, Or Matalon, Emmanuel Levy Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 58 Last updated 16.02.2017

19:30 The Landscape of the 20S Proteasome Substrates Nadav Myers, Tsviya Olender, Yosef Shaul Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:00 A Structural Based Approach to Identify Similarities between DNA and RNA Binding interfaces on Proteins Liad Cohen, Inbal Budowski-Tal, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

20:30 Coordinated transcription and translation response to energy stress via alternative promoter and TSS usage Ana Tamarkin-Ben-Harush1, Igor Ulitsky2, Rivka Dikstein1 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 2 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Genetic Dissection of Drought Function of QTLs in Durum × Wild Emmer Wheat RIL Population through Relationship to Phenology Andrii Fatiukha1, Mathieu Deblieck2, Lianne Merchuk3, Tzion Fahima1, Abraham Korol1, Frank Ordon2, Yehoshua Saranga3, Tamar Krugman1 1Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Institute of Evolution, Israel 2Institute for Resistance Research and Stress Tolerance, Julius Kühn-Institut Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Germany 3The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, R. H. Smith Institute of Plant Science & Genetics in Agriculture, Israel

17:30 High Complexity DNA Barcode Design Methodology and Tools Leon Anavy1, Roy Navon2, Zohar Yakhini1,3 1Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2MeMed Diagnostics, MeMed Diagnostics, Israel 3Computer Science, Herzeliya interdisciplinary Center, Israel

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Rotem Haviv, Eden Oz, Hermona Soreq Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:30 Next Generation Protein Sequencing (NGPS) Enables Full-length de-novo Protein and antibody Sequence Determination Alon Savidor1, Rotem Barzilay1, Dalia Elinger1, Yosef Yarden2, Moshit Lindzen2, Alexandra Gabashvili1, Ophir Adiv Tal1, Yishai Levin1 1The Nancy & Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2The Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:00 Mapping the NQO1/DJ-1 and 20S Proteasome interaction Sites Fanindra Kumar Deshmukh, Michal Sharon Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:30 An Arginine Deprivation Response Pathway is Induced in Leishmania during Macrophage invasion Keren Bendalak1,8, Adele Goldman-Pinkovich1, Caitlin Balno1, Rona Strasser2, Michal Zeituni-Molad3, Doris Rentsch4, Moshe Ephros3, Martin Wiese5, Armando Jardim2, Peter J. Myler6,7, Dan Zilberstein1 1Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Canada 3Medicine, Carmel Medical Center and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Germany 5Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK 6formerly Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Center for infectious Disease Research, USA 7Departments of Global Health and Biomedical informatics & Medical Education, University of Washington, Israel 8Biology, the Smoler Proteomics Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

20:00 Under-Represented Amino Acid Sequences in the Bacterial Proteome inhibit Translation Noam Adir1, Sharon Penias-Navon1, Guy Kornberg2, Jin Chen2, Tali Schwartzman1, Albert Tsai2, Elisabetta V. Puglisi2, Joseph D. Puglisi2 1Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

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Trypanosoma Brucei Single Hairpin H/ACA Snornas Guide a Rich and Unique Repertoire of Pseudouridines on Spliceosomal Small Nuclear Rnas Shanmugha Rajan K1, Tirza Doniger1, Vaibhav Chikne1, Viplov Kumar Biswas1, Oz Semo1, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish1, Osnat Bartok2, Sebastian Kadener2, Christian Tschudi3, Ron Unger1, Shulamit Michaeli1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Biological Chemistry, the Alexander Silberman inst. of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Department of Epidemiology and Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, USA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 3 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Dissecting the DNA and RNA Bound Proteome of Human Embryonic Stem Cells Shlomi Dvir, Chen Lesnik, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

17:30 A Highly Efficient integrative Method for Computational Modeling of Very Large Multimolecular Complexes Haim Wolfson, Dan Cohen Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel

18:00 Biases in the SMART-DNA Library Preparation Method Associated with Genomic Poly dA/dT Sequences Oriya Vardi1, Inbal Shamir1, Elisheva Javasky1, Alon Goren2, Itamar Simon1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Broad Technology Labs, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

18:30 The Structural Basis of Inhibition of the Intrinsic Coagulation Pathway with a High Affinity Bicyclic Peptide Orly Marcu, Ora Schueler-Furman Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew Univeristy, Hadassah Medical School, Israel

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Deconvolution of the Plasma Methylome to Assess Patterns of Cell Death in the Human Body Joshua Moss1,2, Benjamin Glaser3, Ruth Shemer1, Tommy Kaplan2, Yuval Dor1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Department of Endocrinology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

19:30 Multi-Pathway Simulation Tool for Biological Networks Adva Yeheskel1, Amir Rubinstein2, Metsada Pasmanik-Chor1 1Bioinformatics Unit, George S. WIse Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2School of Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:00 Platelet Activating Receptor CLEC-2 Atomic Level Characterization and Modulation of Protein- Ligand interaction May Almog, Einav Tayeb-Fligelman, Meytal Landau, Fabian Glaser, Hay Dvir, Orly Tabachnikov, Dikla Hiya, Orita Goldshmidt-Tran, Yulia Matiuhin Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

20:30 Structure-Based Design of BceF Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors from Burkholderia cepacia to halt Biofilm Formation Michal Mayer1, Mickal Abd Alhadi1, Yulia Matiuhin1, Orly Tabachnikov1, Hay Dvir1, Inbar Fish2, Nili Schutz2, Nir Ben-Tal2, Meytal Landau1 1Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 4 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 62 Last updated 16.02.2017

Linking Enhancer Activity to Gene Regulation Using Large-Scale GRO-Seq Data Tom Aharon Hait1, David Amar1, Rani Elkon2, Ron Shamir1 1The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

17:30 Extracting Immune Status of Tumor Biopsy in the Absence of Somatic Mutations Minesh Jethva1, Omri Teltsh1, Angel Porgador1,2, Eitan Rubin1 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

18:00 Proteomic Analysis of Breast Cancer Subtypes Gali Arad1, Hadar Agmon1, Diana Nemichenitzer1, Michal Harel1, Amir Sonnenblick2, Tamar Geiger1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Oncology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

18:30 Elevated RNA Editing Activity is a Major Contributor to Transcriptomic Diversity in Tumors Nurit Paz-Yaacov, Nurit Paz-Yaacov1, Lily Bazak1, Hagit Porath1, Ilana Buchumenski1, Miri Danan-Gotthold1, Binyamin A. Knisbacher1, Eli Eisenberg2, Erez Y. Levanon1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:00 Circulating Cell-free DNA Analysis for Tailored Therapy of Glioma Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Vikrant Palande, Somnath Tagore Faculty of Medicine in Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

19:30 Chimeric Protein-Protein Interactions Uncover Missing Tumor Suppressors andGained Onco- Proteins in Cancer Vikrant Palande1, Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern1, Somnath Tagore1, Alessandro Gorohovski2, Vaishnovi Sekar3, Miguel Vazquez3, Alfonso Valencia3 1Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Ecology, National Technical University of Ukraine, Ukraine 63 Last updated 16.02.2017

3Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain

20:00 Understanding Transcription Regulation during Barcinogenesis by Integrating Genomic information in 3D Avital Sarusi Purtuguez1, Michal Schwartz1, Zaidoun Salah2, Stefan Wiemann3, Tommy Kaplan4, Ofir Hakim1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Al-Quds-Bard College for Arts and Sciences, Al-Quds University, Palestine 3Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 4School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:30 PROMO: A New Tool for Analyzing Large High-Throughput Genomic Datasets Dvir Netanely, Itay Laufer, Ron Shamir Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 5 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Non-Optimal Codon Usage Creates Cell-Cycle Dependent Dynamics of Proteins Aviad Sivan, Millana Morgenshtern Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

17:30 Systematic Analysis of Groe and Its Clients in Mollicutes Orit Adato2, Dominik Schwarz1, Amnon Horovitz3, Ron Unger2 1Faculty of Biosciences, University of Heidelberg, Germany 2The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 3Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Revisiting Morphokinetic Analysis: Can Embryo Developmental Potential Be Predicted by Discrete Temporal Events? Yoav Kan tor1, Ity Erlich1, Einat Eisenman4, Matan Gavish1, Assaf Ben-Meir4, Amnon Buxboim1,2,3 1The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 64 Last updated 16.02.2017

2The Alexender Grass Center for Bioengineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3The Institute of life sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4IVF Unit Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

18:30 Pathogen Adaptation within the Human Host Olga Snitser1, Idan Yelin1, Assaf Rokney2, Einav anuka2, Lea Valinsky2, Vered Agmon2, Roy Kishony1 1Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Central Laboratories, Israeli Ministry of Health, Israel

19:00 Robust Design of Biological Timers Shapes Neuroblast Lineage Formation in the Drosophila Embryo Inna Averbukh1, Sen-Lin Lai2,3, Benny Shilo1, Chris Doe2,3, Naama Barkai1 1Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, USA 3Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon, USA

19:30 The Roles of Long Noncoding RNAs in Early Embryonic Development andEndodermal Differentiation Neta Degani, Igor Ulitsky Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:00 Mesendoderm Induction and Progression during Early Differentiation Naor Sagy1, Naor Sagy1, Iftach Nachman1, Jonathan Boxman1, Sirisha Achinta2, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli2 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas, Jefferson University, Israel

20:30 Extensive RNA Editing And Splicing Increase Immune Self-Representation Diversity in the Thymus Miri Danan-Gotthold1, Clotilde Guyon2, Matthieu Giraud2, Erez Y. Levanon1, Jakub Abramson3 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Infection Immunity and Inflammation, Cochin Institute, France 3Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

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17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 6 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 The Dynamics of Gene Loss in Clonal and Non-Clonal Bacterial Species Evgeni Bolotin, Ruth Hershberg Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Genetics Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Israeli Institute of Technology, Israel

17:30 Non-coding RNA-mediated Regulation in the Oral Microbiome Maya Shamir, Daniel Dar, Rotem Sorek Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 PASIFIC - Computational Prediction of Cis-Acting Riboregulators in Bacteria Adi Millman, Daniel Dar, Maya Shamir, Rotem Sorek Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 The Recruitment of Neuropeptides into the Venom of Buthacus Leptochelys Galit Blecher, Noam Zilbebrerg Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

19:00 Initiation of mtDNA Transcription is followed by Pausing and Diverge Across Human Cell Types and during Evolution Amit Blumberg1, Edward J. Rice2, anshul Kundaje3, Charles G. Danko2, Dan Mishmar1 1Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, USA 3Department of Genetics, Stanford University, USA

19:30 Whole-Genome Sequencing of Yeast with a Defect in the Processing of Okazaki Fragments Indicates Events of Template Switching Einat Hazkani-Covo Department of Natural and Life Sciences, Open University of Israel, Israel

20:00 Clustered Mutations in Hominid Genome Evolution are Consistent with APOBEC3G Enzymatic Activity Yishay Pinto1, Orshay Gabay1, Leonardo Arbiza2, Aaron J. Sams2, Alon Keinan2, Erez Y. Levanon1

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1Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, USA

20:30 Shifts in Open Reading Frames in Human Genes: Sequence Conservation Patterns Identify Deviations from Canonical Protein Translation Amit Alon1,2, Yitzhak Pilpel2, Oded Rechavi1 1Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Molecular Genetics, WIS, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Cell Biology. Stand number: 8 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Discovery of New Bacterial anti-Phage Defense Systems – BREX and DISARM Gal Ofir, Sarah Melamed, Shany Doron, Tamara Goldfarb, Hila Sberro, Shahar Silverman, Azita Leavitt, Rotem Sorek Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

17:30 What does it Mean to U? The Effect of Grna-Editing On Mitochondrial Genes in Trypanosomes Tirza Doniger1, Sharon Grubner1,2, Shulamit Michaeli1, Ron Unger1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA

18:00 High-Resolution Mapping of Splicing in Hematopoietic Stem Cells Oron Goldstein, Roi Gazit Shraga Segal department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben Gurion University, Israel

18:30 PDB-wide Annotation of Biological Assemblies from Full Quaternary Structure Superposition Sucharita Dey, Emmanuel Levy Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:00 Dynamical Variablility and Allostery Dror Tobi Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Ariel University, Israel

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SeqFlow: A Lightweight Software For Efficient Execution of High Throughput Sequencing Workflows Menachem Sklarz, Michal Gordon, Vered Chalifa-Caspi National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

20:00 BindUP: A Web Server for Non-Homology-Based Prediction of DNA and RNA Binding Proteins Inbal Paz, Efrat Kligun, Barak Bengad, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

20:30 Tools Offering Protein-Protein Interaction Views into Tissue Expression Datasets Omer Basha1, Ruth Barshir1, Moran Sharon1, Eugene Lerman1, Binyamin F. Kirson1, Idan Hekselman1, Esti Yeger-Lotem1,2 1Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 7 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Obtaining a Tissue-Specific Perspective into Genes and Biological Processes Moran Sharon1, Omer Basha1, Barshir Ruth1, Esti Yeger-Lotem1,2 1Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 Analysis Of In Vivo Infection Using Simultaneous Host and Pathogen Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data David Bomze, Oz Solomon, Roi Avraham Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Aging Affects B-Cell antigen Receptor Repertoire Diversity in Primary and Secondary Lymphoid Tissues Ramit Mehr1, Hilla Tabibian-Keissar2, Lena Hazanov1, Ginette Schiby2,3, Noemie Rosenthal1, Aviya Rakovsky1, Miri Michaeli1, Gitit Lavy Shahaf1, Yishai Pickman1, Kinneret Rosenblatt2,

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Doron Melamed4, Deborah Dunn-Walters5, Iris Barshack2,3 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 4Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 5Division of Immunology, Infection, and inflammatory Diseases, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, UK

18:30 A Computational Screen for RNA Editing Alterations in Autoimmune Diseases Hillel Roth, Miri Danan-Gotthold, Erez Y. Levanon The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

19:00 Annotated and Public TCRs in 587 Human Repertoires: a Big Data Study in Immunology Erez Greenstein Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:30 Mapping CD4+ T Cell Differentiation Decision Space: A Diverse Continuum of States isDetermined by Hierarchical-Additive integration of Cytokine Signals Inbal Eizenberg, Jacob Rimer, Irina Zaretsky, David Lara-Astiaso, Shlomit Reich-Zeliger, Nir Friedman Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:00 Sexual Dimorphism in the Immune System Transcriptome Shani Gal-Oz1, Hadas Ner-Gaon1, Christophe Benoist2, Tal Shay1 1Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, USA

20:30 Quantifying the Role of Compensation by Homologs in Tissue-Selective Hereditary Diseases Ruth Barshir1, Esti Yeger-Lotem1,2 1Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: BioMed. Stand number: 9 Herods hotel - Pavilion 69 Last updated 16.02.2017

17:00 Oligomerization of Fn14-TRAIL by Endogenous TWEAK Leads to Robust, TRAIL Mediated, Apoptotic Effect on Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Alexandra Aronin2, Ortal Avraham1, Shira Amsili2, Shlomi Ben-David1, Liat Tamir2, Kobi Tzdaka1, Tatyana B. Prigozhina1, Fanny Shkedy2, Efi Makdasi2, Yosi Gozlan2, Noam Shani2, Michal Dranitzki Elhalel1 1Nephrology and Hypertension Services, Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2R&D, KAHR Medical LTD, Israel

17:30 Quantitative Analyses of Gene Expression Driven by Engineered Potent Promoters Highlight the Importance of Core Promoter Composition to the Levels of Gene Expression Dan Y. Even, Adi Kedmi, Shani Basch-Barzilay, Diana Ideses, Yaron Shav-Tal, Tamar Juven- Gershon The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

18:00 Increasing Telomerase by AGS Compounds Protects Mouse Testis from Damages Induced by X- ray Radiation Hananel Elul, Esther Priel The Shraga Segal department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

18:30 Gene Expression in the Cellulolytic Bacterium Clostridium Thermocellum under Carbon or Nitrogen Limitation Reveals Growth-Rate Dependent Regulation on the Expression of RNA Polymerase Alternative Sigma-Factors Tal Zeltzer, Yuval Shoham Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Israel Institute for Technology, Israel

19:00 Afifavidin – A Novel Bacterial High Affinity Biotin Binder with a Unique Oligomeric State Orly Avraham, Oded Livnah The Department of Biological Chemistry, the Alexander Silverman Institute of Life Sciences, the Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural Biology; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Edmond J. Safra Campus, Israel

19:30 In-vitro Suppression of Two Different Stop Codons Eden Ozer1, Yonatan Chemla1, Orr Schlesinger1, Haim Yuval Aviram2, Inbal Riven2, Gilad Haran2, Lital Alfonta1 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 70 Last updated 16.02.2017

20:00 Protein Engineering of 2-Hydroxybiphenyl-3-Monooxygenase for Structure-Function Studies Almog Bregman Cohen, Ayelet Fishman Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

20:30 Novel Characterization of Microbial Transglutaminase Zohar Ben-Barak Zelas1, Gabe Javitt1, Moran Jerabek-Willemsen2, Ayelet Fishman1 1Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Nano DSF Technology, NanoTemper Technologies GmbH, Germany

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:0 E-poster session I: BioMed and Stem Cells. Stand number: 10 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 The Dual Role of PEDF in the Pathogenesis of OHSS: Negating both Angiogenic and Inflammatory Pathways Irit Miller1, Dana Chuderland1, Raphael Ron-El2, Ido Ben-Ami2, Ruth Shalgi1 1Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF and infertility Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Israel

17:30 How to Convince Your Microorganism to Turn into a Bioactive Small Molecule Factory Aviran Amir, Michal Levin-Khalifa, Marcia Ben-Shoshan, Cheli Khalif, Alon Sayer, Tami Dvash Natural Bioactives R&D, Sigma-Aldrich Israel a subsidiary of Merck, Israel

18:00 Extrusion of Self-bending Alginate Microfibers andManual 3D Printing of Multi-material Structures with a Hydrogel Coding Device Aaron Cohen1,3, Iram Mahmood1, Aparajit Sahai1,2, Yu Shrike Zhang1, Ali Khademhosseini1 1Harvard-MIT Division for Health Science and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA

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2Department of Biomedical Engineering, SRM University, India 3Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:30 From Native to Recombinant –Better Enzyme Production Processes for increased Quality and Environment Conservation Ena Orzech, Sophie Raizman, Daniel Taglicht Protein Expression & Purification, Sigma Aldrich Ltd / Merck, Israel

19:00 Characterization of Oil-in-Water Emulsions Stabilized by Tyrosinase-Crosslinked Potato Protein– Zein Complexes Jovana Glusac1,2, Ilil Davidesko1, Sivan Isaschar-Ovdat1, Biljana Kukavica2, Ayelet Fishman1 1Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of BAnja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

19:30 Isolation of Highly Potent Expanded Human Placental Stromal Cells (Hpsc) and their Application for Regenerative Medicine and Treatment of Acute Lethal Radiation Syndrome Boaz Adani*1, Astar Lazmi-Hailu*1, Evgenia Volinsky*1, , Myriam Grunewald2, Eli Keshet2, Eran Israeli1, Raphael Gorodetsky1 1Lab. of Radiobiology & Biotechnology, Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah -Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Developmental Biology and cancer Research, Hebrew University Jerusalem Medical School, Israel *Equal contribution

20:00 Potential Roles of Long Non-Coding RNA linc-Chd2 Aviv Rom, Aviv Rom, Aviv Rom, Hadas Hezroni, Igor Ulitsky Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:30 Towards Culturing Functional Germ Cells Shulamit Baror-Sebban, Yosef Buganim Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 11 Herods hotel - Pavilion

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17:00 Stromal Stress Responses Reshaping Transcription in the Tumor Microenvironment Natalie Vinnikov, Yehuda Salzberg, Gil Friedman, Patricia Do-Dinh, David Dierks, Nil Grunberg, Ruth Scherz-Shouval Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

17:30 Combining Targeted and Phenotypic Approaches in the Discovery of New Small-molecule inhibitors of Nicotinamide-N-methyltransferase as Potential New Therapy of Aggressive Breast Cancer Alexander Plotnikov, Gabi Amitai, Noga Kozer, Galit Cohen, Haim Barr G-INPCM, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Limited Proteolysis of Cyclooxygenase-2 by the SKI-1 Protease Enhances Cell proliferation Liza Barki-Harrington Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel

18:30 A Novel LncRNA, GASL1, Inhibits Cell Proliferation and Restricts E2F1 Activity Lital Gasri-Plotnitsky, Aviv Ovadia, Tali Nizri-Megnaji, Katerina Shamalov, Irit Zurer, Cyrille Cohen, Doron Ginsberg The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel

19:00 Targeting the Centriolar Replication Factor STIL Synergizes with DNA Damaging Agents for Treatment of Ovarian Cancer Noa Rabinowicz1,2, Lingegowdas Mangala3,4, Kevin R. Brown5, Cintia Checa-Rodriguez6, Asher Castiel1,2, Oren Moskovich1,2, Giulia Zarfati1, Luba Trakhtenbrot1, Adva Levy-Barda1, Dahai Jiang3,4, Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo4,7, Sunila Pradeep3, Yael Van Praag1, Gabriel Lopez- Berestein4,7, Ahuvit David1, Ilya Novikov9, Pablo Huertas6, Robert Rottapel10, anil K. Sood3,4,8, Shai Izraeli1,2,11 1Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Gynecologic Oncology, MD anderson Cancer Center, USA 4Center for RNA interference and Non-Coding RNA, MD anderson Cancer Center, USA 5Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Canada 6Department of Genetics, University of Sevilla, Spain 7Department of Experimental Therapeutics, MD anderson Cancer Center, USA 8Department of Cancer Biology, MD anderson Cancer Center, USA 9Biostatistical Unit, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Israel 10Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network, Canada 11Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

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19:30 Fer Sustains the Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation in Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Linoy Mehazri, Uri Nir The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

20:00 Deciphering the Roles of the Fer andFerT Kinases in the Reprogrammed Mitochondria of Colon Carcinoma Cells Odeya Marciano, Sally Shpungin , Uri Nir The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:30 The Role of AXL in Resistance to PI3Ka in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Limor Cohen2, EvAngelos Pazarentzos3, Dejan Juric4, Qing Sheng5, Raphael A. Pelossof6, Samuel Brook1, ana Oaknin Benzaken7, Jordi Rodon7, Natasha Morse1, Jenny Jiacheng Yan3, Manway Liu5, Rita Das5, Yan Chen5, Angela Tam5, Huiqin Wang5, Jinsheng Liang5, Joseph M. Gurski4, Darcy A. Kerr4, Rafael Rosell8,9, Cristina Teixido9, Alan Huang5, Ronald A. Ghossein10, Neal Rosen1,11, Trever G. Bivona3, Maurizio Scaltriti1, Jose´ Baselga1,12, Moshe Elkabets2 1Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program (HOPP), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA 2Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben Gurion University, Israel 3Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, USA 4Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA 5Oncology Translational Medicine, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, USA 6Computation Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA 7Medical Oncology, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Spain 8Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain 9Pangaea Biotech SL, Laboratorio de Oncologı´a, Hospital Universitario Quiro´ n Dexeus, Spain 10Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA 11Molecular Pharmacology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA 12Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

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Microvesicles Derived from Normal and Multiple Myeloma Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Differentially Modulate Myeloma Cells` Phenotype and Translation initiation Mahmoud Dabbah1,3, Oshrat Attar-Schneider1,3, Shelly Tartakover Matalon1,3, Michael Lishner1,2,3, Liat Drucker1,3 1Oncogenetic Laboratory, Meir Medical Center, Israel 2Internal Medicine Department, Meir Medical Center, Israel 3Sackler faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

17:30 Dissecting MicroRNA Strand Specificity: the Autonomous Role of the Liver Specific MicroRNA- 122*, the Complementary Strand of MicroRNA-122, in Suppression of Liver Cancer Development Maytal Gefen1, Alina Simerzin1, Daniel Dauch2, Lars Zender2,3, Ulrike Mock4, Boris Fehse4, Aviad Siani1, David Loshe1, Eithan Galun1, Hilla Giladi1 1The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene and Cell Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 2Division of Translational Gastrointestinal Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Germany 3Translational Gastrointestinal Oncology Group, German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany 4Research Department Cell and Gene Therapy, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Centre, Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany

18:00 9E8 anti-Heparanase Antibody Neutralizes Heparanase Activity and Inhibits Invasion of Cancer Cells after Class Switching from IgM to IgG Marina Weissmann1, Steve R Roffler2, Talal S Al-Qaisi2, Neta Ilan1, Israel Vlodavsky1 1Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

18:30 A Mec1ATR-Dun1 Mediated Upregulation of Rnr1 Activity isEssential For the Sustained Elongation of Short Telomeres by Telomerase Andre Maicher1, Inbal Gazy1, Sushma Sharma2, Lisette Marjavaara2, Gilad Grinberg1, Keren Shemesh1, andrei Chabes2, Martin Kupiec1 1Dept. of Molecular Microbiology & Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Sweden

19:00 Mutations in DNA Polymerase δ and ε and the Mechanism by which they cause Tumorigenesis and Genomic instability Tamar Evron1, Michal Caspi1, Revital Kariv2, Guy Rosner2, Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld1 1Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 75 Last updated 16.02.2017

19:30 Prognostic Relevance of TP53INP1 in Pediatric Ependymoma Yulia Margolin Miller1,2, Natalia Yanichkin2,3, Keren Shichrur4, Helen Toledano2,4, Shalom Michoviz5, Meora Feinmesser2,3, Suzana Fichman-Horn2,3, Isaac Yaniv1,2,4, Smadar Avigad1,2,4 1Rabin Medical Center, Molecular Oncology, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Israel 2Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel 3Rabin Medical Center, Pathology Department, Israel 4Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Israel 5Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Department of Neurosurgery, Israel

20:00 Inherited Mutations in the DNA Helicase RTEL1 Compromise Telomere Elongation by Telomerase in Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson Syndrome Paul Zaleski, Aya Awad, Reem Sbieh, Shadi Tawil, Galina Glousker, Yehuda Tzfati Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:30 Immunophilins Control T Lymphocyte Adhesion andMigration by Regulating CrkII Binding To C3G Nikhil anto Ponnoor, Pulak RAnjan Nath, Guangyu Dong, Noah Isakov Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 13 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Studies on the Potential Role of PICOT in Cell Resistance to Stress Responses Pinakin Pandya, Ariel Ohayon, Noah Isakov The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 Casein Kinase 1α (CKIα) as a Target for Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Avner Fink, Waleed Minzel, Avanthika Venkatachalam, Amitai Rivlin, Irit Alkalay, Yinon Ben-Neriah The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Hadassah Medical School, Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Israel

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Novel anti MMP-7 Monoclonal Antibody Shows Therapeutic Potential against Pancreatic Cancer Vishnu Mohan1, Jean Gaffney1, Mordehay Klepfish1, Sophia Akbareian2, Barbara Grünwald3, inna Solomonov1, Orly Dym4, Miriam Eisenstein5, Achim Krüger3, Dylan Edwards2, Irit Sagi1 1Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2School of Biological Sciences, University of East anglia, UK 3Institut für Molekulare Immunologie und Experimentelle Onkologie, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Germany 4Structural Proteomics Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 5Department of Chemical Research Support, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 Dihydropyrimidine Accumulation is Required for the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Yoav Shaul Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hebrew University Medical School, Israel

19:00 ADAR1-Mediated Regulaton of Melanoma Invasion Yael Nemlich1, Michal Besser1,2, Jacob Schachter1, Gal Markel1,2 1Ella Lemelbaum Institute of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:30 Lysine Methylation Signaling in Cancer Elina Abayev, Dan Levy The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

20:00 HTRA1 - A Novel Suppressor of the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway Oriane Elisha, Ronen Siman-Tov, Tamar Evron, Michal Caspi, Nir Skalka, Rina Rosin- Arbesfeld Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 The Effects of Telomerase Activating Compounds on Breast Cancer Stem Cells Tatyana Glukhovski, Esther Priel The Shraga Segal Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology & Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 14 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 PPM1A is Critical for Controlled inflammatory Response in Pathology Hamutal Ben-Dov1, Libat Backal Ben-Hamou1, Rona Ben Dov1, Ilana Sogolovsky-Bard1, Galina Weingarten2, Efrat Wertheimer2, Aviv Barzilai3, Sara Lavi1 1Department of Cell Research and Immunology, the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Pathology, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3The Institute of Pathology, Sheba Academic Medical Center Hospital, Israel

17:30 CyTOF – Harnessing Mass Spectrometry for Multiparametric Flow Cytometry Tomer Meir Salame1, Ziv Porat1, Efrat Hagai1, Mor Gross2, Steffen Jung2, Shlomit Reich- Zeliger2, Nir Friedman2, Eitan Ariel1, Ayala Sharp1, Dana Pe’er3 1Flow Cytometry Unit - Life Sciences Core Facilities, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, USA

18:00 The Effect of IGFBP2 on the Proliferation and T-cell Killing Activity of Melanoma Cells Rutie Polisar1,2, Rona Ortenberg1, Eyal Greenberg1, Leore Geller4, Michal Besser1,2, Jacob Schachter, Jacob Schachter1, Ravid Straussman4, Gal Markel1,2,3, Ravid Straussman, Gal Markel 1Ella Institute of Melanoma Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Molecular Cell Biology Faculty of Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel

18:30 Deconstructing the Intracellular Events Leading To Enhanced Melanoma Cell Proliferation by the CEACAM1 Protein Bella Vizel1,2, Rona Ortenberg2, Jacob Schachter2, Gal Markel1,2,3 1Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Ella Lemelbaum Institute of Melanoma Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

19:00 The Effect of Interferons on the HLA Peptidome of Human Cancer Cells

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Liran Komov, Eilon Barnea, Ilana Navon, Arie Admon Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:30 Dual Effect of P16INK4a-Induced Senescence on Epidermal Structure and Proliferation Narmen Azazmeh, Aharon Helman, Ronit Tokarsky-Amiel, ittai Ben-Porath Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research – Israel Canada, Hadassah School of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:00 SLP76 integrates into the B-Cell Receptor Signaling Cascade in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Cells and is Associated with Aggressive Disease Course Nili Dezorella1,2, Ben-Zion Katz1,2, Mika Shapiro1, Aaron Polliack3,4, Chava Perry1, Yair Herishanu1,2 1Department of Hematology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Hematology, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 4Medical School, Hebrew University, Israel

20:30 Targeting SNF5 in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using the CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing System Ilana Gross Carmel, Naomi Bollag, Achia Urbach The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 15 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Glioblastoma Cancer Stem Cells and Long Noncoding RNA Barak Rotblat Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 A Novel Mitosis-Associated LncRNA, MA-linc1, is Required for Cell Cycle Progression and Sensitizes Cancer Cells to Paclitaxel Or Bida-Dabush, Moriah Gidoni, Diana Ideses, Sol Efroni, Doron Ginsberg The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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18:00 CXCR4 Controls BCL-2 Expression and Function by Regulating miR-15a/16-1 Expression in Tumor Cells Shiri Klein Silberman1, Michal Abraham2, Baruch Bulvik2, HAnna Wald2, Orly Eizenberg2, Dvora Holam1, Lola Weiss1, Katia Beider3, Ori Wald1, Shlomo Bulvik5, Abraham Avigdor3, Ohad Benjamini3, Eithan Galun1, Arnon Nagler4, Yaron Pereg4, Amnon Peled1,2 1Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 2Biokine Therapeutics Ltd, Biokine Therapeutics Ltd, Israel 3Hematology Division, Chaim Sheba Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Israel 4BioLineRx Ltd, BioLineRx Ltd, Israel 5Hematology Department, Laniado Hospital, Israel

18:30 Reed-Sternberg Cells in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Present Features of Cellular Senescence Jacob Gopas1, Estee Stern1, Udi Zurgil1, Janet Ozer1, Assaf Ben-Ari1, George Shubinsky1, Alex Braiman1, Rosa Sinay1, Siddharth Balachandran3, Etta Livneh1, Daniel Benharroch2 1Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben Guion University, Israel 2Department of Pathology,, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 3Blood Cell Development and Function Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA 19:00 Nuclear Αvβ3 Integrin in Leukemia: Regulation and post Translational Modification Avivit Weisz1,2, Martin Ellis1, Uri Abadi1, David Gurwitz2, Osnat Ashur-Fabian1,2 1The Hematology Institute, Sapir Medical Center, Translational Hemato-Oncology, Israel 2Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Israel

19:30 Carbenoxolone as a Prophylactic Treatment for Lung Metastases Adi Karsch- Bluman1, Benzion Amoyav1, Nethanel Friedman1, Hila Shoval1, Ezra Ella2, Ori Wald2, Ofra Benny1 1School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University, Israel 2Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel

20:00 Deciphering the Biological Significance of Nuclear αvβ3 integrin in Ovarian Cancer Pathogenesis: More Than Meets the Eye Chen Seraya1,2, Lena Shinderman-Maman1,2, Keren Cohen1,2, Sharon Rot1,2, Martin Ellis1, Osnat Ashur-Fabian1,2 1The Hematology Institute, Sapir Medical Center, Translational Hemato-Oncology, Israel 2Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 The Contribution of Histone Chaperone CAF-1 in Tumorigenesis

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Shany Ivon Elbaz, Elimelech Nesher, Igor Koman Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 16 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Exploring GATA1 and GATA2 Transcription Factors Competition in Fetal Erythropoiesis to Rescue the Erythroid Developmental Defect of Diamond Blackfan Anemia – A Mouse Model Yehudit Birger1, Nissim Ben-Haim3, Itamar Kanter3, Tomer Kalisky3, Avigail Rein1,2, John D. Crispino4, Shai Izraeli1,2 1Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Dept. of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Israel 4Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Northwestern University, USA

17:30 Mammary Stem Cell Function and FoxA1/Estrogen Receptor Activity are Regulated by Tcf3, a Stem Cell-Associated Transcription Factor Reba Condiotti, Michal Slyper, Amit Shahar, Roy Granit, Yael Gabai, ittai Ben-Porath, ittai Ben-Porath Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research- Israel-Canada, Hadassah School of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:00 Vav1 and Mutant Kras Synergize in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Development: Lessons from Mouse Models Yaser Salaymeh, Marganit Farago, Batel Shalom, Shulamit Sebban, Batel Avnery, Shulamit Katzav Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:30 Cancer Protection in Laron Syndrome Patients is Associated with IGF1-Dependent Increase in Thioredoxin-Interacting Protein (TXNIP) Gene Expression

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Karthik Nagaraj1, Lena Lapkina1, Rive Sarfstein1, Zvi Laron2, Haim Werner1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Endocrine and Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Israel

19:00 Methods Identifying Neoantigen Specific T Cells for Immunotherapy Efrat Merhavi-Shoham1, Nilly Shimony1, Shelly Kalaora2, Eilon Barnea3, Jacob Schachter1, Arie Admon3, Yardena Samuels2, Michal J. Besser1,4 1The Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Melanoma, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:30 Immunotherapy with Adoptively Transferred Tumor infiltrating T-Lymphocytes (TIL) in Melanoma; Clinical Results and Perspective Orit Itzhaki1, Ronnie Shapira1, Karin Dayan1, Adva Kubi1, Dragoslav Zikich1, Sivan Ofir1,2, Marina Gorodner1, Efrat Shoham1, Guy Ben Betzalel1, Gal Markel1,2, Jacob Schachter1, Michal Besser1,2 1Ella Lemelbaum Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:00 Functional Fate of Tumor-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes: The Relationship between Functional Avidity and Antigen Density Yoav Pizem, Raanan Greenman, Maya Haus-Cohen, Yoram Reiter, Yoram Reiter Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 17 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Single Cell Analysis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Reveals Clonal Hierarchy and intra-Patient Genetic Heterogeneity Tal Gabay1,2, Rawan Sabbah1,2, Shira Attias1,2, Shlomit Yehudai-Reshef2, Tsila Zuckerman2,3 1Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Hematology Research Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 3Department of Hematology and BMT, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

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RNA Editing Can Affect Patient Survival in Cancer Ilana Buchumenski1, Nurit Paz Yaacov1, Eli Eisenberg2, Erez Y. Levanon1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

18:00 A Novel- Non Classical Replication Stress Found in Oncogene Expressing Cells Dan Sarni, Batsheva Kerem Gentics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:30 Validation and Functional Analysis of Novel Mutated Genes in Pediatric Gliomas Itai Moshe1, Britta Ismer2, Liat Rousso-Noori1, David T.Jones2, Dinorah Friedmann- Morvinski1,3 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium, Germany 3Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:00 Characterization of Genetic Alterations in Pancreatic Cancer High Risk Populations Merav Ben Yehoyada1,2, Guy Rosner1,2, Erez Scapa1,2, Erwin Santo1,2 1Department of Gastroenterology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 2Sackler School of medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:30 A Double-Autologous Humanized Mouse Model for Assessment of Immunotherapy anti-Cancer Drugs in Vivo Netta R. Shraga1, Natalia Saleev1, Mark Shlapoverski1, Lana Kuperschmidt1, Neta Moskovitz1, Tal Sneh1, Alejandro Livof3, Aharon Popovtzer2, Solomon Stemmer2, Izhak Haviv1 1Faculty of Medicine, -Ilan University, Israel 2Research Unit, Institute of Oncology, Davidoff Centre, Rabin Medical Centre, Israel 3Pathology department, Barzilai Medical Center, Israel

20:00 Gut Microbiota, MDSCs and Colon Inflammation: A Risky Relationship Hadas Ashkenazi1, Moshe Sade-Feldman1, Leonor Daniel1, Atara Uzan2, Omry Koren2, Michal Baniyash1 1The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, Israel-Canada Medical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Microbiome Research, Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

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17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 18 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 The Role of Protein S in Brain Tumor Development and Pathology Mor Kenigsbuch1, Liat Rousso-Noori1, Tal Burstyn-Cohen2, Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski1,3 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2The Institute for Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Israel 3Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

17:30 MiR-504 is Downregulated in Glioma and its Overexpression Inhibits the Mesenchymal Transformation of GSCs and their Regulation of Microglia Polarization Daniel Rand1, Ariel Bier1, Hae Kyung Lee2, Wei Jiang2, Simona Cazacu2, Cunli Xiang2, Hiba Waldman Ben-Asher1, Laila Poisson3, Michal Yalon4, Amos Toren4, Chaya Brodie1 1Everard and Mina Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Davidson Laboratory of Cell Signaling and Tumorigenesis, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, Department of Neurosurgery,, Henry Ford Hospital, USA 3Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, USA 4Sheba Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

18:00 Generating Novel Models of Leukemia Using Defined Oncogenes Ye'ela Scharff, Oron Goldstein, Roi Gazit The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

18:30 Targeting Tumor Reprogramming Using Nanomedicine Ori Pilo Kerman1, Anna Gutkin2,3, Meir Goldsmith2,3, Dan Peer2,3, Dinorah Friedmann- Morvinski1,4 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Department of Cell Research and Immunology, the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering; Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 4Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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RGS7 is Recurrently Mutated in Melanoma and Promotes Migration and invasion of Human Cancer Cells Nouar Qutob1, Ikuo Masuho2, Rafi Emmanuel1, Isadora Cohen, Isadora Cohen1, antonella Di Pizio3, Jason Madore4,5, Jared Gartner6, Victoria Hill7, Jimmy Lin6, Yael Hevroni1, Polina Greenberg1, Alexandra Brodezki1, Steven Rosenberg6, Mickey Kosloff8, Masha Niv3, Richard Scoyler4,5,9, Nicholas Hayward4,10, Kirill Martemyanov2, Yardena Samuels1 1Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Neuroscience, the Scripps Research Institute, USA 3Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, the Robert H Smith Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Melanoma Institute Australia, University of Sydney, Australia 5Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia 6US National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Surgery Branch, USA 7National Human Genome Research Institute, US National Institutes of Health, USA 8Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel 9Disciplines of Surgery and Pathology, Sydney Medical School, the University of Sydney, Australia 10QIMR BerghOfer Medical Research Institute, , BrisQIMR BerghOfer Medical Research Institutebane, Australia

19:30 Citrin as a Novel Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Target Shiran Rabinovich1, Alon Silberman1, Shani Agron1, Smadar Levin-Zaidman2, David Dimmock3, Daniel Helbling3, Qin Sun4, Sandesh CS Nagamani4, Ayelet Erez1 1Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Human and Molecular Genetic and Biochemistry Center, Medical College Wisconsin, USA 4Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

20:00 Isolation and Profiling Of Senescent Cells Reveals a Paracrine Crosstalk that Promotes Pancreatic Cancer Development Dror Kolodkin-Gal1,4, Yonatan Khalatnik1, Yonatan Avraham-Demma1, Ashraf Imam1, Shaul Horwitz1,4, Maya Moran3, Netanel Eisenbach1, Anna Ger1, Yakov Rachmut1, Rachel Kalifa1, Yuval Dor2, Gideon Zamir1, ittai Ben-Porath2 1Department of Experimental Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Developmental Biology & Cancer Research Institute for Medical Research - Israel Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadassah Medical School, Israel 3Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Lev Academic Center, the Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel

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20:30 Paradoxical Role of Mutant P53 in the Small Intestine Eliran Kadosh1, Audrey Lasry1, Noy Cohen1, Thorsten Stiewe2, Eli Pikarsky1, Yinon Ben- Neriah1 1Lautenberg center for immunology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology, Marburg University, Germany

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cancer. Stand number: 19 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Cathepsin Targeted CT Contrast Agents for Molecular Imaging of Cancer Darya Tsvirkun, Yael Ben Nun, Emmanuelle Merquiol, Galia Blum Institute for Drug Research, the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

17:30 In Vitro and in Vivo Efficacy of Non-Psychoactive CAnnabidiol in Neuroblastoma Tamar Fisher1, Hana Golan1, Ginette Schiby1, Sara Pri-Chen1, Reem Smoum2, Itai Moshe1, Naama Peshes-Yaloz1, Asher Castiel1, Dalia Waldman1, Ruth Gallily2, Raphael Mechoulam2, Amos Toren1 1Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Research Laboratory, Sheba Cancer Research Center, Israel 2Institute for Drug Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:00 Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Hematopoietic Damage by Oral Administration of SAS: Potential Role of VLA-4 inactivation by the Compound Ital Nemet,Yona Kalechman, Benjamin Sredni C.A.I.R. Institute, the Safdie AIDS and Immunology Research Center. The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

18:30 Transcriptomic Analysis of Breast Cancer Tumor Evolution in Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy Gili Perry1, Noa Bossel Ben-Moshe5, Anjana Shenoy4, Nora Balint3, Irina Marin3, Daniela Necula3, Anya Pavlovski3, Dana Morzaev1, Iris Barshack3,4, Tamar Geiger4, Eytan Domany5, Bella Kaufman, Dadiani Maya, Bella Kaufman2,4, Maya Dadiani1 1Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Oncology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Pathology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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19:00 Mir-211 Induces Phenotypic Switch in Melanoma Tamar Golan, Roma Parikh, Hadar Reichman, Carmit Levy, Carmit Levy Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:30 The Heparanase inhibitor PG545 Attenuates Colon Cancer initiation and Growth, Associating With increased p21 Expression Preeti Singh1, Alexandra Blatt2, Sari Feld1, Yaniv Zohar3, Esraa Saadi4, Liza Barki- Harrington4, Edward Hammond5, Neta Ilan1, Yehuda Chowers2, Elizabeth Half2, Israel Vlodavsky1 1Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Gastroenterology, Rambam Health Care Campus and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Department of Gastroenterology and Pathology, Rambam Health Care Campus and Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 5Progen, Progen Pharmaceuticals, Australia 20:00 Dynamic Nuclear Localization of miRNAs through the Course of Breast Cancer Progression and Treatment Dana Morzaev1, Anya Pavlovski3, Gili Perry1, Nora Balint3, Kamila Avivi3, Adi Zundelevich1, Iris Barshack3,4, Bella Kaufman2,4, Maya Dadiani1 1Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Oncology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Pathology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 The Effects of Cellular Senescence on Breast Cancer Development Yael Gabai, ittai Ben-Porath Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cell Biology. Stand number: 20 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Variations in Telomerase andTopoisimerase Activities in Granulosa Cells Derived from Women Undergo IVF Procedures Michal Wasserman1, Iris Har-Vardi2, Esther Priel1 1The Shraga Segal Dept. Microbiology, Immunology & Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2The IVF unit, Obs/Gyn, Soroka University medical center, Israel

17:30 The Involvement of Telomerase Enzymes in Ovulation in Female Mice Marina Abramov, Marina Abramov, Marina Yakobov1, Lee Assenheim1, Iris Har-Vardi2, Esther Priel1 1The Shraga segal Dept. Immunology, microbiology & Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2The IVF unit, Obst/Gyn., Soroka University Medical center, Israel

18:00 Active Color Change in Fish and Copepods Dvir Gur1,3, Ben Leshem1, Viviana Farstey4, Steve Weiner2, Lia Addadi2, Dan Oron1, Gil Levkowitz3 1Department of Physics of Complex System, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4IUI, the interUniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Israel

18:30 Nuclear Mechanotransduction: Stickiness of Lamin-A is Regulated within Minutes by Applied Tensile Forces and the Composition of the Nuclear Lamina fani brofman1,2, Friedman Roy1, Kitsberg Danny1,2, Buxboim Amnon1 1bioengineering, Grass center for bioengineering, Israel 2Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Life sciences, Israel

19:00 Nuclear Lamins Are Regulators of Cellular Mechanosensitivity and Homeostasis Miriam Schlossberg1, Nivi Hirsch1, Shlomi Brielle1,2, Gahl Levy1,2, Danny Kitsberg1, Amnon Buxboim1,2 1Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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2Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

19:30 Drosophila TRF2 (TBP-related factor 2) Regulates Cell Cycle Progression and Viability Adi Kedmi, Natalie Gerber, Lital Gasri-Plotnitsky, Tirza Doniger, Tamar Juven-Gershon, Tamar Juven-Gershon The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

20:00 The Cellular Roles of Codnain-1, the Product of a Gene Mutated in Congenital Dyserythropoietic anemia Type I Grace Rabinowitz, Alon Samet, Benny Motro The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:30 Multi-Scale Analysis of the interplay Between Cell Morphology and Cell-Cell Signaling Liat Amir-Zilberstein1, Micha Hersch2, Dmitri Rivkin1, David Sprinzak1 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cell Biology. Stand number: 21 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Chromatin Dynamics during DNA Replication Raz Bar-Ziv, Yoav Voichek, Naama Barkai Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

17:30 The Invisible tRNA Molecules: Tissue and Time Specific Expression of Otherwise Identical tRNA Genes Roni Rak1, Dror Sagi2, Hila Gingold2, idan Adir2, Gadi Maayan2, Orna Dahan1, Limor Broday3, Tzachi Pilpel1, Oded Rechavi2 1molecular genetics, WIS, Israel 2neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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18:00 Co-Evolution of Sirt1 and its Substrate Adi Hendler1, Eyal Akiva2, Amir Aharoni1 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, USA

18:30 Centromere Maintenance through Error Correction of CENP-A Deposition during DNA Replication Yael Nechemia-Arbely1, Karen Miga2, Moira McMahon1, Ofer Shoshani1, Daniele Fachinetti1, Ah Young Lee1, Bing Ren1, Don Cleveland1 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California at San Diego, USA 2Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

19:00 The interaction of UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine 2-Epimerase/N-Acetylmannosamine Kinase (GNE) and Alpha-Actinin 2 isAltered in GNE Myopathy M743T Mutant Avi Harazi1, Michal Becker-Cohen1, Stephan Hinderlich2, Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum1 1Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Life Sciences and Technology, Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Germany

19:30 The Cost of Protein Production Eyal Metzl-Raz, Moshe Kafri, Ghil Jona, Naama Barkai Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:00 Mafk Mediates IRF8 Restrictive Expression in Non-Hematopoietic Cells Nitsan Fourier, Aviva Azriel, Ben-Zion Levi Biotechnology and Food Eng., Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

20:30 A New Regulatory Pathway Responding to Hyper-Acetylation of Histone H3K56 Lihi Gershon, Martin Kupiec Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, the George S. Wise faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cell Biology. Stand number: 22 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Study the Roles of Rad18 Ubiquitin Ligase in DNA Replication and Repair Muhammad Natour, Amir Aharoni Life Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 Isolation of Hyperactive Alleles of Gad8 in Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Emese Pataki1, Martin Kupiec2, Ronit Weisman1 1Department of Natural and Life Sciences, the Open University of Israel, Israel 2Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

18:00 Exploring the Translational Regulatory Potential of RNA Binding Proteins Using a Synthetic Biology Approach Orna Atar, Noa Katz, Sarah Goldberg, Roee Amit Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

18:30 Systematic Approaches Reveal Two Uncharacterized Proteins as Major Factors in Trafficking and Maturation of the Yeast Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase Yosef Geva1, Yosef Geva, Jonathan Crissman, Jonathan Crissman2, Eric C. Arakel3, Eric C. Arakel, Natalia Gómez-Navarro, Natalia Gómez-Navarro4, Silvia G. Chuartzman1, Kyle R. Stahmer2, Blanche Schwappach3, Elizabeth A. Miller4, Maya Schuldiner1 1Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Biological Sciences, Columbia University, USA 3Molecular Biology, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany 4Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

19:00 Uncovering the Physiological Role of m6A in Regulation of a Cellular Response Ifat Lev- Buchman, Schraga Schwartz molecular genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:30 The PARP-1 inhibitor 3-Aminobenzamide Prevents Concanavalin A-Induced Liver Injury in Mice by A Joint anti-inflammatory and Anti-oxidative Mechanism Anna Lilja1, Orna Ernst1, Aeed Hussein2, Sebastián Katz1, Dolev Katz1, Olga Bernadsky3, Yona Avni2, Edgar Pick4, Roy Weinstain5, Alexander Biro6, Joram Wardi2, Tsaffrir Zor1 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Institute, Tel Aviv 91 Last updated 16.02.2017

University, Israel 2Department of Gastroenterology, Wolfson Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Pathology, Wolfson Medical Center, Israel 4Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv Univeristy, Israel 5Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Life Sciences Institute, Tel Aviv University, Israel 6Institute of Nephrology, Wolfson Medical Center, Israel

20:00 Proteasome DUB activity: Friend or Foe? andthe unique fate of TetraUbiquitin-conjugates! Michael Glickman1, indrajit Sahu1, Sumeet K. Singh2, Sachitanand M. Mali2, Hosahalli P. Hemantha2, Oded Kliefeld1, Ashraf Brik2 1Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology-IIT, Israel 2Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology-IIT, Israel

20:30 Characterization of SIRT6 Hepatic Acetylome Reveals New Life Extending Pathways Controlled by SIRT6 Liat Nahum1, Michal Harel2, Asaf Gertler1, Moran Rathaus1, Tamar Geiger2, Haim Y Cohen1, Tamar Geiger, Haim Y Cohen 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cell Biology. Stand number: 23 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Identifying of Pole-Localizing Protein Motifs in Bacteria Balaji KAnnan, Anat Nussbaum Shochat, Orna Amster-Choder Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Israel

17:30 The Role of Methyl-Transferase SETD6 in Adipose Tissue Nurit Levy, Dan Levy The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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18:00 Regulation of the Candida Albicans Hypha-Inducing Transcription Factor Ume6 by the CDK1 Cyclins Cln3 and Hgc1 Mariel Pinsky, Sigal Mendelsohn, Ziva Weissman, Daniel Kornitzer Department of Molecular Microbiology, B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

18:30 Structural and Functional Analysis of CFEM Proteins Udita Roy, Lena Nasser, Mariel Pinsky, Ziva Weissman, Daniel Kornitzer Department of Molecular Microbiology, B. Rappaport faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:00 Identification of a β−arrestin Involved in the Fungal Heme-Iron Acquisition Pathway Crisitna Avila, Mariel Pinsky, Ziva Weissman, Daniel Kornitzer Department of Molecular Microbiology, B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:30 Examining the Position and Function of NXF1/Tap duringmRNA Export Rakefet Ben-Yishay, Asaf Ashkenazy, Avi Jacob, Yaron Shav-Tal The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

20:00 Nanoparticle Homeostasis in Proliferating Mammalian Cells Tal Mashriki1,2, Einat Panet1,2, Roxane Lahmi1,2, Abraham Jacob1, Efrat Ozer1,2, Manuela Vecsler1,2, Itay Lazar1, Amit Tzur1,2 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

20:30 Characterization of Proteome Dynamics during Growth in Oleate Reveals A New Peroxisome- Targeting Receptor Eden Yifrach1, Silvia Chuartzmann1, Noa Dahan1, Shiran Maskit1, Lior Zada1, Uri Weill1, Ido Yofe1, Tsviya Olender1, Maya Schuldiner1,2, Einat Zalckvar1,2 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Co-corresponding, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cell Biology. Stand number: 24 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Integrated Microfluidics Application for New Protein Modification Discovery Hadas Nevenzal, Meirav Noach-Hirsh Life science, Bar Ilan University, Israel

17:30 AMPK is a Novel Regulator of DAPK2 in Autophagy Ruth Shiloh1, Yuval Gilad1, Shenhav Cohen2, Adi Kimchi1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

18:00 Towards Assembly of Protein Machines in Synthetic Cellular Compartments Shirley S Daube, Shirley Daube, Ohad Vonshak, Ohad Vonshak, Michael Levy, Michael Levy, Alexandra Tayar, Alexandra Tayar, Roy H Bar-Ziv, Roy Bar-Ziv Materials and interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 The Free Fatty Acids-miR-122-Triglycerides Metabolic Circuit Chofit Chai, Mila Rivkin, Alina Simerzin, Hilla Giladi, Eithan Galun Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Israel

19:00 The Unfolded Protein Response in Yeast isModulated by Iron Nir Cohen1, Michal Breker1,2, Lihi Gal1, Silvia Chuartzman1, Yoav Wigelman1, Felix Jonas1, Peter Walter3, Tomas Aragon4, Eelco Van anken5, Maya Schuldiner1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2., the Rockefeller University, USA 3Howard Hughes Medical\Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, USA 4Department of Gene Therapy and Gene Regulation, Centre for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, Spain 5Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, italy

19:30 Do Membrane Proteins Change their Topology as they Mature in Vivo? Nir Fluman, Victor Tobiasson, Malte Wittwer, Gunnar von Heijne Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden

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20:00 Genetic Screen Reveals Expulsion of Endoplasmic Reticulum Luminal Proteins during Stress Aeid Igbaria1, Philip Merksamer1, Ala Trusina2, Firehiwot Tilahun1, Jefferey Johnson3, Onn Brandman3, Sarah Shen1, Isabel Nocedal1, Jimena Weibezahn3, Nevan Krogan3, Jonathan Weissman3, Feroz Papa1 1Medicine, UCSF, USA 2Center for Models of Life, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 3Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF, USA

20:30 The Effect of Hsp70 Co-chaperones on Neurodegeneration-Related Protein Aggregation Kinneret Rozales, Anatoly Meller, Reut Shalgi Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cell Biology. Stand number: 25 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Elimination of Senescent Cells in Vivo by Inhibition of an Anti-Apoptotic Mechanism Elisheva Cohen-Shahar1, Reut Yosef2, Noam Pilpel2, Ronit Tokarsky-Amiel1, Anat Biran2, Yossi Ovadya2, Snir Cohen2, Ezra Vadai2, Liat Dassa1, Reba Condiotti1, Valery Krizhanovsky2, ittai Ben-Porath1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

17:30 Ablation of Casein Kinase 1α in Keratinocytes Induces p53-dependent Hyperpigmentation Chung-Hsing Chang1, Yinon Ben-Neriah2, Yu-Ya Su1, Kazumasa Wakamatsu3, Shosuke ito3, Andrea Nist4, Marco Mernberger4, Thorsten Stiewe4 1Department of Dermatology, China Medical University and China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan 2Lautenberg Center for Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Department of Chemistry, Fujita Health University School of Health Sciences, Japan 4Center for Tumor and Immunobiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

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18:00 Mitochondria in Mammalian Cells Have Deep Resources of Deposited Ions That May Contribute to Bioenergetics and Signaling Deborah Fass1, Sharon Wolf2, Yael Mutsafi1, Tal Ilani1, Michael Elbaum3 1Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Materials and interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 Making Mucus: Late-stage Disulfides are Indispensable for a Healthy Gut Lining Tal Ilani1, Yoav Elkis2, Nava Reznik1, Deborah Fass1 1Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2In-vivo and Pre-clinical studies, Almog Diagnostic, Israel

19:00 Hsp90 is Imported into the Nucleus via Direct Interactions With FG-repeat Nucleoporins Golan Nadav, Fadia Zagairy, Nitzan Shemesh, Boris Fichtman, Amnon Harel Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

19:30 Upstream Open Reading Frames (uORFs) Encoded Peptides as New Players Regulating Protein Expression and Function Sigal Frost1, Prabhawathi Veluchamy1, Ilan Smloy2, Esti Yeger-Lotem2, Etta Livneh1 1Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

20:00 Signaling Pathways That Initiate Differentiation of the Human Pathogen Leishmania Inside its Host Dan Zilberstein1, Renana Fischer-Weinberger1, Roni Nitzan Koren1, Peter, J. Myler2 1Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Center for infectious Disease Research, Center for infectious Disease Research, USA

20:30 Determining the Genomic Regions Responsible For of β-actin Transcriptional Response to Serum Induction, Hadar Korenfeld, Alon Kalo, Gita Reinitz, Yaron Shav-Tal The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences & Institute of Nanotechnology, Bar- Ilan University, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Clinical Lab and Parasitology. Stand number: 26 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Vaccination against Avian Herpesviruses: Monitoring of Live Vaccine Virus intake Against Two Avian Herpesviruses Using Feathers of Vaccinated Irit Davidson, Israel Reibstein, Amira Altory-Natour Avian Diseases, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Israel 17:30 Sensitive and rapid Molecular Diagnostics for Leishmaniasis Yonat Shemer-Avni PhD1, Orli Sagi PhD2, Anat Berkowitz5, Shlomi Codish MD3, Victor Novack MD4, Aviv Rashti5 1Clinical Virology, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Clinical Parasitology, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3Medical Director, Clalit Health Services, Israel 4Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 5The Shraga Segal deparment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

18:00 A(H1N1)pdm09 Influenza Infection: Vaccine inefficiency Nehemya Friedman1,2, Yaron Drori1,2, Rakefet Pando3, Aharona Glatman-Freedman3,4, HAnna Sefty3, Ravit Bassal3, Tamar Shohat2,3, Ella Mendelson1,2, Musa Hindiyeh1,2, Michal Mandelboim1,2 1Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Central Virology Laboratory, Israel 2Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Israel 3Israel Ministry of Health, Tel-Hashomer, the Israel Center for Disease Control, Israel 4Valhalla, New York, USA, Departments of Pediatrics and Family and Community Medicine, Israel

18:30 The Limited Significance of Evaluations of Oxidative Stress and Antioxidative Activity Dov Lichtenberg2, Ilya Pinchuk1 1Physiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Physiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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19:00 Bi-Modal Effect of Exosomes Dose Response in an in-Vitro Ocular Drainage System Model Saray Tabak, Sofia Schreiber-Avissar, Elie Beit-YAnnai Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

19:30 Genotype-Phenotype Trends from the Israeli Fanconi anemia Patient Registry Orly Dgany1, Sharon Noy-Lotan1, Tracie Goldberg2, Orna Steinberg-shemer2, Joanne Yacobovich2, TAnya Krasnov1, Shoshana Ravel-vilk3, Chaim Kaplinsky4, Ayelet Ben Barak5, Ronit Elhasid6, Joseph Kapelushnik7, Hagit Miskin8, Amir Kuperman9, Ariel Koren10, HAnnah Tamary2 1Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Israel 2Hemato-Oncology, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Israel 3Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew-University Medical Center, Israel 4Hemato-Oncology, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 5Hemato-Oncology, Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Medical Center, Israel 6Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 7Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 8Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel 9Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, Galilee Medical Center, Israel 10Pediatric Hemato-Oncology, "Emek" Medical Center, Israel

20:00 Avian Influenza Subtype H5N1: from Turkeys to Cats Avishai Lublin1, Irina Shkoda1, Yekaterina Lapin1, Ezra Rozenbluth1, Shimon Perk1, Michel Bellaiche3, Boris Yakobson2, Shmuel Perl2 1Avian Diseases, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Israel 2Pathology, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Israel 3 Kimron Veterinary Institute, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Cytoskeleton/Motility and Endocrinology. Stand number: 27 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Differential Regulation of the Kinesin-5 Cin8 by Phosphorylation of Three Cdk1 Sites in its Catalytic Domain Nurit Siegler1,2, Alina Goldstein1,2, Darya Goldman1,2, Ervin Valk3, Mardo Kõivomägi3, Mart Loog3, Larisa Gheber1,2 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,

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Israel 3Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia

17:30 Tumor Suppressors/Polarity Proteins Lgl and Scribble Play Important Role in Directed Cell Migration Maha Abedrabbo, Shosh Ravid Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:00 Irradiation-Induced Cell Migration and Invasion of Apoptosis-Resistant Epithelial Cells in Drosophila Anna Gorelick Ashkenazi, Ron Weiss, Anat Florentin, Lama Tarayrah, Eli Arama Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 Caspase Substrates during the Non-Apoptotic Process of Spermatid individualization in Drosophila Tslil Braun, Lior Aram, Eli Arama Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:00 Degranulation of Human and Mouse Eosinophils is Negatively Regulated by ROCK Revital Shamri1,2, Kristen M. Young2, Peter F. Weller2 1Institute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Division of Allergy and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, USA

19:30 Involvement of Rho GAP GRAF1 in Maintenance of Epithelial Phenotype Miriam Regev1,3, Helena Sabanay2, Elena Kartvelishvily2, Zvi Kam1, Alexander Bershadsky1,4 1Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Tel-Hashomer Hospital, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

20:00 Myosin Filaments in the Actin Cytoskeleton: Distribution, Turnover, and Long Range Self- Organization Shiqiong Hu1, Kinjal Dasbiswas2, Zhenhuan Guo1, Yee-Han Tee1, Samuel Safran2, Ronen Zaidel-Bar1, Alexander Bershadsky1,3 1Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2Department of Materials and interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 99 Last updated 16.02.2017

20:30 Resolving the Structural Organization of the ESCRT Complex during Cytokinetic Abscission at Nanoscale Inna Goliand1, Shachar Sherman1, Tali Dadosh2, Michael Elbaum3, Natalie Elia1 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Materials & interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Development. Stand number: 28 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Mitochondrial Fusion in Drosophila Spermatogenesis Alina Kolpakova, Eli Arama Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

17:30 Linc RNA Gene Expression in the Mammalian inner Ear during Development Kathy Ushakov1, Tal Koffler-Brill1, Aviv Rom2, Igor Ulitsky2, Karen Avraham1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Small Secreted Proteins Enable Biofilm Development in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus Elongatus Eleonora Sendersky1, Rami Parnasa1, Elad Nagar1, Ziv Reich2, Ryan Simkovsky3, Susan Golden3, Rakefet Schwarz1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, USA

18:30 Detachment of Covalently Bound Chromophores from Phycobilisome Pigments Mali Levi, Eleonora Sendersky, Rakefet Schwarz The Mina &Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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19:00 Role of the Glycosyltransferase, OgtB, in Biofilm Self-Suppression in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942 Shiran Suban, Eleonora Sendersky, Rakefet Schwarz The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

19:30 Role of Se0168, a Proline Rich Protein of Unknown Function, in Biofilm Suppression in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus Elongatus Eli Zecharia, Eleonora Sendersky, Rakefet Schwarz The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

20:00 Elucidating how Mindbomb1 Regulates Notch Ligand Dynamics and Distribution Olya Oppenheim1, Liat Amir-Zilberstein1, Stephen Blacklow2, David Sprinzak1 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

20:30 CMI1 and CMI2: Dispersing the Fog around the Crosstalk between Auxin andCa2+ Elad Mamon, Shaul Yalovsky Department of Molecular Biology & Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Development. Stand number: 29 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 A Model System for Fetal Zika Virus Infection Shirlee Kuzahi, Dr. Ira Rostovsky, Dr. Anna Demina, Dr. Leslie Lobel, Dr. Claytus Davis Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics - Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 Transdifferentiation as a Tool to Dissect Human Somatic Cell Specification duringTestis Development Nataliia Stepanenko, Yossi Buganim Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, the Institute For Medical Research-Israel-Canada The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

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18:00 Analysis of the Thymic TCR Repertoire Arie Ryvkin, Shlomit Reich-Zeliger, Nir Friedman Departement of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 Recurrent De Novo and Biallelic Variation of ATAD3A, Encoding a Protein involved in Mitochondrial Dynamics, Result in Distinct Neurological Syndromes Tamar Harel1, Wan Hee Yoon1, Caterina Garone2, Shen Gu1, Zeynep Coban-Akdemir1, Jill A. Rosenfeld1, Megan T. Cho3, Lita Duraine1, Serkan Erdin4, Joshua D. Smith5, Richard A. Lewis1, Richard A. Gibbs1, Brett H. Graham1, Yaping Yang1, Daniela Buhas6, Donna M. Martin7, Lorraine Potocki1, Claudio Graziano8, Scott E. Hickey9, Hugo J. Bellen1, James R. Lupski1 1Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA 2Mitochondrial Biology Unit, MRC, UK 3GeneDx, GeneDx, USA 4Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA 5Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, USA 6Human Genetics Department, McGill University, USA 7Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, USA 8Medical Genetics Unit, University of Bologna, USA 9Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA

19:00 Biofilms as Moving Entities NItai Steinberg, Gili Rosenberg, Shany Doron, Dan Pollack, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:30 Striatal IGF2 Modulates Impulsive Behavior in Autism Mouse Models Oded Oron1, Shahar Shohat2, Eli Reuveni1, Sagiv Shifman2, Evan Elliott1 1Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences Lab, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine, Israel 2Dept. of Genetics, the Alexander Silberman inst. of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:00 Auxin-Mediated Lamina Growth in Tomato Leaves is Restricted By Two Parallel Mechanisms Asaf Dafna, Hadas Ben Gera, Matan Levy, Naomi Ori The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:30 Modeling Developmental and Tumorigenic Aspects of Trilateral Retinoblastoma using Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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Yishai Avior, Elyad Lezmi, Dorit Yanuka, Nissim Benvenisty Genetics, the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Development. Stand number: 30 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Evidence for a Fetal Hypersensitive Innate Immune Phase Ira Rostovsky, Naama Cohen, Shirlee Kuzahi, Dr. Claytus Davis Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 The Fetal Innate Immune Response Attenuates Viral Infection in Utero Michal Mincberg, Adi Levi, Claytus Davis Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

18:00 Integrated Live Imaging and Molecular Profiling of Embryoid Bodies Reveals a Synchronized Progression of Early Differentiation Jonathan Boxman1, Naor Sagy1, Sirisha Achanta2, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli2, Iftach Nachman1 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, USA

18:30 Mesenchymal Stem Cells Systemic Administration Can Alleviate Autistic-like Behavior in Mice Modeling ASD Matanel Tfilin, Gadi Turgeman Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

19:00 The Evolution of Recognition Traits from Signals that Advertise Quality Keith Harris1, Amotz Zahavi1,2 1Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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19:30 Low-Level Embryonic Exposure to Flame Retardants and Related Compounds causes Neurobehavioral Impairment in Zebrafish Lilah Glazer1, Sonum Tharwani2, Muriel Eaton3, Soumya Avva4, Edward D Levin1 1Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, USA 2Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University, USA 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kentucky State University, USA 4Senior year, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, USA

20:00 A Localized Signal Approach to Study Wnt Signaling Dynamics and its Effect on Mesendoderm Formation in Embryoid Bodies Maya Allalouf Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 Shh Signaling in the Mesenchymal Niche of the Hair Follicle Regulates Stem Cell Behavior Efrat Avigad Laron, David Enshell-Seijffers Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Endocrinology. Stand number: 31 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Decoding Egr1 & P53 Transcriptional Nexus in the Pathogenesis of Fatty Liver Disease YogAnathan Ramia Krishnamoorthy, Ilan Stein, David Knigin, Ateret Cohen, Hiba Kanaan, Eli Pikarsky Immunology & Cancer Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

17:30 Adipose Tissue Contributes to Rapid Normalization of Macrophage and Liver-cell Lipid Handling during Dietary Reversal of Obesity, Despite Continued Inflammation Maayan Vatarescu, Sapir Bechor, Yulia Haim, Tal Pecht, TAnya Tarnovsky, Noa Slutsky, Ori Nov, Hagit Shapiro, Nava Bashan, Assaf Rudich The Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Israel

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18:00 A Pro-Inflammatory Phenotype Connects E2F1-high Omental (Visceral) Adipose Tissue with Cardiometabolically At-Risk Obesity Nitzan Maixner1, Yulia Haim1, Mathias Bluher2, Nava Bashan1, Assaf Rudich1 1Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany

18:30 Differential Roles of PKC Isoforms (PKCs) and Ca2+ in GnRH and Phorbol 12-myristate 13- acetate (PMA) Stimulation of p38MAPK Phosphorylation in Immortalized Gonadotrope Cells Shany Mugami, Zvi Naor Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:00 CANCELLED Leptin Regulates Adipocyte Autophagy: A Potential Autocrine Regulatory Contributing to the Up-Regulation of Adipose Tissue Autophagy in Obesity Nir Goldstein1, Yulia Haim1, annette Beck-Sickinger3, Matthias Blüher2, Assaf Rudich1,4 1Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany 3Biochemistry, University of Leipzig, Germany 4National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

19:30 Unexpected Identification of Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory (StAR) Protein in Cardiac Fibroblasts after Myocardial infarction Talya Razin1, Eli Anuka1, Naomi Melamed-Book2, Nili Naftali-Shani3, Jonathan Leor3, Josheph Orly1 1Department of Biological Chemistry, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Bio-Imaging Unit, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

20:00 Gnrh Induces ERK-Dependent Bleb Formation in Gonadotrope Cells, Involving Recruitment of Members of a Gnrh Receptor-Associated Signalosome to the Blebs Liat Rahamim Ben Navi, Zvi Naor Biochemistry and molecular biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 Erythropoietic, Cellular and Skeletal Recovery Following Short Term EPO Administration Sahar Hiram-Bab1, Drorit Neumann2, Yankel Gabet1 1Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Immunology. Stand number: 32 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Development of High Affinity Antibodies for Enrichment and Quantification of IL-6 by Mass spectrometry (MS) Osnat Kraus-Faran1, Sarah Bilu1, Alexander Nakhlas1, Lilach Vaks1, Batya Veisman1, Yana Mogilianski2, Nadav Askari2, Dana Ravid1 1Department of Applied Cell Biology R&D, Sigma-Aldrich Israel, Sigma-Aldrich international GmbH is a subsidiary of Merck, Israel 2Department of Human Protein Biology R&D, Sigma-Aldrich Israel, Sigma-Aldrich international GmbH is a subsidiary of Merck, Israel

17:30 The Effect of Cysteine 67 of HLA-B27 on Peptide Presentation Shira Yair - Sabag1, Eilon Barnea1, Rosa Sorrentino2, Maria Teresa Fiorillo2, Joel D. Tel Aviv Universityrog3, Arie Admon1 1Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Institute of Technology, Israel 2Deptartment of Biology and Biotechnology "C. Darwin", Sapienza University of Rome, italy 3Department of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

18:00 Using the Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) Approach in Diagnosing Primary Immuno deficiencies (PIDs) in Israel Atar Lev1, Amos J. Simon1,2,3, Eran Eyal3, Nitzan Kol3, Ortal Barel3, Ninette Amariglio2,3,4, Gideon Rechavi3, Raz Somech1 11Pediatric Department A and Immunology Service, Jeffrey Modell Foundation Center, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Division of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Sheba Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 4The Everard and Mina Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

18:30 Stromal Cell-Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1) Mediates Immune Cell Attraction upon Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) Infection Batya Isaacson, Ofer Mandelboim The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Israel 106 Last updated 16.02.2017

19:00 The Importance of Immediate Local Lung Response to Francisella tularensis Pulmonary Infection Liat Bar-On, Hila Cohen, Uri Elia, Erez Bar-Haim, Shahar Rotem, Ofer Cohen Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department, the Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel

19:30 Human Cytomegalovirus Induces a Distinct Innate Immune Response in the Maternal-Fetal Interface Yiska Weisblum1,2,3, Amos Panet2, Zichria Zakay-Rones2, Ronit Haimov-Kochman4, Esther Oiknine-Djain1,2,3, Yuval Nevo5, Sharona Elgavish5, Simcha Yagel4, Dana Wolf1,3 1Clinical Virology Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Biochemistry and the Chanock center for Virology, IMRIC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Israel 3The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunolgy, IMRIC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Israel 4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 5Bioinformatics Unit of the I-CORE Computation Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Israel

20:00 Three-Dimensional Localization of T-Cell Receptors in Relation to Microvilli using a Combination of Superresolution Microscopies Yunmin Jung1,6, Inbal Riven1, Sara W Feigelson2, Elena Kartvelishvily3, Kazuo Tohya4, Masayuki Miyasaka5, Ronen Alon2, Gilad Haran1 1Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Department of Anatomy, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Japan 5Institute for Academic initiatives, Osaka University, Japan 6Department of Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 The Role of Microglia in Brain Pathology Associated with Systemic Inflammation Anat Shemer, Yochai Wolf, Diana Varol, Mor Gross, Liron Levi, Eyal David, Louise Maor, Louise Maor, Steffen Jung, Steffen Jung Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Immunology. Stand number: 33 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Gads SH2 Dimerization Facilitates Antigen Receptor Signaling by Promoting Cooperative Binding Of Gads to LAT in T and Mast Cells Sigalit Sukenik1, Maria P. Frushicheva2, Cecilia Waknin-Lellouche1, Enas Halloumi1, Talia Ifrach1, Rose Shalah1, Deborah Yablonski1 1Department of Immunology, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

17:30 The N Terminal SH3 Domain of Gads Modulates TCR Responsiveness Enas Hallumi, Dvora Beach, Debbie Yablonski Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Debbie Yablonski`s lab, Israel

18:00 Finding New Natural Killer Cells Ligands through Examining Known Viral Entry Receptors Inbal Hod, Adi Reches, Rachel Yamin, Natan Stein, Yoav Charpak-Amikam, Dominik Schmiedel, Pinchas Tsukerman, Alexandra Duev-Cohen, Ofer Mandelboim The Lautenberg Center For Immunology andCancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:30 Human Decidual Natural Killer Cells Remember Pregnancy Moriya Gamliel1, Debra Goldman-Wohl2, Batya Isaacson1, Rachel Yamin1, Michael Berger1, Iris Eisenberg2, Caryn Greenfield2, Arbel Ben-David2, Tal Imbar2, Ronit Gilad2, Ronit Haimov- Kochman2, Simcha Yagel2, Ofer Mandelboim1 1The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, the Magda and Richard Hoffman Center for Human Placenta Research, Israel

19:00 Identification of Factors Guiding Monocyte Differentiation into Macrophages in Ileum and Colon Mor Gross1, Anat Shemer1, Biana Bernshtein1, Alexander Mildner1, Tomer-Meir Salame2, Eyal David1, Louise Maor1, Steffen Jung1 1Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Biological Services, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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19:30 Immuno-Clustering of Veterinary Viruses Jacob Pitcovski1,2, Itai Bloch1,2, Noa Bachner Hinenzon1,2, Dana Goldenberg1,2 1 Immunology, Migal, Israel 2 Immunology, Migal, Israel

20:00 The Role of Exosomes Secreted By Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells in Chronic Inflammation- Induced Immune Suppression Kerem Ben-Meir, Michal Baniyash Immunology, the Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research Israel-Canada Medical Research Institute Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, POB 12272, 91120, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Immunology and Oxygen/Free Radicals. Stand number: 34 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Development of a Novel Cyclic Peptide Inhibitor of the Innate Immune TLR/IL1R Signaling Protein Myd88 Shira Dishon1, Adi Shumacher2, Alaa Talhami3, Ibrahim Kassis4, Dimitrios Karussis4, Chaim Gilon3, Amnon Hoffman2, Gabriel Nussbaum1 1The Institute of Dental Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel 2The Institute of Drug Research, Hebrew University, Israel 3The Institute of Chemistry, Hebrew University, Israel 4Department of Neurology, Hebrew University- Hadassah, Faculty of Medicine, Israel

17:30 Defining Chronic Inflammation and Aging Associated Changes in Hematopoiesis Mati Mann1, Arnav Mehta1, Carl de Boer2, Monika Kowalczyk2, Kevin Lee1, Aviv Regev2,3, David Baltimore1 1Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA 2Department of Biology, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA 3Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

18:00 B-Cell Memory in Ebola SUDV Long Time Survivors Produce GP-Specific Abs that are of the IgG1 Subtype and Preferentially Bind to FcγRI Olga Radinsky Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben Gurion University, Israel

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18:30 Adipose Tissue Macrophages: inhibited Autophagosome Maturation Supports Lipid Droplet Formation and Foam Cell Biogenesis Sapir Bechor, Dikla Nachmias, Yulia Haim, Maayan Vatarescu, Natalie Elia, Guy Las, Assaf Rudich Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

19:00 Glycolytic Switch in Circulating Monocytes and Adipose Tissue Macrophages Uncovers Metabolic Heterogeneity Prior to Immuno-Phenotypic Changes in Obesity Tal Pecht1,2, Yulia Haim1,2, Maayan Vatarescu1,2, Nava Bashan1,2, Assaf Rudich1,2 1Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

19:30 A Viral Signal Peptide Acts as a Functional Immune Evasion Domain Einat Seidel Posner, Ofer Mandelboim The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:00 Enteropathogenic E. coli Triggers Endosomal Remodeling to Elicit Successful Infection of Epithelial Hosts Ephrem Kassa, Efrat Zlotkin, Gil Fridman, Naomi Melamed-Book, Benjamin Aroeti Cell and Developmental Biology, Hebrew University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Microbiology. Stand number: 35 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Insights from the Replication Cycle of the Large Paramecium Bursaria Chlorella Virus Elad Milrot1, Yael Mutsafi2, Yael Fridmann Sirkis2, Katya Rechav1, Eyal Shimoni1, James R. Gurnon3, James L. Van Etten3, Abraham Minsky2 1Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Plant Pathology and Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, USA

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17:30 Effect of viscosity on predation dynamics of the obligate bacterial predators Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Micavibrio aeruginosavorus Rajesh Sathyamoorthy1, Zohar Pasternak1, Ezer Miller2, Anat Maoz2, Amit Huppert2, Edouard Jurkevitch1 1Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel 2The Biostatistics Unit, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Tel Hashomer,Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

18:00 The Involvement of Secreted Proteins by the Bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum in its Adaptation to Different Hosts Alon Piasezky1,2, Leron Katsir1, Noa Sela1, Ofir Bahar1 1Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel 2The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental, Hebrew University, Israel

18:30 Intracellular Localization of the Proteins Mediated by the mazef and chpbik Toxin-Antitoxin Modules in Escherichia Coli Alexander Mager, HAnna Engelberg-Kulka Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Israel

19:00 A Dialog between Bacteria and the Interaction with Microcystis as a Means to Exterminate Toxic Cyanobacteria Blooms Gad Weiss1, Dimitry Kovalerchick2, Assaf Sukenik3, Shmuel Carmeil2, Aaron Kaplan1 1Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Chemistry and Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 3The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Israel

19:30 Efficiency of Plant Growth Promoting Bacterial Consortium for Enhancement of Plant Growth Yochai Isack1, Rakeshkumar Jain1, Maya Lalzar1, Marina Benichis2, Abraham Gamliel2, Dror Minz1 1Institute for Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, ARO, Volcani Research Center, Israel, Israel 2Institute for Agricultural Engineering, ARO, Volcani Research Center, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Microbiology. Stand number: 36 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Gastrointestinal Microbiotic Populations of Desert invertebrates Oksana Koryachenko, Ruben Girsowicz, Yosef Steinberger The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

17:30 Characterization of the Activity of the Transmembrane Domain (TMD) of the Escr Protein within the Type 3 Secretion System (T3SS) Adi Madar, Neta Sal-Man Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

18:00 Acquisition of Phage Sensitivity by Bacteria through Exchange of Phage Receptors Elhanan Tzipilevich, Sigal Ben-Yehuda microbiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadasa medical School, Israel

18:30 The Role of P-TEFb andSEC in the Control of HIV Gene Transcription Simona Krasnopolsky, Alona Kuzmina, Ran The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

19:00 The Effect of Different Levels of Tillage on the Ecological Services in Agricultural Soils Judith Kraut-Cohen1, Dafi Lavi1, Angela Kravtsov1, Efraim Fizik2, Mor Shachar2, Eli Argaman2, Dror Minz1 1Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel 2Soil Erosion Research Station, Soil Conservation & Drainage Division, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Israel

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19:30 The Hfq RNA-Chaperone Homolog isEssential For Biofilm Self-Suppression in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus Elongatus Yevgeni Yegorov Life Science, Bar Ilan Unevrsity, Israel

20:00 Root and Soil Microbiome Response to Treated Wastewater Irrigation Avihai Zolti1,2, Yitzhak Hadar2, Dror Minz1 1Institute of Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization – Volcani Center, Israel 2Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:30 Novel Mode of Action for the Elimination of Gut Pathogens by Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Ronit Suissa, Gili Rosenberg, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Microbiology. Stand number: 37 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 The Escherichia coli Extracellular Death Factor EDF Induces the Endoribonucleolytic Activities of Mycobacterial toxins MazF-mt3 and MazF-mt6 Akanksha Nigam, HAnna Engelberg-Kulka Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Hadassah Medical School, Israel

17:30 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus versus Acidovorax citrulli: Elucidating the Determinants of Predator- Prey interaction Einav Aharon, Edouard Jurkevitch, Saul Burdman Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:00 Effective Treatment against Pneumonic Plague by Inhaled Gentamicin David Gur1, Itai Glinart2, Moshe Aftalion1, Yaron Vagima1, Yinon Levy1, Shahar Rotem1, Avital Tidhar1, Arnon Tal3, Ayelet Zauberman1, Sharon Maoz1, Avi Pass3, Ronit Aloni- Grinstein1, Raphael Ber1, Emanuelle Mamroud1 113 Last updated 16.02.2017

1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel 2Department of infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel 3Department of Biotechnology, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel

18:30 Identifying Genotypic and Phenotypic Paths Leading to High-Level Resistance to a Range of Antibiotics Rotem Gross, Roy Kishony Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:00 The Role of FUS in Modulating HIV Transcription Lital Marom, The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics,, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

19:30 Selection for Hostility: Antibiotic Production in a Micro-Droplet System Einat Tamar1, Ylaine Gerardin2, Allon Klein2, Roy Kishony1 1Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA

20:00 Reducing Emissions of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide (N2O) by Isolated Bacteria Strains from Wheat Rhizosphere Alla Usyskin1,2, Yitzhak Hadar2, Dror Minz1 1Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel 2Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:30 An in-Vitro Model For Determining Whether Varicella-Zoster Virus infects Neurons via Lymphocytes Noy Elmaliach, Laura Malka, Ronald S Goldstein Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Microbiology. Stand number: 38 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Selection on Microbial Communities at the Level of Single Soil Aggregates Dor Russ1, Amit Akiva1, Roy Kishony1,2 1Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 17:30 VZV Encodes Multiple Short Non-coding RNAs Including Several Potential miRNAs Amos Markus1, Dana Berneman- Zeitouni1, Ron Goldstein1, Paul Kinchington2 1Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Opthamology, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, USA

18:00 Bacteria-Phage Antagonistic Coevolution in Bacillus sp Anna Lopatina, Adi Millman, Shahar Silverman, Sarah Melamed, Azita Leavitt, Rotem Sorek Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 Following the Mobile Resistome through the Path of Reclaimed Wastewater: from Treatment Plants to Irrigated Crops Roberto Marano1,2, Eddie Cytryn1 1The Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel 2Department of Plant Pathology andMicrobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

19:00 Viruses Coordinate Infection via Small Molecule Communication Zohar Erez1, Ida Steinberger-Levy1,2, Maya Shamir1, Shany Doron1, Avigail Stokar1, Yoav Peleg3, Sarah Melamed1, Azita Leavitt1, Alon Savidor4, Shira Albeck3, Gil Amitai1, Rotem Sorek1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel 3Israel Structural Proteomics Center (ISPC), Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4de Botton Institute for Protein Profiling, the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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19:30 The Effect of Cell Surface N-linked Glycosylation on Mating Efficiency in the Halophilic Archaeon HalOferax volcanii Yarden Shalev1, Israela Turgeman-Grott1, Shannon Soucy2, Neta Altman1, Uri Gophna1 1Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, USA

20:00 Impact of a Homing Intein on Recombination Frequency and Organismal Fitness in HalOferax Volcanii Shachar Robinzon, Neta Altman-Price, Uri Gophna Molecular Microbiology andBiotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 Uncovering the Molecular Basis for Phenotypic Stress Persistence Gilad Yaakov, David Lerner, Kajetan Bentele, Steinberger Joseph, Naama Barkai Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Microbiology. Stand number: 39 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 The Effect of Synthetic Liposomes on EPEC Virulence Sonia Oren, Neta Sal-Man Microbiology and Immunology, Ben Gurion University, Israel

17:30 Enhancement of Fungal Mycelial Laccase Production by Anti-bacterial Antibiotics Inbar Dahan1,3, Itamar Yadid2,3, Segula Masaphy1,3 1Applied Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory, MIGAL- Galilee Research Institute, Israel 2Protein Evolution and Metabolic Cycles Laboratory, MIGAL-Galilee Research Institute, Israel 3Sciences, Tel Hai College, Israel

18:00 Structural and Functional Investigation of the Membrane Fusion Step in Hantavirus Entry Shmuel Willensky1, Hagit Bar-Rogovsky1, Eduardo A. Bignon3, Nicole D. Tischler3, Yorgo Modis2, Moshe Dessau1 1The Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK 3Molecular Virology Laboratory, Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Chile

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18:30 Structure of a Cytotoxic Bacterial Peptide Reveals Cross-Alpha Amyloid-Like Fibril Einav Tayeb-Fligelman, Orly Tabachnikov, Asher Moshe, Meytal Landau Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:00 Clostridium Clariflavum: Unraveling the Mystery of the Largest Assembled Cellulosome System Lior Artzi, Sarah Morais, Ely Morag, Melina Shamshoum, Edward A Bayer The Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:30 Structural & Functional Characterizationof a Type III Secretion System Protein Escs in Enteropathogenic Escherichia Coli Irit Tseytin, Neta Sal-Man Microbiology and Immunology, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

20:00 Understanding Stable Isotopic Fractionation during Microbial Methanogenesis Jonathan Gropp1, Qusheng Jin2, Mark Iron3, Itay Halevy1 1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, USA 3Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:30 Structure and Function Studies of the Enigmatic GP38 from Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) Rotem Fridman, Noa Landau, Hagit Bar-Rogovsky, Moshe Dessau The Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Plant Sciences. Stand number: 40 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Transposable Elements in Wheat: Much More Than Junk Khalil Kashkush Department of Life Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel, Israel

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17:30 The Glucosinolate Breakdown Product indole-3-Carbinol Induces Autophagy in Root Tips of Arabidopsis Thaliana Ella Katz, Mor Sela, Hila Behar, Daniel A. Chamovitz Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Avi University, Israel

18:00 Are Plant Circadian Systems Adaptive for Stressful Environmental Conditions? Yuri Dakhiya1, Duaa Hussien1, Eyal Friedman2, Moshe Kiflawi3, Rachel Green1 1Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, the Silberman Institute for Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Plant Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), the Volcani Center, Israel 3Department of Life Sciences, interUniversity Institute for Marine Sciences,Ben Gurion University, Israel

18:30 Cellular Signals That Tune Root Tropic Responses Doron Shkolnik1, Gat Krieger1, Roye Nuriel1, Alex Costa2, Hillel Fromm1 1Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Dipartimento di Bioscienze, University of Milan, italy

19:00 The KNOXI Gene SHOOT MERISTEMLESS Regulates Flower Organ Identity in Plants Ohad Roth1, John Paul Alvarez2, Matan Levi3, Odelia Pisanty1, Yuval Eshed4, Naomi Ori3, Eilon Shani1 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Australia 3Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture,, Hebrew University, Israel 4Department of plant and environmental science, Weizmann Institute of science, Israel

19:30 Do Photosynthetic Pathways of annual Plants Determine Seed Endophytic Community? Ruben Girsowicz, Oksana Koryachenko, Yosef Steinberger The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:00 The COP9 Signalosome is a Master Regulator for Plant Responses to Environmental Stress Amit Kumar Singh, Daniel A. Chamovitz Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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20:30 The Regulatory Landscape of the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Miriam Tannenbaum1, Avital Sarusi-Portuguez1, Michal Schwartz1, Ronen Krispil1, Tommy Kaplan2, Ofir Hakim1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Plant Sciences. Stand number: 41 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Detection of Potato Virus Y in Industrial Quantities of Seed Potatoes by Taqman Real Time PCR Yehudit Tam1, Liat Avrahami-Moyal1,5, Marina Brumin1, Shanmugam Prakash1, Malenia Pearlsman1, Menachem Bornstein1, Noa Sela1, Mouhammad Zeidan2, Zion Dar3, Uri Zig4, Amit Gal-On1, Victor Gaba1 1Plant Pathology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel 2Ministry of Agriculture, Plant Protection inspection Service, Israel 3Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Advisory Service, Israel 4Field Crops, Maon Enterprises Ltd.,, Israel 5Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, Israel

17:30 Isolating Suppressors of Arabidopsis Ahydrotropic Mutants: Gene Mapping by Next Generation Sequencing Roye Nuriel, Shirly Valter, Hillel Fromm Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

18:00 Altered Expression of a Reticulon- Like Protein B16 (RTNLB16) Arabidopsis Thaliana Mutant increases the Plant Sensitivity to Light to Dark Transition Tami Khazma, Gad Miller Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan, Israel

18:30 Proteomic Characterization of OMVs from Plant Bacterial Pathogens Leron Katsir1, Gideon Mordukhovic2, Ofir Bahar1 1Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel 2The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University, Israel

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19:00 What Distinguishes those that Can from Those that Can’t: the Desiccation Tolerance of Biological Sand Crust-Inhabiting Cyanobacteria Nadav Oren1, Hagai Raanan1,2, Omer Murik1, Aaron Kaplan1 1Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, USA

19:30 Identification and Characterization of LeEIX2-Interacting Proteins involved in Plant Immune Signaling Meirav Leibman-Markus, Lorena Pizarro, Silvia Schuster, Adi Avni Molecular biology and ecology of plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:00 NbMAP3k-3like in LeEIX2/EIX Signaling Pathway of Plant Defense Responses Dekel Cohen, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Silvia Schuster, Adi Avni Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plant, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 S. lycopersicum Prenylated Rab Acceptor Protein F (SlPRA1f) inhibits LeEIX2 Trafficking and Defense Response, and Induces Autophagy. Lorena Pizarro, Tal Margalit, Meirav Leibman-Markus, Silvia Schuster, Adi Avni Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plant, Tel Aviv University, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Plant Sciences and Zoology. Stand number: 42 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 The Genetic Network Mediating Compound-Leaf Development in Response to Auxin Alon Israeli, Naomi Ori The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Israel

17:30 Identification of New Components Involved in Cell Wall Deposition in Arabidopsis Lateral Root Elongation Hewot Ashagre, Anat Hugger, SAnjay Joshi, Smadar Harpaz-Saad Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Israel

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18:00 The Effect of Pre-harvest Application of the Plant Hormone Cytokinin on Litchi Fruit Maturation and Pericarp Browning Amit Fahima1, Anat Hugger1, Raphael Stern2, Smadar Harpaz-Saad1 1Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and environment, Israel 2Biotechnology, MIGAL, Galilee Technology Center, Israel

18:30 Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Cytosolic Ascorbate Peroxidases 1 and2 in Stress Response in Arabidopsis Shimrit Malihi, Gad Miller Faculty of life sciences, Bar Ilan, Israel

19:00 Characterizing the Function of the Microtubule Associated Protein ICR2 in ROP Mediated Abiotic Stress Response Gil Feiguelman, Shaul Yalovsky Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:30 Developing a Method for Identification of Substrate Proteins Sent to Proteasome Degradation by E3 Ubiquitin Ligases Guy Sobol, Guido Sessa Molecular Biology & Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:00 Ecologic Scenarios for the Evolution of β-lactam Resistance in the Soil

Tabitha Bucher1, Tsviya Olender1, Eddie Cytryn2, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal1 1Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel

20:30 Functional Diversity of Soil Microbial Communities in the Vicinity of Acanthosicyos horridus (Nara) in the Namibian Sand-Dune Desert Ecosystem Tea Colin1, Chen Sherman1, Gillian Maggs-Kölling2, Eugene Marais3, Yosef Steinberger1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Walvis Bay, Namibia 3Department of Entomology, National Museum of Namibia, Namibia

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Neuroscience. Stand number: 43 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Analysis of Semaphorin 3A Neurotoxicity on hESCs-derived Motor Neurons Anastasya Birger1, Etti Ben-Shushan1, Sahar Sweetat2, Oded Behar2, Benjamin E. Reubinoff1 1Gene Therapy Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel 2Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel

17:30 Understanding the Role of the Microbiome in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Analysis of Two Autism Transgenic Mouse Models Laure Tabouy1, Oren Ziv2, Omry Koren2, Evan Elliott1 1Neurobiology, 1Molecular And Behavioral Neurosciences Lab, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty Of Medicine, Israel 2Immunology, 2Microbiome Research Lab, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty Of Medicine, Israel

18:00 Ractivating Aversive Memories Induces a Rapid Systemic and Protective Stress Respnse Yifat Eliezer, Lihi Hoch, Christian Pritz, Shachar Iwanir, Alon Zaslaver Genetics, Hebrew University, Israel

18:30 Resilience and Sensitivity to Stress are Linked to Aging Related Cognitive Impairments Maryia Bairachnaya, Moshe Gross, Tatiana Tikhonov, Elimelech Nesher, Michael Kirby, Izhak Michaelevski, Albert Pinhasov Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

19:00 Experience-Dependent Regulation of Cortical inhibition by VIP Neuron-Derived IGF1 Lior Aram, Ivo Spiegel Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:30 Towards Single Neuron Transcriptional Profiling of Memories Encoded by Aversive and Rewarding Experiences Hagit Turm, Noa Blainstain1, Ami Citri1,2 1The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

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20:00 High-Resolution Analysis of Courtship Suppression in Drosophila Melanogaster Julia Ryvkin, Galit Shohat-Ophir, Galit Shohat-Ophir Biology, Bar Ilan, Israel

20:30 Increasing Telomerase Expression in Mouse Hippocampal Cells Protects from Amyloid Beta Induced Neuronal Damages Natalie Eliyahu, Vladislav Rud, Esther Priel The Shraga Segal department of Microbiology Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Neuroscience. Stand number: 44 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Long Noncoding RNAs Required for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration Rotem Ben Tov Perry, Hadas Hezroni, Igor Ulitsky Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

17:30 Combinatorial Immediate-Early Gene Expression Targets Spatially Defined Cocaine-Responsive Neuronal Populations in the Mouse Brain Ben Jerry Gonzales1, Diptendu Mukherjee1, Noa Bleistein2, Ami Citri1,2 1Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:00 Alterations in Unique Metabolic Demand Underlying Motor Neuron Axon and Synapse Dysfunction in ALS Topaz Altman, Eran Perlson Physiology & Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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18:30 Phenotypic Mitochondrial Malfunction of eIF2B5R132H/R132H MEFs and High Throughput Screening for the Treatment of VWM Disease Andrea Atzmon, Reut Sharet, Gali Raini, Orna Elroy-Stein Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

19:00 With a Little Help from My Friends – Engineering Parasites for the Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins to the CNS Shahar Bracha1, Karoliina Hassi2, Jana Ovciarikova2, Lilach Sheiner2, Oded Rechavi1 1Department of Neurobiology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Wellcome Trust Centre For Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

19:30 Corazonin Neuropeptide Promotes Mating Reward in Males Fruit Fly, Drosophila Melanogaster Shir Zer, Hila Zak, Omri Shallom, Galit Shohat-Ophir The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:00 Sexual Experience Modulates Social Group interaction in Drsophila melanogaster Liora Kazaz1, Alice Robie2, Kim Yong-Kyu2, Ulrike Heberlein2, Kristin Branson2, Galit Shohat-Ophir1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2HHHMI Janelia Research Campus, HHHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA

20:30 Vascularization Modulates Morphology and Activity Characteristics of Engineered Neural Implants in-Vitro and in-Vivo Uri Merdler, Erez Shor, Shy Shoham, Shulamit Levenberg Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Stem Cells. Stand number: 45 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Spontaneous Single-Copy Loss of TP53 in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Markedly increases Cell Proliferation and Survival Hadar Amir Levy1,2, Thomas Touboul2, Karen Sabatini2, Divya Chhabra2, Rob Morey2, Louise Laurent2 1IVF Lab and Wolfe PGD Stem Cell Lab, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical center, Israel 2Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego, USA

17:30 Enhanced Human Naïve Pluripotency Growth Conditions That Endow Tolerance for Loss of Epigenetic Repressors in Human PSCs Muneef Ayyash, Jonathan Bayerl, Yair Manor, Sergey Viukov, Noa Novershtern, Jacob HAnna Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Ensembling the Fate of Intestinal Stem Cells Upasana das Adhikari1, Nofar Amsalem1, Amijai Saragovi1, Alexander Loewe2, Yinon Ben Neriah1 1Department of Immunology and Zancer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2 Max Delbruck Centre of Molecular Medicine, Germany

18:30 Rapid Dynamics of Stress-Induced MicroRNA Modifications in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Gilli Moshitzky1,2, Ilan Friedson1,2, David S.Greenberg1,2, Hermona Soreq1,2 1Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Edmond and Lily Safra Center of Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

19:00 A Sophisticated Mouse Model For Understanding Beta Cell Reprogramming Failure Rachel Lasry, yosef buganim developmental biology and cancer research, hebrew University, Israel

19:30 Elucidating Mechanism of Direct Reprogramming into Hematopoiesis Stem Cells Amit Klainberger, Yael Bar Lavan, Roi Gazit The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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20:00 A Hyperdynamic H3.3 Nucleosome Marks Promoter Regions in Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells Jose David Aguirre Aguilera1, Shai Melcer2, Tommy Kaplan3, Eran Meshorer2, Sharon Schlesinger1 1Department of Animal science, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment,, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Genetics, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:30 Oct4 Impedes Cell Fate Redirection by the Melanocyte Lineage Master Regulator Mitf DAnna Sheinboim1, Itay Maza2, Jacob H HAnna2, Carmit Levy1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy. Stand number: 46 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Targeted Proteomics Quantification - Using SIL Proteins As internal Standards in Quantitative MS Workflows Nadav Askari, Efrat Reem, Rotem Shaulitch, Yana Mogilianski, Tatiana Bober, Leonora Niv, Bela Lisak Department of Human Protein Biology R&D, Sigma-Aldrich Israel, Sigma-Aldrich international GmbH is a subsidiary of Merck, Israel

17:30 From Redox-Regulated inactivation to inter-Chaperone Crosstalk: the Many Surprising Roles One Chaperone’s Metastable Region Can Play/h3 Oded Rimon1, Ohad Suss1, Ohad Yogev1, Tal Arian1, Hadar Amartely2, Guy Propper1, Oren Ram1, Assaf Friedler2, Dana Reichmann1 1Department of Biological Chemistry, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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18:00 Time Line Redox Profiling of Yeast Cell Subpopulations Using Florescence Based Cell Sorting Methodology Rosi Fassler1, Meytal Radzinski1, Ohad Yogev1, William Breuer1, Nadav Shai2, Maya Schuldiner2, Tommer Ravid1, Dana Reichmann1 1Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:30 Exploring Functional Plasticity of Protein Proteostasis Network in Bacteria Using In-Vivo Cross Linking Coupled with Mass Spectrometry Ravit Mesika Biology Chemistry, Hebrew University, Givaat Ram, Israel

19:00 High-Reynolds Microfluidic Sorting of Large Yeast Population Demonstrates Early Age- Dependent Changes in Protein Quality Control Eliezer Keinan1, Ayelet Chen Abraham2, Reshef Mintz3, Merav Cohen1,2, Dana Reichmann3, Daniel Kaganovich2, Yaakov Nahmias1,2 1Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Department of Biological Chemistry, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Th, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

19:30 Analysis of the TLR2 Complex in Response to Porphyromonas Gingivalis Infection Jeba Mercy Gnanasekaran, Gabriel Nussbaum The Institute of Dental Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel

20:00 STED vs. Software Based Super-Resolution, Which When and Why? Avi Jacob Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

20:30 Correlative Microscopy of Clathrin Coated Pits Reveals the Architecture of the Clathrin Lattice during Maturation Ori Avinoam, Martin Schorb3, Marko Kaksonen, John A.G. Briggs Cell Biology and Biophysics, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session: Genetics and Medical Genetics. Stand number: 47 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Mutations in STN1 Cause Coats plus Syndrome and are Associated with Genomic and Telomere Defects Amos J. Simon1,2,3, Atar Lev1, Anna Greenberg1, Eran Eyal3, Nitzan Kol3, Ortal Barel3, Keren Cesarkas3, David L. Wiest4, Ginette Schiby5, Iris Barshack5, Elon Pras6, Yechezkel Sidi7, Hagar Katzir8, Shira Sagie8, Haifa A. Aqeilan9, Galina Glousker9, Ninette Amariglio2,3,10, Yehuda Tzfati9, Sara Selig8, Gideon Rechavi3, Raz Somech1 1Pediatric Department A and Immunology Service, Jeffrey Modell Foundation Center, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Division of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Sheba Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 4Blood Cell Development and Function Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA 5Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 6The Danek Gertner Institute of Human Genetics, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 7Department of Internal Medicine C, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 8Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 9Department of Genetics, the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Israel 10The Everard and Mina Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

17:30 MtDNA Meta-analysis Reveals Both Phenotype Specificity and Allele Heterogeneity: a Model for Differential Association in a Single Locus Shani Martsiano1, Michael Friger2, Dan Mishmar1 1Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

18:00 Novel RECQL4 Mutation Causing Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome Daniel Halperin, Max Drabkin, Yonatan Perez, Yuval Yogev, Michael Volordarski, Ohad Birk The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, the Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics at National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University, Israel 128 Last updated 16.02.2017

18:30 Novel PAX6 Mutation Causes Phenotypic Variability of Autosomal-Dominant Nystagmus and Foveal Hypoplasia Ohad Wormser1, Libe Gradstein2, Regina Proskorovski1, Juliana Habeeb1, Ohad Birk1,3 1Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Department of Ophthalmology, Soroka Medical Center, Israel 3Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center, Israel

19:00 Antenatal Bartter Syndrome Type 1 With A Novel Homozygous SLC12A1 Mutation Vadim Dolgin1, Daniel Halperin1, Rotem Kadir1, Yonatan Perez1, Michael Geilis2, Ohad S. Birk1,3 1Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Pediatric Nephrology Clinic, Soroka Medical Center, Israel 3Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center, Israel

19:30 The Mechanism that Determines the Transgenerational Duration of RNAi in C.elegans Leah Houri-Ze'evi1, Yael Korem2, Hila Sheftel2, Lior Faigenbloom1, Itai A. Toker1, Yael Dagan1, Lama Awad1, Luba Dagani1, Uri Alon2, Oded Rechavi1 1Department of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

20:00 Redefining Gene Diversification Dogmas: Lessons from the Immune System of Echinoderms Matan Oren1, Benyamin Rosental3, Jacob Agronin1, Daniele Podini2, Courtney Smith1, Courtney Smith 1Biology, the George Washington University, USA 2Forensic Science, the George Washington University, USA 3Stem Cell Institute, Stanford University, USA

20:30 Design Principles and Implications of Non-consensus Protein-DNA Binding: a New Genetic Code David Lukatsky Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Genetics and Medical Genetics. Stand number: 48 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 A Novel Mutation Causes Complete Male Azoospermia Maram Arafat1,2, Iris Har Vardi3, Avi Harlev4, Eli Levitas3, Eitan Lunenfeld4, Ruti Parvari1,2 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology,Immunology & Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2NIBN, National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3Fertility and IVF Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 4IVF Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soroka Medical Center Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

17:30 Next-Generation Sequencing to Decipher the Genetic Heterogeneity of Deafness in Palestinian Families Amal Abu-Rayyan1,4, Nada Danial-Farran2,3, Zippora Brownstein4, Lara Kamal1, Suleyman Gulsuner5, Silvia Casadei5, Tom Walsh5, Stavit Allon-Shalev2,3, Mary-Claire King5, Karen Avraham4, Moien Kanaan1 1Department of Biological Sciences, Bethlehem University, Palestine 2Ha'Emek Medical Center, Genetics Institute, Israel 3Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,Tel Aviv University,, Israel 5Department of Medical Genetics and Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, USA

18:00 DNA Methylation during Development of the Mammalian Inner Ear Yael Noy1, Ofer Yizhar-Barnea1, Cristina Valensisi2, Kamal Kishore3, Kathy Ushakov1, Tal Koffler1, Yoni Bhonker1, Mattia Pelizzola3, David R. Hawkins2, Karen B. Avraham1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Medicine & Department of Genome Sciences, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, USA 3Computational Epigenomics Unit, Center for Genomic Science, IIT@SEMM, IFOM-IEO Campus, italy

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18:30 HEar-Seq for Determining the Spectrum of Inherited Mutations for Deafness in the Israeli Jewish Population Zippora Brownstein1, Fabio Martins1, Nada Danial-Faran1,2,3, Suleyman Gulsuner4, Maria Birkan1, Lara Kamal5, Meirav Sokolov1, Silvia Casadei4, Ming Lee4, Noam Shomron1,6, Bella Davidov1,7, Lina Basel1,7, Moshe Frydman1,8, Michal Macarov9, Michal Sagi9, Tzippora Falik- Zaccai10,11, Reuven Sharony1,12, Tom Walsh4, Moien Kanaan5, Stavit Allon-Shalev2,3, Mary- Claire King4, Karen B. Avraham1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Genetics Institute, Ha'Emek Medical Center, Israel 3Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, USA 5Department of Biological Sciences, Bethlehem University, Palestine 6Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 7Department of Medical Genetics, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 8Danek Gertner Institute of Human Genetics, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 9Department of Human Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 10Institute of Human Genetics, Western Galilee Medical Center, Israel 11Faculty of Medicine in Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 12Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery and Genetics Institute, Meir Medical Center, Israel

19:00 The Transcription Factor ATOH1 and its Association with Deafness in Humans Mor Bordeynik Cohen1, Ofer Yizhar-Barnea1, Zippora Brownstein1, Rebecca Haffner2, Weise Chang3, Matthew W. Kelley3, Karen B. Avraham1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Laboratory of Cochlear Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, NIH, USA

19:30 E-Selectin-Targeted Nano-Sized Polymer Attenuates Atherosclerosis Vascular Inflammation and Adverse Cardiac Remodeling Olga Tsoref1,2, Uri Amit1,2, Natalie Landa1, David Kain1,2, Dalia Tyomkin3, Ayelet David3, Jonathan Leor1,2 1Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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20:00 The Longevity Gene Sirtuin 6 Switches Macrophages into an anti-Inflammatory Phenotype and Improves Cardiac Function after Myocardial Infarction in Mice La Paz Levin Kotler1,2,3, Uri Amit1,2,3, Tammy Ben-Mordechai1,2,3, Dahlia Palevski1,2,3, Nataly Molotski1,2,3, David Kain1,2,3, Radka Holbova1,2,3, Yariv Kanfi4, Haim .Y Cohen4, Jonathan Leor1,2,3 1Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Sheba Center for Regenerative Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:30 Overexpression of the Sirtuin SIRT6 Improves Multiple Aspects of Mouse Healthspan Asael Roichman1, Yariv Kanfi1, Renana Glazz1, Shoshana Naiman1, Uri Amit2, Natalie Landa2, Simon Tinman1, Ilan Stein3, Eli Pikarsky3, Jonathan Leor2, Haim Y. Cohen1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Pathology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Stand number: 49 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Pausing and Backtracking as Major Determinants in the Rate Limiting Role of Initiation in Bacterial Transcription Eitan Lerner1, SangYoon Chung1, Benjamin Allen2, Shuang Wang3, Jookyung Lee5, Shijia Lu1, Logan Grimaud1, antonino ingargiola1, Xavier Michalet1, Yazan Alhadid1, Sergei Borukhov5, terence Strick3,4, Dylan Taatjes2, Shimon Weiss1,6,7 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA 3Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, institut Jacques Monod, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Paris Diderot and Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France 4Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), Ecole Normale Supérieure, institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, France 5School of Osteopathic Medicine, Rowan University, USA 6California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, USA 7Dept. of Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, USA

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17:30 GTP Binding Protein 1 (GTPBP1) – A Novel Eukaryotic Factor with Translation Elongation Activity Alexandra Zinoviev1, Akanksha Goyal2, Marina Rodnina2, Christopher Hellen1, Tatyana Pestova1 1Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA 2Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

18:00 Proteomics and Genomics Mapping of the Chromatin Structure duringMitosis Inbal Shamir1, Elisheva Javasky1, Oded Sandler1, Michal Schlesinger1, Michele Busby2, Catherine Li2, Elizabeth Gienger2, Alon Goren2, Itamar Simon1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University, Israel 2Broad Technology Labs (BTL), the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA

18:30 System Analysis of the S. cerevisiae Family of Deubiquitinating Enzymes Reveals Robustness over Specificity Dikla Berko-Ashur, Ami Navon Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

19:00 The Hunt for the Last Uncloned Receptor: Molecular Cloning of the Enigmatic Sigma-2 Receptor Assaf Alon, Hayden R. Schmidt1, Andrew C. Kruse, James J. Sahn2, Michael D. Wood2, Stephen F. Martin2 1Biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, USA 2Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA

19:30 Can We Read Genes? Elisha Haas, Gil Rahamim, Tomer Orevi, Jitendriya Swain, Ilya Shvartsburd, Ilya Shvartsburd, Chaya Levy, Dan Amir The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:00 Structure and Two-Metal Mechanism of a Eukaryal Nick-Sealing RNA Ligase Yehuda Goldgur1, Mihaela-Carmen Unciuleac2, Stewart Shuman2 1Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA 2Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA

20:30 CDC48: A Redox Switch for Aging Meytal Radzinski1, Rosi Fassler1, Ohad Yogev1, Tommer Ravid1, Maya Schuldiner2, Dana Reichmann1 133 Last updated 16.02.2017

1Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Stand number: 50 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 A Specific Oligopeptide Transporter Mediates Quorom-Sensing Regulation of the Extracellular Xylanase Gene in Geobacillus Stearothermophilus Smadar Shulami1, Lea Feld1, Abraham Sonenshein2, Yuval Shoham1 1Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

17:30 Extracts of Environmental Particles with Low Content of Organic Compounds Impairs Macrophages’ Mitochondrial Respiration and Induce Macrophage-Mediated Adipocyte Dysfunction Roni Gat1, Tal Pacht1, Michal Pardo3, Yinon Rudich3, James J Schauer2, Rachel Golan1, Assaf Rudich1,4 1Clinical Biochemistry, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 3Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Autoimmune and Metabolic Diseases Group, National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Israel

18:00 Mechanistic Insights into Tyrosinase-Mediated Crosslinking of Soy Glycinin Derived Peptides Sivan Isaschar Ovdat, Ayelet Fishman Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

18:30 Differentiation Characteristics of Cardiac Rat Fibroblasts Examined in Primary Cultures Jasmine Argaman1, Talya Razin1, Tiki Sasson1, Eli anuka1, Naomi Melamed-Book2, Joseph Orly1 1Department of Biological Chemistry, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Bio-Imaging Unit, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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19:00 Structural Basis for anti-Microbial Activity of Amyloid Peptides and Spine Segments from Phenol Soluble Modulins (PSMs) Secreted by Staphylococcus aureus Nir Salinas, Asher Moshe, Meytal Landau Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:30 The Genomic Environment of the Primate-Specific Hsa-miR-608 Highlights Sequence Domains Important For its Expression Yonat Tzur, Bettina Nadorp, David S Greenberg, Hermona Soreq Department of Biological chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

20:00 Redox-Regulation andChaperone Function of the Hsp33 Homologue in T. Brucei Samar Aramin1, Rosi Fassler1, Mor Goldenberg1, Shulamit Michaeli2, Dana Reichmann1 1Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University, Israel

20:30 The Unravelling of the Complex Pattern of Tyrosinase Inhibition Batel Deri1, Margarita Kanteev1, Mor Goldfeder1, Daniel Lecina3, Victor Guallar4, Noam Adir2, Ayelet Fishman1 1Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Joint BSC-CRG-IRB Research Program in Computational Biology, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain 4Joint BSC-CRG-IRB Research Program in Computational Biology, institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Stand number: 51 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 Fission of Transport Carriers from the Endoplasmic Reticulum Occurs Downstream to COPII Coated Membranes Olga Shomron1, Inbar Nevo-Yassaf1, George H. Patterson2, Christoph Kaether3, Yoji Yonemura3, Koret Hirschberg1 1Pathology, Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, USA 3Membrane traffic and Alzheimer´s Disease, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Germany

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17:30 Flow-Induced Vascularization in 3D Engineered Tissue Barak Zohar, Yaron Blinder, Shulamit Levenberg Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

18:00 Controlling Reproduction Through microRNAs Yael Heifetz, Javier Arturo Sánchez-López, Shai Twena, Einat Zelinger, Netanel Chaim, Ido Apel, Amalia Gothilf Department of Entomology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

18:30 The Role of Mitochondria in Canavanine Tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Marina Druseikis, Shay Covo Department of Agroecology and Plant Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Israel

19:00 Deciphering the interaction Between Autophagy and ER Stress in C. elegans Shir Arbib, Sivan Henis-Korenblit The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Israel

19:30 Co-Translational Assembly of Protein Complexes in Eukaryotes: An Analysis of the Nascent Proteome Ayala Shiber1,2, Günter Kramer1,2, Bernd Bukau1,2 1Center for Molecular Biology and biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Germany 2DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, German Cancer Research Center, Germany

20:00 Compound Mutants for Nek6 and Nek7 Kinases Display Polycystic Kidney Disease Shiri Barak1, Benny Motro1, Tovar ana2 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2The Institute of Pathology, Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Israel

20:30 Sensory System Impairment in C. elegans Induces Resistance to ER Stress and to Other Cellular Stresses Hai Gian, Modi Safra, Sivan Henis-Korenblit The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-21:00 E-poster session I: Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Stand number: 52 Herods hotel - Pavilion 17:00 RNA Editing Mediates Cell Killing and Antibiotic Tolerance by Regulating a Toxin-Antitoxin System in E. coli Dan Bar Yaacov, Ernest Mordret, Ruth Towers, Schraga Schwartz, Orna Dahan, Yitzhak Pilpel Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 17:30 The Hepatitis B Virus Activates DNA Damage Response by a Short Embedded RNA Sequence Motif Karin Broennimann, inna Ricardo-Lax, Julia Adler, Nina Reuven, Yosef Shaul Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

18:00 Stress-Induced Aneuploidy - SOS for Polyploid Cells? Shay Covo1, Adi Zarenkin1, Anna Selmecki2 1Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Hebrew University, Israel 2Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical School, USA

18:30 Facilitation of Adaptive Evolution through Genomic Amplification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Idan Yelin, Roy Kishony Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

19:00 Self-assembly of Small Molecules Leads to Formation of Protein-like Ice Growth inhibitors Ran Drori1, Chunhua Hu1, Paolo Raiteri2, Bart Kahr1 1Department of Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute, New York University, USA 2Curtin Institute for Computation and Department of Chemistry, Curtin University, Australia

19:30 The Role of Interactions with Regulatory and Non-Regulatory RNAs in Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 – Mediated Gene Silencing Michael Rosenberg1,2, Roy Blum1,2, Jeannie T. Lee1,2 1Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA 2Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA

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20:00 Image Analysis Platform for Analyzing Developmental Patterning Processes Dmitri Rivkin, Liat Amir-Zilberstein, David Sprinzak Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

20:30 Il6 Trans Signaling; the Key to Aging Gracefully? Tali Lanton1, Orr Levkovitch1, Jonathan Axelrod1, Eithan Galun1, Stefan Rose-John3, Sharon Perless5, Rinat Abramovitch2, Yossi Tam4 1Hadassah University Hospital, Golgyne Savade Institute of Gene Therapy, Israel 2Magnetic resonance Imaging, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 3Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany 4Institute for drug research, School of pharmacy hebrew University, Israel 5Raziel theraputics ltd, Raziel theraputics, Israel

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

17:00-23:00 Light Dinner & Dance Party (parallel to E-poster session I) Herods hotel – Pavilion

The bar opens outside of the Pavilion at 19:00. The"Street Food" buffet, located outside of the Pavilion starts at 20:30.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW5: Cutting Edge Technologies Leading from Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Approaches Herods hotel - Kings hall A Chair: Yoram Reiter, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Chair: Yaron Shav-Tal, Bar Ilan University 07:30 Melanoma miRNA Trafficking Controls Tumour Primary Niche Formation Carmit Levy1, Shani Dror1, Laureen Sander2, Tamar Golan1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Functional Genome Analysis, Germany

07:48 Genetically Engineered Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells for patients with B cell malignancies: First clinical experience in Israel Michal Besser1,2, Orit Itzhaki1, Amos Toren3, Bella Bielorai3, Jacob Schachter1, Elad Jacoby3 1Ella Lemelbaum Institute of Immuno-Oncology, Sheba Medical Center Tel-Hashomer, Israel 2Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3The Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, and Sackler School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

08:06 Targeting the Nuclear Translocation of Mapks as a Novel Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Cancer Therapy Rony Seger Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

08:24 Prostate Cancer Inhibition by Targeting Polyinosine/Polycytosine Using a PSMA-Targeting Ligand or Single Chain antibody Yael Langut, Alaa Talhami, Alexei Shir, Maya Zigler, Nufar Edinger, Efrat Flashner- Abramson, Shoshana Klein, Alexander Levitzki Unit of Cellular Signaling, Department of Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

08:42 Harnessing the Power of Science and the Power of the Crowd - Mannitol for Parkinson’s disease Daniel Segal1,2, Ehud Gazit1, Eliezer Masliah3 1Deptartment of Molecular Microbiology & Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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2Sagol interdisciplinary School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Deptartment of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California, USA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW8: Novel Approaches for Cancer Translational Research Herods hotel - Kings hall B Chair: Cyrille Cohen, Bar Ilan University Chair: Yona Keisari, Tel Aviv University 07:30 Targeting Tumor-Associated and Microenvironmental Components Involved in Metastasis Isaac Witz Cell Research & Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

07:52 Heparanase: From Basic Cancer Research to Therapeutic Applications Israel Vlodavsky, Israel Vlodavsky1, Alessandro Noseda2, Ralph Sanderson3, Alessandro Noseda, Neta Ilan4 1Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Integrated Cancer Center (TICC), Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Clinical Development, sigma-Tel Aviv University Research Switzerland SA, Switzerland 3Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 4Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Integrated Cancer Center (TICC), Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

08:14 The Development of a Cancer Treatment Integrating a Novel Alpha Radiation Based Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy: from Preclinical to Clinical Studies. Yona Keisari1, Itzhak Kelson2 1Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University and Alpha Tel Aviv University Medical, Israel 2School of Physics and Astronomy, Sackler Faculty of Exact sciences and Alpha Tel Aviv University Medical, Tel Aviv University, Israel

08:36 Redox Modulation of Adjacent Thiols in VLA-4 by the Immunomodulatory AS101 Converts Myeloid Leukemia Cells from a Drug-Resistant To Drug-Sensitive State benjamin sredni, Adi Layani-Bazar, Itai Skornick, Yona Kalechman The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, C.A.I.R. Institute, the Safdi'e AIDS and Immunology, Research Center, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW10: Reproducing Irreproducible Results - What Can We Do For Recombinant Proteins? Herods hotel - Queens hall Chair: Mario Lebendiker, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Tsafi Danieli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 07:30 Rules of Thumb for Reproducible Protein Production in Bacterial Cells Tamar Unger, Shira Albeck, Orly Dym, Ada Dantes, Netta Segal Gilboa, Jossef Jacobovitch, Meital Yona, Shelly Rogotner, Yoav Peleg The Israel Structural Proteomics Center (ISPC), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

08:00 Towards Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Research in Academia Tsafi Danieli, Noa Dekel, Yael Nir-Keren Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural Biology, Hebrew University, Israel

08:30 Quality Control of Recombinant Protein: Best Practice Recommendations Minimal Quality Control Parameters that should be Tested on Protein Sample Mario Lebendiker Wolfson Centre Applied Structural Biology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW7: Maintenance and Differentiation of Germ Cells and Stem CellsDan hotel - Blue hall A Chair: Roi Gazit, Ben Gurion University Chair: Yonatan Tzur, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 07:30 Emerging Technologies in Modeling Genetic Disease Using Pluripotent Stem Cells Yoav Mayshar Wolfe PGD-Stem cell lab, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

07:45 Genome Integrity and Tumor Suppression – a Lesson from Germ Cells Rami (Jeremy) Don, Iris Marciano-Levi, Revital Eder Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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08:00 microRNA miR-9a modulates ageing of Drosophila Germline Stem Cells by Limiting the Expression of N-cadherin Hila Toledano, Yehonatan Epstein, Noam Perry, Marina Volin, Lilach Porat-Kuperstein Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel

08:15 Identification of a New Meiotic Mechanism That Ensures Correct Germline Development HAnna Achache, Yonatan Tzur Department of Genetics, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

08:30 Mitochondrial Hyperpolarization Induced by Complex V Restriction Maintains Peripheral Naïve CD8+ T Cell Progenitor Michael Berger, Amijai Saragovi Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

08:45 Mapping Splicing Bias of the Single Hematopoietic Stem Cell Tal Shay1,2, Amit Magen2, Hadas Ner-Gaon1, Guy Shani2, Roi Gazit3 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Software and information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3The Shraga Segal Department for Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW6: Novel anti-Cancer Therapeutics: Towards Personalized Medicine Dan hotel - Blue hall B Chair: Yehuda Assaraf, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 07:30 Lysosomal Sequestration of Hydrophobic Weak Base ChemoTherapeutics Triggers Lysosomal Biogenesis and Lysosome-Dependent Cancer Multidrug Resistance Yehuda , G. Assaraf, Benny Zhitomirsky The Fred Wyszkowski Cancer Research Laboratory, Deptartment of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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07:52 CKIalpha as a Therapeutic Target in Cancer Yinon Ben-Neriah, Waleed Minzel, Irit Snir-Alkalay, Avner Fink, Ido Burstain, Avanthika Venkatachalam, Guy Brachyia, Amitai Rivlin, Adar Zinger, Eli Pikarsky Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, IMRIC, Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School, Israel

08:14 Identifying Molecular Signatures of Tumor Dormancy as a Basis for the Rational Design of Precision Nanomedicines Ronit Satchi-Fainaro Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

08:36 Personalized Cancer Nano-Medicines Avi Schroeder Chemical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW9: Single-Molecule Biophysics- the Next Generation Dan hotel - Tarshish A

Chair: Hagen Hofmann, Weizmann Institute of Science 07:30 Optimal 3D Localization Microscopy by Point Spread Function Engineering Yoav Shechtman Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

08:00 "Over Hill, over Dale" – Is Protein Single Molecule Dynamics under Force Described by Two or More States? Ronen Berkovich, Ronen Berkovich1, JagAnnath Mondal2, inga Paster1, B.J. Berne3 1Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Centre for interdisciplinary Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 3Chemistry, Columbia University, USA

08:30 DNA Sequence and Histone Variant Usage Modulate the Stability and Mobility of Promoter Nucleosomes to Regulate Gene Expression: A Single Molecule Study Ariel Kaplan, Ariel Kaplan Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 143 Last updated 16.02.2017

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW1: Molecular, Genetic, Development and Clinical Aspects of Autism Royal Beach hotel - Hadar Chair: Illana Gozes, Tel Aviv University Chair: Idan Menashe, Ben Gurion University 07:30 Molecular and Functional Deficiencies in Neurons Derived from Fragile X Stem Cells to Explore the Development of Mental Retardation Dalit Ben Yosef1,2, Dalit Ben-Yosef2 1Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Tel-Aviv, Israel, Wolfe PGD-SC Lab, Racine IVF Unit, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel- Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Tel-Aviv, Israel, Wolfe PGD-SC Lab, Racine IVF Unit, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel- Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

07:52 Dyslipidemia as a Strong inherited Risk Factor for Autism Spectrum Disorder Ally Eran1,2,3, Yuan Luo4, Nathan Palmer2,3, Paul Avillach2,3, Ami Levy Moonshine5, Peter Szolovits6, Isaac Kohane2,3 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Department of Biomedical informatics, Harvard Medical School, USA 3Computational Health informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, USA 4Division of Health and Biomedical informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA 5Data Science and Data Engineering, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA 6Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

08:14 Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs): the Case of Activity-Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP) and NAP (Davunetide) Illana Gozes The Lily and Avraham Gildor Chair for the investigation of Growth Factors, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Adams Super Center for Brains Studies and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

08:36 Do Autism Genes Have a Unique Genomic Signature? Erez Tsur, Michael Friger, Idan Menashe Department of Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW3: Extracellular Vesicles: Cargo, Function and Biogenesis Royal Beach hotel - Shita Chair: Neta Regev Rudzki, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Yael Heifetz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture 07:30 Cellular Communication between Macrophages and Cancer Cells is Mediated by Exosomal Transmission Of Microrna Ziv Gil The Head and Neck Center, Rambam Healthcare Campus, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Integrated Cancer Center, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

07:45 Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: A New Player in Plant-Bacteria Interactions Gideon Mordukhovich, Leron Katsir, Noa Sela, OFIR BAHAR Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Science, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel

08:00 The Hepatic Derived MiR-122 Mediates Inflammation-Induced Anemia by Targeting Erythropoietin: the Gut-Liver-Kidney Circuitry Eithan Galun1, Mila Rivkin1, Alina Simerzin1, Elina Zorde-Khvalevsky1, Chofit Chai1, Jonathan B. Yuval2, Rona Harari-Steinfeld1, Ronen Schneider3, Mathias Heikenwalder4, Achim Weber5, Christoph Schramm6, Henning Wege6, Johannes Kluwe6, Hilla Giladi1 1The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene and Cell Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Ein Karem, Israel 2Department of Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Ein Karem, Israel 3Department of Nephrology, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Ein Karem, Israel 4Institute for Virology, Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 5Institute of Surgical Pathology, University Zurich, Swaziland 6Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Hamburg- Eppendorf, Germany

08:00 Schistosoma Secreted Exosome Like Micro-vesicles Interact With the Host Immune-system Tal Meningher1, Yifat Ofir-Birin2, Yiftah Barsheshet3, Daniel Gold4, Yechezkel Sidi5, Neta Regev-Rudzki2, Orly Avni3, Eli Schwartz6, Dror Avni1 1Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Department of Medicine C, Molecular Laboratory for the Study of Tropical Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 4Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Sackler School of 145 Last updated 16.02.2017

Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Medicine C, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 6Molecular Laboratory for the Study of Tropical Diseases and the Center for Geographic Medicine, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

08:15 Cell-Specific Uptake of Mantle Cell Lymphoma-Derived Exosomes by Malignant B-Lymphocytes Peer Dan1, Inbal Hazan-Halevi1, Daniel Rosenblum1, Shiri Weinstein1, Osnat Bairey2, Pia Raanani2 1Cell Research and Immunology, Laboratory of Precision NanoMedicine, Israel 2HematoOncology, Institute of Hematology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel

08:30 Special MVBs Participate in Paternal Mitochondrial Destruction after Fertilization in Drosophila Yoav Politi, Liron Gal, Eli Arama Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

08:40 Exosomes Role in Wnt Signaling Attenuation in Glaucoma Disease, in-Vitro Study Natalie Lerner, Natalie Lerner, Elie Beit-YAnnai, Elie Beit-YAnnai, Sofia Schreiber-Avissar Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW4: New Technologies in Light Microscopy: Israeli Light Imaging Forum Royal Beach hotel - Ella Chair: Alex Braiman, Ben Gurion University Chair: Rinat Abramovitch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center 07:30 Resolving the Nano-Structure and Synergy of Multi-Molecular Signaling Complexes in Single Molecule Detail Eilon Sherman Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

08:00 Progress in All-Optical Optoacoustic Microscopy Amir Rosenthal Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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08:30 Novel Methods to Study Cathepsin Localization and Function using Smart Fluorescent Probes Karin Reut Shannon1, Tommy Weiss-Sadan1, Emmanuelle Merquiol1, Yael Ben-Nun1, Boris Turk2, Galia Blum1 1Institute for Drug Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

07:30-09:00 EBW2: ScienceAbroad - the Organization of Israeli Scientists Abroad: Bringing Back Talent and Keeping Ties Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Moderator: Monika Lev Cohen, ScienceAbroad ScienceAbroad is an Israel-based nonprofit organization that harnesses the power of senior Israeli scientists abroad. Through its wide-reaching professional and social network, ScienceAbroad inspires connection with local communities, international scientists and Israel. This network advances scientific achievement, bolsters the Israeli identity of scientists living overseas and helps to facilitate the return of great minds to Israel. Since its inception in 2006, ScienceAbroad has grown to over 2,100 members in 23 countries, with 20 branches in North America run by scientists who volunteer their time and expertise. ScienceAbroad empowers Israeli scientists working on college campuses to speak out against the rampant delegitimization of Israel.

Panelists Erez Mills, ScienceAbroad Gil Blander, ScienceAbroad Adit Naor, ScienceAbroad Mati Mann, ScienceAbroad

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 1 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Mapping the Dynamic Co-Chaperone Interaction Network of the Mammalian Hsp70 Chaperones Flonia Levy-Adam, Reut Shalgi Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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09:30 A Combined Sequence and Structure Based Method for Discovering Binding Motifs on RNA from in-vivo Binding Data Maya Polishchuk1,2, Inbal Paz1, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund1 1Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Computational Biology, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russia

10:00 Core Promoter Architecture Differs in Distinct Genomic Contexts Anna Sloutskin1, Aleksander Jankowski2, Eileen E. M. Furlong2, Tamar Juven-Gershon1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

10:30 Cell Morphology Can Bias Cell Fate Decisions in Notch Mediated Processes Udi Binshtok1, Oren Shaya1, Micha Hersch2, Dmitri Rivkin1, David Sprinzak1 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Computational Biology Group,Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

11:00 Towards self-replicating informational polymers Noam Prywes, Noam Prywes, Jack Szostak Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 2 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Expanding the Genetic Code of a Photo-Autotrophic Organism Yonatan Chemla1, Mor Friedman1, Mathias Heltberg2, Anna Bakharat1, Elad Nagar3, Rakefet Schwarz3, Mogens Jensen2, Lital Alfonta1 1Life Sciences and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Sciences and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Neils Bohr institue, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 3The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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09:30 The Diversity and Evolution of the Arbitrium Bacteriophage Communication System Avigail Stokar-Avihail Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Unique Transcriptional Signatures Encode Salient Cognitive Experiences Diptendu Mukherjee1, Bogna Ignatowska-Jankowska2, Eyal itskovits3, Ben Jerry Gonzales1, Liz Izakson1, Hagit Turm1, Doron Haritan1, Alon Zaslaver3, Ami Citri2 1Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Edmond J. Safra Center for Neuroscience, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Department of Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Unravelling the Plant Cholesterol Biosynthesis Pathway and its Future through "Today" Prashant Sonawane1, Jacob Pollier3, Sayantan Panda1, Jedrzej Szymanski1, Tamar Unger2, Alain Goossens3, Asaph Aharoni1 1Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Israel Structural Proteomics Centre, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

11:00 The Three-Dimensional Folding of the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome as an Epigenetic Regulatory Layer of the Genetic Program. Ronen Krispil1, Akiva Brauner1, Avital Sarusi-Portuguez1, Michal Schwartz1, Tommy Kaplan2, Ofir Hakim1 1Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 3 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Conformational Dynamics of a Carbohydrate-Binding Protein from a Novel Bacterial Sensing System Dror Sherf1, Shifra Lansky1, Arie Zehavi2, Yuval Shoham2, Gil Shoham1 1Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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09:30 Protein-protein Interaction Networks of Cancer Fusions Display Small World Behavior andStrong Resilience against Perturbing Lower-Degree Hubs Somnath Tagore, Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10:00 Whole Genome Mapping of Heterochromatin Formation Upon induction of Tumor Cell Migration Tamar Segal, Mali Salmon-Divon, Gabi Gerlitz Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

10:30 Comprehensive Molecular Profiling of Tumor Evolution in Response to Treatment of Breast Cancer Maya Dadiani1, Noa Ben-Moshe Bossel5, Gili Perry1, Anjana Shenoy4, Dana Morzaev1, Nora Balint3, Irina Marin3, Anya Pavlovski3, Iris Barshack3,4, Tamar Geiger4, Eytan Domany5, Bella Kaufman2,4 1Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Oncology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Pathology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Physics of complex systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:00 A Database of A-to-I Editing in Cancer Cell Lines Amos A. Schaffer, Erez Y. Levanon Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 4 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Cracking the Cancer Code: Using an Information-Theoretic Approach to Study Patient-Specific Altered Protein Networks Efrat Flashner-Abramson, Nataly Kravchenko Balasha Department for Bio-Medical Research, Institute of Dental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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09:30 Quantitative Analyses of Protein Organization in vivo Avital Steinberg, Or Matalon, Joseph Georgeson, Emmanuel Levy Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Translation and PQC Regulation in Neurodegeneration Related Protein Aggregation Anatoly Meller, Flonia Levy-Adam, Reut Shalgi Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:30 The Roles of Long Non-Coding RNAs in Modulating Gene Expression through Distal Chromosomal Contacts Noa Gil, Igor Ulitsky Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:00 The Roles of Long Noncoding RNAs during Neuronal Differentiation Hadas Hezroni, Igor Ulitsky Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 5 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Gene ORGANizer: Linking Genes to the Organs they Affect David Gokhman, Guy Kelman, Adir Amartely, Guy Gershon, Shira Tsur, Liran Carmel Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:30 Is Evolution of Polyphagia in Bemisia tabaci Complex Relate to Positive Selection in Cytochrome P450 Enzymes? Ksenia Juravel, Diego Santos Garcia, Osnat Malka, Shai Morin Department of Entomology, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 A Study of Normal Copy Number Variations (CNVs) in the Israeli Population Pola Smirin-Yosef1, Sarit Kahana3, Idit Maya3, Josepha Yeshaya3, Shiri Yacobson3, Hadas David1, Doron Levi1, Danny Baranes1, Lina Basel-Vanagaite2,3,4,5, Mali Salmon-Divon1 151 Last updated 16.02.2017

1Department of Molecular Biology, Genomic Bioinformatics Laboratory, Ariel University, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Raphael RecAnati Genetics Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Israel 4Pediatric Genetics Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Israel 5Rabin Medical Center, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Israel

10:30 Statistical Analysis of Fitness Data and its Application to Improve Metabolic Modelling Oz Solomon1, Edward Vitkin2, Zohar Yakhini3,4 1Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Computer Science, the interdisciplinary Center, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 6 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Unwinding the Evolution A-To-I RNA Editing from the Earliest-Diverging Eumetazoan Phyla Hagit Porath1, Amos Schaffer1, Paulina Kaniewska2, Shahar Alon3, Eli Eisenberg3, Joshua Rosenthal4, Oren Levy1, Erez Levanon1 1Life Sciences, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel., Israel 2Global Change, Global Change Institute, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, Australia 3Neuroscience, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Israel 4Neurobiology, Institute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

09:30 Selection against Long dsRNA Structures is the First Line of Defense against False Activation of Innate Immunity Michal Barak1, Gilad Finkelstein1, Binyamin Knisbacher1, Eli Eisenberg2, Erez Levanon1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Sagol School of Neuroscience and Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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10:00 The Genetic Basis of Individual Variation in Transcriptional Responses: a Network-Based Approach Roni Wilentzik, Irit Gat-Viks Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 Clustered Mutations in Hominid Genome Evolution Are Consistent with APOBEC3G Enzymatic Activity Orshay Gabay1, Yishay Pinto1, Leonardo Arbiza2, Aaron J. Sams2, Alon Keinan2, Erez Y. Levanon1 1Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, USA

11:00 Ancient out of Africa Mitochondrial DNA Variants Associate with Distinct Mitochondrial Gene Expression Patterns Tal Cohen, Liron Levin, Dan Mishmar Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Stand number: 7 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Assessing the Link between the Gut Microbiome and Behavior Using a Mouse Model of Dominance and Submissiveness Oryan Agranyoni1, Mali Salmon-Divon1, Omry Koren2, Shiri Navon-Venezia1, Albert Pinhasov1 1Dept. of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel 2Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

09:30 What Does It Take, Genomic Wise, For Microorganisms to Adapt to Harsh Environmental Conditions Omer Murik1, Nadav Oren1, Haim Treves1, Hagai Raanan1,3, Isaac Kedem1, Yoram Schotland2, Aaron Kaplan1 1Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel 3Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA

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10:00 Short CT-Rich Motifs Can Trigger Context-Specific Silencing of Gene Expression in Bacteria Lior Levy, Leon Anavy, Oz Solomon, Roni Cohen, Shilo Ohayon, Orna Atar, Sarah Goldberg, Zohar Yakhini, Roee Amit Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:30 Creating Large Scale Libraries of Microbial Species and Detecting "Wanted Species" via Group Testing Noam Shental1, Bar Shalem2, Tal Luzzatto-Knaan4, Amnon Amir3, Ely Porat2 1Department of Computer Science, the Open University of Israel, Israel 2Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel 3Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, Israel 4Department of Marine Biology, University of Haifa, Israel

11:00 Natural Variation in Bacterial Growth and Death Dynamics Sophia Katz1, Yonatan Savir2, Ruth Hershberg1 1Genetics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology the Ruth and Bruce Faculty of Medicine, Israel 2Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology the Ruth and Bruce Faculty of Medicine, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Bioinformatics and Cell biology. Stand number: 8 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Utilizing the Benford Law For Unravelling Tissue Specificity Deepak Karthik, Gil Stelzer, Sivan Gershanov, Danny Baranes, Mali Salmon-Divon Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

09:30 Using Data Mining Methods to Identify Elderly Patients with High Risk for Complications in Orthopedic Surgeries Avraham Levi1, Ron Unger1, Ron Cialic2,3 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Geriatric department, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 3Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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10:00 Evolutionary Tuning of Hemoglobin Optimal Synergy Underlies Mammalian Physiological Adaptation Olga Rapp Lerner, Ofer Yifrach Department of Life Sciences and the Zlotowski Center for Neurosciences, Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel

10:30 Exploring the Co-Regulation between RNA Binding Proteins andMiRNAs Alona Rabner, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

11:00 Assembly of the Nuclear Pore Complex Proceeds Through the Formation of a Wide Channel Fadia Zagairy, Boris Fichtman, Golan Nadav, Amnon Harel Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: BioMed. Stand number: 9 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Creating an Efficient Methanol-Stable Biocatalyst by Protein and Immobilization Engineering Steps towards Efficient Biosynthesis of Biodiesel Shalev Gihaz1, Diana Weiser2, Adi Dror1, Peter Satorhelyi3, Moran Jerabek-Willemsen4, Laszlo Poppe2, Ayelet Fishman1 1Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary 3Fermentation technologies, Fermentia Microbiological Ltd., Hungary 4nanoDSF technologies, NanoTemper Technologies GmbH, Germany

09:30 MMP7-Dependent Drug Release through a Liposome-Incorporated Channel Shani Basch, Ilya Pittel, Naomi Alper, Shiran Yonai, Leah Blum, Ayelet Bachur, Yoav Paas Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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10:00 Multivariate Image Analysis of Epigenetic Landscape Identifies Signature of Glioblastoma Differentiation Chen Farhy2, Dmitry Munishkin2, Santosh Hariharan1, Jarkko Ylanko1, Flavio Cimadamore2, Matts Nilbratt, Matts Nilbratt2, Chun-Teng Huang2, David W. Andrews1, Alexey V. Terskikh2 1Department of Biological Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada 2Development, Aging & Regeneration, Sanford Burnham Prebyse Medical Discovery Institute, USA

10:30 Tropoelastin-Coated Polymeric wbr /Scaffolds Enhance Vascular Netwbr /work Formation in Engineered Tissue Constructs for Wound Repair Ariel A. Szklanny1, Shira Landau1, Giselle C. Yeo2,3,4, Yulia Shandalov1, Elena Kosobrodova5, anthony S. Weiss2,3,4, Shulamit Levenberg1 1Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia 3Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia 4Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Australia 5School of Physics, University of Sydney, Israel 11:00 Real-Time Monitoring of Metabolic Function in Liver-On-Chip Microdevices Tracks the Dynamics of Mitochondrial Dysfunction Sabina Tsytkin-Kirschenzwieg1, Danny Bavli1,2, Sebastian Prill3, Elishai Ezra1, Magnus Jaeger3, Yaakov Nahmias1,2 1Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses, FraunhOfer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Germany

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: BioMed and Stem Cells. Stand number: 10 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Role of Lamin a Protein in the Diffusion Properties of Chromatin Irena Bronshtein1,2, Eldad Kepten1, Efrat Shoham2, Ron Goldstein2, Hodaya Hochberg2, Yaron Shav-Tal2, Yuval Garini1 1Physics Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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09:30 Generation and Characterization of Pancreatic Progenitor Cells Differentiated from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reprogrammed from Adult Human Beta Cells Liraz Shenhav, Shimon Efrat, Liraz Shenhav Shimon Efrat Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 Transcriptional Reactivation of FMR1 as a Therapeutic Strategy for Fragile X Syndrome Dan Vershkov, Tomer Halevy, Nissim Benvenisty The Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Department of Genetics, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 11 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 SETD6 Enhances the Activation of the Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway via PAK4 Methylation Zlata Vershinin, Michal Feldman, Ayelet Chen, Dan Levy The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, and the National Institute For Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 New Insights into the Mode of Action of the Methyltransferase SETD6 Lital Weil, Michal Feldman, Dan Levy Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:00 A Novel Approach for in vivo Imaging of Translocation into Mitochondria: Implication for Characterization of Import Factors and Identification of Novel inhibitors./h2 Avigail Atir Lande, Adi Golani, Or Eden, Yoav Arava Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:30 Cell Cycle Regulation by Lysine Methylation Michal Feldman, Dan Levy Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics and National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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11:00 The Tellurium Compound SAS Prevents Chemotherapy-Induced BM Toxicity via VEGF Inhibition Ziv Erlich, Yona Kalechman, Benjamin Sredni The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 12 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Detection of Immune Cell Death Using Circulating DNA Ilana Fox1, Nur Sagi1, Benjamin Glaser2, Ruth Shemer1, Michal Lotem3, Yuval Dor1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Hadassah Hebrew University medical center, Department of Endocrinology, Israel 3Center for Melanoma and Cancer Immunotherapy Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

09:30 Nitrosothiol-trapping-based Proteomic Analysis of S-nitrosylation in Human Lung Carcinoma Cells Shani Ben-lulu1, Tamar Ziv1, Pnina Weisman-Shomer2, Moran Benhar2 1Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:00 MET Activation Drives Resistance to Cetuximab in Head and Neck Cancer Ofra Novoplansky Zoor1, Mathew Fury2, Limor Cohen1, Fabiola Cecchi3, Maurizio Scaltriti2, Jose Baselga2, Moshe Elkabets1 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2The Department of Human Oncology and pathology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, USA 3NanoOmics, Emeryville, USA

10:30 Modulation of Cellular CpG DNA Methylation by Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus Carmel Tushinsky, Guy Journo, Yonatan Eran, Meir Shamay Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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11:00 Nucleolar Stress Supports Lytic Reactivation of the Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Chen Gamzo Letova, anastasia Gelgor, Yana Yegorov, inna Kalt, Ronit Sarid The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 13 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 The Role of p53 Lys120 Acetylation Studied by Genetic Encoding of Acetylated Lysine Using a Highly Efficient Single-Plasmid-Based Expression System Sarit Cohen, Eyal Arbely Department of Chemistry and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Givinostat (ITF2357) Exhibits Potent anti-Tumor Activity Against CRLF2-Rearranged BCP-ALL Angela Maria Savino1,5, Jolanda Sarno1, Luca Trentin2, Margherita Vieri1, Grazia Fazio1, Michela Bardini1, Cristina Bugarin1, Gianluca Fossati3, Kara Davis4, Giuseppe Gaipa1, Shai Izraeli5, Lueder H. Meyer6, Garry P. Nolan4, Andrea Biondi1, Gertruuy Te Kronnie2, Chiara Palmi1, Giovanni Cazzaniga1 1Tettamanti Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano Bicocca, italy 2Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, italy 3Preclinical R&D Department, italfarmaco S.p.A., italy 4Baxter Laboratory in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford,, italy 5Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Leukemia Research Section, Edmond and Lily Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 6Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ulm University Medical Center, Germany

10:00 The Importance of Chromatin Condensation for Actin Re-Organization in Migrating Cells Gabi Gerlitz, Tal Ben-Harush Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel

10:30 Molecular Classification of Pediatric Low Grade Glioma Galina Feinberg1, Helen Toledano1,2, Hana Weiz3, Suzana Fichman-Horn3, Meora Feinmesser2,3, Shalom Michowitz4, Isaac Yaniv1,2,5, Smadar Avigad1,2,5 1Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Israel

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2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Pathology Department, Rabin Medical Center, Israel 4Department of Neurosurgery, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel 4Department of Neurosurgery, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel., Israel 5Molecular Oncology, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Israel

11:00 KANSL1, A New Histone Acetyltransferase Modifier in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Lital Sela Tzuriano, Michal Hameiri-Grossman1,3, Sara Elitzur3, Gil Gilad3, Shlomit Barzilai3, Galya Avrahami3, Isaac Yaniv1,2,3, Smadar Avigad1,2,3 1Rabin Medical Center, Molecular Oncology, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Israel 2Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel 3Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 14 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Intracellular Dynamics and Localization of Β-Catenin in Response to WNT Signaling Sarah Hasenson, Pinhas Kafri, Yaron Shav-Tal The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences , and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University, Israel

09:30 Plasma Extracellular Vesicle Characteristics with Age and Useage for Alzheimer`s Disease Diagnostic from Blood Samples Erez Eitan1, Jamal Green1, Nicole Noren Hooten1, Kenneth Witwer2, Michele Evans1, Mark Mattson1,2 1National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, USA 2Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, USA

10:00 The Role of Hepatic Progenitor Cells in Liver Carcinogenesis, in an Inflammation Induced Mouse Model Nofar Rosenberg, Neta Barashi, Hilla Giladi, Daniel Goldenberg, Eithan Galun Institute of Gene Therapy, Hebrew unviersity, Israel

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10:30 CANCELLED Dormant Tumor Cells Expressing LOXL2 Acquire a Stem-Like Phenotype Mediating their Transition to Proliferative Growth Keren Weidenfeld1, Hanan Abu-Tayeh1, Sagi Schif-Zuck1, Keunsoo Kang2, Ofra Kessler3, Marina Weissmann4, Gera Neufeld3, Dalit Barkan1 1Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 2Department of Microbiology, Dankook University, South Korea 3Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Cancer and Vascular Biology Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

11:00 In Vivo Modelling of Neuroblastoma Drug Resistance; Novel Roles for Tumor Structure and Metabolic Adaptation Orli Yogev Division of Clinical Studies, Institute of Cancer Research, UK

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 15 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 miR Expression Profile of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Predicts Relapse in Pediatric Acute lymphoblastic Leukemia Keren Shichrur1,2,3, Sara Elitzur2, Gil Gilad2, Galia Avrahami2, Shlomit Barzilai2, Nir Dotan3, Jennifer Yarden3, Isaac Yaniv1,2,4, Smadar Avigad1,2,4 1Molecular Oncology, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Israel 2Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Israel 3Research & Development, Curewize Health Ltd., Israel 4Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:30 Anti PD-1 Therapy in Metastatic Melanoma - Profiling Tumor Protein Expression in Association with Response Erez Baruch1,2, Michal Harel3, Iris Barshack4, Guy Ben-Betzalel1, Roni Shapira-Frommer1, Jacob Schachter1, Tamar Geiger3, Gal Markel1,2 1The "Ella Lemelbuam" Institute for Research and Treatment of Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 4Institute of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

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10:00 The Use of Copy Number SNP Array for the Detection of Hypodiploid Status in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients Michal Hameiri-Grossman1, Marta Jeison1, Nir A. Sharon1, Jacques Mardoukh1, Sara Elitzur1, Gil Gilad1, Shlomit Barzilai1, Galya Avrahami1, Isaac Yaniv1,2,3, Smadar Avigad1,2,3 1Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 3Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel

10:30 Unravelling the Diverse Interactions of Leukemic Cells with their Original Niche Rawan Sabbah1,2, Shira Attias1,2, Ranem Musallm2, Tal Gabay1,2, Tsila Zuckerman2,3, Shlomit Yehudai-Reshef1 1Hematology Research Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 2Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Department of Hematology and BMT, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

11:00 Vav1 Mutations in Human Cancer Marganit Farago Tirosh, Batel Shalom, Yaser Salaymeh, Shulamit Katzav Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Hadassah Medical School - Hebrew University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 16 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Adoptive T-cell Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Glioblastoma Liat Rousso Noori1, Shauli Talmor1, Tamar Shiloach2, Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski1,4, Zelig Eshhar2,3 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Center of Cancer Research, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:30 Galectin-1 Absence Exacerbates Hepatitis, Liver Fibrosis and Carcinogenesis in Murine Chronic Inflammation-Mediated HCC Model Tamara Potikha1, Devorah Olam1, Orit Pappo2, Eithan Galun1, Daniel S. Goldenberg1 1The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center,

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Israel 2Department of Pathology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

10:00 Fertility Preservation in Cancer-affected Pre-pubertal Boys – Comparison of the Efficiency of Three Methods for Human Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation Michal Gropp1, Doron Kabiri2, Guy Hidas3, Einat Aizenman2, Talya Mordechai-Daniel2, Ariel Revel2, Benjamin Reubinoff1,2 1The Sidney and Judy Swartz Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, the Goldyne Savad institue of Gene Therapy, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 2The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel 3The department of Urology, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel

10:30 Inference of Personalized Drug Targets via Network Propagation Ortal Shnaps, Eyal Perry, Dana Silverbush, Roded Sharan Computer Science (Bioinformatics), Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:00 New Ways of Thinking about Tumor Therapy and Stem Cell Maintenance – Lessons from C. elegans Mor Levi-Ferber, Sivan Henis-Korenblit Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-posters session II: Cancer. Stand number: 17 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Modeling High Risk Acute Leukemia with Combined Myeloid and T-Cell Phenotype Caused by the TEL-TIF2 (ETV6-NCOA2) Fusion Gene Yael Kirschenbaum1,2, Hila Fishman1,2, Ithamar Ganmore1, Yehudit Birger1, Shai Izraeli1,2 1Institute of childhood leukemia research, Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 2Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemsitry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:30 Auto-BMT Followed by Donor Lymphocyte infusion with Allogeneic Specific Donor T Cells for Enhancement of Graft Versus Myeloma Response Sofi Yado, Galia Luboshits, Michael Firer Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Israel

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10:00 Survival in Acute Myeloid Leukemia is Associated with NKp44 Splice Variants Avishai Shemesh, Michael Brusilovsky, Uzi Hadad, Angel Porgador The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:30 Topological Proteomics of Breast Cancer intra-tumor Heterogeneity Reveals Metabolic Diversity within Single Tumors Mariya Mardamshina1, Irina Marin2, Iris Barshack2, Tamar Geiger1 1Department of human molecular genetics and biochemistry, Sackler faculty of medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Pathology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

11:00 The Interplay between Etiology-Dependent Genomic and Epigenetic Signatures: the Paradigm of Liver Cancer Shira Perez1,2, Anat Lavi-Itzkovitz1,3, Antony Kaspi4, Ana Tover5, Assam El-Osta4, Gur Yaari3, Salomon Stemmer5, Izhak Haviv2, Meital Gal-Tanamy1 1Molecular Virology Lab, Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Cancer Personalized Medicine and Diagnostic Genomics Lab, Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 3Systems computational biology, Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 4Epigenetics in Human Health and Disease Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Australia 5Davidoff Center, Tel Aviv University, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 18 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Mechanism of Primary Epithelial Invasion Avanthika Venkatachalam, Nofar Amsalem, Upasana Das Adhikari, Yinon Ben-Neriah The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, Hebrew University, Israel

09:30 The Tellurium Compound SAS Alleviates Reciprocal Leukemia-Stroma VLA-4-Dependent Activation of NF-kB Mediated Chemoresistance Sarah Yosef, Yona Kalechman, Shira Hirsch, Benjamin Sredni C.A.I.R. Institute, the Safdie AIDS and Immunology Research Center. The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences., Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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10:00 Elucidating the Role of Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) and Interleukin 7 Receptor Alpha (IL7RA) Pathways in the Development of B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Ifat Geron1,2, Angela-Maria Savino1,2, Nava Gershman1,2, Noa Tal, 1,2, Shai Izraeli1,2 1Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 Increased Nuclease Activity Characterizes Cancer Cells and is Balanced by MEIG1 Eliezer Shai, Jeremy Don Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

11:00 Comprehensive High Throughput Screen for Combination Therapies to Block Acquired Resistance to Targeted Drugs Izhak Haviv1, Amihai Liberman1, Shani Carmi1, Lana Kuperschmidt1, Neta Moskovitz1, Marcela Karpuj1, Eliahu Golomb3, Alejandro Livoff5, Salomon Stemmer2,4 1Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Davidoff cancer center, Clalit HMO, Israel 3Pathology, Sha'arei Zedek hospital, Israel 4Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Pathology, Barzilai hospital, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cancer. Stand number: 19 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Circulating MiRNAs Reflect the Antiangiogenic Effect of Bevacizumab Treatment in Patients with Glioblastoma (GBM) HAnna Charbit1, Anat Mordechai1, Shmuel Heymann, Shmuel Heymann2, Iddo Paldor2, Bracha Zelikovitch1, Yigal Shoshan2, Alexander Lossos1, Iris Lavon1 1Gaffin Center for Neuro-Oncology Center for Neuro-Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center,, Israel 2department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

09:30 Androgen Receptor is a Therapeutic Target in Glioblastoma (GBM) Nomi Zalcman1, Tamar Canello1, Hana Charbit1, Bracha Zelikovitch1, Anat Mordechai1, Stav Rabani2, Tal Shahar2, Alexander Lossos1, Iris Lavon1 165 Last updated 16.02.2017

1Leslie and Michael Gaffin Center for Neuro-Oncology and Agnes Ginges Center for Human Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2department of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel

10:00 The Role of Omental Fat Exosomes in Mediating Pancreatic Cancer Omental Metastasis Shelly Loewenstein1, Valerya Feygenzon2, Nir Lubezky1,2, Metsada Pasmanic-Chor3, Osnat Sher2,4, Joseph M Klausner1,2, Guy Lahat1,2 1Department of Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 2The Nicholas and Elizabeth Cathedra of Experimental Surgery, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Bioinformatics Unit, Tel Aviv University, Israel 4Department of Pathology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

10:30 Quantitative Prediction of Drug Assemblies for Treatments of KRAS Mutated Cancers Yosi Shamay, Janki Shah, Scott Lowe, Daniel Heller Molecular Pharmacology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

11:00 The Morpho Kinetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Met Induced Amoeboid Cell Motility Leading to Metastasis Ilan Tsarfaty, Ilan Tsarfaty, Dganit Shkedy, Tammy Diamant, Yael Ramm, Ohad Doron Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cell Biology. Stand number: 20 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Elucidating the Role of the Interaction between Notch Signaling and Cadherins during Angiogenesis Amitai Menuchin1, Fabian Tetzlaff2, Liat Amir-Zilberstein1, Andreas Fischer2, David Sprinzak1 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Vascular Signaling and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

09:30 Tissue Dynamics during Postnatal Pancreas Development Ori Fridlich, Agnes Klochendler, Yuval Dor Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Hadassah Medical School, Israel 166 Last updated 16.02.2017

10:00 Small Molecule Screen Identifies Selective PGC-1α Gluconeogenic Inhibitors that Ameliorate Diabetic Symptoms Kfir Sharabi1,2, Clint D. J. Tavares1,2, Hua Lin3, John E. Dominy1,2, Roger Schilling4, Amy K. Rines1,2, Marc Hickey4, Melissa Bennion4, Michelle Palmer, Michelle Palmer4, Partha P. Nag4, Josh A. Bittker4, José Perez4, Mark P. Jedrychowski2, Steve P. Gygi2, Theodore M. Kamenecka3, Stuart L. Schreiber4, Patrick R. Griffin3, Pere Puigserver1,2 1Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA 2Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA 3Department of Molecular Therapeutics, the Scripps Research Institute, USA 4Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

10:30 Pancreatic Beta Cells Express the Fetal Islet Hormone Gastrin in Diabetes Tehila Dahan1, Oren Ziv1, Elad Horwitz1, Hai Zemmour1, Judith Lavi2, Avital Swisa1, Frances Ashcroft3, Peter in’t Veld4, Benjamin Glaser2, Yuval Dor1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, UK 4Department of Diabetes Research Center, Brussels Free University, Belgium

11:00 Extreme Hyperglycemia Prevents Pancreatic Beta Cell Regeneration Judith Lavi1, Sharona Tornovsky1, Dana Avrahami-Tzfati1,2, Yuval Dor2, Benjamin Glaser1 1Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cell Biology. Stand number: 21 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 TORC2 and Its Effect on Heterochromatin Aline Habib1, Aline Habib1, Adiel Cohen2, Martin Kupiec1, Ronit Weisman2 1Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Natural Sciences, the Open University of Israel, Israel

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09:30 The Effect of Homology Length on the Ability to Repair a Broken Chromosome Serkalem Ayanaw, Martin Kupiec Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 TOR Complex 2 Control the Expression of the Sub-telomeric Genes Adiel Cohen1, Martin Kupiec2, Ronit Weisman1 1Natural Sciences, the Open University of Israel, Israel 2Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 Identification of a Region in the Coiled-Coil Domain of Smc3 That is Essential for Cohesin Activity Ola Orgil, Hadar Mor, Avi Matityahu, Itay Onn Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

11:00 TRUB1 is the Predominant Pseudouridine Synthase Acting on Mammalian mRNA via a Predictable and Conserved Code Ronit Nir1, Modi Safra1, Daneyal Farouq2, Ilya Vainberg Slutzkin3, Schraga Schwartz1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Broad Institute, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, USA 3Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cell Biology. Stand number: 22, Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 One Library to Make Them All: Streamlining Yeast Library Creation by a SWAp-Tag (SWAT) Strategy Uri Weill, Ido Yofe, Maya Schuldiner Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

09:30 Cooperation of the Sec System and the Mreb Cytoskeleton in Bacterial Cell Organization Sutharsan Govindarajan, Orna Amster-Choder Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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10:00 Exploring the Coupling between Transcription and Translation in Bacteria: a Ribosome Profiling Approach Mikel Irastorza, Orna Amster-Choder Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 EspB and EspD – Type 3 Secretion System Translocator Proteins in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli- Structural and Functional Analysis Jenia Gechtler1, Neta Sal-Man2 1Microbiology and Imunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Microbiology and Imunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cell Biology. Stand number: 23 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Nuclear Speckles Buffer the Availability of Splicing Factors in the Nucleoplasm to Regulate Rates of Gene Expression Hodaya Hochberg1, Noa Neufeld1, Yehuda Brody1, Itamar Kanter1, Eva Böhnlein2, Karla Neugebauer2, Yaron Shav-Tal1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences & Institute of Nanotechnology, Bar- Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, USA

09:30 Enhanced Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Live Cell Fluorescence Imaging Using Biorthogonal Labeling With Fluorescent Organic Dyes Noa Aloush1, Andres Koning2, Tomer Schwartz2, Natalie Elia2, Eyal Arbely1,3 1Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 3NIBN, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Israel

10:00 Subcellular Localization and Functional Characterization of cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase A: Painting Specificity by Mosaic Brain Mapping Ronit Ilouz1, Varda Lev-Ram1, Mark Ellisman2, Eric Bushong2, Susan Taylor1 1Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, USA 2National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Center, University of California San Diego, USA

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10:30 Two Compatible `Ball and Chain` Mechanisms for Kv Channel Clustering and Inactivation Limor Lewin-Dafna, Ofer Yifrach Life-sciense, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

11:00 Large Scale Analyses Reveal Profound Metabolic Changes along the Course of Sperm Differentiation. Nina Mayorek1, Yousef Mansour1, Michael Klutstein2, Arieh Moussaieff3, Natalya M. Kogan3, Eli Pikarsky1 1Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Institute of Dental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Institute of Drug Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cell Biology. Stand number: 24 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Enzyme-Substrate Molecular Recognition in Lysine Methylation Margarita Kublanovsky1, Amir Aharoni2, Dan Levy1 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 SIRT6 Mutants With Low Deacetylation But High Defatty Acylation Activity Repress Glucose Metabolism in Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts. Or Gertman, Yana Khukhin, Amir Aharoni Department of Life Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:00 CANCELLED Defining the Mechanisms of Peroxisome Localized mRNA Translation Noa Dahan1, James Martenson2, Naama Aviram1, Maya Schuldiner1, Einat Zalckvar1, Vlad Denic2 1Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, USA

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10:30 QSOX1: an Enzyme at the Crossroads of Disulfide Bonding and Glycosylation in the Golgi Ben Horowitz, Yair Gat, Tal Ilani, Deborah Fass Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cell Biology. Stand number: 25 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Identifying Novel Amyloid Β Inhibitors Using High-Throughput Screening of Combinatorial HTB1 Libraries in Human Cells Ofek Oren1,2, Victor Banerjee2, , Niv Papo2 1Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Biotechnology Engineering and the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 A Novel Role for the ER Stress Sensor ire-1 in Cold Adaptation Reut Dudkevich, Sivan Henis-Korenblit The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10:00 Mechanism of Selectivity during Mitochondrial Autophagy Panagiota Kolitsida, Hagai Abeliovich Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Effects of Macrophage Phenotype on in Vitro Tissue Vascularization Shahar Ben-Shaul1, Pamela L. Graney2, Kara L. Spiller2, Shulamit Levenberg1 1Department of Biomedical Engineering; inter-departmental Program in Biotechnology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology- Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Israel 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, USA

11:00 Localized Translation near Mitochondria in Mammalian Cells Dikla Vardi-Oknin, Yoav Arava Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Program, Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Clinical Lab and Parasitology. Stand number: 26 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Using NGS Technology to Assess How the Repertoire of Immunoglobulin Gene Rearrangements influences the Prognostic Landscape of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Patients Gaelle Scheinert1,2, Meital Nagar1, Ohad Benjamini3, Ninette Amariglio1,2 1Hematology laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Faculty of Life-Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 3Hematology Division, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

09:30 Identification and Classification of the Malaria Parasite Blood Developmental Stages, Using Imaging Flow Cytometry Elya Dekel1, Anna Rivkin1, Meta Heidenreich1, Yotam Nadav1, Yifat Ofir-Birin1, Ziv Porat2, Neta Regev-Rudzki1 1Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Biological Services, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Cell-Cell Communication between Plasmodium and Host Immune via Exosomes Yifat Ofir Birin1, Xavier Sisquella2, Matthew A. Pimentel2, Jocelyn Sietsma Penington2, anthony T. Papenfuss2, Ziv Porat1, Tal Meningher3, Dror Avni3, Eli Schwartz3, Andrew Bowie4, Neta Regev-Rudzki1 1Faculty of Biochemistry, Department of Biomolecular sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Medical Biology, Division of Infection and Immunity, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia 3Sheba Cancer Research Center Department of Medicine, Tel Hashomer, Israel 4Immunology and biochemistry., Trinity Collage Dublin, Ireland

10:30 Trypanosoma brucei UMSBP2 is a Single-stranded Telomeric DNA Binding Protein Essential for Chromosome End Protection Amartya Mishra1, Olga Klebanov-Akopyan1, Galina Glousker2, Yehuda Tzfati2, Joseph Shlomai1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,Institute for Medical Research Israel- Canada and Kuvin Center for the Study of infectious and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Genetics, the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond Safra Campus - Givat Ram, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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11:00 Trypanosome Small Nucleolar RNAs Functioning in Pre-Ribosomal RNA Processing and Canonical Poly (A) Polymerase PAP1 Important for SnoRNA Processing Vaibhav Chikne1, Sachin Kumar Gupta1, Tirza Doniger1, K. Shanmugha Rajan1, Viplov Kumar Biswas1, Hiba Waldman Ben-Asher1, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish1, Ron Unger1, Elisabetta Ullu2, Nikolay Kolev2, Christian Tschudi2, Shulamit Michaeli1 1Department of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Departmentof Epidemiology and Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, USA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Cytoskeleton/Motility and Endocrinology. Stand number: 27 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Dual-Specificity Tyrosine-Phosphorylation Regulated Kinase 2 Regulates Osteoclast Fusion Gali Guterman Ram, Milena Pesic, Ayelet Orenbuch, Tal Czeiger, anastasia Aflalo, Noam Levaot Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

09:30 A Novel Interaction between NMIIB and Survivin is Essential for Proper Cell Division. Ari Babkoff, Daniel Ronen, Einav Cohen-Kfir, Shosh Ravid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hebrew University, Israel

10:00 Effect of Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Red Wine and Wine Pomace on Glucose Tolerance and Hepatic Steatosis in Mice Elyashiv Drori2,3, Nir Skalka1, Konstantin Rozenberg1, Maria Stanevsky2, Benzi Green2, Tovit Rosenzweig1 1Departments of Molecular Biology and Nutritional Studies, Ariel University., Israel 2Agriculture and Oenology Research, Samaria and the Jordan Rift Regional R&D Center., Israel 3Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Ariel University, Israel

10:30 The Epigenome during Beta-Cell Maturation Dana Avrahami Tzfati1, Diana Bernstein2, Lim Heewoong2, Jonathan Schug2, Won Kyoung- Jae2, Benjamin Glaser1, Klaus Kaestner2 1Endocrinology, Hebrew University Hadassah medical center, Israel 2Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of medicine, USA

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11:00 The Molecular Basis for Pancreatic Beta-cell Heterogeneity Agnes Klochendler1, Aharon Helman2, Zeina Drawshy1, Yuval Dor1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, USA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-posters session II: Development. Stand number: 28 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Synthesis and Evaluation of Gibberellic Acid Based Photoactive Chemical Proteomics Tools Mihael Motanis1, Rambabu Dandela2, Hilla Schayek1, Raju Adepu2, Aviad Mandabi2, Shimrit David2, Roy Weinstain1, Michael M. Meijler2 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Chemistry and National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 Opto-Genetics as a Tool for Precise Spatial and Temporal Control of Gene Expression within Organoids Tom Shachar Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel Chemical Physics, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 Dicer Knockdown in the Sea anemone Nematostella vectensis Reveals Bona Fide microRNAs and their Role in Development Maayan Agron, Vengamanaidu Modepalli, Yehu Moran Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Concentration Dependent Gene Regulation by Notch/h2 Ohad Golan1, Yi Kuang2, Brian Gebelein2, Raphael Kopan2, David Sprinzak1 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA

11:00 Transcriptional Control Mechanisms in Pancreas Development Libby Kosolapov, Michael D Walker Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann, Israel 174 Last updated 16.02.2017

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Development. Stand number: 29 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Characterizing Transcriptional Enhancers of Epilepsy-Associated Genes in Human Inhibitory Interneurons Reut Eshel1, Ramon Birnbaum2 1Department of life science, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Department of life science, Ben Gurion University, Israel

09:30 LIS1 Orchestrating Differential Funtions in the Embryonic Development Aditya Kshirsagar, Orly Reiner Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Characterizing TWIST1 Enhancers during Limb and Craniofacial Development Naama Hirsch, Ramon Birnbaum Department of life science, Ben Gurion University, Israel

10:30 Characterization of ZEB2 Enhancers during Brain Development Reut Bar Yaacov, Ramon Birnbaum Department of life science, Ben Gurion University, Israel

11:00 Morphogenesis of the Chordotonal Organ Depends On the Proper Composition of the Extra Cellular Matrix Rina Greenblatt, Adi Salzberg Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Institute of Technology, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Development. Stand number: 30 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Cell State Transitions during Early Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Maayan Pour, Iftach Nachman Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 175 Last updated 16.02.2017

09:30 The Irre Cell Recognition Module is required for Germline Stem Cell Differentiation by Promoting EGFR Signaling Doreen Ben-Zvi, Lilach Gilboa Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Improvement of the Quality of Induced Sertoli-like for in vitro Spermatogenesis Valery Zayat Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, the Institute for Medical Research-Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

10:30 Mechanical Profiling of Oocyte in-Vitro Maturation and Embryonic Developmental Competence Oren Wintner1, Roy Friedman1, Ido Margaliot1, Dorit Kalo2, Danny Kitsberg1, Zvi Roth2, Amnon Buxboim1,3 1The Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Animal Sciences, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3The Institute of life sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

11:00 A Novel Approach for Treating Male infertility – the Application of Reproduction Knowledge from Desert Gastropods to Mammalian Fertility Galit Hermann1,2, Yosef Steinberger1, Natalia Zabludovsky1 1The Mina andEverard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2The Multidisciplinary Faculty, Levinsky College of Education, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Endocrinology. Stand number: 31 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 PAR2 – Not Only a Diabetes Story. A General Regulator of Regeneration, Tissue Protection, and Autoimmunity Ron Piran Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Sanford Children’s Health Research Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, USA

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09:30 Identification of Novel Mechanisms Facilitating Glucose Uptake into Target Cells Based on the Stimulatory Effect of S. Spinosum. Konstantin Rozenberg1, Nir Skalka1, Sanford. R Sampson2, Tovit Rosenzweig1 1Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Nutritional Studies, Ariel University, Israel 2Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 High BMI has a Strong Correlation with Ox-HDL, 20-HETE and 8-Isoprostane Levels in Obese Women. Potential Biomarkers for Early CVD? Stephen Peterson1, Nader Abraham2 1Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA 2Medicine, Pharmacology, New York Medical College, USA

10:30 Post-Translational Modifications of the Isomerase Pin1 Are Central to the Development of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Alia Hassan1, Morris Nechama2, Justin Silver1, Tally Naveh-Many1 1Minerva Center for Bone and Mineral Metabolism, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA

11:00 The Role of mTOR in Parathyroid Cell Proliferation of Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Gili Cohen Veisman1, Oded Volovelsky1, Ariel Kenig1, Oded Meyuhas2, Justin Silver1, Tally Naveh-Many1 1Nephrology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Immunology. Stand number: 32 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Uptake Analysis of Malaria Derived Exosomes by Host Immune Cells Yifat Ofir-Birin1, Tal Giladi1, Paula Abou Karam1, Ziv Porat2, Neta Regev-Rudzki1 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Flow Cytometry unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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09:30 The Human 2B4 and NTB-A Receptors Bind the Influenza Viral Hemagglutinin and Co-Stimulate NK Cell Cytotoxicity Alexandra Duev-Cohen, Ofer Mandelboim The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Vigilin Regulates the Expression of the Stress-Induced Ligand MICB by Interacting with its 5’ UTR Orit Berhani, Ofer Mandelboim The Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Respiratory Viral Infections are Accompanied with Expression of Specific NKp46 Isoform Pattern Kiran Kundu1,2, Yonat Shemer-Avni1, Avishai Shemesh1,2, Mesfin Meshesha1, Michael Brusilovsky1, Semaria Solomon-Alemayehu1, Shai Levin1, Orly Gershoni-Yahalom1, Kerry S. Campbell3, Angel Porgador1,2 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3Division of Basic Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA

11:00 Regulatory Effect of Gads Domains on the T Cell Signaling Pathway Rose Shalah1, Dvora Beach2, Debbie Yablonski3 1Medicine, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 2Medicine, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 3Medicine, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-posters session II: Immunology. Stand number: 33 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Bi-specific Molecule Mediated Tumor antigen Restricted Engagement of Endogenous Viral Peptide Specific CD8 T Cells in an Immune-competent Melanoma Mouse Model Neta Chaim, Yoram Reiter Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 09:30 Co-Existence of Potent HIV-1 Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies and Antibody-Sensitive Viruses in a Viremic Controller Natalia Freund, Michel C Nussenzweig Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, the Rockefeller University, USA

10:00 Antigen Microarrays Spotted with Whole Viruses and Surface Protein Peptides as a Tool to Study the individual Immunological History of Influenza Marwa Abd Alhadi1, Tomer Hertz1,2, Lilach Fridman1 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, IsraelBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA., USA

10:30 Brown Adipose Tissue Macrophages Control Tissue innervation and Homeostatic Energy Expenditure Sigalit Boura-Halfon1, Yochai Wolf1, Nina Cortese4, Yael Kuperman2, Vyacheslav Kalchenko2, Alexander Brandis3, Eyal David1, Yifat Segal-Hayoun1, Louise Maor1, Steffen Jung1 1Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Biological Services, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, italy

11:00 PKC-θ Plays a Role in the Negative Regulation of SHP-1, Upregulating NK Cell Activation Aviad Ben-Shmuel, Omri Matalon, Sophia Fried, Batel Sabag, Danielle Keizer, Mira Barda- Saad The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Immunology and Oxygen/Free Radicals. Stand number: 34 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 IFNβ is Produced by Resolution-Phase Macrophages and Limits Neutrophil Responses during Peritonitis Onset and Resolution Amiram Ariel1, Senthil Satyanarayanan1, Soaad Aboelhija-Soloh1, Sergei Butenko1, Amane Kassis1, Neta Peled1, Noa Sher2, Sagie Schif-Zuck1 1The Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 2The Tel Aviv Universityber Bioinformatics Research Center, University of Haifa, Israel

09:30 CARdinal Properties of Functional Avidity Affect CAR-T Cells Response Raanan Greenman, Yoav Pizem, Maya Haus-Cohen, Ilana Gur, Yoram Reiter Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:00 S-Allylmercapro-N-Acetylcysteine (ASSNAC) Prevents Cataract Development in Ex-Vivo Porcine Lens Model Samia Dahamshi, Naphtali Savion Goldschleger Eye Research Institute and Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:00 Controlling the Fate of Preeclampsia by Modulating Hypoxia inducible Factors and Their Regulatory Proteins Zohar Bromberg1, Natalie Nachmansson1, Rinat Abramovich1, Sharona Even-Ram1, Galina Skarzinski2, Yehuda Ginosar1,3,4 1The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 2Internal Medicine, Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, Israel 3Anesthesiology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 4Devision of Obstetric anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Microbiology. Stand number: 35 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Mir124 Contributes to Measles Virus Persistent Infection in Human Neuroblastoma Cells Jacob Gopas1,2, Hila Naaman1, Glenn Rall4, Christine Matullo4, Isana Veksler-Lubinsky5, Yonat Shemer1,3, Jacob Gopas1,2 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Oncology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 3Virology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 4Program in Immune Cell Development and Host Defense, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA 5Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 The Role of Mineral Scaffolds in Biofilm Development and Antibiotic Resistance Alona Keren-Paz2, Vlad Brumfeld1, Yaara Oppenheimer-Shaanan2, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal2 1Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Anthropogenic Impacts on Soil Microbiome: Agricultural Practices Dror Minz1, J Kraut-Cohen1, S Frenk1,2, A Zolti1,2, D Lavi1, A Kravtsov1, E Fizik3, M Shachar3, E Argaman3, Y Hadar2 1Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization – Volcani Research Center, Israel 2Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Soil Erosion Research Station, Soil Conservation & Drainage Division, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Israel

10:30 Biofilms Compete for Root Surface by Coordinating Gliding Motility and Polyketide Synthesis Arik Ogran, Eliane Hadas-Yardeni, Tabitha Bucher, Shir Ely, Yaara Oppenheimer-Shaanan, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal Department of Molecular genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:00 The Design of Novel antimicrobial Agents Shiri Topman1, Saul Burdman2, Zvi Hayouka1 1Biochemistry Food Science and Nutrition, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 181 Last updated 16.02.2017

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Microbiology. Stand number: 36 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Friends or Rivals on Wheat Root Nesli Tovi1,2, Sammy Frenk1,2, Yitzhak Hadar1, Dror Minz2 1Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel

09:30 Phage Cocktails: Overcoming Phage Resistance Along with Antibiotic Resistance Leron Khalifa1, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer1, Nurit Beyth2, Ronen Hazan1 1Dental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Prosthodontics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Interspecies Interactions between Biofilms and their Impact on the Evolution of Soil-residing Bacilli Gili Rosenberg, NItai Steinberg, Yaara Oppenheimer-Shaanan, Tsvia Olender, Shany Doron, Alexandra Sirota-Madi, Zohar Bloom-Ackermann, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:30 Soil Biota Community Response to Different Orchard Floor Management Efrat Shakartchy1, Yosef Steinberger1, Gil Eshel2 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Soil Erosion Research Station, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Rishon-Lezion. P.O.B. 30, Beit-Dagan, 50250, Israel

11:00 Biocontrol of Fusarium Using Rhizosphere Bacteria Shirley Ynbal Croitoru1,2, Rakeshkumar Jain1, Abraham Gamliel1, Maya Lalzar1, Dror Minz1 1Institute of Soil, Water, and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization – Volcani Center, Israel 2The Mina and Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Microbiology. Stand number: 37 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Identification & Characterization of New Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type III Secretion System Effectors Yuval Aizler1, Yana Belnik1, David Burstein2, Tal Pupko2, Ehud Banin1 1The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Cell Research and Immunology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:30 The Effect of Prophage-derived Genes Ace and Zot on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phenotypic Behavior Itzhak Zander, Ehud Banin The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10:00 Characterization of Novel c-diGMP Effectors Affecting B.bacteriovorus` Metabolism and Cell Cycle Margarita Petrenko, Edouard Jurkevitch Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem of Jerusalim, Israel

10:30 A Scalable and Easily Manipulated Experimental Model for Study of Varicella-Zoster Virus Latency * Tatiana Borodianskiy-Shteinberg1, * Efrat Merhavi-Shoham1, Paul Kinchington2,3, Benedikt Kaufer4, Ronald S. Goldstein1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, USA 3Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, USA 4Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

11:00 The High Genetic Diversity of West Nile Virus in Israel- Possible Implications on Morbidity Yaniv Lustig1, Musa Hindiyeh1,5, Laor Orshan2, Leah Weiss1, Ravit Koren1, Shiri Katz- Likvornik1, Hila Zadka3, Aharona Glatman-Friedman3,4, Lester Shulman1,5, Ella Mendelson1,5 1Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical center, Central Virology Laboratory, Israel 2Ministry of Health, Laboratory of Entomology, Israel 183 Last updated 16.02.2017

3Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical center, Israel Center for Disease Control, Israel 4New York Medical College, New York Medical College, USA 5Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Microbiology. Stand number: 38 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 YeeX - A Novel Polar Protein That Affects Key Processes in Bacteria Tamar Szoke, Avital Cher, Sutharsan Govindarajan, Nitsan Albocher, Orna Amster-Choder Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:30 Diverse Patterns of Dynamics of the Major Sugar Sensor Protein in a Population of Escherichia coli Cells Nitsan Albocher, Sutharsan Govindarajan, Orna Amster-Choder Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 If Usain Bolt Were Struck by Lightning – the World’s Fastest Growing Plant Cell Manages Extreme Energy Inputs Isaac Kedem, Aaron Kaplan, Haim Treves Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Evolution of Self Recognition in Bacteriophage DNA Packaging Ning Yin, Roy Kishony Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

11:00 Exploring Drug Combinations Inspired by Soil Bacteria Communities Viktoria Lazar, Roy Kishony Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology- Israel Institute of technology, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Microbiology. Stand number: 39 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 A Transporter interactome is Essential for the Acquisition of antimicrobial Resistance to Antibiotics Noemie Alon Cudkowicz, Yonatan Shuster, Shani Sharabi, Sonia Steiner-Mordoch, Shimon Schuldiner Department of Chemical Biology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:30 Small Secreted Proteins (SSPs) from the White Rot Fungus Plerotous Ostreatus Regulate Part of the Lignin-Degradation System Daria Feldman, Oded Yarden, Yitzhak Hadar Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Streptococcus pyogenes Sensitivity to Asperginase Might Related to Secretion of Asparagine by the Bacteria Baruch B. Hertzog, Emanuel Hanski, Miriam Ravins Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Evolutionary and Metabolic Engineering of E. coli towards Autotrophic Growth Shmuel Gleizer, Niv antonovsky, Yehudit Zohar, Elad Herz, Yinon Bar-On, Ron Milo Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

11:00 Characterization of a New Lipid Droplet Protein and Its Impact on Organelle Identity Michal Eisenberg-Bord1, Ofer Moldavski1, Uri Weill1, Silvia Chuartzman1, Krishna Soni2, Vytas Bankaitis2, Maya Schuldiner1, Maria Bohnert1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Molecular & Cellular Medicine, College Station, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Plant Sciences. Stand number: 40 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 The Arabidopsis NPF3 Protein is a Gibberellin Transporter Iris Tal1, Yi Zhang2, Morten Jørgensen3, Odelia Pisanty1, inês Barbosa5, Melina Zourelidou5, Thomas Regnault5, Christoph Crocoll3, Carl Olsen4, Roy Weinstain1, Claus Schwechheimer5, Barbara ann Halkier3, Hussam Nour-Eldin3, Mark Estelle2, Eilon Shani1 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, USA 3DynaMo Center, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 4Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 5Plant Systems Biology, Technische Universität München, Germany

09:30 Screening the Arabidopsis FOX Mutants Library for indole-3-Carbinol Resistance Tuan anh Luu, Daniel A. Chamovitz Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 Interdependent Nutrient Availability and Steroid Signals Underlie Plasticity of Root Growth Amar Singh, Neta Holland, Yulia Fridman, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel, Israel

10:30 Mechanisms Underlying Auxin-Calcium Crosstalks in Plants Ora Hazak, Elad Mamon, Hasana Sternberg, Daria Bloch, Shaul Yalovsky Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:00 Posttranslational Lipid Modifications andC-Terminal Structure Modulate Membrane Interaction Dynamics and Signaling of Plant Rho GTPases Hasana Sternberg1, Ella Buriakovsky1, Orit Gutman2, Yoav Henis2, Shaul Yalovsky1 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2The Department of Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Plant Sciences. Stand number: 41 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 "Smart Pipes": Does ABA Modulate the Potassium Channels in Arabidopsis Bundle Sheath via Cytosol pH Tanmayee Torne, Mercedes Rosenwald, Noa Wigoda, Menachem Moshelion, Nava Moran The R.H. Smith inst. of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:30 The MYB Transcription Factor CLAUSA Promotes Leaf Differentiation and Developmental Stability Maya Bar1, Alon Israeli1, Ori Ben Herzel1, Hadas Ben Gera1, José M Jiménez-Gómez2, Stepan Kouril3, Petr Tarkowski3, Naomi Ori1 1The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University, Israel 2Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany 3Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Central Laboratories and Research Support, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Czech Republic

10:00 Ectopic Cell-Type Specific Auxin Synthesis as a Tool to Study Cellular Auxin Transport and Developmental Response in Arabidopsis Roots Moutasem Omary1, Qingguo Chen2, Yunde Zhao2, Eilon Shani1 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, USA

10:30 Characterizing the NPF Family Role in Gibberellin Transport Evgeny Binenbaum, Eilon Shani Molecular biology and ecology of plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:00 A Genome-Scale AmiRNA Screen to Identify Novel Auxin Transporters Victoria Naser, Eilon Shani Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Plant Sciences and Zoology. Stand number: 42 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 DNA Repair in Fungal Plant Pathogens Shira Milo Cochavi1, Yael Almog1, David Turra2, Antonio Di Pietro2, Shay Covo1 1Plant pathology and microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Genetics, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain 09:30 RNA Interference for Developing Bemisia Tabaci Resistant Plants Galit Eakteiman, Pnina Moshitzky, Natividad Rincon-Mestre, Shai Morin Entomology, the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Human-Dolphin Interactions Affect Signature Whistle Usage among Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Tan Morgan1, Nadav Shashar1, Arik Kershenbaum2 1Life Sciences, Ben Gurion Ubiversity of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Israel

10:30 The Interaction between Candidatus Liberibacter and its Solanaceous Host Plants Nofar Shoshana1,2, Ofir Bahar2, Noa Sela2, Clare Casteel3 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel 3Department of Plant Pathology, University of California - Davis, USA

11:00 Host Matters: Structure and Function of the Sphagnum Phytobiome Max Kolton1, Luis H Orellana2, Konstantinos T Konstantinidis2, David Weston3, Joel E Kostka1 1School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 2School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 3Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Neuroscience. Stand number: 43 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Odor Binding Protein 69a is Regualted and Regulates Social Behavior in Drosophila Melanogaster Galit Shohat-Ophir, Assa Bentzur Mina & Evrars Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

09:30 Studies of the Transfer Function Coupling Neural Activity to Transcription in Dissociated Neuronal Cultures Doron Haritan1, Hagit Turm1, Nadav Yayon1,2, Hermona Soreq1,2, Ami Citri1,2 1Department of Biological Chemistry, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Dominant or Submissive Phenotype Predicts Adaptive or Maladaptive HPA Axis Programming in Response to Prenatal Restraint Stress Yelena Gilimovich, Moshe Gross, Hava Romi, Albert Pinhasov Molecular biology, Ariel University, Israel

10:30 The Fast inactivation and Clustering Functions of the Shaker Voltage-Dependent Potassium Channel are Coupled Valerie Nirenberg Arad, Ofer Yifrach Life sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

11:00 Multileveled RNA Metabolism Changes in Neurodegenerative Disease Hermona Soreq The Edmond and Lily Safra Center of Brain Science and the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Neuroscience. Stand number: 44, Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Live - Cell Characterization of BDNF Spatiotemporal Signaling in Neurons Noam Steinberg, Eitan Erez Zahavi, Tal Gradus-Pery, Eran Perlson Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:30 β-catenin Cooperates with CAnnabinoid Receptor CBR1 to Regulate Optic Axon Pathfinding andGrowth Cone Protrusions in the Optic Tract Tamira Elul1, Michelle Burk1, James Ha1, Radhika Rawat2 1Basic Sciences, Touro University California, USA 2Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, USA

10:00 Monoterpenes are Powerful K2P Channels Regulators Eden Arazi, Noam Zilberberg Department of Life Sciences and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Israel

10:30 Impaired Oligodendrocytes Differentiation and Defective Mitochondrial Function in OPCs and Astrocytes Isolated from a Mouse Model for VWM Disease Melisa Herrero, Orna Elroy-Stein Department of Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Stem Cells. Stand number: 45 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 TIF1 and the Retroviral Silencing Effect in Embryonic Stem Cell Liad Margalit, Carmit Strauss, Sharon Schlesinger Animal Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:30 Derivation and Differentiation of Haploid Human Embryonic Stem Cells Ido Sagi1, Gloryn Chia2, Tamar Golan-Lev1, Mordecai Peretz1, Uri Weissbein1, Lina Sui2, Mark V. Sauer3, Ofra Yanuka1, Dieter Egli2,4, Nissim Benvenisty1 1The Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Department of Genetics, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, USA 3Center for Women’s Reproductive Care, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA 4The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute, New York, USA

10:00 Left Ventricular Dysfunction Switches Mesenchymal Stromal Cells toward an Inflammatory Phenotype and Impairs their Reparative Properties via Toll-like Receptor-4 Nili Naftali-Shani1,2,3, La-Paz Levin-Kotler1,2,3, Dahlia Palevski1,2,3, Uri Amit1,2,3, David Kain1,2,3, Natalie Landa1,2,3, Edith Hochhauser4, Jonathan Leor1,2,3 1Tamman Cardiovascular Research Institute, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sackler faculty of Medicine, Israel 3Sheba Center for Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 4The Cardiac Research Laboratory, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Israel

10:30 Modeling Ischemic Heart Condition with Human Embryonic Stem Cells Nelly Komarovsky, Asher Shainberg, Achia Urbach Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

11:00 Fatty Acids Drive the Mitochondrial Maturation of Pluripotent Stem-Cell-Derived Hepatocytes Michal Zimerman1, Gahl Levy1, Avner Ehrlich1, Merav Cohen1,2, Yaakov Nahmias1,2 1Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 191 Last updated 16.02.2017

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Mass Spectrometry and Microscopy. Stand number: 46 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 The ESCRT protein VPS4 is Involved in ciliogenesis Dikla Nachmias2, Carolyn Ott1, Shai Adar2, Shachar Sherman2, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz1, Natalie Elia2 1Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA 2Department of Life Science and the NIBN, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 Cholesterol Crystal Nucleation and Growth from Biological Membranes Helena Sabanay1, Neta Varsano2, Tali Dadosh1, Eyal Shimoni1, Leslie Leiserowitz3, Lia Addadi2 1Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Sceince, Israel 2Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Sceince, Israel 3Materials and interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Sceince, Israel

10:00 The Effect of Nuclear Structural Proteins on Chromatin Dynamics - Measured by Advanced Live Imaging Methods Anat Vivante, Irena Bronshtein, Yuval Garini Physics Department & Nanotechnology Institute, Bar Ilan University, Israel

10:30 Implementing a FLIM-FRET Approach to Characterize the Roles of NXF1 in mRNA Export Asaf Ashkenazy1, Amir Mor1, Amit Shraga1, Rakefet Ben-Yishay1, Yuval Garini2, Yaron Shav- Tal1 1The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Genetics and Medical Genetics. Stand number: 47 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Novel PAK3 Mutation Causing X-linked Autism and intellectual Disability Yuval Yogev1, Gal Meiri2, Yonatan Perez1, Rotem Kadir1, Max Drabkin1, Daniel Halperin1, Ohad Wormser1, Ohad S. Birk1,3 1The Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Pediatric Psychiatry Unit, Division of Pediatrics, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 33Genetics Institute, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:30 Isolated Microphthalmia With Coloboma of Optic Nerve Mapped to a Locus On Chromosome 2 Regina Proskorovski-Ohayon1, Yonatan Perez1, Libe Gradstein2, Ohad S. Birk1 1The Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics and the Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Department of Ophthalmology, Soroka Medical Center and Clalit Health Services, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

10:00 The Human Olfactory Transcriptome Tsviya Olender, Doron Lancet Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:30 Histone Methylation and siRN as Interact to Regulate Transgenerational Epigenetic Memory Itamar Lev, Uri Seroussi, Hila Gingold, Sarit anava, Oded Rechavi Department of Neurobiology, George Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:00 Search for the Mutation Causing the ThoracoAbdominal Syndrome (TAS) an X-linked Dominant Disorder Pierre Majdalani1,2, Ruti Parvari1,2 1The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology,Immunology & Genetics; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2NIBN, National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Genetics and Medical Genetics. Stand number: 48 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 LIPL-4 Has inverse Effects on Somatic Maintenance andReproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans Netta Shemesh1, Nadav Shai1, Rotem Katalan1, Anat Ben-Zvi1,2 1Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2The National Institute for Biotechnology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 09:30 A Novel Recessive p.1691GA Mutation in ATP1A2 Gene is Associated with a Severe Structural and Developmental Syndrome Michal Shahar1, Vardiella Meiner2, Ziva Ben-Neriah2, Haim Rosen1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, the Kuvin Center for the Study of infectious and Tropical Diseases, Institute for Medical Research-Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Department of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre, Israel

10:00 SELMAP - SELEX Affinity Landscape Mapping of Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using Integrated Microfluidics Dana Chen1, Yaron Orenstein2, Rada Golodnitsky1, Michal Pellach1, Dorit Avrahami1, Chaim Wachtel1, Avital Ovadia-Shochat1, Hila Shir-Shapira1, Adi Kedmi1, Tamar Juven-Gershon1, Ron Shamir2, Doron Gerber1 1Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 Engineering of a Synthetic Reproductive Barrier in Yeast Inga Soreanu, Amir Aharoni Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

11:00 The New Look of Yeast Chromosomes - Using Scanning Electron Microscopy to Study Yeast Chromatin Kathrin Yamin, Fadia Zagairy, Ola Orgil, Boris Fichtman, Amnon Harel, Avi Matityahu, Itay Onn Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Stand number: 49 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 CRISPR Ribonucleoprotein Tools for Genome Editing Nurit Becker1, Erik Eastlund2, Sophie Raizman1, Corinne Sagron1, Liel Aillenberg1, Pierre Potier3, Gurpreet Balrey3, Gregory Davis2, Daniel Taglicht1, Qingzhou Ji2 1Protein Expression and Purification R&D, Sigma Aldrich Israel, Israel 2Applied Molecular Biotechnology, MilliporeSigma, USA 3BT Production - I; BT Marketing, Merck UK, UK

09:30 A Study in the Molecular Underpinnings of the pH-Induced Conformational Changes in NhaA Yael Gluck Margolin Biological Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Evidence for Extracellular Secretion of Cyclooxygenase-2 Esraa Saadi, Liza Barki-Harrington Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel

10:30 Down-Regulation of Cox-2 by Beta 2-Adrenergic Receptor-Based Pepducins Rima Abu Asaad, Liza Barki-Harrington Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel

11:00 The Inactivated Influenza Vaccine and the Live-Attenuated Influenza Vaccine Generate Distinctly Different Antibody Profiles Ayelet Shagal1, Suzanne Ohtmit2, Arnold Monto3, Tomer Hertz1 1Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics and National Center for biotechnology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, USA 3Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Stand number: 50 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Comparison between Membrane Dyamics and Distributions of Notch Ligands Dll1 and Dll4/h2 Bassma Khamisi, Liat Amir, David Sprinzak Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:30 Ceramide 1-Phosphate (C1P) Induces TNFa Expression in Macrophages via TLR4 Muhammad Athamna1,2, Orna Ernst1, Sebastián Katz1, Roni Apte3, Tsaffrir Zor1 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Institute,Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Biochemistry and Microbiology, the Triangle Regional Research and Development Center, Israel 3Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:00 A Novel Deacetylation Bio-Assay in Live E. coli Emanuel Avraham1, Shahar Levi2, Eyal Zajfman1, Eyal Arbely1,2 1Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

10:30 The Role of the Second WW Domain of WWOX in Binding PPxY Motifs Shahar Rotem-Bamberger, Jamal Fahoum, Ora Schueler-Furman Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Israel

11:00 The DNA Helicases Chd1 and Chl1 are New Regulators of Cohesin Activity Alexandra Boginya-Gabay, Avi Matitiyahu, Itay Onn Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Stand number: 51 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 The Hippo/Warts/Yorkie Pathway Regulates Germ Cell Death (GCD), an Alternative Cell Death Pathway in Drosophila Keren Yacobi-Sharon, Eli Arama Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 09:30 An Autonomous Requirement of the Lysosomal Nuclease DNaseII in a Caspase-Independent Primordial Germ Cell Death in the Drosophila Embryo Lama Tarayrah, Eli Arama Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Insight into Structure-Function Relationship in PSMα3, a Functional Amyloid from Staphylococcus aureus Forming Cross-α Toxic Fibrils Orly Tabachnikov, Einav Tayeb-Fligelman, Asher Moshe, Meytal Landau Department of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:30 Amyloidogenic Properties of SAA Associated with Systemic Amyloidosis and Its Inhibition as a Therapeutic Strategy Esraa Haj, Ehud Gazit, Daniel Segal Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

11:00 NFAT – Calcineurin Interaction: Biophysical Characterization and Virtual Screening of Small Molecule Inhibitors Vera Gaydar, Itai Bloch, Maayan Gal Biochemistry, Migal, Galilee Research Institute, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

09:00-11:30 E-poster session II: Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Stand number: 52 Herods hotel - Pavilion 09:00 Multiple Ftz and Ftz-F1 Target Genes are Regulated via the Bridge and DPE Core Promoter Motifs Hila Shir-Shapira, Avital Ovadia-Shochat, Anna Sloutskin, Diana Ideses, Tamar Juven- Gershon The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

09:30 HipA-Mediated Antibiotic Persistence via Phosphorylation of the Glutamyl-tRNA-synthetase Ilana Kaspy1, Eitan Rotem2, Noga Weiss2, Irine Ronin2, Nathalie Q. Balaban2, Gad Glaser1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Racah Institute of Physics and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Edmond J. Safra Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel

10:00 Harnessing Mass Spectrometry in Exploring the Diversity, Distribution and Discovery of Marine Natural Products Tal Luzzatto Knaan1, Neha Garg1, Mingxun Wang2, Evgenia Glukhov3, Yao Peng4, Gail Ackermann5, Amnon Amir5, Brendan M. Duggan1, Sergey Ryazanov6, Lena Gerwick3, Rob Knight5, Theodore Alexandrov1,6, Nuno Bandeira1,2, William H. Gerwick1,3, Pieter C. Dorrestein1,2,3 1Collaborative Mass Spectrometry innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, USA 2Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA 3Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA 4Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, USA 5Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, USA 6-, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

10:30 Identifying Novel Hormone Transporters by Overcoming Functional Redundancy in Arabidopsis Yuqin Zhang1, Victoria Naser2, Odelia Pisanty2, Felix Hauser3, Julian Schroeder3, Eilon Shani2 1Molecular biology and ecology of plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Molecular biology and ecology of plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Division of biological sciences, University of California San Diego, Israel 198 Last updated 16.02.2017

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED3: Endocrinology Today: Coping with Stress without Distress Herods hotel - Kings hall A Session I of the Israel Endocrine Society

Chair: Joseph Orly, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Yuval Dor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 12:00 Single Cell Heterogeneity in Pancreatic Islets Shalev itzkovitz, Matan Golan, Lydia Farack, Immacolata Garzilli Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel

12:20 Parathyroid micro-RNA and RNA Binding Proteins: a New Portal in Understanding Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Tally Naveh-Many Nephrology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

12:40 Genetic and Optogenetic Dissection of the Central Stress Response: The Roles of the CRF/Urocortin System in Stress Regulation Alon Chen Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Department of Stress Neurobiology and Behavioral Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany

13:00 Cellular Hypertrophy is a Major Contributor to Postnatal Growth of Pancreas and Liver in Rodents but Not in Humans Shira anzi1, Miri Stolovich-Rain1, Agnes Klochendler1, Ronny Helman1, Avital Paz2, Benjamin Glaser3, Shmuel Ben-Sasson1, Yuval Dor1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, Israel 2Zoo, Jerusalem Zoo, Israel 3Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

13:15 Obesity Triggers E2F1-Mediated Transcriptional Activation of ASK1 (MAP3K5) in Adipocytes and Adipose Tissue Yulia Haim1, Nir Goldshtein1, Matthias Blüher2, Daniel Konrad3, TAnya Tarnovscki1, Assaf Rudich1 1Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 199 Last updated 16.02.2017

Israel 2Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany 3Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, University Children’s Hospital, Switzerland

13:30 Persistent Microbiome Alterations Modulate the Rate of Post-Dieting Weight Regain Christoph A. Thaiss*1, Shlomik itav*1, Daphna Rothschild*2,3, Mariska Meijer1, Maayan Levy1, Claudia Moresi1, Lenka Dohnalová1, Sofia Braverman1, Shachar Rozin1, Sergey Malitsky4, Mally Dori-Bachash1, Yael Kuperman5, Inbal Biton5, Arieh Gertler6, Alon Harmelin4, Hagit Shapiro1, Zamir Halpern7,8, Asaph Aharoni4, Eran Segal2,3, Eran Elinav1 1Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Molecular Cell Biology,, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 5Department of Veterinary Resources,, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 6The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 7Research Center for Digestive Tract and Liver Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 8Digestive Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED10: Proteomic Profiling of Cancer Herods hotel - Kings hall B Joint session between the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & the Israeli Society for Cancer Research

Chair: Shai Izraeli, Sheba Medical Center & Tel Aviv University Chair: Yifat Merbl, Weizmann Institute of Science 12:00 Proteomic Landscapes of Breast Cancer Subtypes Tamar Geiger Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:20 The Proteomic Landscape of Soft Tissue Sarcoma Gilad Vainer2, Juliane Kania Almog2, Dalia Elinger1, Yishai Levin1 1The Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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12:40 Profiling the HLA Peptidome for Development of Personalized Cancer Immunotherapy Arie Admon, Bracha Shraibman, Nataly Rijensky, Dganit Melamed Kadosh, Eilon Barnea Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

13:00 Tumor Suppressor Crosstalk: Hippo and p53 Noa Furth1, Noa Bossel2, Yair Pozniak3, Yael Aylon1, Eytan Domany2, Tamar Geiger3, Moshe Oren1 1Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:15 Biomimetic Glyco-nanoparticles Vaccine for Cancer Immunotherapy Vered Padler-Karavani Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:30 An Atlas of Resistance States to Targeted Therapies in Cancer - Integrating Clinical and Systematic Functional Data Ofir Cohen1,2, Lisa Brenan1, Aleksandr andreev1, Christopher Rodman1, Orit Rozenblatt- Rosen1, Dewey Kim1, Asaf Rotem2, Federica Piccioni1, Pablo Tamayo1,3, Nikhil Wagle1,2, Cory Johannessen1, Aviv Regev1, Levi Garraway1,2 1Cancer Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA 2Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA 3Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:50 WED1: Developmental Neurobiology Herods hotel - Queens hall The session for the Israeli Society of Neuroscience Chair: Lior Appelbaum, Bar Ilan University Chair: Ruth Ashery Padan, Tel Aviv University 12:00 Streamlined Derivation of Cortical Neural Progenitor Cells and Cerebral Organoids from Pluripotent Stem Cells Allows Standardized Modeling of Development and Disease Rotem Volkman, Yechiel Elkabetz, Dana Polotov, Naresh Mutukula, Rotem Volkman, Dana Polotov, Sneha Arora, Kaveri Banerjee, Naresh Mutukula, Sneha Arora, Yakey Yaffe, Aya Federman, Kaveri Banerjee, Idan Adir, Yakey Yaffe, Aya Federman, Idan Adir, Idan Adir, Yechiel Elkabetz Cell and Developmental Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:20 Novel Regulation of the Notch Pathway in Neuronal Stem Cells by Shootin1 Orly Reiner1, Tamar Sapir1, Talia Levy1, Noga Kozer1, Irina Shin1, Vanessa Zamor1, Rebecca Haffner-Krausz1, Jane McGlade2 1Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2The Hospital for Sick Children, the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Canada

12:40 Mechanisms of Neuronal Remodeling Oren Schuldiner, Oren Schuldiner, Oren Schuldiner Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

13:00 A New Role of Hindbrain Boundaries as Pools of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells Regulated by Sox2 Yuval Peretz, Noa Eren, Dalit Sela-Donenfeld Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

13:20 Generation of a Vascularized-iPSC Derived Human Brain Organoids Abed A. Mansour1,2, J Tiago Gonçalves1,2, Stephen Johnston1,2, Fred H Gage1,2 1Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA 2Laboratory of Genetics, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, USA

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13:35 SLC30A9 Mutation Affecting Intracellular Zinc Homeostasis Causes a Novel Cerebro-Renal Syndrome Yonatan Perez1, Zamir Shorer2, Keren Leibson1, Pauline Chabosseau3, Rotem Kadir1, Michael Volodarsky1, Daniel Halperin1, Shiran Barber-Zucker4, HAnna Shalev5, Ruth Schreiber5, Libe Gradstein6, Evgenia Gurevich5, Raz Zarivach4, Guy Rutter3, Daniel Landau5,7, Ohad Birk1,8 1Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, the Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Pediatric Neurology unit, Division of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Section of Cell Biology and Functional Genomics, Division of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, UK 4Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 5Pediatric Nephology unit, Division of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 6Department of Ophthalmolgy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Soroka Medical Center and Clalit Health Services, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 7Department of Pediatrics B, Schneider's Children's Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel 8Genetics Institute, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 RT3: Biotech and Industry Roundtables Herods hotel - Laurence hall *By pre-registration Intimate Round table discussions – Come and Meet the Biotech/Biomed People 12:00 From Academic Research to R&D in a Startup Company

Roundtable Host: Moshe Neuman, B.R.D

Dr. Moshe Neuman, Ph.D. is the owner, the president & CEO of Bio-Medical Research Design Ltd. (B.R.D) founded in 1998. Moshe is bearing over twenty years of experience in the fields of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device research & development, and regulatory compliance. His regulatory expertise includes both FDA (US), EMA (EU) and ICH regulations. Specialties: Regulatory Affairs Consulting, Clinical Trial Design and management. In this round table we will discuss Regulatory Aspects, tools and tips for appropriate management of research in a startup company to maximize its assets in the biotech market.

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12:00 Is there Innovation in the BioMed Industry?

Roundtable Host: Daniel Plaksin, Ferring Pharmaceuticals Dr. Daniel Plaksin is the Principal Scientist in Development at BTG (Ferring), he holds Ph.D in Molecular Biology and Immunology (Weizmann Institute) Post Doc. Studies Molecular Biology and Immunology (National Institutes of Health USA). Plaksin served as a Scientist at Peptor, and was a Group Head in Research BTG and a Biology Director in Development BTG (Ferring). In this round table we will discuss insights into Current Biopharmaceutical Process Development.

12:00 Measuring BIOMed Innovation through IP Protection

Roundtable Host: Barry Schindler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Barry J. Schindler is co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig's Global Patent Prosecution Group -- a group that has approximately 4,000 domestic and 4,100 foreign applications pending and over 100 patent attorneys -- and a shareholder of Greenberg Traurig (a law firm with over 1700 lawyers, the 2nd largest law firm in the US, and over 39 world-wide offices including Tel Aviv). Barry has more than twenty-five years of legal experience in all aspects of pharmaceutical and chemical patent prosecution - representing numerous major pharmaceutical and chemical companies regarding patents relating to small molecules and synthetic compounds. In this round table we will discuss: a) basic IP principles (patents and trade secrets), b) IP strategies for the BioMed Industry; and c) IP Collaboration Agreements.

12:00 Get Ready to Meet Your Investor - Practical Introduction to Fund Raising

Roundtable Host: Ronit Bendori, Ethos Ventures & Evergreen Venture Partners

Dr. Ronit Bendori PhD, is a general partner at Evergreen since 2000. She focuses on Evergreen's investments in the Healthcare sector. In addition, she is the owner and CEO of Ethos, a private firm that supports and invests in health care early initiatives. Ronit was the Vice President of Pharmos Ltd. (NASDAQ: PARS). Before Pharmos Ronit held senior positions as an expert in technology transfer at interPharm Ltd. (Israel) and Ares-Serono (Switzerland). Ronit was the chairperson of Colbar sold to J&J for $160M and Serves on the boards of numerous health care companies. Ronit holds a PhD and molecular and cellular biology from Weizmann Institute of Science. In this round table we will discuss the various financial sources and the right way to approach them including preparation of executive summary and Business Plan.

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12:00 Early Stage Financing - the Israel innovation Authority is Your Partner for Advancing Innovative Technology

Roundtable Host: Ora Dar, Chief Scientist office

Ora Dar, Ph.D., is Head of Life Sciences Sector, Israel innovation Authority (Formerly office of the Chief Scientist) Ministry of Economy. In this round table we will discuss the various financial/grants frameworks of the Israel innovation Authority (formerly the office of the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Economy) available for researchers and entrepreneurs to advance and support the development of new technologies.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED8: Plant-Microbe Interactions Dan hotel - Blue hall A Joint session between the Israeli Society for Plant Sciences & the Israel Society for Microbiology

Chair: Dror Minz, Volcani Center Chair: Tzion Fahima, University of Haifa 12:00 Manipulation of Plant Immunity by Type III Secreted Bacterial Effectors Guido Sessa1, Doron Teper1, Georgy Popov1, anil Madhusoodana1, Eran Bosis1, Jung-Gun Kim2, Mary Beth Mudgett2 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Biology, Stanford University, USA

12:20 Floral Nectar Microbiome Malka Halpern Department of Biology and Environment, University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel

12:40 Metagenomic Insights into the Structure and Function of Plant Roots Microbiome Maya ofek-Lalzar1,2, Noa Sela1, Milana Goldman-Voronov1,2, Stefan Green3, Yitzhak Hadar2, Nesli Tovi1,2, Dror Minz1 1Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel 2Agroecology and Plant Health, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3DNA Services Facility, Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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13:00 Investigation of the Post-Haustorial Mechanism of Resistance Conferred by the Stripe Rust Resistance Gene Yr15, Derived from Wild Emmer Wheat Valentina Klymiuk1, Lin Huang1, Elitsur Yaniv1,2, Alan Schulman2, Abraham Korol1, Tzion Fahima1 1Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel 2LUKE Natural Resources Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

13:15 Tomato Rhiz’omics Elisa Korenblum, Jedrzej Szymanski, Hassan Massalha, Ilana Rogachev, Sagit Meir, Asaph Aharoni Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED9: Protein Interaction Networks Dan hotel - Blue hall B Joint session between the Israel Society for Cell Biology & the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Chair: Roded Sharan, Tel Aviv University Chair: Emmanuel Levy, Weizmann Institute of Science

12:00 The Protein Interaction Network of Autophagy and Apoptosis: from Basic Principles to a Therapeutic Vision. Adi Kimchi, Adi Kimchi, Yuval Gilad, Yuval Gilad, Naama Dekel Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

12:20 Network-Based Approaches toward the Enigma of Tissue-Specific Hereditary Diseases Esti Yeger-Lotem Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

12:40 Deciphering Design Principles for Interaction Specificity among Protein Families Mickey Kosloff, Ali Asli, Meirav Avital-Shacham, Anna Bakhman, Dan Elran, Samia Gharra, Mohammad Kasom, Inbal Mermershtain, Shir Navot, Isra Sadiya, Denise Salem, Avital Shushan Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel

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13:00 Structure-based Prediction of Protein-RNA Interactions on a Transcriptome-wide Scale Yaron Orenstein1, Bonnie Berger1,2 1Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA 2Math Department, MIT, USA

13:15 Backtracking the Emergence of a Hub: Computation-guided Mutagenesis Reveals Human Sirtuin- 1 Specificity Determinants Eyal Akiva1, Adi Hendler2, Amir Aharoni2,3, Patricia Babbitt1,4 1Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA 2Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 3The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 4Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA

13:30 Understanding Cancer Phenomena Using a thermodynamic-based Approach Efrat Flashner-Abramson1, James R. Heath2, Raphael D. Levine3, Nataly Kravchenko- Balasha1 1Bio-Medical Sciences department, the Faculty of Dental Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA 3The Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

NESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED11: What Makes a Racehorse Fast? Controlling Dynamics of Growth Dan hotel - Tarshish A Student Organized Session

Chair: Omer Murik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Haim Treves, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 12:00 Microoxic Niches within the Thylakoid Stroma of Air-Grown Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii Protect Hydrogenase and Support Continuous Hydrogen Production under Fully Aerobic Environment Iftach Yacoby School of Plant Sciences and food security, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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12:20 Robustness andSpecialization Among Hormone Transporters: Reinforcing Functional Redundancy in Plants to Understand Plant Growth Eilon Shani, Jenia Binenbaum, Iris Tal, Yuqin Zhang, Victoria Naser, Moutasem Omary, Ohad Roth, Odelia Pisanty Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:40 The Source of the Variability in Mammalian Cell Cycle Duration Itamar Simon1, Oded Sandler1, Sivan Pearl-Mizrahi1,2, Noga Weiss2, Oded Agam2, Nathalie Q. Balaban2 1Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hadassah Medical School, IMRIC, Israel 2Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

13:00 Gene Architectures That Minimize Cost of Gene Expression Dvir Schirman1, Idan Frumkin1, Aviv Rotman1, Fangfei Li2,3, Liron Zehavi1, Ernest Mordret1, Omer Asraf1, Song Wu3, Sasha F Levy2,4, Yitzhak Pilpel1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, USA 3Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, USA 4Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, USA

13:15 Predicting Competition Dynamics from Growth Curve Data Yoav Ram1,3, Eynat Dellus-Gur1, Maayan Bibi2, Uri Obolski1,4, Judith Berman2, Lilach Hadany1 1Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Biology, Stanford University, USA 4Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK

13:30 Legionella Ecophysiology in Drinking Water Distribution Systems Yehonatan Sharaby1, Sarah Rodríguez-Martínez1, Rotem Friedler1, Olga Oks1, Marina Pecellin2, ingrid Brettar2, Manfred Hufle2, Malka Halpern1,3 1Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 2Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany 3Biology and Environment, University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED7: Bone Structure and Pathologies Dan hotel - Tarshish B The session for the Israel Society of Skeletal Biology and Medicine

Chair: Dafna Benayahu, Tel Aviv University Chair: Mona Dvir-Ginzberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 12:00 H4(99-103) is the Only Known Endogenous Peptide that Signals Via the CB2 CAnnabinoid Receptor Bitya Raphael1, Natalya Kogan2,3, Malka Attar-Namdar2, Mukesh Chourasia3, Avital Shurki3, Roger G. Pertwee4, Maria G. Cascio4, Andreas Zimmer5, Itai Bab2, Yankel Gabet1 1Department of Anatomy & Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Bone Laboratory, Institute of Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 3Institute for Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK 5Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany

12:20 The Role of Sirtuins in Bone Biology: from Mice to (Wo)men Rivka Drener-Pollak Endocrinology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

12:40 Osteoclast Fusion Modalities and Thier Undelying Regulatory Mechanisms Noam Levaot, Gali Guterman-Ram, aner Ottolenghi, Milena Pesic, anastasia Aflalo, Ayelet Orenbuch Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell (RMSC) Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

13:00 Galecctin-8 as a Regulator of Bone Remodeling and Osteoporosis Yaron Vinik, Hadas Shatz-Azoulay, Yehiel Zick Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

13:15 Engineering Dual-Specific M-CSF antagonists that Inhibit c-FMS and αvβ3 integrin for Osteoporosis Therapy Yuval Zur1, Lior Rosenfeld1, Gali Guterman2, Niv Papo1, Noam Levaot2 1Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 209 Last updated 16.02.2017

13:30 How do Bone Microenvironment Cells Support AML Progression? Unravelling the Diverse Interactions of Leukemic Cells with Their Original Niche Shlomit Yehudai-Reshef1, Shira Attias1,2, Tal Gabay1,2, Rawan Sabah1,2, Tsila Zuckerman1,2,3 1Hematology Research Center, Clinical Research institution in Rambam (CRIR), Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 2Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Department of Hematology and BMT, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED5: Next Generation Sequencing Technologies in Clinical Diagnostics Royal Beach hotel - Hadar The session for the Israel Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences

Chair: Marielle Kaplan, Rambam Healthcare Campus Chair: Tali Tohami, Meir Medical Center 12:00 “Cancer Genetics and Genomics - Sequencing in the Clinical Setting” Meital Nagar Hematology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

12:20 The Genomic Era in Clinical Genetics: the Rambam Experience Adi Mory1, Tamar Paperna1, Daniella Magen2,4, Miry Blich3,4, Alina Kurolap1,4, Hagit N. Baris1,4 1Genetics Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 2Pediatric Nephrology Institute, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 3Division of Pacing and Electrophysiology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel 4Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

12:40 Challenges of Next Generation Sequencing in the Molecular Diagnostics of Cancer Rinat Yacobi1, Eve Ustaev1, Iris Barshack1,2 1Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 2Department of Pathology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:00 Accelerated NGS Interpretation, and Translational Medicine informatics, using GeneCards, MalaCards, and VarElect Marilyn Safran1, Inbar Plaschkes1, Gil Stelzer1, Danit Oz-Levi1, Simon Fishilevich1, Tsviya Olender1, Michal Twik1, Naomi Rosen1, Shahar Zimmerman1, Tsippi iny Stein1, Asher Kohn2, 210 Last updated 16.02.2017

Yaron Mazor2, Yaron Guan-Golan2, David Warshawsky2, Dvir Dahary3, Noa Rappaport1, Doron Lancet1 1Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Genomics, LifeMap Sciences, USA 3Genetics, Toldot Genetics, Israel

13:15 Single Cell Expression Data Reveal Human Genes that Escape X-Chromosome Inactivation Kerem Wainer Katsir, Michal Linial Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

13:30 Subgrouping of Pediatric Medulloblastoma using an Integrated Analysis of MicroRNA-mRNA Expression Profile Sivan Gershanov1, Shalom Michowiz2,4, Helen Toledano3,4, Orit Barinfeld4,5, Albert Pinhasov1, Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen5,6, Mali Salmon-Divon1 1Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel 2Pediatric Neurosurgery, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Israel 3Pediatric Oncology, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Israel 4Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5The Krieger Eye Research Laboratory, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Israel 6Ophthalmology, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED4: Gene Therapy becoming a Reality Royal Beach hotel - Shita Session II of the Israeli Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Chair: Eithan Galun, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center Chair: Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center 12:00 Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs) As a Route for Gene Modulation in Plasmodium Falciparum Eylon Yavin School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

12:20 Infarct Repair by Gene Transfer of Cardiac Transcriptional Factors Natali Molotski1,2, David Kain1,2, Uri Amit1,2, Moshe Katz1,2, Natalie Landa1,2, Jonathan Leor1,2 211 Last updated 16.02.2017

1Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 2Sheba Center for Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell, and Tissue Engineering, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

12:40 Viral Immuno-Oncology Meets anti-angiogenesis: VB-111, A Phase 3 Gene-Therapy Drug Candidate Prolonging Patients Overall Survival Dror Harats, Eyal Breitbart, Livnat Bangio, Erez Feige, Noa Lowenton-Spier, Naamit Sher, Yael Cohen VBL Therapeutics, Or Yehuda, Israel

13:00 Tuning the CRISPR Code: Chemically Modified RNAs Enhance CRISPR Genome Editing in Human Primary Cells Ayal Hendel The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

13:15 Enhancing the Effector Functions of T Cells with a Combination of New mRNA Adjuvants for Improving Adoptive Cell Therapy Hadas Weinstein-Marom1,2,4, Aviad Pato1,2, Noam Levin1,2, Keren Susid2, Orit Itzhaki3, Michal Besser3, Tamar Peretz1, Michal Lotem1, Alon Margalit2,4, Gideon Gross2,4 1Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 2Immunology, MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute, Israel 3Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 4Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Tel-Hai College, Israel

13:30 The Therapeutic Potential of the Tumor Suppressor miR-122* Alina Simerzin1, Revital Adar1, Tamar Geiger2, Yair Pozniak2, Gideon Schreiber3, Ishi Talmon4, Na’ama Koifman4, Maytal Gefen1, Benny Geiger5, Tova Volberg5, Hilla Giladi1, Eithan Galun1 1The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene and Cell Therapy, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Israel 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Department of Chemical Engineering and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 5Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED2: Organelle Communication Royal Beach hotel - Ella Session I for the Israel Society for Cell Biology

Chair: Ronit Sagi-Eisenberg, Tel Aviv University Chair: Dan Cassel, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 12:00 Keeping in Touch – Discovering and Characterizing New Contact Sites between Organelles Nadav Shai1, Maria Bohnert1, Noa Dahan1, Maya Schuldiner1,2, Einat Zalckvar1,2 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Co-corresponding, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

12:20 SNARE Priming is Essential for Maturation of Autophagosomes but Not for their Formation Adi Abada1, Smadar Levin-Zaidman2, Zvulun Elazar1 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

12:40 A Synthetic Biology Approach for Studying Fat4-Ds1 Planar Cell Polarity Signaling David Sprinzak1, Olga Loza1, Idse Heemskirk2, Nadav Gordon-Bar1 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of BioSciences, Rice University, USA

13:00 A Novel Degron-Like Mechanism Which Determines the Selective Mitophagic Targeting of Mitochonrial Matrix Proteins Hagai Abeliovich, Panagiota Kolitsida Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

13:15 Incorporation of Mitochondria into Cells - Characteristics and Therapeutic Utility Eyal.E Kesner1, Efrat.L Kesner2, Trembovler Victoria2, Alexander Alexandrovich2, Esther Shohami2, Haya Lorberboum-Galski1 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Medical Research Israel- Canada (IMRIC), Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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13:30 Regulation of Mitochondrial Motility Yael Elbaz-Alon1, Michal Harel2, Daniel Quinnell1, Tamar Geiger2, Jodi Nunnari1 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis, USA 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:45 WED6: Model Organisms and their Contribution to Human Genetics Royal Beach hotel - Alon Session II for the Genetic Society of Israel

Chair: Martin Kupiec, Tel Aviv University Chair: Anat Ben-Zvi, Ben Gurion University 12:00 Transcriptional Enhancers of TWIST1 are Associated with Preaxial Polydactyly and Craniofacial Malformations Ramon Birnbaum, Naama Hirsch Department of Life Sciences, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

12:20 Regulation of Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration by Reversed Sumoylation Limor Broday Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

12:40 TOR Complex 2 is a new Player in the Assembly of Facultative Heterochromatin and Gene Silencing Adiel Cohen1, Alin Habib2, Dana Laor2, Sudhanshu Yadav1, Martin Kupiec2, Ronit Weisman1 1Natural and Life Sciences, Open University of Israel, Israel 2Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:00 A novel siRNA Signal Promotes Longevity and Heat Shock Response in C. elegans Moran Cohen-Berkman, Sivan Henis-Korenblit Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

13:15 A Platform for Rapid Exploration of Aging and Diseases in a Naturally Short-Lived Vertebrate Itamar Harel, Anne Brunet Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

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13:30 Determining the Clinical Significance of Cohesin-Related Mutations by Using the Yeast Model System Ola Orgil, Hadar Mor, Avi Matityahu, Itay Onn Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

12:00-13:15 SOF5: Soft Skill. Meet the Editors - Special Session with Editors from Leading Biological Journals Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Moderator: Ido Amit, Weizmann Institute of Science

In this panel we will meet editors of leading biological journals to discuss policies concerning promotion of new, emerging hot fields or technologies, integration of knowledge and techniques from different fields and how these may be translated into clinical use. In addition we will talk about the changes in the scientific publication arena, roles and challenges of scientific journals and much more Editors’ panel: Bernd Pulverer, Chief Editor, the EMBO Journal Following undergraduate studies in Cambridge, Bernd received his PhD in 1992 from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, for uncovering posttranslational regulation of the transcription factors c-Jun and c-Myc by the JNK and MAP kinases. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle and at the University of Innsbruck. Bernd was associate and then senior editor at Nature from 1999 until 2002 and subsequently chief editor of Nature Cell Biology. Since 2009 he is chief editor of the EMBO Journal and Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO.

Henry Gee, senior editor, Nature Dr. Henry Gee received his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology and Genetics at the University of Leeds, and his Ph.D. Zoology at the University of Cambridge. He joined the staff of the international science journal Nature in 1987, initially as a news reporter. He is now Senior Editor on the Biological Sciences team, concentrating on organismal biology. He is the author of several books including the Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution and Jacob’s Ladder: the History of the Human Genome. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England with his family and numerous pets.

Richard Losick, Senior Editor, eLife Richard Losick, is a senior editor at eLife, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, a Harvard College Professor, and a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B. in Chemistry at Princeton University and his Ph.D. from MIT. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a past Chairman of the Departments of Cellular and Developmental Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a recipient of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher- Scholar Award, the Selman A. Waksman Award of the National Academy of Sciences, the Canada International Gairdner Award, and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry of Columbia University.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED14: Cytoskeleton Functions in Health and Disease Herods hotel - Kings hall A The session for the Israeli Forum for Cytoskeleton and Motility

Chair: Eran Perlson, Tel Aviv University Chair: Shosh Ravid, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 15:00 Leukocytes Breach Endothelial Barriers by insertion of Nuclear Lobes and Disassembly of Endothelial Actin Filament Ronen Alon1, Sagi Barzilai1, Sandeep Yadav1, Francesco Roncato1, Eugenia Klein1, Steven Morrell2, Sussan Nourshargh2, Sara Feigleson1, Assaf Zemel3 1The Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK 3Institute of Dental Sciences and Fritz, Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

15:20 T-Plastin Regulates Basement Membrane Assembly in the Developing Skin Chen Luxenburg Cell and Developmental Biology, Tel Aviv Unioversity, Israel CeLL andDevelopmental Biology, TeL AvIv University, Israel

15:40 ESCRT-mediated Cytokinetic Abscission: New Data Invoke New Mechanistic Models Inna Goliand1, Shai Adar1, Tali Dadosh2, Natalie Elia1 1Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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16:00 In-Vitro Model for Neuromuscular Junction Health in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Ariel Ionescu1, Eitan Erez Zahavi1, Shani Gluska1, Roy Maimon1, Keren Ben-Yaacov2, Tal Gradus-Pery1, Eran Perlson1,3 1Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Ophtalomogy, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel 3Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

16:15 Bi-directional Motility of the Mitotic Kinesin-5 Motor Protein Cin8 Alina Goldstein, Ofer Shapira, Nurit Siegler, Darya Goldman, Leah Gheber Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

16:30 PreImplantation Factor (PIF) Promotes Muscle Regeneration and inhibits Fibrosis in Disease Models of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Daria Volkova1, Peter Berenstein1, Natalie Alberman1, Gila Kazimirsky1, Amir Dori2, Eytan Barnea3,4, Chaya Brodie1,5 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Neurology, the Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Center, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Society for the investigation of Early Pregnancy, 1697 Lark Lane, USA 4BioIncept, 1697 Lark Lane, USA 5Department of Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Hospital, USA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED21: Infectious Diseases and Immunity Herods hotel - Kings hall B Joint session between the Israel Society for Microbiology & the Israel Immunological Society

Chair: Emanuel Hanski, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Irit Gat-Viks, Tel Aviv University 15:00 Impact of Placental Immune Responses on Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus Transmission and Pathogenesis Dana Wolf Clinical Virology Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

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15:20 A Three-Way Molecular Tug-of-War: Tumorigenic Signaling, Innate Immune anti-Viral Response and Viral Oncolysis Oded Danziger, Ben Shai, Marcelo Ehrlich, Eran Bacharach Cell Research and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:40 Regulation of Allelic Exclusion Allows Malaria Parasites to Evade Immunity by Antigenic Variation Inbar Amit-Avraham, Adina Heinberg, Ron Dzikowski Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel

16:00 A Single Type VI Secretion System Manipulates both Eukaryotic and Bacterial Neighbors Dor Salomon Department Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

16:15 Prediction of Multi-Dimensional Drug Dose-Responses Based On Measurements of Drug Pairs /h3 Anat Zimmer, Itay Katzir, Erez Dekel, Avi Mayo, Uri Alon Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

16:30 Human Fetal T Cells Mount Clonal Expansion in Response to Cytomegalovirus Infection in-Utero Erez Rechavi1,2, Atar Lev1, Yu-Nee Lee3, Amos Simon1,4, Boaz Weisz2,5, Luigi NotarAngelo3,6,7, Raz Somech1,2 1Pediatric Immunology Unit, Jeffrey Modell Foundation Center, and Department of Pediatrics, the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Division of Immunology, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA 4Hematology Laboratory, Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston children’s Hospital, USA 7Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED15: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Biology Herods hotel - Queens hall The session for the Israel Society of Heart Research

Chair: Jonathan Leor, Tel Aviv University & Sheba Medical Center Chair: Yoram Etzion, Ben Gurion University 15:00 Investigating inherited cardiomyopathies using the patients` iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes Ofer Binah1, Michael Arad2, Daniel Michele3 1Department of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Sheba Medical Center, the Leviev Heart Center, Tel Aviv University., Israel 3Department of Molecular and integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, USA

15:20 Mechanisms of Vascular Calcification Izhak Kehat The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

15:40 Novel Strategies for Cardiac Regeneration Eldad Tzahor Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

16:00 Roles of the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor β/δ (PPAR β/δ) during Cardiovascular System Development in the Chick Embryo Daya Dotan1,2, Shanthi Sathappan1, Olga Genin1, Yuval Cinnamon1 1The Poultry andAquaculture Department, Institute of Animal Sciences, the Agricultural Research Organization - the Volcani Center, Israel 2The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

16:15 The Muscle Molecular Motor Dynamics is Velocity and not Length Dependent, and is Symmetrically Modulated by the Lengthening and Shortening Velocities. Amir Landesberg, Daria Amiad-Pavlov, Moran Yadid Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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16:30 Gene Therapy – a New Approach to the Old HDL Problem Courtney Howard1, Devon Christian1, Azzadine Ammi2, Sergio Fazio1, Jonathan Linder2, Hagai Tavori1 1Center for Preventive Cardiology, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, USA 2Molecular Imaging laboratory, Oregon Health and Science University, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 SOF6: The National Forum of MD-PhD programs: Approaches in Clinically-relevant Bio-Medical Research Herods hotel - Laurence hall Chair: Assaf Rudich, Ben Gurion University Chair: Tzipora Falik-Zaccai, Bar Ilan University This mentorship session addresses key topics related to the unique challenges of the MD-PhD researchers' career path. Three leading MD-PhD researchers, and three selected MD-PhD students' abstracts, will demonstrate via their personal career and research choices, three major "themes" related to conducting clinically-oriented/inspired basic research. This will be followed by a round- table/Q&A on the unique role of MD-PhDs' in bio-medical research.

15:00 Curing the Stress of Medical Uncertainty by Conducting Research – the Story of a Personal Journey Karl Skorecki Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and Rambam Medical Center, Israel

15:20 The Ingredients of a Medical Researcher's Stew: Patients, Hypotheses, Omics and Luck*

Shai Izraeli, Sheba Medical Center & Tel Aviv University *No abstract submitted 15:40 Cardiac Pacing in Conscious Freely Moving Rodents; Challenges and Opportunities Wesam Mulla1, Sigal Elyagon1, Hadar Klapper1, Roni Gilis1, Michael Murninkas1, Sharon Etzion2, Yoram Etzion1,2 1Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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16:00 Positive-Negative Feedback Loop between miR-197 and IL-17A Signaling in Human Keratinocytes Einat Elharrar +1, Moamen Masalha +1,2, Galya Lerman1, Raya Leibowitz-Amit1,3, Riad Kassem4, Moti Harats5, Yechezkel Sidi *1,2, Dror Avni *1 1Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research and Department of Internal Medicine C, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 2Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 4Department of Dermatology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel 5Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Burns, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

16:07 Decoding Interactions of the Gut Microbiome with Receptors of Human Natural Killer Cells Natan Stein1, Yoav Bauman1, Omer Fleissig1,2, Batya Isaacson1, Ofer Mandelboim1 1The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Israel 2Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, the Institute of Dental Sciences, Israel

16:15 Combining Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiac Monolayers, CRISPR-Based Genome Editing, and Optical Mapping of Rotors to Study the Short QT Syndrome Rami Shinnawi1, Naim Shaheen1, Assad Shiti1, Irit Huber1, Gil Arbel1, Amira Gepstein1, anke Tijsen1, Reiner Schimpf2, Martin Boggrefe2, Lior Gepstein1 1Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Medicine, University Hospital Manheim, Germany

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED12: New Frontiers in Cancer Biology Dan hotel - Blue hall A Session II of the Israeli Society for Cancer Research

Chair: Eitan Yefenof, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Adit Ben Baruch, Tel Aviv University 15:00 Tumor Suppressor Crosstalk: Modulation of p53 Activity by the Hippo Pathway Moshe Oren1, Noa Furth1, Yael Aylon1, Sharathchandra Arundkar1, Noa Bossel Ben-Moshe2, Yair Pozniak4, Ziv Porat3, Tamar Geiger4, Eytan Domany2 1Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 221 Last updated 16.02.2017

2Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Biological Services, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:20 Towards Deciphering the Functional Genetics and Neo-Antigenic Landscape in Melanoma Yardena Samuels Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel

15:40 Chasing for Smurf2 in Cancer Michael Blank Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan Unversity, Israel

16:00 Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Dynamics in Pancreatic Cancer Daniel Ohlund, Abram Handly-Santana, Ela Elyada, Giulia Biffi, David Tuveson Cancer Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

16:15 Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Links Ovulation-Induced Inflammation and Serous Carcinogenesis Stav Sapoznik1, Keren Bahar-Shany1, Hadar Brand1,2, Yishay Pinto3, Orshay Gabay3, Efrat Glick-Saar1, Chen Dor1, Oranit Zadok4, Iris Barshack4, Adi Zundelevich1, Einav Nili Gal-Yam1, Yuval Yung5, Ariel Hourvitz5, Jacob Korach6, Mario Beiner6, Jasmine Jacob1, Erez Levanon3, Michal Barak3, Sarit Aviel-Ronen4, Keren Levanon1,2 1Sheba Cancer Research Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel 4Department of Pathology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 5IVF Unit and Reproduction Lab, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel

16:30 Unveiling the Cellular and Molecular Changes of the Microenvironment during Brain Tumor Development Prerna Magod1, Lilach Agemy2, Liat Rousso-Noori1, Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski1,3 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED19: Molecular and Cellular Microbiology Dan hotel - Blue hall B Joint session between the Israel Society for Microbiology & the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Chair: Udi Qimron, Tel Aviv University Chair: Shimon Schuldiner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 15:00 A Crosstalk between Mutually Exclusive Cell Fates Moves Biofilms NItai Steinberg1, Shany Doron1, Siddarth Srinivasan2, Gili Rosenberg1, Ilana Kolodkin-Gal1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmannn Insitute of Science, Israel 2School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA

15:20 Small Molecule Communication between Phages Guides Lysis-Lysogeny Decisions Rotem Sorek Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

15:40 Diversity of Bacterial Quorum-Sensing at the Physiological, Ecological and Evolutionary scales Avigdor Eldar Molecular Microbiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

16:00 Epigenetic Control of Tuberculosis Persistence: the Role of Sigma Factors Lina Kaminski1, Brian Weinrick1,2, Angele Benard3, Nicholas Thomson3, Gordon Dougan4, William R Jacobs Jr1,2 1Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 3Pathogen Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK 4Microbial Pathogenesis Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

16:15 Spatial and Temporal Organization of Bacterial mRNAs Shanmugapriya KAnnaiah1, Yair Pozniak2, Tamar Geiger2, Jonathan Livny3, Orna Amster- Choder1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Medicine, Israel 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA

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16:30 Global Mapping of Small RNA-Target Interactions in Bacteria Sahar Melamed1,2, Asaf Peer1, Raya Faigenbaum-Romm1, Yair E. Gatt1, Niv Reiss1, Amir Bar1, Joshua M. Mills2, Yael Altuvia1, Liron Argaman1, Gisela Storz2, Hanah Margalit1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel- Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, USA

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED22: Organelle Related Diseases Dan hotel - Tarshish A Student Organized Session Chair: Einat Zalckvar, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Alon Silberman, Weizmann Institute of Science 15:00 Unusual Consequences of Mutations in Mitochondrial and Peroxisomal Kidney Diseases Ruth Belostotsky Pediatric Nephrology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

15:20 New Mitochondrial Disorders in Human Orly Elpeleg Department of Genetics, Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

15:40 Elucidation of Novel Molecular Pathways through Studies of Monogenic Diseases Ohad Birk Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center and NIBN, Ben Gurion University, Israel

16:00 Mutant MECR Causes a Novel Inborn Error of Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Synthesis Dina Yagel1, Gali Heimer2,3,4, Juha M. Kerätär5, Michal Tzadok2, Lisa G. Riley6,7, Shanti Balasubramaniam8,9, Eran Eyal10, Ben Pode-Shakked1,3,4, Tal Yardeni11, Douglas C. Wallace11, andreea Nissenkorn2,4, annick Raas-Rothschild4,12, Yuval E. Landau1,4, John Christodoulou6,7,8,13,14, Alexander J. Kastaniotis5, Susan J. Hayflick15, Bruria Ben-Zeev2,4, Yair anikster1,4 1Metabolic Disease Unit, Edmond and Lily Children's Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr, Israel 2Pediatric Neurology Unit, Edmond and Lily Children's Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr, Israel 3The Pinchas Borenstein Talpiot Medical Leadership Program, Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr, 224 Last updated 16.02.2017

Israel 4The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and Biocenter, Oulu University, Finland 6Genetic Metabolic Disorders Research Unit, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia 7Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia 8Western Sydney Genetics Program, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia 9Department of Rheumatology and Metabolic Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, Australia 10Cancer Research Ctr. Pediatric Hemato/oncology Unit., Edmond and Lily Children's Hospital,Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr, Israel 11Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA 12Institute of Rare Diseases, the Danek Gertner Institute of Human Genetics, Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Israel 13Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Royal Children’s Hospital, Australia 14Dept. of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia 15Dept. of Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, USA

16:15 PAR-CLIP Reveals Biochemical and Regulatory Features of the Polycycstic Kidney Disease- Related RNA-Binding Protein Bicaudal-C (BICC1) Tamar Krisher1, Klaas Max2, Refael Kohen3, Alona Rabner3, Aitor Garzia2, Thomas Tuschl2, Iddo Ben-Dov1, Yael Mandel-Gutfreund3 1Nephrology and Hypertension, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel 2Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, USA 3Computational Molecular Biology Lab, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

16:30 Identifying and Characterizing Contact Sites between Organelles Nadav Shai, Silvia Chuartzman, Lior Zada, Maya Schuldiner, Einat Zalckvar Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED16: Animal Communication Dan hotel - Tarshish B Session II of the Zoological Society of Israel Chair: Lee Koren, BIU Bar Ilan University Chair: Anat Barnea, the Open University of Israel 15:00 The Role of Natural- and Sexual-Selection in Chemical Characteristics of Sex Pheromones in Moths Ally Harari, Hadas Steinitz Entomology, Volcani Center, Israel

15:20 Visual Communication between Predator & Prey: Variations in the Sensory Channel Gadi Katzir Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Israel

15:40 Rules and Inter-Individual Communication Governing Locust Coordinated Behaviour Amir Ayali1, Yotam Ophir1, Guy Amichay1, Gil Ariel2 1Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

16:00 Call Me if You Can: the Impact of Animal Social Networks on Communication Patterns Amiyaal Ilany The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

16:15 How Rock Hyraxes Conceal Multiple Data within Snorts Yishai A Weissman1, Inbar Shnitzer1, Vlad Demartsev2, Amiyaal Ilany1, Adi Barocas3, Einat Bar-Ziv2, Eli Geffen2, Lee Koren1 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, USA

16:30 Beyond Sugar: Allocation of Nectar Amino Acids And Fatty Acids in a Lepidopteran Eran Levin1, Marshall D. McCue2, Goggy Davidowitz3 1Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2TX, St. Marry University, USA 3Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED13: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Royal Beach hotel - Hadar Session I of the Israel Stem Cell Society

Chair: Shulamit Levenberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Chair: Benjamin Dekel, Tel Aviv University 15:00 Magnetic Materials: the Next Generation Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Smadar Cohen Biotechnology Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

15:20 Human Embryonic Stem Cells – from Derivation to Clinical Transplantation Benjamin Reubinoff Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah University Medical Center. Ein Kerem, Israel Director of the Sidney and Judy Swartz Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, the Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy & the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Israel Sidney Swartz Chair in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Hadassah University Medical Center, Israel Chief Scientific officer CellCure Neurosciences Ltd., Ein Kerem Jerusalem, Israel

15:40 Regeneration of Injured Lungs by Fetal Lung Progenitors across Major MHC Barriers Carmit Hillel-Karniel, Chava Rosen, Esther Bachar-Lustig, Eli Shezen, Yair Reisner Immunology, WIS, Israel

16:00 Agrin Promotes Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Cardiac Regeneration via Modulation of the Dystroglycan Complex integrity and Signaling Elad Bassat1, Yara Eid Mutlak2, Alex Genzelinakh1, Oren Yifa1, David Kain1, Kfir Baruch- Umansky1, Daria Riabov-Bassat3, Yael Udi3, Dana Rajchman1, Rachel Sarig1, Irit Sagi3, Shenhav Cohen2, Eldad Tzahor1 1Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 3Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

16:15 Forces and Regulation of Vascular Network Shira Landau, Dekel Dado, Shulamit Levenberg Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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16:30 Long-Term Culture and Expansion of Primary Human Hepatocytes Gahl Levy1, David Bomze1, Stefan Heinz2, Merav Cohen1,5, Astrid Noerenberg2, Oren Shibolet3, Ella Sklan4, Joris Braspenning6, Yaakov Nahmias1,5 1Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Upcyte, Upcyte Technologies GmbH, Germany 3Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology,, Tel Aviv Medical Center and Tel Aviv University,, Israel 4Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine,, Tel Aviv University,, Israel 5Department of Cell and Developmental Biology,, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,, Israel 6FraunhOfer Translational Center, FraunhOfer Translational Center, Germany

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED20: Genetics and Epigenetics: How they Affect Each Other Royal Beach hotel - Shita Joint session between the Israel society for Medical Genetics & the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Chair: Yehudit Bergman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Gil Ast, Tel Aviv University 15:00 The Linker Histone Variant H1.0 Generates Epigenetic and Functional Intratumor Heterogeneity Eran Meshorer1, Alva Biran1, Cristina Morales Torres2, Paola Scaffidi3 1Department of Genetics, the Institute of Life Sciences & the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, Lincoln’s inn Fields Laboratory, UK 3UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, UK

15:20 New Insights Regarding Transgenerational Inheritance of Small Rnas Oded Rechavi Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:40 High-Resolution Dissection of Deterministic Somatic Cell Reprogramming to Naïve Ground State Pluripotency Asaf Zviran*1, Nofar Mor*1, Yoach Rais*1, Hila Gingold1, Elad Chomsky2,3, Jason D. Buenrostro4, Leehee Weinberger1, Yair S. Manor1, Sergey Viukov1, Vladislav Krupalnik1, Mirie Zerbib1, Hadas Hezroni2, Diego Jaitin5, David Larastiaso5, Igor Ultisky2, Shlomit Gilad6, Itay Maza7, Suhair HAnna8, Noam Stern-Ginossar1, Ido Amit5, William J. Greenleaf4, Yitzhak Pilpel1, Jacob HAnna1, Noa Novershtern1 228 Last updated 16.02.2017

1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science, Israel 4Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 5Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 6The Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (INCPM), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 7Department of Gastroenterology, Rambam Health Care Campus & Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Institute of Technology,, Israel 8Department of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Immunology Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus & Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Institute of Technology, Israel

16:00 Hierarchal and Sequential Binding of Transcription Factors during Adipogenesis and Spatial Orchestration of the Adipocyte Genetic Network Avital Sarusi Portuguez1, Michal Schwartz1, Myong-Hee Sung2, Rasmus Siersbaek3, Susanne Mandrup3, Tommy Kaplan4, Ofir Hakim1 1Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel 2Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Immunology, NIH, USA 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 4School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

16:15 Chronic and Acute Inflammation Induce Novel Epigenetic Programs in intestinal Epithelial Cells Ihab ansari1, Monther Abu-Remaileh1, Daphne Cohen1, Sebastian Bender2, Gunter Raddatz2, Eli Pikarsky3, Frank Lyko2, Yehudit Bergman1 1Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel–Canada, Hebrew University Medical School, Israel 2Division of Epigenetics, DKFZ–ZMBH Alliance, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 3The Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Institute for Medical Research Israel–Canada, Hebrew University Medical School, Israel

16:30 A Universal Model Underlying Topologically Associating Domains Noam Kaplan1,2, Job Dekker2,3 1Department of Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology - Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Program in Systems Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA 3Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED17: From Big Data to Personalized Medicine; Frontiers in Bioinformatics Royal Beach hotel - Ella Session II of the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational biology Chair: Ron Unger, Bar Ilan University Chair: Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University 15:00 RNA Editing - Source of Somatic RNA Mutations in Various Diseases Ilana Buchumenski1, Hagit Porath1, Nurit Paz-Yaacov1, Miri Danan-Gotthold1, Binyamin Knisbacher1, Lea Shallev1, Nurit Gal-Mark1, Michal Barak1, Hilel Roth1, Yishay Pinto1, Erez Levanon1, Eli Eisenberg2 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:20 Immfocus: Mining Large RNA-Seq Datasets to Study Cancer Immune Response In Situ Eitan Rubin1, Angel Porgador1, Mineshbhai Jethva1, Omri Teltsh1, Noa Eyal1,2, Mark Last2 1Sharaga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Department of Software and information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

15:40 Identification of Functional Noncoding Elements in the Human Genome Using CRISPR-based Screens Rani Elkon1, Gozde Korkmaz2, Rui Lopes2, Alejandro Ugalde2, Ruiqi Han2, Ekaterina Nevedomskaya3, Wilbert Zwart3, Reuven Agami2 1Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Gene Regulation, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands 3Molecular Pathology, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands

16:00 RAMA: Identifying Interactions between Cytokine Levels and Clinical Outcomes in Influenza Infection Using a Novel Data-Driven Method for Defining Cytokine Modules Tomer Hertz1,2, Andrew Fiore-Gartland2, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari3, Anna A. Agan4, Anushay A. Mistry3, Paul G. Thomas5, Adrienne G. Randolph6 1Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, USA 3Department of Pediatrics, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota, USA 4Department of anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital,

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USA 5Department of Immunology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA 6Departments of Anaesthesia and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA

16:15 Meta Analysis of Microbiome Data Provides New Insights on Preterm Births Idit Kosti, Marina Sirota, Atul Butte Institute for Computational Health Sciences, UCSF, USA

16:30 Clinical Proteomics of Invasive Breast Carcinoma Reveals a Major Role for Proline Metabolism in Imparting Drug Resistance Anjana Shenoy1, Irina Marin2, Nora Balint2, Noa Bossel3, Gili Peri4, Anya Pavlovsky2, Iris Barshack2, Bella Kaufman5, Maya Dadiani4, Tamar Geiger1 1Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Pathology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Cancer Research Center, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 5Oncology Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 WED18: Developmental Mechanisms Royal Beach hotel - Alon Session II of the Israel Society for Developmental Biology

Chair: Eli Arama, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Adi Salzberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 15:00 Bilateral Symmetry and Establishment of the Ventral Embryonic Midline Alaa Arraf, Ronit Yelin, Inbar Reshef, Tom Schultheiss Genetics and Developmental Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

15:20 VEGF Activates a Complex Gene Network with Angiogenetic Motifs to Control Sea Urchin Spiculogenesis Modi Roopin1, Miri Morgulis1, Tsvia Gildor1, Lama Khalaily1, Assaf Malick2, Monica Dines3, Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon1, Noa Sher2 1Marine Biology, the University of Haifa, Charney School of Marine Sciences, Israel 2The bioinformatics service unit, the University of Haifa, Israel 3Sagol Deprtment of Neurobiology, the University of Haifa, Israel

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15:40 Cell cycle, Cell size and Nanoparticles Amit Tzur, Tal Mashriki, Einat Panet, Roxane Lahmi, Abraham Jacob, Efrat Ozer, Manuela Vecsler, Itay Lazar The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

16:00 How to Shave a baby: Evolved Repression Overcomes Enhancer Robustness Ella Preger-Ben Noon, David Stern HHMI Janelia Research Campus, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA

16:15 Spatiotemporal Characterization of Cytokinetic Abscission in Developing Zebrafish Embryos Shai Adar, Yarden Jean, Ramon Birnbaum, Natalie Elia Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel

16:30 Sip1 Regulates the Generation of the Inner Nuclear Layer Retinal Cell Lineages in Mammals Yotam Menuchin-Lasowski1, Pazit Oren-Giladi1, Qing Xie2, Raaya Ezra-Elia3, Ron ofri3, Shany Peled-Hajaj1, Chen Farhy1, Yujiro Higashi4, Tom Van de Putte5, Hisato Kondoh6, Danny Huylebroeck5,7, Ales Cvekl2, Ruth Ashery-Padan1 1Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 3Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Human Service Center, Japan 5Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Belgium 6Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan 7Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

15:00-16:45 SOF7: Soft Skill. The Power of Peer Support Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Ron Milo, Weizmann Institute of Science The academic path is a challenging journey full of hurdles and without a clear roadmap. In this session Ron Milo will describe the experience of forming a peer support group and share the lessons learnt along the way. The session will be held in Hebrew in order to encourage personal sharing by the participants.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

17:30-17:45 WED23; The Israel Science Foundation: an Outlook towards the Next 5 Year Plan Herods hotel - Pavilion Benjamin Geiger The Israel Science Foundation

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017

17:45-18:45 PL3: PLENARY LECTURE: Stochasticity and Cell Fate Herods hotel - Pavilion Richard Losick is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, a Harvard College Professor, and a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University. He received his A.B. in Chemistry at Princeton University and his Ph.D. from MIT. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a past Chairman of the Departments of Cellular and Developmental Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a recipient of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Selman A. Waksman Award of the National Academy of Sciences, the Canada International Gairdner Award, and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry of Columbia University.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

07:00-09:00 Danyel Biotech proudly presents: Run for Your Lab - ILANIT 5 km Race Starting point: Kampen Street To sing up for the race please fill out the contact form: https://danyelbiotech.wufoo.com/forms/danyel-biotech-proud-to-present/ Your race kit will wait for you at Danyel Biotech's booth at Dan Hotel Eilat during the conference. The race winners will win a voucher for purchasing from Danyel Biotech life sciences products.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU4: Host-Parasite Interactions – Where Do We Go from Here? Herods hotel - Kings hall A The session for the Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Disease Chair: Michal Shapira, Ben Gurion University Chair: Dan Zilberstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 09:00 Malaria Parasites Secrete Vesicles to Alter Their Host Neta Regev-Rudzki1, Xavier Sisquella2, Yifat Ofir-Birin1, Matthew A. Pimentel2, Lesley Cheng3, Anthony T. Papenfuss2, Andrew F Hill3, Andrew Bowie4 1Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Medical Biology, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia 3Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Australia 4School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

09:20 The “Rose” Blooms Again: Resurgence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Israel Charles Jaffe National Center for Leishmaniasis, Kuvin Center for the Study of infectious and Tropical 234 Last updated 16.02.2017

Diseases, Dept. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

09:40 Mechanisms of Entamoeba Histolytica Adaptation to Environmental Constraints Serge Ankri Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:00 What Makes the Parasite Toxoplasma gondii Such an Extraordinary Generalist? Adit Naor, John Boothroyd Microbiology and immunology, Stanford School of medicine, USA

10:15 Can Microbes Help Explain the Evolution of Host Altruism? Ohad Lewin-Epstein, Ranit Aharonov, Lilach Hadany Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:30 The Leishmania eIF4E-3 Associates with Cytoplasmic Granules during Metacyclogenesis Rohit Shrivastava, Alexandra Zinoviev, Michal Shapira Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU9: Computational Biology and Immunotherapy: from Drug Design to Therapy Herods hotel - Kings hall B Joint session between the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology & the Israel Immunological Society Chair: Dan Peer, Tel Aviv University 09:00 A Roadmap for Cancer Immunotherapy Gal Markel Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno-Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

09:20 Equal Protection? Exploring Immune System Variation Shai Shen-Orr Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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09:40 Mining the Genome of Advanced-Cancer Patients to Devise Personalized T cell-based Immunotherapy Cyrille J. Cohen Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

10:00 Discovery and Development of Orally-Available Small Molecule Inhibitors Against PD-1 Einav Ratzon, Nesly Dotan, Farah Roslane, Elad Cohen, Maayan Gal, Itai Bloch Biochemistry, Migal - Galilee Research Institute, Israel

10:15 PIPER-FlexPepDock: Accurate Modeling of Peptide-Protein Interactions Using a Fragment Based Global Docking Approach Nawsad Alam1, Bing Xia2, Kathryn Porter2, Dima Kozakov3,4,5, Ora Schueler-Furman1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute for Medical Research Israel- Canada, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, USA 3Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, USA 4Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, USA 5Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA

10:30 Rapid Discovery of Potent and Selective Covalent Inhibitors via Covalent Docking Nir London Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU1: Endocrinology in Development and Cancer Herods hotel - Queens hall Session II of the Israel Endocrine Society Chair: HAnnah Kanety, Sheba Medical Center Chair: Haim Cohen, Bar Ilan University 09:00 The Longevity Hormone Klotho and IGF-1: from Regulation of GH Secretion to Alteration of Tumor Metabolism Ido Wolf, Tami Rubinek Oncology Division, TLVMC, Israel

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09:20 Identification of IGF1-Regulated Pathways Associated with Cancer Protection Haim Werner1, Karthik Nagaraj1, Lena Lapkina-Gendler1, Rive Sarfstein1, Zvi Laron2 1Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Endocrine Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Israel

09:40 The Role of Islet Pericytes in Beta-Cell Function and Glucose Regulation Limor Landsman Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 Leptin and Insulin Up-Regulate miR-4443 to Suppress NCOA1 and TRAF4, and Decrease the Invasiveness of Human Colon Cancer Cells Ari Meerson, Hila Yehuda Molecular Biology of Chronic Diseases, MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, Israel

10:15 Deciphering the Role of Deiodinase Type 3 in Ovarian Cancer: Implications for Diagnosis and Future Precision Medicine Dotan Bakshy1,2, Yael Finkelshtein1,2, Adi Alfandari1,2, Martin Ellis1, Govindasamy Mugesh3, Bernard Lerer4, Osnat Ashur-Fabian1,2 1Translational Hemato-Oncology Laboratory, Hematology Institute and Blood Bank, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel, Israel 2Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Israel 3Department of inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, India 4Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Israel

10:30 Identifying a New Route and Cell Population for the Mobilization of Deregulated STAT5 Activity in the Mammary Gland Moshe Reichenstein1, Gat Rauner1,2, Shenhav Kfir1,2, Tania Kudinov1,2, Tatiana Kisliouk1, Itamar Barash1 1Institute of Animal Science, ARO, the Volcani Center, Israel 2The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 SOF8: Soft skill. How to say “NO” Herods hotel - Laurence hall Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science Why do we say yes when we wish we would have said no? In this experiential workshop (including exercises in small groups) we will develop our assertiveness in the face of difficult situations.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU10: Breakthroughs in Targeting the Cancer Immunome Dan hotel - Blue hall A & B Joint session between the Israeli Society for Cancer Research & the Israel Immunological Society Chair: Yuval Shaked, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 09:00 Drug Resistance in Cancer: The Enemy Is in and Around the Tumor Cells Ofra Novaplansky1, Limor Cohen1, Mathew Fury2, Maurizio Scaltriti2, Jose Baselga2, Aron Popovtzer3, Moshe Elkabets1, Fabiola Cecchi4 1The Shraga Segal Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2Human Patogenesis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA 3Oncology Center, Davidoff Cancer Center ,Rabin Medical Center, Israel 4Molecular Oncology, NanoOmics, USA

09:20 The Role of Chemokines as Immune Checkpoints in Cancer and Autoimmunity Hila Razon, Gizi Wildbaun, Nathan Karin Rappaort Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

09:40 Engineering Immune Effector Molecules for Novel Immunotherapy of Cancer and Inflammation Yoram Reiter Faculty of Biology and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Integrated Cancer Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

10:00 Requirement of FcγR Pathways for the Therapeutic Activity of Immunomodulatory Antibodies Rony Dahan, Jeffrey Ravetch Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller University, USA

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10:15 Development of CKI Alpha Inhibitors for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Waleed Minzel, Irit Snir-Alkalay, Avner Fink, Guy Brachyia, Amitai Rivlin, Yinon Ben-Neriah Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

10:30 Perioperative Blockade of COX2 and β-adrenoceptors in Breast Cancer Patients Improves Markers of Inflammation, Immunity, and Primary Tumor Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Rita Haldar1, Lee Shaashua1, Hagar Lavon1, Pini Matzner1, Maytal Shabat-Simon1, Oded Zmora2, Moshe Shabtai2, Eran Sharon3, Tanir Allweis4, Iris Barshak5, Steve Cole6, Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu1 1Sagol School of Neuroscience and School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 3Department of Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel 4Department of Surgery, Kaplan Medical Center, Israel 5Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Israel 6Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU6: Immune Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases Dan hotel - Tarshish A The session for the Israel Society of Neuroimmunology Chair: Alon Monsonego, Ben Gurion University Chair: Dimitris Karussis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center 09:00 Astrocytes as Key Regulators of Neuroinflammation Lior Mayo1,2, Sunia A. Trauger3, Manon Blain6, Alexandre Prat5, Jack P. Antel6, Jorge I. Alvarez5, Asaf Madi1, Hans Lassmann4, Francisco J. Quintana1, Howard L. Weiner1 1Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA 2Cell Research & Immunology, Life Sciences Faculty and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3FAS, Harvard University, USA 4Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria 5Faculty of Medicine,, Université de Montréal, Canada 6Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University,, Canada

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09:20 Manipulating the Brain`S Reward System to Boost Immunity Asya Rolls Immunology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Israel., Israel Neuroscience, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa Israel., Israel

09:40 Harnessing Systemic Immunity to Fight Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Potential of Immune Checkpoint Blockade for Fighting Against Alzheimer`S Disease Michal Schwartz Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Neuro-Inflammation: from Life Imaging to Immunotherapy Iftach Shaked, Rui Liu, David Kleinfeld Physics, UCSD, USA

10:15 Inhibition of the Chemokine Receptors CCR5 Improves Learning and Memory After Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice and Stroke in Humans Esther Shohami1, Dalia Shabashov-Stone1, Sigal Liraz-Zaltsman1, Efrat Kesner1, Yael Friedman-Levi1, Stanley Carmichael2, Alcino Silva3, Amos Korczyn5, Natan Bornstein5, Einor Ben-Assayag4 1Pharmacology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA 3Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Brain Research Institute, UCLA, USA 4Neurology and Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Neurology and Psychiatry, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

10:30 The Role of Glial Phagocytosis in Neurodegeneration Ketty Hakim, Boris Shklyar, Estee Kurant Department of Human Biology, University of Haifa, Israel

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU11: Walking the Walk: Insights and Hindsight on the "Bench to Bedside' Path Dan hotel - Tarshish B Student organized session

Chair: Oded Oron, Bar Ilan University Chair: Netta Shraga, Bar Ilan University 09:00 Cellular Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases Daniel Offen Sackler School of Medicine, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:20 Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy (VTP) with TOOKAD® Soluble: From Bench to Clinic Avigdor Scherz1, Yoram Salomon2 1Department of environment and Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

09:40 Cancer Therapies Making Use of Monoclonal and Oigoclonal Antibodies Yosef Yarden Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 DHEA Horizon: A Program that Boosts and Supports the Detoxification and Rehabilitation Process Gal Yadid1,2, David Hohana2,3, Rachel Maayan4, Hadas Ahdoot1, Eitan Eckstein5 1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 2The Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 3Max Wertheimer Minerva Center, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Research Unit, Geha Mental Health Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel 5Retorno Rehabilitation Center, Israel

10:15 AS101 Prevents Diabetic Nephropathy Progression and Mesangial Cell Dysfunction: Regulation of the AKT Downstream Pathway Itay Israel Shemesh1, Benaya Rozen-Zvi2,3, Yona Kalechman1, Uzi Gafter2,3, Benjamin Sredni1 1Safdié Institute for AIDS and Immunology Research, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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10:30 A TP53 Missense Mutation in Breast Cancer Patients of Arab Descent Aviad Zick1, Sherri Cohen1, Michael Frohlinger1, Tamar Hamburger1, Naama Zvi2, Morasha Plaser2, Yael Goldberg1, Shani Breuier1, Firase Elian1, Azam Salach1, Luna Kadouri1, Tamar Peretz1 1Oncology, Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Israel 2Human Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU2: Evolution and Systems Microbiology Royal Beach hotel - Hadar Session II of the Israel Society for Microbiology Chair: Ruth Hirschberg, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Chair: Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science

09:00 Sugar synthesis from CO2 in E. coli Ron Milo Plant & Environmental Sciences, Weizmann inst., Israel

09:20 Efficient Regulatory Circuits by a Protein and a Small RNA Encoded in a Single Gene Hanah Margalit Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:40 Composition and Gene Mobility of the Rumen Plasmidome Itzhak Mizrahi Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:00 Dysregulation of Safeguard Mechanisms Underlies Heterosis Dana Bar-Zvi1,2, Rebecca Herbst1,2,3,4, Sharon Reikhav1, Ilya Soifer1, Michal Breker1, Ghil Jona5, Eyal Shimoni6, Maya Schuldiner1, Avraham Levy2, Naama Barkai1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Weizmann Institute of Science, Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, Israel 3Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard, USA 4Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA 5Biological Services Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 6Department of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 242 Last updated 16.02.2017

10:15 Community Structure Follows Simple Assembly Rules in Microbial Microcosms Jonathan Friedman1, Logan Higgins2, Jeff Gore1 1Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, MIT, USA 2Microbiology Graduate Program, MIT, USA

10:30 From Lab to Ecosystem: Selfish Intein Invasion Increases Genomic Recombination Rates between Different Genotypes Neta Altman1,3, Shannon Soucy2, Adit Naor1, Johann Peter Gogarten2, Uri Gophna1 1Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, USA 3Department of Natural and Life Sciences, the Open University of Israel, Israel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU5: Medical Genetics in the 21st Century Royal Beach hotel - Shita The session for the Israel society for Medical Genetics Chair: Lina Basel, Tel Aviv University Chair: Shay Ben Shahar, Tel Aviv University 09:00 Diagnosis of Rare Inherited Hematological Disorders by Targeted Gene Capture and Next Generation Sequencing HAnnah Tamary Hematology Unit, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Israel Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:20 Primary Microcephaly: ALFY •Controlled DVL3 Autophagy Regulates Wnt Signaling, Determining Human Brain Size Rotem Kadir1,7, Tamar Harel1,7, Barak Markus1,7, Yonatan Perez1,7, Anna Bakhrat2, Elana Chervinski3, Joel Zlotogora4, Sara Sivan5,7, Ramon Birnbaum2, Uri Abdu2, Stavit Shalev3, Ohad Birk5,6,7 1Human Genetics and the Genetics Institute, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University, Israel 2Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel 3Genetics Institute, HaEmek Medical Center, Israel 4Department of Community Genetics, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Israel 5The Morris Kahn Laboratory of Human Genetics, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Israel 6Genetics Institute, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel 243 Last updated 16.02.2017

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09:40 The Genetic Basis for the Neurodegenerative Diseases Parkinson’s and ALS among Jews; A World-Wide Lesson Avi Orr-Urtreger1,3, Vivian E Drory2,3, Nir Giladi2,3 1Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 2Department of Neurology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 3Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

10:00 LIMT is a Novel Metastasis inhibiting lncRNA Suppressed by EGF and Down-Regulated in Aggressive Subtypes of Breast Cancer Aldema Sas-Chen1,2, Miriam Aure3, Limor Leibovich4, Silvia Carvalho1, Yehoshua Enuka1, Cindy Körner5, Maria Polycarpou-Schwarz6, Sara Lavi1, Nava Nevo1, Yuri Kuznetsov8, Justin Yuan1, Francisco Azuaje7, Igor Ulitsky1, Sven Diederichs6, Stefan Wiemann5, Zohar Yakhini4, Vessela Kristensen3, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale3, Yosef Yarden1 1Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of science, Israel 2Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of science, Israel 3Department of Cancer Genetics, University of Oslo, Norway 4Department of Computer Sciences, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 5Division of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 6Division of RNA Biology & Cancer, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 7Department of Oncology, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg 8Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of science, Israel

10:15 CATCH: in Vitro Cas9-Assisted Targeting of CHromosome Segments for Multiscale Genetic Analysis and Cloning of Large Genomic Regions Yael Michaeli Hoch1, Tslil Gabrieli1, Wenjun Jiang2, Ting Zhu2, Yuval Ebenstein1 1Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel 2School of Life Sciences, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Collaborative innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of infectious Diseases, Tsinghua University, China

10:30 The Role of the Enzyme Argininosuccinate Lyase in the Brain Shaul Lerner1, Raya Eilam3, Yael Kuperman3, Michael Tsoory3, Alexander Brandis4, Alon Chen2, Ayelet Erez1 1Department of biological regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Department of life sciences core facilities, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU8: From Cellular Pathways to Organismal Biology Royal Beach hotel - Ella Joint session between the Israel Society for Developmental Biology & the Israel Society for Cell Biology Chair: Benny Shilo, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Ze’ev Paroush, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 09:00 The Transition from Peripheral to Central Nervous System during Development Chaya Kalcheim, Oshri Avraham, Shai ofek, Deepak Kumar, Nitza Kahane, Erez Nitzan Department of Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

09:20 Fibronectin Oxidation Regulates Myofiber Stretch and Adhesion Ortal Kraft-Sheleg1, Shelly Zaffryar-Eilot1, Olga Genin2, Wesal Yaseen1, Sharon Soueid- Baumgarten1, Ofra Kessler1, Tatyana Smolkin1, Gal Akiri1, Gera Neufeld1, Yuval Cinnamon2, Peleg Hasson1 1Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Department of Poultry and Aquaculture, Institute of Animal Sciences, the Volcani Center, Israel

09:40 Caretakers of Tissue Integrity: A Non-Apoptotic Role of Caspases in Preventing Unwanted Cell Migration and Invasion Anna Gorelick1, Ron Weiss1, Anat Florentin1, Dima Dweik1, Lama Tarayrah1, Hadas Keren- Shaul2, Eli Arama1, Ido Amit2 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

10:00 Degradation of the Silencer: Autophagy of Argonaute1 (AGO1) is Initiated at the Endoplasmic- Reticulum of Arabidopsis Cells Simon Michaeli1, Esther Izquierdo2, Marion Clavel1, Thibaut Hacquard1, Fanchon Divol2, Pascal Genschik1 1Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP), CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, France 2Biochimie et Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS/INRA/UM2/SupAgro, France

10:15 Long-Range Intercellular Communication in Collective Cell Migration Assaf Zaritsky1, Yun-Yu Tseng2, Angeles M. Rabadan2, Michael Overholtzer2, Alan Hall2, Gaudenz Danuser1

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10:30 Determining Developmental Pathways in the C. elegans Embryo Using Single Cell Data Tamar Hashimshony1, Alison G. Cole1, Sally Khair1, Itai Yanai1,2 1Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 2Institute for Computational Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU3: Cellular Metabolism in Health and Disease Royal Beach hotel - Alon Session II of the Israel Society for Cell Biology Chair: Zvulun Elazar, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Yoav Shaul, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Medical Center 09:00 Trust Your Gut; Metabolic Induction of Specific NO Production by Enterocytes Alleviates Colitis Ayelet Erez1, Noa Stettner1,2, Shiri Gur Cohen3, Alon Silberman1, Alona Sarver1, Narin Carmel1, Raya Eilam2, Inbal Biton2, Keren Bahar Halpern4, Ram Mazkereth5, Nadav Cohen3, Tsvee Lapidot3, Shalev itzkovitz4, Gillian Dank6, Alon Harmelin2 1Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 3Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 4Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 5Medicine, the Sackler School of Medicine, Israel 6Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University, Israel

09:20 Immuno-metabolic Consequences of Dysregulated Adipose Tissue Autophagy in Obesity Assaf Rudich1,2, Yulia Haim1,2, Nitzan Maixner1,2, Nir Goldstein1, Maayan Vatarescu1,2, Tal Pecht1, Sapir Bechor1,2 1Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 2National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

09:40 Type 2 Diabetes and Beta Cell Identity Crisis Yuval Dor Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Israel

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10:00 Genome-Wide CRISPR Screen and Metabolite Profiling Reveal A New Mechanism of Methotrexate Sensitivity Naama Kanarek1,2, Elizaveta Freinkman1,2, Jason Cantor1,2, Tim Wang1,2,4, Monther Abu- Remaileh1,2, Mikael Rinne3, Prat Thiru1, David M. Sabatini1,2,4 1The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, USA 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HHMI, USA 3Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA 4Broad Institute, Harvard and MIT, USA

10:15 Beta-cell Insulin Secretion Recovery by Mitochondrial Clearance Guy Las1, Dovi Shlomo1, Essam Assali1, Fernanda Cerqueira1, Roi Gazit2, Kyle Trudeau4, Aaron Colby3, Marc Grinstaff3, Orian Shirihai1,4 1Medical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Ben Gurion University, Israel 2Microbiology, Ben Gurion University, Israel 3Chemistry, Boston University, USA 4Endocrinology, Boston University, USA

10:30 SIRT6 Regulates Hepatic Fat Oxidation Shoshana Naiman, Yael Shahar, Haim Y. Cohen The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Israel

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

09:00-10:45 THU7: The Molecular Characteristics of Stem Cells Royal Beach hotel - Zeit Session II of the Israel Stem Cell Society Chair: Tsvee Lapidot, Weizmann Institute of Science Chair: Nissim Benvenisty, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 09:00 Programming Asynchronous Replication in Stem Cells Yehudit Bergman1, Hagit Masika1, Marganit Farago1, Reba Condiotti1, Kiril Makedonski1, Yosef Buganim1, Tal Burstyn-Cohen2, Howard Cedar1 1Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Medical School, Israel 2The Insitute of Dental Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dental School, Israel

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09:20 A Novel Mechanism Regulating Organ Size and Skin Regeneration Yahav Yosefzon, Despina Soteriou, Egor Sedov, Lana Kostic, Fabian Glaser, Yaron Fuchs Faculty of Biology and Lokey interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

09:40 Changing Cell Fate with Reprogramming Factors Yossi Buganim Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Hadassah Medical School, Israel

10:00 Transcription Factors for Normal and for Malignant Hematopoietic Stem Cells Roi Gazit The Shraga Segal department for Microbiology Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Israel BGU, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Israel BGU, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell (RMSC) Research Center, Israel

10:15 The Epigenetics of Gene Expression Variability Matan Sorek1,2, Jonathan Carse1, Tal Ashuah1, Eran Meshorer1,2 1Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2Edmond and Lile Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 Lin28 – A Pluripotency Gene with Pleotropic Effects in Development and Diseases Leah Armon, Sophie Sacofsky, Rachel Shtainfeld, Nelly Komarovsky, Achia Urbach The Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan Univeristy, Israel

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

11:30-12:30 PL4: PLENARY LECTURE: Melanoma Treatment: Evolution or Revolution? Herods hotel - Pavilion Caroline Robert, M.D., Ph.D. is the Head of the Dermatology Service at Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus and co-director of the Melanoma Research Unit at INSERM 981 Paris-Sud University. She trained at the Paris V University, and at Harvard, Brigham & Women’s hospital in Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy. She chairs the Melanoma EORTC group. Her main focuses of interest are clinical and translational Research on Melanoma: immunotherapy and targeted therapy. She is national and international coordinator of many clinical trials of targeted therapy and immunotherapy for melanoma patients, from phase I to III. Sponsored by: Merck

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

12:30-13:15 THU12: Closing Session and Prize Awards Ceremony

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017

14:15-18:45 PM: Precision Medicine Satellite Meeting (Requires separate registration) Dan hotel - Blue hall A & B Chair: Eli Pikarsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Angel Porgador, Ben Gurion University

Precision Medicine (also referred to as personalized medicine) is a rapidly evolving field spanning big data analysis, data sharing, prognostic and predictive biomarkers, combined together to select specific treatments for individual patients. The satellite symposium boasts world leaders in the field and will provide attendees with a comprehensive view of this emerging field of biomedical research which is expected to change the medical world in the near future. The meeting will include individual lectures and close with a panel. Sponsored by: Yad Hanadiv

14:15 Atul Butte

Atul Butte, MD, PhD is the inaugural Director of the Institute of Computational Health Sciences (ichs.ucsf.edu) at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Butte is also the Executive Director for Clinical informatics across the six University of California Medical Schools and Medical Centers. Dr. Butte trained in Computer Science at Brown University, worked as a software engineer at Apple and Microsoft, received his MD at Brown University, trained in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Children’s Hospital Boston, then received his PhD from Harvard Medical School and MIT. Dr. Butte has authored nearly 200 publications, with research repeatedly featured in Wired Magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Butte was elected into the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, and in 2013, he was recognized by the White House as an Open Science Champion of Change for promoting science through publicly available data. Dr. Butte is also a founder of three investor-backed data-driven companies: Personalis, providing clinical interpretation of whole genome sequences, Carmenta (acquired by Progenity), discovering diagnostics for pregnancy complications, and NuMedii, finding new uses for drugs through open molecular data. Dr. Butte is a principal investigator of three major programs: the California initiative to Advance Precision Medicine; the California Precision Medicine Consortium, helping recruit tens of thousands of participants into President Obama’s Precision Medicine initiative; and ImmPort, the clinical and molecular data repository for the National Institute of Allergy and infectious Diseases.

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14:55 Razelle Kurzrock Dr. Razelle Kurzrock is known for developing the largest Phase 1 clinical trials department in the nation/world while at the University of Texas M.D. anderson Cancer Center. A central theme of that program was the personalized medicine strategy, embodied in a protocol called PREDICT for Profile-related Evidence Determining individualized Cancer therapy. This approach utilized advanced molecular technologies to match patients with targeted cancer treatment that is more likely to work for their individual tumors. At Moores Cancer Center, Dr. Kurzrock’s charge is broad, including not just growing and innovating the center’s clinical trials program, but also heading its newly established Center for Personalized Cancer therapy. This center focuses on precision medicine trials, using the most innovative genomically-targeted drugs and/or agents that arm the immune system. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Kurzrock brings extraordinary expertise and experience in clinical research, business operations, regulatory operations, financial and budget planning, and administrative oversight, in addition to her world-recognized work in translational science. Dr. Kurzrock is also Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Kurzrock received her MD degree from the University of Toronto and has over 650 peer-reviewed publications and a uniquely strong record of competitive grant funding within the setting of Phase I program building. Dr. Kurzrock also has a strong history of building outstanding education/training programs. At University of Texas MD anderson Cancer Center, she founded and directed the MS/PhD program (degree granting) in Human Biology and Patient-Based Research, as well as the Fellowship in investigational Cancer Therapeutics. At UCSD Moores Cancer, she founded and directs the Fellowship in Personalized Cancer therapy. Dr. Kurzrock has four children and lives with her husband, Dr. Philip Cohen, a dermatologist, in San Diego, CA. 15:35 Marc E. Rothenberg

Dr. Marc E. Rothenberg is the Director of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, the Bunning Tenured Chair of Allergy and Immunology, the Founder and Director of the Cincinnati Center for Eosinophilic Disorders, and the Founder and Director of the NIH-sponsored USA Consortium of Eosinophilic Disease Researchers. He graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry and Biochemistry from Brandeis University, and has an MD/PhD in Immunology from Harvard Medical School. His clinical training is in pediatric allergy and immunology. His research is focused on molecular analysis of allergic inflammation, and has included seminal studies on eosinophil hematopoiesis, which led to the development of a new class of drugs (humanized anti-IL-5). Dr. Rothenberg’s awards include the 2007 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society of Pediatric Research, an NIH MERIT Award in 2010 and he is a member of the Hewlett- Woodmere Alumni Hall of Fame. He is an elected member of the ASCI, AAP, AAAS and SPR. His publications number over 350. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and Mucosal Immunology, and co-Section Head of the Allergy and Hypersensitivity Section of Faculty 1000. He is the inventor of over 20 patents. He has served as a key Consultant to a number of Start-Up Companies that have subsequently become public entities. He has served a four- 251 Last updated 16.02.2017

year term on the Advisory Council of the NIAID/NIH. His research has been supported by numerous sources including the NIH and US-Israel Binational Fund.

16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 Yoseph Yarden Born in Israel, Yosef Yarden received his B.Sc. in Biological and Geological Sciences from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1980), and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Weizmann Institute of Science (1985). His postdoctoral training was undertaken at Genentech, inc. (c/o Axel Ullrich) in San Francisco, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (c/o Robert A. Weinberg). in November 1988, he returned to Weizmann Institute of Science as an Assistant Professor and was appointed Associate Professor in 1992, and Full Professor in 1996. His past administrative responsibilities at the Weizmann Institute include Dean of the Faculty of Biology (1997-1999), Vice-President for Academic Affairs (1999-2001), Director of the M.D. Moross Institute for Cancer Research (1999-2001), and Dean of the Feinberg Graduate School (2001-2007). From January 2011 till December 2013 he served as President of the Federations of Israel Societies of Experimental Biology (FISEB/ILANIT). Among Yarden’s honors and awards are the Sergio Lombroso Prize in Cancer Research (1994), the andre Lewoff Prize (1995), the Michael Bruno Memorial Award of Yad Hanadiv (Rothschild Family Prizes; 2000), the TEVA Founders Prize (2004), the MERIT Award of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (2005), the EMET Prize in Biochemistry (2007), the 2008 Hamilton Fairly Award of the European Societies for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award of the M.D. anderson Cancer Center (2011), the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Research (2012) and Leoplod Griffuel Award of Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (2015). In 2007, Yarden was elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

17:10 Matthias Mann Matthias Mann studied physics and mathematics at Göttingen University and obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Yale where he was decisively involved in the development of electrospray ionization. Thereafter at the University of Southern Denmark he developed the first bioinformatic search algorithms for peptide fragmentation data and SILAC, a new method of quantitative proteomics and a breakthrough in the mapping of protein interactions. In 2005, he was appointed director at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich. Here his group addresses a wide range of biological questions developing and using proteomic technology. in 2009 Dr. Mann was additionally appointed director at the NNF Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen.

17:50-18:45 Panel Discussion with the PM Plenaries

Moderator: Yinon Ben-Neriah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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ILANIT 2017 PARTNERS

Israeli Centers Of Research Excellence

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ILANIT 2017 SPONSORS

Danyel Biotech Mercury Platinum Sponsor Gold Sponsorship

Zotal Rhenium Silver Sponsorship Silver Sponsorship

Bactlab Twist Silver Sponsorship Silver Sponsorship

Perkin Elmer Merck Silver Sponsorship Bronze Sponsorship

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ILANIT 2017 EXHIBITORS

09:00 - 16:45, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 09:00 - 20:30, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017 09:00 - 13:30, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017 Herods Hotel, Dan Hotel, Royal Beach Hotel

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INDEX A. Knisbacher, Binyamin In Program:, 63 A. Pimentel, Matthew In Program:, 172 Abada, Adi In Program:, 213 Abadi, Uri In Program:, 80 Abayev, Elina In Program:, 77 Abd Alhadi, Marwa In Program:, 179 Abd Alhadi, Mickal In Program:, 62 Abdu, Uri In Program:, 243 Abed, Jawad In Program:, 47 Abedrabbo, Maha In Program:, 99 Abeliovich, Hagai In Program:, 171, 213 Abergel, Rachel In Program:, 50 Abergel, Zohar In Program:, 50 Aboelhija-Soloh, Soaad In Program:, 180 Abou Karam, Paula In Program:, 177 Abraham, Ayelet Chen In Program:, 127 Abraham, Michal In Program:, 80 Abraham, Nader In Program:, 177 Abraham, Ofri In Program:, 58 Abramov, Marina In Program:, 88 Abramovich, Rinat In Program:, 180 Abramovitch, Rinat In Program:, 138 Abramson, Jakub In Program:, 65 Abramson, Jeff In Program:, 57 Abu Asaad, Rima In Program:, 195 Abu-Rayyan , Amal In Program:, 130 Abu-Remaileh, Monther In Program:, 229, 247 Abu-Tayeh, Hanan In Program:, 161 Abu-Zhaiya, Enas In Program:, 14 Achache, Hanna In Program:, 142 Achanta, Sirisha In Program:, 103 Achinta, Sirisha In Program:, 65 Ackermann, Gail In Program:, 198 Adamovich, Yaarit In Program:, 27, 38, 51 Adani*, Boaz In Program:, 72 Adar, Revital In Program:, 49, 212 Adar, Shai In Program:, 192, 216, 232 Adar, Sheera In Program:, 44 Adato, Orit In Program:, 64 Addadi, Lia In Program:, 88, 192 Adepu, Raju In Program:, 174 Adir, Idan In Program:, 89 Adir, Idan In Program:, 202 Adir, Noam In Program:, 60, 135 256 Last updated 16.02.2017

Adiv Tal, Ophir In Program:, 60 Adler, Julia In Program:, 137 Admon, Arie In Program:, 201 Admon, Arie In Program:, 54, 79, 82, 106 Aflalo, Anastasia In Program:, 173, 209 Aftalion, Moshe In Program:, 113 Agam, Oded In Program:, 208 Agami, Reuven In Program:, 15, 230 Agan, Anna A. In Program:, 230 Agemy, Lilach In Program:, 222 Agmon, Hadar In Program:, 63 Agmon, Vered In Program:, 65 Agranyoni, Oryan In Program:, 153 Agron, Maayan In Program:, 174 Agron, Shani In Program:, 85 Agronin, Jacob In Program:, 129 Aguirre Aguilera, Jose David In Program:, 126 Aharon, Einav In Program:, 113 Aharoni, Amir In Program:, 90, 91, 170, 194, 207 Aharoni, Asaph In Program:, 23, 26, 149, 200, 206 Aharonov, Ranit In Program:, 235 Ahdoot, Hadas In Program:, 241 Ahn, Eunyong In Program:, 19 Aiken, Christopher In Program:, 52 Aillenberg, Liel In Program:, 195 Ainbinder, Elena In Program:, 55 Aizenman, Einat In Program:, 163 Aizenshtein, Elina In Program:, 19 Aizler, Yuval In Program:, 183 Akbareian, Sophia In Program:, 77 Akiri, Gal In Program:, 245 Akiva, Amit In Program:, 115 Akiva, Eyal In Program:, 90, 207 Alam, Nawsad In Program:, 236 Albeck, Shira In Program:, 115, 141 Alberman, Natalie In Program:, 217 Albocher, Nitsan In Program:, 184 Alexandrov, Theodore In Program:, 198 Alexandrovich, Alexander In Program:, 213 Alfandari, Adi In Program:, 237 Alfonta, Lital In Program:, 23, 70, 148 Alhadid, Yazan In Program:, 132 Alkalay, Irit In Program:, 76 Allalouf, Maya In Program:, 104 Allen, Benjamin In Program:, 132 Allen, Nicola J. In Program:, 34 257 Last updated 16.02.2017

Allon-Shalev, Stavit In Program:, 130, 131 Allweis, Tanir In Program:, 239 Almog, May In Program:, 38, 62 Almog, Yael In Program:, 188 Alon Cudkowicz, Noemie In Program:, 185 Alon, Amit In Program:, 67 Alon, Assaf In Program:, 133 Alon, Ronen In Program:, 107, 216 Alon, Shahar In Program:, 152 Alon, Uri In Program:, 129, 218 Aloni-Grinstein, Ronit In Program:, 113 Alonso, Michael In Program:, 22 Aloush, Noa In Program:, 169 Alper, Naomi In Program:, 155 Al-Qaisi, Talal S In Program:, 75 Altman, Neta In Program:, 116, 243 Altman, Topaz In Program:, 123 Altman-Price, Neta In Program:, 116 Altory-Natour, Amira In Program:, 97 Altuvia, Yael In Program:, 224 Alvarez, John Paul In Program:, 118 Alvarez, Jorge I. In Program:, 239 Amar, David In Program:, 63 Amariglio, Ninette In Program:, 106, 128, 172 Amartely, Adir In Program:, 151 Amartely, Hadar In Program:, 126 Amiad-Pavlov, Daria In Program:, 219 Amichay, Guy In Program:, 226 Amir Levy, Hadar In Program:, 125 Amir, Amnon In Program:, 154, 198 Amir, Aviran In Program:, 71 Amir, Dan In Program:, 133 Amir, Liat In Program:, 196 Amir-Zilberstein, Liat In Program:, 89, 101, 138, 166 Amit, Ido In Program:, 27, 228, 245 Amit, Roee In Program:, 27, 91, 154 Amit, Uri In Program:, 131, 132, 191, 211 Amitai, Gabi In Program:, 73 Amitai, Gil In Program:, 115 Amit-Avraham, Inbar In Program:, 218 Ammi, Azzadine In Program:, 220 Amnon, Buxboim In Program:, 88 Amoyav, Benzion In Program:, 80 Amsalem, Nofar In Program:, 125, 164 Amsalem, Oren In Program:, 28 Amsili, Shira In Program:, 70 258 Last updated 16.02.2017

Amster-Choder, Orna In Program:, 92, 168, 169, 184, 223 Ana, Tovar In Program:, 136 Anava, Sarit In Program:, 193 Anavy, Leon In Program:, 59, 154 Anbalagan, Savani In Program:, 28 Andreev, Aleksandr In Program:, 201 Andrews, David W. In Program:, 156 Anikster, Yair In Program:, 20, 224 Ankri, Serge In Program:, 235 Ansari, Ihab In Program:, 229 Antel, Jack P. In Program:, 239 Antonovsky, Niv In Program:, 185 Anuka, Einav In Program:, 65 Anuka, Eli In Program:, 105, 134 Anzi, Shira In Program:, 199 Apel, Ido In Program:, 136 Apte, Ron N. In Program:, 48 Apte, Roni In Program:, 196 Aqeilan, Haifa A. In Program:, 128 Aqeilan, Rami In Program:, 44 Arad, Gali In Program:, 63 Arad, Michael In Program:, 219 Arafat, Maram In Program:, 130 Aragon, Tomas In Program:, 94 Arakel, Eric C. In Program:, 91 Aram, Lior In Program:, 99, 122 Arama, Eli In Program:, 99, 100, 146, 197, 245 Aramin, Samar In Program:, 135 Aran, Dvir In Program:, 22 Arava, Yoav In Program:, 157, 171 Aravena-Calvo, Javiera In Program:, 53 Arazi, Eden In Program:, 190 Arbel, Gil In Program:, 221 Arbely, Eyal In Program:, 159, 169, 196 Arbib, Shir In Program:, 136 Arbiza, Leonardo In Program:, 66, 153 Argaman, E In Program:, 181 Argaman, Eli In Program:, 112 Argaman, Jasmine In Program:, 134 Argaman, Liron In Program:, 224 Arian, Tal In Program:, 126 Aricescu, A. Radu In Program:, 34 Ariel, Amiram In Program:, 21, 180 Ariel, Eitan In Program:, 78 Ariel, Gil In Program:, 226 Arman, Esther In Program:, 41 259 Last updated 16.02.2017

Armon, Leah In Program:, 248 Armony, Gad In Program:, 24 Aroeti, Benjamin In Program:, 110 Aronin, Alexandra In Program:, 70 Arora, Sneha In Program:, 202 Arraf, Alaa In Program:, 231 Artzi, Lior In Program:, 117 Arundkar, Sharathchandra In Program:, 221 Ashagre, Hewot In Program:, 120 Ashcroft, Frances In Program:, 167 Asher, Gad In Program:, 27, 38, 51 Ashery-Padan, Ruth In Program:, 42, 232 Ashkenazi, Hadas In Program:, 47 Ashkenazi, Hadas In Program:, 83 Ashkenazy, Asaf In Program:, 93, 192 Ashuah, Tal In Program:, 248 Ashur-Fabian, Osnat In Program:, 80, 237 Askari, Nadav In Program:, 106, 126 Asli, Ali In Program:, 206 Asraf, Omer In Program:, 208 Assali, Essam In Program:, 247 Assaraf, Yehuda , G. In Program:, 142 Assenheim, Lee In Program:, 88 Atar, Orna In Program:, 91, 154 Athamna, Muhammad In Program:, 196 Atir Lande, Avigail In Program:, 157 Atiya, Shahar In Program:, 51 Atkatsh, Kathleen In Program:, 24 Atkinson, Stephen D. In Program:, 36 Atrakchi, Ofir In Program:, 48 Attar-Namdar, Malka In Program:, 209 Attar-Schneider, Oshrat In Program:, 75 Attias, Shira In Program:, 82, 162, 210 Atzmon, Andrea In Program:, 124 Aure, Miriam In Program:, 244 Averbukh, Inna In Program:, 65 Avidan, Omri In Program:, 54 Aviel-Ronen, Sarit In Program:, 222 Avigad Laron, Efrat In Program:, 104 Avigad, Smadar In Program:, 76, 159, 160, 161, 162 Avigdor, Abraham In Program:, 80 Avila, Crisitna In Program:, 93 Avillach, Paul In Program:, 144 Avinoam, Ori In Program:, 127 Avior, Yishai In Program:, 103 Aviram, Haim Yuval In Program:, 70 260 Last updated 16.02.2017

Aviram, Naama In Program:, 170 Aviram, Rona In Program:, 38 Avital-Shacham, Meirav In Program:, 206 Avivi, Kamila In Program:, 87 Avnery, Batel In Program:, 81 Avni *, Dror In Program:, 221 Avni, Adi In Program:, 120 Avni, Adi In Program:, 120 Avni, Dror In Program:, 145, 172 Avni, Orly In Program:, 145 Avni, Yona In Program:, 91 Avraham, Emanuel In Program:, 196 Avraham, Karen B. In Program:, 131 Avraham, Karen In Program:, 100, 130 Avraham, Orly In Program:, 70 Avraham, Ortal In Program:, 70 Avraham, Oshri In Program:, 245 Avraham, Roi In Program:, 34, 68 Avraham, Roy In Program:, 29 Avraham-Demma, Yonatan In Program:, 85 Avrahami Tzfati, Dana In Program:, 173 Avrahami, Dorit In Program:, 194 Avrahami, Galia In Program:, 161 Avrahami, Galya In Program:, 160, 162 Avrahami-Moyal, Liat In Program:, 119 Avrahami-Tzfati, Dana In Program:, 167 Avrani, Sarit In Program:, 22 Avva, Soumya In Program:, 104 Awad, Aya In Program:, 76 Awad, Lama In Program:, 129 Awwad, Samah In Program:, 14 Axelrod, Jonathan H In Program:, 49 Axelrod, Jonathan In Program:, 138 Ayali, Amir In Program:, 226 Ayanaw, Serkalem In Program:, 168 Aylon, Yael In Program:, 201, 221 Ayoub, Nabieh In Program:, 14 Ayyash, Muneef In Program:, 125 Azazmeh, Narmen In Program:, 79 Azoulay-Shemer, Tamar In Program:, 40 Azriel, Aviva In Program:, 90 Azuaje, Francisco In Program:, 244 B. Avraham, Karen In Program:, 130 Bab, Itai In Program:, 209 Babbitt, Patricia In Program:, 207 Babkoff, Ari In Program:, 13, 173 261 Last updated 16.02.2017

Bacharach, Eran In Program:, 218 Bachar-Lustig, Esther In Program:, 227 Bachelet, Ido In Program:, 21 Bachner Hinenzon, Noa In Program:, 109 Bachrach, Gilad In Program:, 47 Bachur, Ayelet In Program:, 155 Backal Ben-Hamou, Libat In Program:, 78 Bagheri, Andisheh In Program:, 40 Bahar Halpern, Keren In Program:, 246 Bahar, Ofir In Program:, 111, 119, 188 Bahar, Ofir In Program:, 145 Bahar-Shany, Keren In Program:, 222 Bairachnaya, Maryia In Program:, 122 Bairey, Osnat In Program:, 146 Bakharat, Anna In Program:, 148 Bakhman, Anna In Program:, 206 Bakhrat, Anna In Program:, 243 Bakshy, Dotan In Program:, 237 Bal, Natalia In Program:, 33 Balaban, Nathalie In Program:, 22 Balaban, Nathalie Q. In Program:, 208 Balaban, Pavel In Program:, 33 Balachandran, Siddharth In Program:, 80 Balasubramaniam, Shanti In Program:, 224 Balint, Nora In Program:, 86, 87, 150, 231 Balno, Caitlin In Program:, 60 Balrey, Gurpreet In Program:, 195 Baltimore, David In Program:, 109 Bandeira, Nuno In Program:, 198 Banerjee, Kaveri In Program:, 202 Banerjee, Victor In Program:, 171 Bangio, Livnat In Program:, 212 Banin, Ehud In Program:, 183 Baniyash, Michal In Program:, 47, 83, 109 Bankaitis, Vytas In Program:, 185 Bar Lavan, Yael In Program:, 125 Bar Yaacov, Dan In Program:, 137 Bar Yaacov, Reut In Program:, 175 Bar Ya'akov, Irit In Program:, 25 Bar, Amir In Program:, 224 Bar, Daniel In Program:, 24 Bar, Maya In Program:, 187 Bar, Shiran In Program:, 43 Barak, Michal In Program:, 152, 222, 230 Barak, Shiri In Program:, 136 Baral, Ma’ayan In Program:, 45 262 Last updated 16.02.2017

Baranes, Danny In Program:, 151, 154 Barash, Itamar In Program:, 237 Barashi, Neta In Program:, 160 Barba-Spaeth, Giovanna In Program:, 35 Barber-Zucker, Shiran In Program:, 203 Barbosa, Inês In Program:, 186 Barda-Saad, Mira In Program:, 48, 52, 179 Bardini, Michela In Program:, 159 Barel, Ortal In Program:, 106, 128 Bargmann, Bastiaan In Program:, 40 Bar-Haim, Erez In Program:, 107 Barinfeld, Orit In Program:, 211 Baris, Hagit N. In Program:, 210 Barkai, Naama In Program:, 65, 89, 90, 116, 242 Barkai, Oren In Program:, 15 Barkan, Dalit In Program:, 21, 161 Barki-Harrington, Liza In Program:, 73, 87, 195 Bar-Lavan, Yael In Program:, 49 Barnabas, Georgina In Program:, 20 Barnea, Anat In Program:, 38 Barnea, Eilon In Program:, 79, 82, 106, 201 Barnea, Eytan In Program:, 217 Barocas, Adi In Program:, 226 Bar-On, Liat In Program:, 107 Bar-On, Yinon In Program:, 185 Baror-Sebban, Shulamit In Program:, 72 Barr, Haim In Program:, 73 Bar-Rogovsky, Hagit In Program:, 116, 117 Barshack, Iris In Program:, 69, 86, 87, 128, 150, 161, 164, 210, 222, 231 Barshak, Iris In Program:, 239 Barsheshet, Yiftah In Program:, 145 Barshir, Ruth In Program:, 69 Barshir, Ruth In Program:, 68 Bartholomew, Jerri L. In Program:, 36 Bartok, Osnat In Program:, 14, 61 Baruch, Erez In Program:, 161 Baruch-Umansky, Kfir In Program:, 227 Barzel, Adi In Program:, 26 Barzilai, Aviv In Program:, 78 Barzilai, Sagi In Program:, 216 Barzilai, Shlomit In Program:, 160, 161, 162 Barzilay, Rotem In Program:, 60 Bar-Ziv, Einat In Program:, 226 Bar-Ziv, Raz In Program:, 89 Bar-Ziv, Roy H In Program:, 94 Bar-Ziv, Roy In Program:, 94 263 Last updated 16.02.2017

Bar-Zvi, Dana In Program:, 242 Basch, Shani In Program:, 155 Basch-Barzilay, Shani In Program:, 70 Basel, Lina In Program:, 131 Baselga, Jose In Program:, 158, 238 Baselga, Jose´ In Program:, 74 Basel-Vanagaite, Lina In Program:, 151 Basha, Omer In Program:, 68 Bashan, Nava In Program:, 104, 105, 110 Bassal, Ravit In Program:, 97 Bassat, Elad In Program:, 227 Bauman, Yoav In Program:, 221 Bavli, Danny In Program:, 156 Bayer, Edward A In Program:, 117 Bayerl, Jonathan In Program:, 125 Bazak, Lily In Program:, 63 Beach, Dvora In Program:, 108, 178 Beaulieu, Isabelle In Program:, 48 Bechor, Sapir In Program:, 104, 110, 246 Becker, Nurit In Program:, 195 Becker-Cohen, Michal In Program:, 90 Beck-Sickinger, Annette In Program:, 105 Beer, Katherina In Program:, 37 Behani, Orit In Program:, 50 Behar, Hila In Program:, 118 Behar, Oded In Program:, 122 Beider, Katia In Program:, 80 Beiner, Mario In Program:, 222 Beit-Yannai, Elie In Program:, 98, 146 Bellaiche, Michel In Program:, 98 Bellen, Hugo J. In Program:, 102 Bellworthy, Jessica In Program:, 37 Belnik, Yana In Program:, 183 Belostotsky, Ruth In Program:, 224 Belov, Mikhail In Program:, 23 Ben Aroya, Shay In Program:, 50 Ben Barak, Ayelet In Program:, 98 Ben Betzalel, Guy In Program:, 82 Ben Dov, Rona In Program:, 78 Ben Gera, Hadas In Program:, 102, 187 Ben Herzel, Ori In Program:, 187 Ben Neriah, Yinon In Program:, 125 Ben Nun, Yael In Program:, 86 Ben Tov Perry, Rotem In Program:, 123 Ben Yehoyada, Merav In Program:, 83 Ben Yosef, Dalit In Program:, 144 264 Last updated 16.02.2017

Ben-Ami, Ido In Program:, 71 Benard, Angele In Program:, 223 Ben-Ari, Assaf In Program:, 80 Ben-Aroya, Shay In Program:, 29 Ben-Assayag, Einor In Program:, 240 Ben-Barak Zelas, Zohar In Program:, 71 Ben-Betzalel, Guy In Program:, 161 Ben-Califa, Nathalie In Program:, 41, 42 Bendalak, Keren In Program:, 54, 60 Ben-David, Arbel In Program:, 108 Ben-David, Jonathan In Program:, 36 Ben-David, Shlomi In Program:, 70 Bender, Sebastian In Program:, 229 Ben-Dov, Hamutal In Program:, 78 Ben-Dov, Iddo In Program:, 225 Ben-Eliyahu, Shamgar In Program:, 239 Bengad, Barak In Program:, 68 Ben-Haim, Nissim In Program:, 81 Benhar, Moran In Program:, 51, 158 Benharroch, Daniel In Program:, 80 Ben-Harush, Tal In Program:, 159 Benichis, Marina In Program:, 111 Benjamini, Ohad In Program:, 80, 172 Ben-Lulu, Shani In Program:, 158 Ben-Meir, Assaf In Program:, 64 Ben-Meir, Kerem In Program:, 109 Ben-Mordechai, Tammy In Program:, 132 Ben-Moshe Bossel, Noa In Program:, 150 Ben-Moshe Livne, Zohar In Program:, 37 Ben-Neriah, Yinon In Program:, 22, 76, 86, 95, 143, 164, 239 Ben-Neriah, Ziva In Program:, 194 Bennion, Melissa In Program:, 167 Ben-Nissan, Gili In Program:, 23 Ben-Nun, Yael In Program:, 147 Benny, Ofra In Program:, 80 Benoist, Christophe In Program:, 35, 69 Ben-Porath, Itai In Program:, 58 Ben-Porath, Ittai In Program:, 79, 81, 85, 87, 95 Ben-Sasson, Shmuel In Program:, 199 Ben-Shaul, Shahar In Program:, 171 Ben-Shmuel, Aviad In Program:, 52, 179 Ben-Shoshan, Marcia In Program:, 71 Ben-Shushan, Etti In Program:, 122 Ben-Sushan, Rotem In Program:, 51 Ben-Tabou De-Leon, Smadar In Program:, 231 Ben-Tal, Nir In Program:, 62 265 Last updated 16.02.2017

Bentele, Kajetan In Program:, 116 Bentzur, Assa In Program:, 189 Benvenisty, Nissim In Program:, 42, 43, 55, 103, 157, 191 Ben-Yaacov, Keren In Program:, 217 Benyair, Ron In Program:, 29, 50 Ben-Yehuda, Sigal In Program:, 112 Ben-Yishay, Rakefet In Program:, 93, 192 Ben-Yosef, Dalit In Program:, 144 Ben-Zeev, Bruria In Program:, 224 Ben-Zvi, Anat In Program:, 45, 49, 194 Ben-Zvi, Danny In Program:, 28 Ben-Zvi, Doreen In Program:, 176 Ber, Raphael In Program:, 113 Berenstein, Peter In Program:, 55, 217 Berger, Adina In Program:, 40 Berger, Bonnie In Program:, 207 Berger, Michael In Program:, 108, 142 Bergman, Yehudit In Program:, 229, 247 Berhani, Orit In Program:, 178 Berko-Ashur, Dikla In Program:, 133 Berkovich, Ronen In Program:, 143 Berkowitz, Anat In Program:, 97 Berman, Judith In Program:, 208 Bernadsky, Olga In Program:, 91 Berndsen, Christopher In Program:, 38 Berne, B.J. In Program:, 143 Berneman- Zeitouni, Dana In Program:, 115 Bernshtein, Biana In Program:, 49, 108 Bernstein, Diana In Program:, 173 Bershadsky, Alexander In Program:, 99 Besser, Michal In Program:, 77, 78, 82, 139, 212 Besser, Michal J. In Program:, 82 Beyth, Nurit In Program:, 182 Bhonker, Yoni In Program:, 130 Bialik, Shani In Program:, 55 Biber, Guy In Program:, 48 Bibi, Maayan In Program:, 208 Bida-Dabush, Or In Program:, 79 Bielorai, Bella In Program:, 139 Bier, Ariel In Program:, 55, 84 Biffi, Giulia In Program:, 222 Bignon, Eduardo A. In Program:, 116 Bilu, Sarah In Program:, 106 Binah , Ofer In Program:, 219 Binenbaum, Evgeny In Program:, 187 Binenbaum, Jenia In Program:, 208 266 Last updated 16.02.2017

Binshtok, Alexander In Program:, 56 Binshtok, Udi In Program:, 148 Biondi, Andrea In Program:, 159 Biran, Alva In Program:, 228 Biran, Anat In Program:, 95 Biran, Jakob In Program:, 28 Birger, Anastasya In Program:, 122 Birger, Yehudit In Program:, 81, 163 Birk, Ohad In Program:, 128, 129, 203, 224, 243 Birk, Ohad S. In Program:, 129, 193 Birkan, Maria In Program:, 131 Birnbaum, Ramon In Program:, 175, 214, 232, 243 Biro, Alexander In Program:, 91 Bisignano, Paola In Program:, 57 Biswas, Viplov Kumar In Program:, 173 Biton, Inbal In Program:, 200, 246 Biton, Moshe In Program:, 22 Bittker, Josh A. In Program:, 167 Bivona, Trever G. In Program:, 74 Blacklow, Stephen In Program:, 101 Blain, Manon In Program:, 239 Blainstain, Noa In Program:, 122 Blank, Michael In Program:, 222 Blatt, Alexandra In Program:, 87 Blecher, Galit In Program:, 66 Blechman, Janna In Program:, 28 Bleistein, Noa In Program:, 123 Blich, Miry In Program:, 210 Blinder, Yaron In Program:, 136 Bloch, Daria In Program:, 186 Bloch, Guy In Program:, 37 Bloch, Itai In Program:, 109, 197, 236 Bloom-Ackermann, Zohar In Program:, 182 Blue, Levi B. In Program:, 53 Bluher, Mathias In Program:, 105 Blüher, Matthias In Program:, 105, 199 Blum, Galia In Program:, 86, 147 Blum, Leah In Program:, 155 Blum, Roy In Program:, 137 Blumberg, Amit In Program:, 66 Blumwald, Eduardo In Program:, 26 Bober, Tatiana In Program:, 126 Boggrefe, Martin In Program:, 221 Boginya-Gabay, Alexandra In Program:, 196 Bohnert, Maria In Program:, 185, 213 Böhnlein, Eva In Program:, 169 267 Last updated 16.02.2017

Bohnsack, Marcus T In Program:, 15 Bollag, Naomi In Program:, 79 Bolotin, Evgeni In Program:, 22, 66 Bomze, David In Program:, 68, 228 Boothroyd, John In Program:, 235 Bordeynik Cohen, Mor In Program:, 131 Bornstein, Menachem In Program:, 119 Bornstein, Natan In Program:, 240 Borodianskiy-Shteinberg, * Tatiana In Program:, 183 Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise In Program:, 244 Borukhov, Sergei In Program:, 132 Bosis, Eran In Program:, 205 Bossel Ben-Moshe, Noa In Program:, 86, 221 Bossel, Noa In Program:, 201, 231 Boukobza, Odeya In Program:, 20 Boura-Halfon, Sigalit In Program:, 179 Bowie, Andrew In Program:, 172, 234 Boxman, Jonathan In Program:, 65, 103 Bracha, Shahar In Program:, 124 Brachyia, Guy In Program:, 143, 239 Braiman, Alex In Program:, 80 Brand, Hadar In Program:, 222 Brandis, Alexander In Program:, 179, 244 Brandman, Onn In Program:, 95 Brandt, Wolfgang In Program:, 53 Branson, Kristin In Program:, 124 Braspenning, Joris In Program:, 228 Braun, Tslil In Program:, 99 Brauner, Akiva In Program:, 149 Braverman, Sofia In Program:, 200 Brazowski, Eli In Program:, 21 Bregman Cohen, Almog In Program:, 71 Breitbart, Eyal In Program:, 212 Breker, Michal In Program:, 27, 94, 242 Brenan, Lisa In Program:, 201 Brettar, Ingrid In Program:, 208 Breuer, William In Program:, 127 Breuier, Shani In Program:, 242 Brielle, Shlomi In Program:, 88 Briggs, John A.G. In Program:, 127 Brik, Ashraf In Program:, 92 Broday, Limor In Program:, 89, 214 Brodezki, Alexandra In Program:, 85 Brodie, Chaya In Program:, 55, 84, 217 Brody, Yehuda In Program:, 169 Broennimann, Karin In Program:, 137 268 Last updated 16.02.2017

Brofman, Fani In Program:, 88 Bromberg, Zohar In Program:, 180 Bronshtein, Irena In Program:, 156, 192 Brook, Samuel In Program:, 74 Brown, Kevin R. In Program:, 73 Brownstein, Zippora In Program:, 130, 131 Brumfeld, Vlad In Program:, 181 Brumin, Marina In Program:, 119 Brummelkamp, Thijn In Program:, 30 Brumshtein, Boris In Program:, 39 Brune, Zarina In Program:, 30 Brunet, Anne In Program:, 214 Brusilovsky, Michael In Program:, 164, 178 Bucher, Tabitha In Program:, 121, 181 Buchumenski, Ilana In Program:, 63, 83, 230 Budowski-Tal, Inbal In Program:, 59 Buganim, Yosef In Program:, 125 Buganim, Yosef In Program:, 72, 247 Buganim, Yossi In Program:, 101, 248 Bugarin, Cristina In Program:, 159 Buhas, Daniela In Program:, 102 Bukau, Bernd In Program:, 136 Bulvik, Baruch In Program:, 80 Bulvik, Shlomo In Program:, 80 Burdman, Saul In Program:, 113, 181 Buriakovsky, Ella In Program:, 186 Burk, Michelle In Program:, 190 Burstain, Ido In Program:, 143 Burstein, David In Program:, 183 Burstyn-Cohen, Tal In Program:, 84, 247 Burt, Bryan In Program:, 22 Busby, Michele In Program:, 133 Bushong, Eric In Program:, 169 Butenko, Sergei In Program:, 180 Butte, Atul In Program:, 22, 231 Buxboim, Amnon In Program:, 54, 64, 88, 176 C. Dorrestein, Pieter In Program:, 198 C. Wallace, Douglas In Program:, 224 Cade, Nicholas In Program:, 52 Calderone, Vittorio In Program:, 15 Canello, Tamar In Program:, 165 Canesi, Sylvain In Program:, 48 Cantor, Jason In Program:, 247 Carmeil, Shmuel In Program:, 111 Carmel, Liran In Program:, 151 Carmel, Narin In Program:, 246 269 Last updated 16.02.2017

Carmi, Shani In Program:, 165 Carmi, Yaron In Program:, 22, 48 Carmichael, Stanley In Program:, 240 Carol, Chen In Program:, 21 Carse, Jonathan In Program:, 248 Carvalho, Silvia In Program:, 244 Casadei, Silvia In Program:, 130, 131 Cascio, Maria G. In Program:, 209 Caspi, Michal In Program:, 75, 77 Caspi, Yaki In Program:, 56 Casteel, Clare In Program:, 188 Castiel, Asher In Program:, 73, 86 Cazacu, Simona In Program:, 55, 84 Cazzaniga, Giovanni In Program:, 159 Cecchi, Fabiola In Program:, 158, 238 Cedar, Howard In Program:, 247 Cerqueira, Fernanda In Program:, 247 Cesarkas, Keren In Program:, 128 Chabes, Andrei In Program:, 75 Chabon, Jonathan In Program:, 22 Chabosseau, Pauline In Program:, 203 Chai, Chofit In Program:, 94, 145 Chaim, Neta In Program:, 179 Chaim, Netanel In Program:, 136 Chain, Benjamin In Program:, 45 Chalifa-Caspi, Vered In Program:, 68 Chamovitz, Daniel A. In Program:, 118, 186 Chang, Chung-Hsing In Program:, 95 Chang, Weise In Program:, 131 Charbit, Hana In Program:, 165 Charbit, Hanna In Program:, 165 Charpak-Amikam, Yoav In Program:, 108 Chattopadhyay, Shiladitya In Program:, 15 Checa-Rodriguez, Cintia In Program:, 73 Chemla, Yonatan In Program:, 23, 70, 148 Chen, Alon In Program:, 199, 244 Chen, Ayelet In Program:, 157 Chen, Dana In Program:, 194 Chen, Jin In Program:, 60 Chen, Qingguo In Program:, 187 Chen, Shih-Yu In Program:, 37 Chen, Yan In Program:, 74 Cheng, Lesley In Program:, 234 Cher, Avital In Program:, 184 Chervinski, Elana In Program:, 243 Chhabra, Divya In Program:, 125 270 Last updated 16.02.2017

Chia, Gloryn In Program:, 191 Chikne, Vaibhav In Program:, 14, 61, 173 China, Victor In Program:, 36 Chiu, Wei-Hua In Program:, 56 Cho, Megan T. In Program:, 102 Choder, Mordechai In Program:, 15 Chomsky, Elad In Program:, 228 Chorev, Dror In Program:, 23 Chourasia, Mukesh In Program:, 209 Chowers, Yehuda In Program:, 87 Christensen, Shawn A. In Program:, 53 Christian, Devon In Program:, 220 Christodoulou, John In Program:, 224 Chuartzman, Silvia G. In Program:, 15, 91 Chuartzman, Silvia In Program:, 94, 185, 225 Chuartzmann, Silvia In Program:, 93 Chuderland, Dana In Program:, 71 Chung, Sangyoon In Program:, 132 Cialic, Ron In Program:, 154 Cimadamore, Flavio In Program:, 156 Cinnamon, Yuval In Program:, 219, 245 Citri, Ami In Program:, 33, 122, 123, 149, 189 Clavel, Marion In Program:, 245 Claxton, Derek In Program:, 57 Cleveland, Don In Program:, 44, 90 Cna'ani, Alon In Program:, 53 Coban-Akdemir, Zeynep In Program:, 102 Codish Md, Shlomi In Program:, 97 Cohen Veisman , Gili In Program:, 177 Cohen, Aaron In Program:, 71 Cohen, Adiel In Program:, 167, 168, 214 Cohen, Ateret In Program:, 104 Cohen, Cyrille In Program:, 73 Cohen, Cyrille J. In Program:, 236 Cohen, Dan In Program:, 61 Cohen, Daphne In Program:, 229 Cohen, Dekel In Program:, 120 Cohen, Elad In Program:, 236 Cohen, Galit In Program:, 73 Cohen, Haim .Y In Program:, 132 Cohen, Haim In Program:, 19 Cohen, Haim Y In Program:, 92 Cohen, Haim Y. In Program:, 132, 247 Cohen, Hila In Program:, 107 Cohen, Isadora In Program:, 85 Cohen, Keren In Program:, 80 271 Last updated 16.02.2017

Cohen, Laurie In Program:, 24 Cohen, Liad In Program:, 59 Cohen, Limor In Program:, 74, 158, 238 Cohen, Merav In Program:, 54, 127, 191, 228 Cohen, Naama In Program:, 103 Cohen, Nadav In Program:, 246 Cohen, Nir In Program:, 94 Cohen, Noy In Program:, 86 Cohen, Ofer In Program:, 107 Cohen, Ofir In Program:, 201 Cohen, Roni In Program:, 154 Cohen, Sarit In Program:, 159 Cohen, Shenhav In Program:, 29, 94 Cohen, Shenhav In Program:, 227 Cohen, Sherri In Program:, 242 Cohen, Smadar In Program:, 227 Cohen, Snir In Program:, 95 Cohen, Tal In Program:, 153 Cohen, Yael In Program:, 212 Cohen-Berkman, Moran In Program:, 214 Cohen-Chalamish, Smadar In Program:, 14, 61, 173 Cohen-Kfir, Einav In Program:, 38, 173 Cohen-Shahar, Elisheva In Program:, 95 Colaiácovo, Monica P. In Program:, 27 Colby, Aaron In Program:, 247 Cole, Alison G. In Program:, 246 Cole, Steve In Program:, 239 Colin, Tea In Program:, 121 Collins, Francis S In Program:, 24 Condiotti, Reba In Program:, 81, 95, 247 Coppenhagen-Glazer, Shunit In Program:, 182 Corey, Daniel M. In Program:, 37 Cortese, Nina In Program:, 179 Costa, Alex In Program:, 118 Covo, Shay In Program:, 136, 137, 188 Cowburn, David In Program:, 58 Crispino, John D. In Program:, 81 Crissman, Jonathan In Program:, 91 Crocoll, Christoph In Program:, 186 Croitoru, Shirley Ynbal In Program:, 182 Cross, Fred R In Program:, 27 Curato, Caterina In Program:, 49 Cvekl, Ales In Program:, 232 Cytryn, Eddie In Program:, 115, 121 Czeiger, Tal In Program:, 173 D. Buenrostro, Jason In Program:, 228 272 Last updated 16.02.2017

Dabbah, Mahmoud In Program:, 75 Dadiani, Maya In Program:, 86, 87, 150, 231 Dado, Dekel In Program:, 227 Dadosh, Tali In Program:, 100, 192, 216 Dafna, Asaf In Program:, 102 Dagan, Avner In Program:, 35 Dagan, Yael In Program:, 129 Dagani, Luba In Program:, 129 Dahamshi, Samia In Program:, 180 Dahan, Inbar In Program:, 116 Dahan, Noa In Program:, 93, 170, 213 Dahan, Orna In Program:, 89, 137 Dahan, Rony In Program:, 238 Dahan, Tehila In Program:, 167 Dahary, Dvir In Program:, 211 Dakhiya, Yuri In Program:, 118 Dan, Peer In Program:, 146 Danan-Gotthold, Miri In Program:, 63, 65, 69, 230 Dandela, Rambabu In Program:, 174 Danial-Faran, Nada In Program:, 131 Danial-Farran, Nada In Program:, 130 Daniel, Leonor In Program:, 47, 83 Danieli, Tsafi In Program:, 141 Dank, Gillian In Program:, 246 Danko, Charles G. In Program:, 66 Danny, Kitsberg In Program:, 88 Dantes, Ada In Program:, 141 Danuser, Gaudenz In Program:, 245 Danziger, Oded In Program:, 218 Dar, Daniel In Program:, 31 Dar, Daniel In Program:, 66 Dar, Zion In Program:, 119 Das Adhikari, Upasana In Program:, 125 Das Adhikari, Upasana In Program:, 164 Das, Rita In Program:, 74 Dasbiswas, Kinjal In Program:, 99 Dassa, Liat In Program:, 35, 95 Daube, Shirley In Program:, 94 Daube, Shirley S In Program:, 94 Dauch, Daniel In Program:, 75 David, Ahuvit In Program:, 73 David, Ayelet In Program:, 131 David, Eyal In Program:, 49, 107, 108, 179 David, Hadas In Program:, 151 David, Maya In Program:, 55 David, Shimrit In Program:, 174 273 Last updated 16.02.2017

Davidesko, Ilil In Program:, 72 Davidov, Bella In Program:, 131 Davidowitz, Goggy In Program:, 226 Davidson, Irit In Program:, 97 Davis, Claytus In Program:, 103 Davis, Dr. Claytus In Program:, 101, 103 Davis, Gregory In Program:, 195 Davis, Kara In Program:, 159 Dayan, Karin In Program:, 82 De Boer, Carl In Program:, 109 Deblieck, Mathieu In Program:, 59 Degani, Neta In Program:, 65 Dejnirattisai, Wanwisa In Program:, 35 Dekel, Benjamin In Program:, 54 Dekel, Elya In Program:, 172 Dekel, Erez In Program:, 218 Dekel, Naama In Program:, 206 Dekel, Noa In Program:, 141 Dekker, Job In Program:, 229 Dellus-Gur, Eynat In Program:, 208 Demarest, Matthew In Program:, 44 Demartsev, Vlad In Program:, 226 Demina, Dr. Anna In Program:, 101 Denic, Vlad In Program:, 170 Deri, Batel In Program:, 135 Deshet-Unger, Naamit In Program:, 41, 42 Deshmukh, Fanindra Kumar In Program:, 60 Dessau, Moshe In Program:, 116, 117 Dey, Sucharita In Program:, 67 Dezorella, Nili In Program:, 79 Dgany, Orly In Program:, 98 Di Pietro, Antonio In Program:, 188 Di Pizio, Antonella In Program:, 85 Diamant, Tammy In Program:, 166 Diederichs, Sven In Program:, 244 Dierks, David In Program:, 73 Dikstein, Rivka In Program:, 59 Dimmock, David In Program:, 85 Dines, Monica In Program:, 231 Dishon, Shira In Program:, 109 Divol, Fanchon In Program:, 245 Do-Dinh, Patricia In Program:, 73 Doe, Chris In Program:, 65 Dohnalová, Lenka In Program:, 200 Dolgin, Vadim In Program:, 129 Domany, Eytan In Program:, 86, 150, 201, 221 274 Last updated 16.02.2017

Dominy, John E. In Program:, 167 Don, Jeremy In Program:, 165 Don, Rami (Jeremy) In Program:, 141 Dong, Guangyu In Program:, 76 Doniger, Tirza In Program:, 14, 61, 67, 89, 173 Dor, Chen In Program:, 222 Dor, Yuval In Program:, 246 Dor, Yuval In Program:, 58, 62, 85, 158, 166, 167, 174, 199 Dori, Amir In Program:, 55, 217 Dori-Bachash, Mally In Program:, 200 Doron, Ohad In Program:, 166 Doron, Shany In Program:, 67, 102, 115, 182, 223 Dotan, Daya In Program:, 219 Dotan, Nesly In Program:, 236 Dotan, Nir In Program:, 161 Dougan, Gordon In Program:, 223 Drabkin, Max In Program:, 128, 193 Dranitzki Elhalel, Michal In Program:, 70 Drawshy, Zeina In Program:, 174 Drener-Pollak, Rivka In Program:, 209 Dror, Adi In Program:, 155 Dror, Shani In Program:, 139 Dror, Shiran In Program:, 49 Drori, Elyashiv In Program:, 173 Drori, Ran In Program:, 137 Drori, Yaron In Program:, 97 Drory, Vivian E In Program:, 244 Drucker, Liat In Program:, 75 Druseikis, Marina In Program:, 136 Dubreuil, Benjamin In Program:, 58 Dudkevich, Reut In Program:, 171 Duev-Cohen, Alexandra In Program:, 108, 178 Dunayevskyy, Adel In Program:, 25 Dunn-Walters, Deborah In Program:, 69 Duquerroy, Stéphane In Program:, 35 Duraine, Lita In Program:, 102 Duran Frigola, Miquel In Program:, 20 Dvash, Tami In Program:, 71 Dvir, Gony In Program:, 53 Dvir, Hay In Program:, 62 Dvir, Shlomi In Program:, 61 Dvir-Ginzberg, Mona In Program:, 41 Dweik, Dima In Program:, 245 Dym, Orly In Program:, 77, 141 Dzikowski, Ron In Program:, 218 E. Landau, Yuval In Program:, 224 275 Last updated 16.02.2017

Eakteiman, Galit In Program:, 188 Eastlund, Erik In Program:, 195 Eaton, Muriel In Program:, 104 Ebenstein, Yuval In Program:, 52, 244 Ecker, Chris In Program:, 15 Eckstein, Eitan In Program:, 241 Eden, Or In Program:, 157 Eder, Revital In Program:, 141 Edinger, Nufar In Program:, 139 Edwards, Dylan In Program:, 77 Efrat, Shimon In Program:, 28, 157 Efroni, Sol In Program:, 79 Egli, Dieter In Program:, 191 Ehrlich, Avner In Program:, 191 Ehrlich, Marcelo In Program:, 218 Eid Mutlak, Yara In Program:, 227 Eilam, Raya In Program:, 20, 244, 246 Eisenbach, Netanel In Program:, 85 Eisenberg, Eli In Program:, 63, 83, 152, 230 Eisenberg, Iris In Program:, 108 Eisenberg-Bord, Michal In Program:, 185 Eisenman, Einat In Program:, 64 Eisenstein, Miriam In Program:, 77 Eitan, Erez In Program:, 160 Eizenberg, Inbal In Program:, 69 Eizenberg, Orly In Program:, 80 Elad, Nadav In Program:, 39 Elayyan, Jinan In Program:, 41 Elazar, Zvulun In Program:, 213 Elbaum, Michael In Program:, 52, 96, 100 Elbaz, Shany Ivon In Program:, 81 Elbaz-Alon, Yael In Program:, 214 Eldar, Avigdor In Program:, 223 Elgavish, Sharona In Program:, 107 Elharar, Yifat In Program:, 30 Elharrar +, Einat In Program:, 221 Elhasid, Ronit In Program:, 98 Elia, Natalie In Program:, 100, 110, 169, 192, 216, 232 Elia, Uri In Program:, 107 Elian, Firase In Program:, 242 Eliaz, Dror In Program:, 14 Eliezer, Yifat In Program:, 25, 122 Elinav, Eran In Program:, 200 Elinger, Dalia In Program:, 60, 200 Eliscovich, Carolina In Program:, 15 Elisha, Oriane In Program:, 77 276 Last updated 16.02.2017

Elitzur, Sara In Program:, 160, 161, 162 Eliyahu, Natalie In Program:, 123 Elkabets, Moshe In Program:, 74, 158, 238 Elkabetz, Yechiel In Program:, 202 Elkis, Yoav In Program:, 96 Elkon, Ran In Program:, 15 Elkon, Rani In Program:, 63, 230 Ella, Ezra In Program:, 80 Elledge, Stephen J In Program:, 30 Elliot, Evan In Program:, 33 Elliott, Evan In Program:, 122 Elliott, Evan In Program:, 102 Ellis, Martin In Program:, 80, 237 Ellisman, Mark In Program:, 169 Elmaliach, Noy In Program:, 114 El-Osta, Assam In Program:, 164 Elpeleg, Orly In Program:, 224 Elran, Dan In Program:, 206 Elran, Ron In Program:, 15 Elroy-Stein, Orna In Program:, 124, 190 Elson, Ari In Program:, 41 Elul, Hananel In Program:, 70 Elul, Tamira In Program:, 190 Ely, Shir In Program:, 181 Elyada, Ela In Program:, 222 Elyagon, Sigal In Program:, 220 Emmanuel, Rafi In Program:, 85 Empereur-Mot, Charlie In Program:, 39 Engelberg-Kulka, Hanna In Program:, 111, 113 Engineer, Cawas In Program:, 40 England, Patrick In Program:, 35 Engleman, Edgar In Program:, 22 Enk, David In Program:, 49 Enshell-Seijffers, David In Program:, 104 Enuka, Yehoshua In Program:, 244 Ephros, Moshe In Program:, 60 Epstein, Yehonatan In Program:, 142 Eran, Ally In Program:, 144 Eran, Yonatan In Program:, 158 Erdin, Serkan In Program:, 102 Erdos, Michael R In Program:, 24 Eren, Noa In Program:, 202 Erez, Ayelet In Program:, 20, 85, 244, 246 Erez, Zohar In Program:, 115 Erlich, Ity In Program:, 64 Erlich, Ziv In Program:, 158 277 Last updated 16.02.2017

Ernst, Orna In Program:, 91, 196 Eshed, Yuval In Program:, 118 Eshel, Gil In Program:, 182 Eshel, Reut In Program:, 175 Eshhar, Zelig In Program:, 162 Estelle, Mark In Program:, 186 Etzion, Sharon In Program:, 220 Etzion, Yoram In Program:, 220 Evans, Michele In Program:, 160 Even, Dan Y. In Program:, 70 Even-Ram, Sharona In Program:, 180 Evron, Tamar In Program:, 75, 77 Eyal, Eran In Program:, 106, 128, 224 Eyal, Noa In Program:, 230 Eyal, Yoram In Program:, 53 Ezra, Elishai In Program:, 54, 156 Ezra-Elia, Raaya In Program:, 232 Fachinetti, Daniele In Program:, 90 Fahima, Amit In Program:, 121 Fahima, Tzion In Program:, 59, 206 Fahoum, Jamal In Program:, 196 Faigenbaum-Romm, Raya In Program:, 224 Faigenbloom, Lior In Program:, 129 Falik-Zaccai, Tzippora In Program:, 131 Farack, Lydia In Program:, 199 Farago Tirosh, Marganit In Program:, 162 Farago, Marganit In Program:, 81, 247 Farber, Hodaya In Program:, 19 Farhy, Chen In Program:, 156, 232 Farhy-Tselnicker, Isabella In Program:, 34 Farouq, Daneyal In Program:, 168 Farstey, Viviana In Program:, 88 Fass, Deborah In Program:, 24, 96, 171 Fassler, Rosi In Program:, 127, 133, 135 Fatiukha, Andrii In Program:, 59 Fazio, Grazia In Program:, 159 Fazio, Sergio In Program:, 220 Federman, Aya In Program:, 202 Fehse, Boris In Program:, 75 Feige, Erez In Program:, 212 Feigelson, Sara W In Program:, 107 Feigleson, Sara In Program:, 216 Feiguelman, Gil In Program:, 121 Feinberg, Galina In Program:, 159 Feinberg, Konstantin In Program:, 34 Feinmesser, Meora In Program:, 76, 159 278 Last updated 16.02.2017

Feld, Lea In Program:, 134 Feld, Sari In Program:, 87 Feldman, Daria In Program:, 185 Feldman, Michal In Program:, 157 Feldmesser, Ester In Program:, 55 Feuermann, Yonatan In Program:, 21 Feygenzon, Valerya In Program:, 166 Fichman, Yosef In Program:, 51 Fichman-Horn, Suzana In Program:, 76, 159 Fichtman, Boris In Program:, 96, 155, 194 Fine, Maoz In Program:, 37 Fink, Avner In Program:, 76, 143, 239 Finkelshtein, Yael In Program:, 237 Finkelstein, Gilad In Program:, 152 Fiore-Gartland, Andrew In Program:, 230 Fiorillo, Maria Teresa In Program:, 106 Firer, Michael In Program:, 163 Fischer, Andreas In Program:, 166 Fischer-Weinberger, Renana In Program:, 96 Fish, Inbar In Program:, 62 Fisher, Tamar In Program:, 86 Fishilevich, Simon In Program:, 210 Fishman, Ayelet In Program:, 71, 72, 134, 135, 155 Fishman, Ayelet In Program:, 71 Fishman, Hila In Program:, 163 Fizik, E In Program:, 181 Fizik, Efraim In Program:, 112 Flashner-Abramson, Efrat In Program:, 139, 150, 207 Fleissig, Omer In Program:, 221 Florentin, Anat In Program:, 99, 245 Fluman, Nir In Program:, 94 Fonar, Gennadiy In Program:, 33 Forrest, Lucy In Program:, 57 Fossati, Gianluca In Program:, 159 Fourier, Nitsan In Program:, 90 Fox, Ilana In Program:, 158 Frank, Gabriel A. In Program:, 52 Freedman, Laurence In Program:, 44 Freinkman, Elizaveta In Program:, 247 Frenk, S In Program:, 181 Frenk, Sammy In Program:, 182 Frenkel-Morgenstern, Milana In Program:, 63, 150 Freund, Natalia In Program:, 179 Fridlich, Ori In Program:, 166 Fridman, Eyal In Program:, 54 Fridman, Gil In Program:, 110 279 Last updated 16.02.2017

Fridman, Lilach In Program:, 179 Fridman, Ofer In Program:, 22 Fridman, Rotem In Program:, 117 Fridman, Yulia In Program:, 40, 186 Fridmann Sirkis, Yael In Program:, 110 Fridrich, Arie In Program:, 23 Fried, Sophia In Program:, 48, 52, 179 Friedlander, Gilgi In Program:, 55 Friedler, Assaf In Program:, 126 Friedler, Rotem In Program:, 208 Friedman, Eyal In Program:, 118 Friedman, Gil In Program:, 73 Friedman, Jonathan In Program:, 243 Friedman, Mor In Program:, 148 Friedman, Nehemya In Program:, 97 Friedman, Nethanel In Program:, 80 Friedman, Nir In Program:, 45, 69, 78, 102 Friedman, Roy In Program:, 176 Friedman-Levi, Yael In Program:, 240 Friedmann-Morvinski, Dinorah In Program:, 83, 84, 162, 222 Friedson, Ilan In Program:, 125 Friger, Michael In Program:, 128, 144 Frohlinger, Michael In Program:, 242 Fromm, Hillel In Program:, 51, 118, 119 Frost, Sigal In Program:, 96 Frug, Yulia In Program:, 20 Frumkin, Idan In Program:, 208 Frushicheva, Maria P. In Program:, 108 Frydman, Ahuva In Program:, 53 Frydman, Moshe In Program:, 131 Fuchikawa, Taro In Program:, 37 Fuchs, Yaron In Program:, 248 Furlong, Eileen E. M. In Program:, 148 Furth, Noa In Program:, 201, 221 Fury, Mathew In Program:, 158, 238 Futerman, Anthony In Program:, 49 G. Riley, Lisa In Program:, 224 Gaba, Victor In Program:, 119 Gabai, Yael In Program:, 81, 87 Gabashvili, Alexandra In Program:, 60 Gabay, Orshay In Program:, 66, 153, 222 Gabay, Tal In Program:, 82, 162, 210 Gabet, Yankel In Program:, 41, 42, 105, 209 Gabrieli, Tslil In Program:, 244 Gaffney, Jean In Program:, 77 Gafter, Uzi In Program:, 241 280 Last updated 16.02.2017

Gage, Fred H In Program:, 202 Gaipa, Giuseppe In Program:, 159 Gal, Lihi In Program:, 94 Gal, Liron In Program:, 146 Gal, Maayan In Program:, 197, 236 Gallily, Ruth In Program:, 86 Gal-Mark, Nurit In Program:, 230 Gal-On, Amit In Program:, 119 Gal-Oz, Shani In Program:, 69 Gal-Tanamy, Meital In Program:, 164 Galun, Eithan In Program:, 49, 75, 80, 94, 138, 145, 160, 162, 212 Gamliel, Abraham In Program:, 182 Gamliel, Abraham In Program:, 111 Gamliel, Moriya In Program:, 108 Gamzo Letova, Chen In Program:, 159 Ganmore, Ithamar In Program:, 163 Gao, Jinmin In Program:, 27 Garcia Seisdedos, Hector In Program:, 39 Garg, Neha In Program:, 198 Garini, Yuval In Program:, 45, 156, 192 Garone, Caterina In Program:, 102 Garraway, Levi In Program:, 30, 201 Gartner, Jared In Program:, 85 Garzia, Aitor In Program:, 225 Garzilli, Immacolata In Program:, 199 Gasri-Plotnitsky, Lital In Program:, 73, 89 Gat, Roni In Program:, 134 Gat, Yair In Program:, 171 Gatt, Yair E. In Program:, 224 Gat-Viks, Irit In Program:, 153 Gavish, Matan In Program:, 64 Gaydar, Vera In Program:, 197 Gazit, Ehud In Program:, 139, 197 Gazit, Roi In Program:, 67, 84, 125, 142, 247, 248 Gazy, Inbal In Program:, 75 Gebelein, Brian In Program:, 174 Gechtler, Jenia In Program:, 169 Gefen, Maytal In Program:, 75, 212 Geffen, Eli In Program:, 226 Geiger, Benjamin In Program:, 23 Geiger, Benny In Program:, 212 Geiger, Tamar In Program:, 20, 63, 86, 92, 150, 161, 164, 200, 201, 212, 214, 221, 223, 231 Geilis, Michael In Program:, 129 Gelgor, Anastasia In Program:, 159 Geller, Leore In Program:, 78 Gelman, Daniel In Program:, 14 281 Last updated 16.02.2017

Genin, Olga In Program:, 219, 245 Genschik, Pascal In Program:, 245 Genzelinakh, Alex In Program:, 227 Georgeson, Joseph In Program:, 151 Gepstein, Amira In Program:, 221 Gepstein, Lior In Program:, 42, 221 Ger, Anna In Program:, 85 Gerardin, Ylaine In Program:, 114 Gerber, Doron In Program:, 194 Gerber, Natalie In Program:, 89 Gerlitz, Gabi In Program:, 150, 159 Geron, Ifat In Program:, 165 Gershanov, Sivan In Program:, 154, 211 Gershman, Nava In Program:, 165 Gershon, Guy In Program:, 151 Gershon, Lihi In Program:, 90 Gershoni-Yahalom, Orly In Program:, 178 Gerst, Jeffrey E. In Program:, 15 Gertler, Arieh In Program:, 200 Gertler, Asaf In Program:, 92 Gertman, Or In Program:, 170 Gerwick, Lena In Program:, 198 Getz, Gad In Program:, 31 Geva, Yosef In Program:, 91 Ghandi, Mahmoud In Program:, 30 Gharra, Samia In Program:, 206 Gheber, Larisa In Program:, 98 Gheber, Leah In Program:, 14, 217 Ghergurovich, Jonathan In Program:, 20 Ghossein, Ronald A. In Program:, 74 Gian, Hai In Program:, 136 Gibbs, Dalton In Program:, 38 Gibbs, Richard A. In Program:, 102 Gidoni, Moriah In Program:, 79 Gienger, Elizabeth In Program:, 133 Gigi, Dana In Program:, 41 Gihaz, Shalev In Program:, 155 Gil, Noa In Program:, 151 Gil, Ziv In Program:, 145 Gilad, Dan In Program:, 51 Gilad, Gil In Program:, 160, 161, 162 Gilad, Ronit In Program:, 108 Gilad, Shlomit In Program:, 228 Gilad, Yuval In Program:, 94, 206 Giladi, Hilla In Program:, 75, 94, 145, 160, 212 Giladi, Nir In Program:, 244 282 Last updated 16.02.2017

Giladi, Tal In Program:, 177 Gilboa, Dafna In Program:, 41, 42 Gilboa, Lilach In Program:, 176 Gildor, Tsvia In Program:, 231 Gilimovich, Yelena In Program:, 189 Gilis, Roni In Program:, 220 Gillin, Rosi In Program:, 49 Gilon, Chaim In Program:, 109 Gilon, Odelya In Program:, 21 Gingold, Hila In Program:, 89, 193, 228 Ginosar, Yehuda In Program:, 180 Ginsberg, Doron In Program:, 48, 73, 79 Girard-Blanc, Christine In Program:, 35 Giraud, Matthieu In Program:, 65 Girsowicz, Ruben In Program:, 112, 118 Glaser, Benjamin In Program:, 58, 62, 158, 167, 173, 199 Glaser, Fabian In Program:, 62, 248 Glaser, Gad In Program:, 198 Glatman-Freedman, Aharona In Program:, 97 Glatman-Friedman, Aharona In Program:, 183 Glazer, Lilah In Program:, 104 Glazz, Renana In Program:, 132 Gleizer, Shmuel In Program:, 185 Glickman, Michael In Program:, 92 Glick-Saar, Efrat In Program:, 222 Gliksberg, Michael In Program:, 28 Glinart, Itai In Program:, 113 Glousker, Galina In Program:, 76, 128, 172 Gluck Margolin, Yael In Program:, 195 Gluck, Nathan In Program:, 21 Glukhov, Evgenia In Program:, 198 Glukhovski, Tatyana In Program:, 77 Glusac, Jovana In Program:, 72 Gluska, Shani In Program:, 217 Gnanasekaran, Jeba Mercy In Program:, 127 Gobi, Adam In Program:, 13 Gogarten, Johann Peter In Program:, 243 Gokhman, David In Program:, 151 Golan, Hana In Program:, 86 Golan, Matan In Program:, 199 Golan, Ohad In Program:, 174 Golan, Rachel In Program:, 134 Golan, Tamar In Program:, 87, 139 Golani, Adi In Program:, 157 Golan-Lev, Tamar In Program:, 191 Gold, Daniel In Program:, 145 283 Last updated 16.02.2017

Goldberg, Alfred In Program:, 30 Goldberg, Joshua In Program:, 56 Goldberg, Sarah In Program:, 91, 154 Goldberg, Tracie In Program:, 98 Goldberg, Yael In Program:, 242 Golden, Susan In Program:, 100 Goldenberg, Dana In Program:, 109 Goldenberg, Daniel In Program:, 160 Goldenberg, Daniel S. In Program:, 162 Goldenberg, Mor In Program:, 135 Goldenberg-Cohen, Nitza In Program:, 211 Goldfarb, Tamara In Program:, 67 Goldfeder, Mor In Program:, 135 Goldgur, Yehuda In Program:, 133 Goldman, Darya In Program:, 14, 98, 217 Goldman-Pinkovich, Adele In Program:, 60 Goldman-Voronov, Milana In Program:, 205 Goldman-Wohl, Debra In Program:, 108 Goldshmidt-Tran, Orita In Program:, 62 Goldshtein, Nir In Program:, 199 Goldsmith, Meir In Program:, 84 Goldstein, Alina In Program:, 14, 98, 217 Goldstein, Nir In Program:, 105, 246 Goldstein, Oron In Program:, 67, 84 Goldstein, Ron In Program:, 115, 156 Goldstein, Ronald S In Program:, 114 Goldstein, Ronald S. In Program:, 183 Goldstein, Yoel In Program:, 54 Goliand, Inna In Program:, 100, 216 Golik, Marina In Program:, 27, 38, 51 Golodnitsky, Rada In Program:, 194 Golomb, Eliahu In Program:, 165 Gómez-Navarro, Natalia In Program:, 91 Gonçalves, J Tiago In Program:, 202 Gonzales, Ben Jerry In Program:, 123, 149 Goossens, Alain In Program:, 149 Gopas, Jacob In Program:, 80, 181 Gophna, Uri In Program:, 47, 116 Gophna, Uri In Program:, 243 Gordon, Ludmila In Program:, 28 Gordon, Michal In Program:, 68 Gordon, Tal In Program:, 36 Gordon-Bar, Nadav In Program:, 213 Gore, Jeff In Program:, 243 Gorelick Ashkenazi, Anna In Program:, 99 Gorelick, Anna In Program:, 245 284 Last updated 16.02.2017

Goren, Alon In Program:, 61, 133 Gorodetsky, Raphael In Program:, 72 Gorodner, Marina In Program:, 82 Gorohovski, Alessandro In Program:, 63 Gothilf, Amalia In Program:, 136 Gothilf, Yoav In Program:, 37 Govezensky, Yael In Program:, 41 Govindarajan, Sutharsan In Program:, 168, 184 Goyal, Akanksha In Program:, 133 Gozes, Illana In Program:, 144 Gozlan, Yosi In Program:, 70 Grabe, Michael In Program:, 57 Gradstein, Libe In Program:, 129, 193, 203 Gradus-Pery, Tal In Program:, 190, 217 Graham, Brett H. In Program:, 102 Graney, Pamela L. In Program:, 171 Granit, Roy In Program:, 81 Graziano, Claudio In Program:, 102 Green, Benzi In Program:, 173 Green, Jamal In Program:, 160 Green, Rachel In Program:, 38, 118 Green, Stefan In Program:, 205 Greenberg, Anna In Program:, 128 Greenberg, David S In Program:, 135 Greenberg, Eyal In Program:, 78 Greenberg, Polina In Program:, 85 Greenblatt, Rina In Program:, 175 Greenfield, Caryn In Program:, 108 Greenman, Raanan In Program:, 82, 180 Greenstein, Erez In Program:, 69 Griffin, Patrick R. In Program:, 167 Grimaud, Logan In Program:, 132 Grinberg, Gilad In Program:, 75 Grinshtein, Natalie In Program:, 34 Grinstaff, Marc In Program:, 247 Gropp, Jonathan In Program:, 117 Gropp, Michal In Program:, 163 Gross Carmel, Ilana In Program:, 79 Gross, Einav In Program:, 50 Gross, Gideon In Program:, 212 Gross, Mor In Program:, 49, 78, 107, 108 Gross, Moshe In Program:, 122, 189 Gross, Rotem In Program:, 114 Grossman, Arthur In Program:, 53 Grossman, Noam In Program:, 26 Grubner, Sharon In Program:, 67 285 Last updated 16.02.2017

Gruenbaum, Yosef In Program:, 24 Grunberg, Nil In Program:, 73 Grunewald, Myriam In Program:, 72 Grunspan, Moshe In Program:, 42 Grünwald, Barbara In Program:, 77 Gu, Shen In Program:, 102 Guallar, Victor In Program:, 135 Guan-Golan, Yaron In Program:, 211 Guardado-Calvo, Pablo In Program:, 35 Guez-Haddad, Julia In Program:, 39 Gulsuner, Suleyman In Program:, 130, 131 Guo, Zhenhuan In Program:, 99 Gupta, Piyush In Program:, 30 Gupta, Sachin Kumar In Program:, 173 Gur Cohen, Shiri In Program:, 246 Gur, Chamutal In Program:, 47 Gur, David In Program:, 113 Gur, Dvir In Program:, 28, 88 Gur, Eyal In Program:, 30 Gur, Ilana In Program:, 180 Gurevich, Evgenia In Program:, 203 Gurski, Joseph M. In Program:, 74 Gurwitz, David In Program:, 80 Guterman Ram, Gali In Program:, 41, 173 Guterman, Gali In Program:, 209 Guterman-Ram, Gali In Program:, 209 Gutin, Jenia In Program:, 45 Gutkin, Anna In Program:, 84 Gutman, Orit In Program:, 186 Gutmann-Raviv, Noga In Program:, 14 Guyon, Clotilde In Program:, 65 Gygi, Steve In Program:, 20 Gygi, Steve P. In Program:, 167 H. Gerwick, William In Program:, 198 Ha, James In Program:, 190 Haas, Elisha In Program:, 133 Habeeb, Juliana In Program:, 129 Habib, Alin In Program:, 214 Habib, Aline In Program:, 167 Hacquard, Thibaut In Program:, 245 Hadad, Uzi In Program:, 164 Hadany, Lilach In Program:, 208, 235 Hadar, Y In Program:, 181 Hadar, Yitzhak In Program:, 113, 114, 182, 185, 205 Hadas-Yardeni, Eliane In Program:, 181 Haffner, Rebecca In Program:, 131 286 Last updated 16.02.2017

Haffner-Krausz, Rebecca In Program:, 202 Hagai, Efrat In Program:, 78 Haigis, Marcia In Program:, 20 Haim, Yulia In Program:, 104, 105, 110, 199, 246 Haimovich, Gal In Program:, 15 Haimov-Kochman, Ronit In Program:, 107, 108 Hait, Tom Aharon In Program:, 63 Haitin, Yoni In Program:, 56 Haj, Esraa In Program:, 197 Hakim, Ketty In Program:, 240 Hakim, Ofir In Program:, 64, 119, 149, 229 Hakim, Vicky In Program:, 24 Haldar, Rita In Program:, 239 Halevy, Itay In Program:, 117 Halevy, Tomer In Program:, 157 Half, Elizabeth In Program:, 47, 87 Halkier, Barbara Ann In Program:, 186 Hall, Alan In Program:, 245 Halloumi, Enas In Program:, 108 Hallumi, Enas In Program:, 108 Halperin, Daniel In Program:, 128, 129, 193, 203 Halpern, Malka In Program:, 205, 208 Halpern, Zamir In Program:, 200 Hamburger, Tamar In Program:, 242 Hameiri-Grossman, Michal In Program:, 160, 162 Hammond, Edward In Program:, 87 Han, Ruiqi In Program:, 15, 230 Handly-Santana, Abram In Program:, 222 Hanna, Jacob H In Program:, 126 Hanna, Jacob In Program:, 125, 228 Hanna, Suhair In Program:, 228 Hanski, Emanuel In Program:, 185 Hans-Kunz, Henning In Program:, 40 Haouz, Ahmed In Program:, 35 Har Vardi, Iris In Program:, 130 Haradhvala, Nicholas In Program:, 31 Haran, Gilad In Program:, 70, 107 Harari, Ally In Program:, 226 Harari-Steinfeld, Rona In Program:, 145 Harats, Dror In Program:, 212 Harats, Moti In Program:, 221 Harazi, Avi In Program:, 90 Harel, Amnon In Program:, 96, 155, 194 Harel, Itamar In Program:, 214 Harel, Michal In Program:, 20, 63, 92, 161, 214 Harel, Tamar In Program:, 102, 243 287 Last updated 16.02.2017

Hariharan, Santosh In Program:, 156 Haritan, Doron In Program:, 149, 189 Harlev, Avi In Program:, 130 Harmelin, Alon In Program:, 200, 246 Harpaz-Saad, Smadar In Program:, 120, 121 Harper, Jeff In Program:, 40 Harris, Keith In Program:, 103 Har-Vardi, Iris In Program:, 88 Hasenson, Sarah In Program:, 160 Hashimshony, Tamar In Program:, 27, 246 Hassan, Alia In Program:, 177 Hassi, Karoliina In Program:, 124 Hasson, Peleg In Program:, 245 Hassouna, Fouad In Program:, 38 Hatib, Kamel In Program:, 25 Haus-Cohen, Maya In Program:, 82, 180 Hauser, Felix In Program:, 198 Haviv, Izhak In Program:, 83, 164, 165 Haviv, Rotem In Program:, 60 Havlin, Shlomo In Program:, 31 Hawkins, David R. In Program:, 130 Hayouka, Zvi In Program:, 181 Hayward, Nicholas In Program:, 85 Hazak, Ora In Program:, 186 Hazan, Ronen In Program:, 14, 182 Hazan-Halevi, Inbal In Program:, 146 Hazanov, Lena In Program:, 68 Hazkani-Covo, Einat In Program:, 66 Heath, James R. In Program:, 207 Heberlein, Ulrike In Program:, 124 Heemskirk, Idse In Program:, 213 Heewoong, Lim In Program:, 173 Heidenreich, Meta In Program:, 172 Heifetz, Yael In Program:, 136 Heikenwalder, Mathias In Program:, 145 Heimer, Gali In Program:, 224 Heinberg, Adina In Program:, 218 Heinz, Franz In Program:, 35 Heinz, Stefan In Program:, 228 Hekselman, Idan In Program:, 68 Helbling, Daniel In Program:, 85 Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte In Program:, 37 Hellen, Christopher In Program:, 133 Heller, Daniel In Program:, 166 Hellman, Asaf In Program:, 22 Helman, Aharon In Program:, 79, 174 288 Last updated 16.02.2017

Helman, Ronny In Program:, 199 Heltberg, Mathias In Program:, 148 Hemantha, Hosahalli P. In Program:, 92 Hen, Gideon In Program:, 42 Hendel, Ayal In Program:, 212 Hendler, Adi In Program:, 90, 207 Henis, Yoav In Program:, 186 Henis-Korenblit, Sivan In Program:, 136, 163, 171, 214 Henn, Arnon In Program:, 13 Herbst, Rebecca In Program:, 242 Herishanu, Yair In Program:, 79 Hermann, Galit In Program:, 176 Herrero, Melisa In Program:, 190 Hersch, Micha In Program:, 89, 148 Hershberg, Ruth In Program:, 22, 66, 154 Hertz, Tomer In Program:, 179, 195, 230 Hertzog, Baruch B. In Program:, 185 Herz, Elad In Program:, 185 Hevroni, Yael In Program:, 85 Heymann, Shmuel In Program:, 165 Hezroni, Hadas In Program:, 72, 123, 151, 228 Hickey, Marc In Program:, 167 Hickey, Scott E. In Program:, 102 Hidas, Guy In Program:, 163 Higashi, Yujiro In Program:, 232 Higgins, Logan In Program:, 243 Hill, Andrew F In Program:, 234 Hill, Victoria In Program:, 85 Hillel-Karniel, Carmit In Program:, 227 Hinderlich, Stephan In Program:, 90 Hindiyeh, Musa In Program:, 97, 183 Hiram-Bab, Sahar In Program:, 41, 42, 105 Hirsch, Naama In Program:, 175, 214 Hirsch, Nivi In Program:, 88 Hirsch, Shira In Program:, 164 Hirschberg, Koret In Program:, 135 Hiya, Dikla In Program:, 62 Hoch, Lihi In Program:, 25, 122 Hochberg, Hodaya In Program:, 156, 169 Hochhauser, Edith In Program:, 191 Hochner, Binyamin In Program:, 36 Hod, Inbal In Program:, 108 Hoffman, Amnon In Program:, 109 Hofree, Matan In Program:, 54 Hohana, David In Program:, 241 Holam, Dvora In Program:, 80 289 Last updated 16.02.2017

Holbova, Radka In Program:, 132 Holland, Andrew In Program:, 44 Holland, Doron In Program:, 25 Holland, Neta In Program:, 40, 186 Holt, Liam In Program:, 14 Holzman, Roi In Program:, 36 Hope, Ronen In Program:, 14 Horovitz, Amnon In Program:, 64 Horowitz, Ben In Program:, 171 Horwitz, Elad In Program:, 167 Horwitz, Shaul In Program:, 85 Houri-Ze'evi, Leah In Program:, 129 Hourvitz, Ariel In Program:, 222 Howard, Courtney In Program:, 220 Howard, Jonathon In Program:, 13 Hu, Chunhua In Program:, 137 Hu, Shiqiong In Program:, 99 Huang, Alan In Program:, 74 Huang, Chun-Teng In Program:, 156 Huang, Lin In Program:, 206 Huber, Irit In Program:, 221 Huertas, Pablo In Program:, 73 Hufle, Manfred In Program:, 208 Hugger, Anat In Program:, 120, 121 Huppert, Amit In Program:, 111 Hussein, Aeed In Program:, 91 Hussien, Duaa In Program:, 118 Huylebroeck, Danny In Program:, 232 Ideses, Diana In Program:, 70, 79, 198 Ifrach, Talia In Program:, 108 Igbaria, Aeid In Program:, 95 Ignatowska-Jankowska, Bogna In Program:, 149 Ilan, Neta In Program:, 75, 87, 140 Ilani, Tal In Program:, 96, 171 Ilany, Amiyaal In Program:, 226 Ilouz, Ronit In Program:, 169 Imam, Ashraf In Program:, 85 Imbar, Tal In Program:, 108 In’t Veld, Peter In Program:, 167 Ingargiola, Antonino In Program:, 132 Iny Stein, Tsippi In Program:, 210 Ionescu, Ariel In Program:, 217 Irastorza, Mikel In Program:, 169 Iron, Mark In Program:, 117 Isaacson- Lustig, Tal In Program:, 25 Isaacson, Batya In Program:, 106, 108, 221 290 Last updated 16.02.2017

Isack, Yochai In Program:, 111 Isakov, Noah In Program:, 76 Isakov, Noah In Program:, 76 Isaschar Ovdat, Sivan In Program:, 134 Isaschar-Ovdat, Sivan In Program:, 72 Ishizuka, Katherine J. In Program:, 37 Ismer, Britta In Program:, 83 Israeli, Alon In Program:, 120, 187 Israeli, Eran In Program:, 72 Israelsson-Nordstrom, Maria In Program:, 40 Isupov, Michail In Program:, 39 Itan, Michal In Program:, 21 Itav*, Shlomik In Program:, 200 Ito, Shosuke In Program:, 95 Itskovits, Eyal In Program:, 25, 149 Itzhaki, Orit In Program:, 82, 139, 212 Itzkovitz, Shalev In Program:, 199, 246 Iwanir, Shachar In Program:, 25, 122 Izakson, Liz In Program:, 149 Izquierdo, Esther In Program:, 245 Izraeli, Shai In Program:, 73, 81, 159, 163, 165 J. Greenleaf, William In Program:, 228 J. Hayflick, Susan In Program:, 224 J. Kastaniotis, Alexander In Program:, 224 J. Myler, Peter In Program:, 60 Jacob, Abraham In Program:, 93, 232 Jacob, Adi In Program:, 20 Jacob, Avi In Program:, 93, 127 Jacob, Jasmine In Program:, 222 Jacobovitch, Jossef In Program:, 141 Jacobs Jr, William R In Program:, 223 Jacoby, Elad In Program:, 139 Jaeger, Magnus In Program:, 156 Jaffe, Charles In Program:, 234 Jain, Rakeshkumar In Program:, 182 Jain, Rakeshkumar In Program:, 111 Jaitin, Diego In Program:, 228 Jander, Georg In Program:, 53 Jankowski, Aleksander In Program:, 148 Jardim, Armando In Program:, 60 Järvå, Michael In Program:, 57 Javasky, Elisheva In Program:, 61, 133 Javitt, Gabe In Program:, 71 Jean, Yarden In Program:, 232 Jedrychowski, Mark P. In Program:, 167 Jeison, Marta In Program:, 162 291 Last updated 16.02.2017

Jensen, Mogens In Program:, 148 Jerabek-Willemsen, Moran In Program:, 155 Jerabek-Willemsen, Moran In Program:, 71 Jethva, Minesh In Program:, 63 Jethva, Mineshbhai In Program:, 230 Ji, Qingzhou In Program:, 195 Jiacheng Yan, Jenny In Program:, 74 Jiang, Dahai In Program:, 73 Jiang, Wei In Program:, 84 Jiang, Wenjun In Program:, 244 Jiménez-Gómez, José M In Program:, 187 Jin, Dexter In Program:, 30 Jin, Qusheng In Program:, 117 Johannessen, Cory In Program:, 201 Johnson, Jefferey In Program:, 95 Johnston, Stephen In Program:, 202 Jona, Ghil In Program:, 90, 242 Jonas, Felix In Program:, 94 Jørgensen, Morten In Program:, 186 Joseph, Noah In Program:, 48, 52 Joseph, Steinberger In Program:, 116 Joseph-Strauss, Daphna In Program:, 45 Joshi, Sanjay In Program:, 120 Journo, Guy In Program:, 158 Jung, Steffen In Program:, 21, 49, 78, 107, 108, 179 Jung, Yunmin In Program:, 107 Juravel, Ksenia In Program:, 151 Juric, Dejan In Program:, 74 Jurkevitch, Edouard In Program:, 111, 113, 183 Juven-Gershon, Tamar In Program:, 70, 89, 148, 194, 198 K, Shanmugha Rajan In Program:, 61 Kabiri, Doron In Program:, 163 Kadener, Sebastian In Program:, 14, 61 Kadir, Rotem In Program:, 129, 193, 203, 243 Kadosh, Eliran In Program:, 86 Kadouri, Luna In Program:, 242 Kaestner, Klaus In Program:, 173 Kaether, Christoph In Program:, 135 Kafri, Moshe In Program:, 90 Kafri, Pinhas In Program:, 160 Kaganovich, Daniel In Program:, 127 Kahana, Sarit In Program:, 151 Kahane, Nitza In Program:, 245 Kahr, Bart In Program:, 137 Kain, David In Program:, 131, 132, 191, 211 Kain, David In Program:, 227 292 Last updated 16.02.2017

Kaksonen, Marko In Program:, 127 Kalaora, Rinat In Program:, 55 Kalaora, Shelly In Program:, 82 Kalcheim, Chaya In Program:, 245 Kalchenko, Vyacheslav In Program:, 179 Kalechman, Yona In Program:, 86, 140, 158, 164, 241 Kalifa, Rachel In Program:, 85 Kalisky, Tomer In Program:, 81 Kalo, Dorit In Program:, 176 Kalt, Inna In Program:, 159 Kam, Zvi In Program:, 99 Kamal, Lara In Program:, 130, 131 Kamenecka, Theodore M. In Program:, 167 Kaminski, Lina In Program:, 223 Kan Tor, Yoav In Program:, 64 Kanaan, Hiba In Program:, 104 Kanaan, Moien In Program:, 130, 131 Kanarek, Naama In Program:, 247 Kanfi, Yariv In Program:, 19, 132 Kang, Keunsoo In Program:, 161 Kania Almog, Juliane In Program:, 200 Kaniewska, Paulina In Program:, 152 Kannaiah, Shanmugapriya In Program:, 223 Kannan, Balaji In Program:, 92 Kanteev, Margarita In Program:, 135 Kanter, Itamar In Program:, 81, 169 Kanterman, Julia In Program:, 47 Kapelushnik, Joseph In Program:, 98 Kaplan, Aaron In Program:, 26, 111, 153, 184 Kaplan, Aaron In Program:, 120 Kaplan, Ariel In Program:, 143 Kaplan, David R. In Program:, 34 Kaplan, Noam In Program:, 229 Kaplan, Tommy In Program:, 31, 62, 64, 119, 126, 149, 229 Kaplanov, Irena In Program:, 48 Kaplinsky, Chaim In Program:, 98 Karasik, David In Program:, 41 Karbian, Natanel In Program:, 50 Karin, Nathan In Program:, 238 Kariv, Revital In Program:, 75 Karmon, Ofri In Program:, 50 Karo-Atar, Danielle In Program:, 21 Karp, Jerome In Program:, 58 Karpuj, Marcela In Program:, 165 Karsch- Bluman, Adi In Program:, 80 Karthik, Deepak In Program:, 154 293 Last updated 16.02.2017

Kartvelishvily, Elena In Program:, 99, 107 Karussis, Dimitrios In Program:, 109 Kashkush, Khalil In Program:, 117 Kasom, Mohammad In Program:, 206 Kaspi, Antony In Program:, 164 Kaspy, Ilana In Program:, 198 Kassa, Ephrem In Program:, 110 Kassem, Riad In Program:, 221 Kassis, Amane In Program:, 180 Kassis, Ibrahim In Program:, 109 Katalan, Rotem In Program:, 194 Katchkovsky, Svetlana In Program:, 41 Katsir, Leron In Program:, 111, 119, 145 Katz, Ben-Zion In Program:, 79 Katz, Dolev In Program:, 91 Katz, Ella In Program:, 118 Katz, Moshe In Program:, 211 Katz, Noa In Program:, 91 Katz, Sebastián In Program:, 91, 196 Katz, Sophia In Program:, 22, 154 Katzav, Shulamit In Program:, 81, 162 Katzir, Gadi In Program:, 226 Katzir, Hagar In Program:, 128 Katzir, Itay In Program:, 218 Katz-Likvornik, Shiri In Program:, 183 Kaufer, Benedikt In Program:, 183 Kaufman, Bella In Program:, 86, 87, 150, 231 Kay, Lewis In Program:, 39 Kay, Mark In Program:, 26 Kazaz, Liora In Program:, 124 Kazimirsky, Gila In Program:, 217 Kazmier, Kelli In Program:, 57 Kedem, Isaac In Program:, 26, 153, 184 Kedmi, Adi In Program:, 70, 89, 194 Kehat, Izhak In Program:, 219 Keinan, Alon In Program:, 66, 153 Keinan, Eliezer In Program:, 127 Keisari, Yona In Program:, 140 Keizer, Danielle In Program:, 52, 179 Kelley, Matthew W. In Program:, 131 Kelman, Guy In Program:, 151 Kelson, Itzhak In Program:, 140 Kenig, Ariel In Program:, 177 Kenigsbuch, Mor In Program:, 84 Kepten, Eldad In Program:, 156 Kerem, Batsheva In Program:, 43, 83 294 Last updated 16.02.2017

Keren, Nir In Program:, 26, 39 Keren, Nirit In Program:, 47 Keren-Paz, Alona In Program:, 181 Keren-Shaul, Hadas In Program:, 245 Kerr, Darcy A. In Program:, 74 Kershenbaum, Arik In Program:, 188 Keshet, Eli In Program:, 72 Keshet, Rom David In Program:, 20 Kesner, Efrat In Program:, 240 Kesner, Efrat.L In Program:, 213 Kesner, Eyal.E In Program:, 213 Kessels, Michael In Program:, 39 Kessler, Ofra In Program:, 161, 245 Kfir, Shenhav In Program:, 237 Kfir-Cohen, Einav In Program:, 13 Khademhosseini, Ali In Program:, 71 Khair, Sally In Program:, 246 Khalaily, Lama In Program:, 231 Khalatnik, Yonatan In Program:, 85 Khalif, Cheli In Program:, 71 Khalifa, Leron In Program:, 182 Khamisi, Bassma In Program:, 196 Khazma, Tami In Program:, 119 Khukhin, Yana In Program:, 170 Kiflawi, Moshe In Program:, 118 Kikuti, Carlos In Program:, 35 Kim, Dewey In Program:, 201 Kim, Jaegil In Program:, 31 Kim, Jung-Gun In Program:, 205 Kimchi, Adi In Program:, 55, 94, 206 Kinchington, Paul In Program:, 115, 183 King, Mary-Claire In Program:, 130, 131 Kirby, Michael In Program:, 122 Kirschenbaum, Yael In Program:, 163 Kirson, Binyamin F. In Program:, 68 Kishony, Roy In Program:, 65, 114, 115, 137, 184 Kishore, Kamal In Program:, 130 Kisliouk, Tatiana In Program:, 237 Kitsberg, Daniel In Program:, 54 Kitsberg, Danny In Program:, 88, 176 Klainberger, Amit In Program:, 125 Klapper, Hadar In Program:, 220 Klebanov-Akopyan, Olga In Program:, 172 Klein Silberman, Shiri In Program:, 80 Klein, Allon In Program:, 114 Klein, Eugenia In Program:, 216 295 Last updated 16.02.2017

Klein, Shiri In Program:, 49 Klein, Shoshana In Program:, 139 Kleinfeld, David In Program:, 240 Klepfish, Mordehay In Program:, 77 Kliefeld, Oded In Program:, 92 Kligun, Efrat In Program:, 68 Klochendler, Agnes In Program:, 166, 174, 199 Klutstein, Michael In Program:, 14, 170 Kluwe, Johannes In Program:, 145 Klymiuk, Valentina In Program:, 206 Knight, Rob In Program:, 198 Knigin, David In Program:, 104 Knisbacher, Binyamin In Program:, 31, 152, 230 Koch, Liat In Program:, 36 Koeners, Maarten In Program:, 27, 51 Koffler, Tal In Program:, 130 Koffler-Brill, Tal In Program:, 100 Kogan, Natalya In Program:, 209 Kogan, Natalya M. In Program:, 170 Kohane, Isaac In Program:, 144 Kohen, Refael In Program:, 225 Kohn, Asher In Program:, 210 Koifman, Na’ama In Program:, 212 Kõivomägi, Mardo In Program:, 98 Kol, Nitzan In Program:, 106, 128 Kolaj, Adelaida In Program:, 34 Kolev, Nikolay In Program:, 173 Kolitsida, Panagiota In Program:, 171, 213 Kolodkin-Gal, Dror In Program:, 85 Kolodkin-Gal, Ilana In Program:, 102, 113, 121, 181, 182, 223 Kolomansky, Albert In Program:, 41, 42 Kolpakova, Alina In Program:, 100 Kolton, Max In Program:, 188 Koman, Igor In Program:, 81 Komarovsky, Nelly In Program:, 191, 248 Komov, Liran In Program:, 79 Koncz, Csaba In Program:, 51 Koncz-Kálmán, Zsuzsanna In Program:, 51 Kondoh, Hisato In Program:, 232 Konikoff, Fred In Program:, 47 Koning, Andres In Program:, 169 Konrad, Daniel In Program:, 199 Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T In Program:, 188 Kopan, Raphael In Program:, 174 Korach, Jacob In Program:, 222 Korczyn, Amos In Program:, 240 296 Last updated 16.02.2017

Korem, Yael In Program:, 129 Koren, Ariel In Program:, 98 Koren, Itay In Program:, 30 Koren, Lee In Program:, 226 Koren, Omry In Program:, 34, 47, 83, 122, 153 Koren, Ravit In Program:, 183 Korenblum, Elisa In Program:, 206 Korenfeld, Hadar In Program:, 96 Korkmaz, Gozde In Program:, 230 Kornberg, Guy In Program:, 60 Körner, Cindy In Program:, 244 Kornetsky, Rachel In Program:, 48 Kornitzer, Daniel In Program:, 93 Korol, Abraham In Program:, 59, 206 Koryachenko, Oksana In Program:, 112, 118 Kosloff, Mickey In Program:, 85, 206 Kosobrodova, Elena In Program:, 156 Kosolapov, Libby In Program:, 174 Kosti, Idit In Program:, 29, 231 Kostic, Lana In Program:, 248 Kostic, Marko In Program:, 56 Kostka, Joel E In Program:, 188 Kouril, Stepan In Program:, 187 Kovalerchick, Dimitry In Program:, 111 Kowalczyk, Monika In Program:, 109 Kowarsky, Mark A. In Program:, 37 Kozakov, Dima In Program:, 236 Kozer, Noga In Program:, 73, 202 Kraatz, Bernhard In Program:, 48 Kraft-Sheleg, Ortal In Program:, 245 Kramer, Günter In Program:, 136 Krasnopolsky, Simona In Program:, 112 Krasnov, Tanya In Program:, 98 Kraus-Faran, Osnat In Program:, 106 Kraut-Cohen, J In Program:, 181 Kraut-Cohen, Judith In Program:, 112 Kravchenko Balasha, Nataly In Program:, 150 Kravchenko-Balasha, Nataly In Program:, 207 Kravtsov, A In Program:, 181 Kravtsov, Angela In Program:, 112 Kremer, Ran In Program:, 44 Kreusch, Annett In Program:, 39 Krieger, Gat In Program:, 118 Krieger, Jonathan R In Program:, 34 Krisher, Tamar In Program:, 225 Krispil, Ronen In Program:, 119, 149 297 Last updated 16.02.2017

Kristensen, Vessela In Program:, 244 Krizhanovsky, Valery In Program:, 95 Krogan, Nevan In Program:, 95 Kronfeld, Noam In Program:, 55 Krüger, Achim In Program:, 77 Krugman, Tamar In Program:, 59 Krupalnik, Vladislav In Program:, 228 Kruse, Andrew C. In Program:, 133 Kshirsagar, Aditya In Program:, 175 Kuang, Yi In Program:, 174 Kubi, Adva In Program:, 82 Kublanovsky, Margarita In Program:, 170 Kudinov, Tania In Program:, 237 Kukavica, Biljana In Program:, 72 Kumar Biswas, Viplov In Program:, 61 Kumar Chatterjee, Arijit In Program:, 50 Kumar, Deepak In Program:, 245 Kumar, Jay Prakash In Program:, 57 Kumar, Praveen In Program:, 19 Kundaje, Anshul In Program:, 66 Kundu, Kiran In Program:, 178 Kuperman, Amir In Program:, 98 Kuperman, Yael In Program:, 28, 179, 200, 244 Kuperschmidt, Lana In Program:, 83, 165 Kupiec, Martin In Program:, 75, 90, 91, 167, 168, 214 Kurant, Estee In Program:, 240 Kurolap, Alina In Program:, 210 Kuss, Sabine In Program:, 48 Kuzahi, Shirlee In Program:, 101, 103 Kuzmina, Alona In Program:, 112 Kuznetsov, Yuri In Program:, 244 Kyoung-Jae, Won In Program:, 173 L. Van Etten, James In Program:, 110 Ladeuix, Benjamin In Program:, 27, 38, 51 Lahat, Guy In Program:, 166 Lahmi, Roxane In Program:, 93, 232 Lai, Sen-Lin In Program:, 65 Lalzar, Maya In Program:, 182 Lalzar, Maya In Program:, 111 Lancet, Doron In Program:, 193, 211 Landa, Natalie In Program:, 131, 132, 191, 211 Landau, Daniel In Program:, 203 Landau, Meytal In Program:, 38, 62, 117, 135, 197 Landau, Noa In Program:, 117 Landau, Shira In Program:, 156, 227 Landesberg, Amir In Program:, 219 298 Last updated 16.02.2017

Landsman, Limor In Program:, 237 Lang, Karl In Program:, 49 Langut, Yael In Program:, 139 Lansky, Shifra In Program:, 58 Lansky, Shifra In Program:, 149 Lanton, Tali In Program:, 138 Laor, Dana In Program:, 214 Lapidot, Tsvee In Program:, 246 Lapin, Yekaterina In Program:, 98 Lapkina, Lena In Program:, 82 Lapkina-Gendler, Lena In Program:, 237 Lara-Astiaso, David In Program:, 69 Larastiaso, David In Program:, 228 Laron, Zvi In Program:, 82, 237 Las, Guy In Program:, 110, 247 Lasry, Audrey In Program:, 22, 86 Lasry, Rachel In Program:, 125 Lasser-Katz, Efrat In Program:, 56 Lassmann, Hans In Program:, 239 Last, Mark In Program:, 230 Laufer, Itay In Program:, 64 Laurent, Louise In Program:, 125 Lavi, D In Program:, 181 Lavi, Dafi In Program:, 112 Lavi, Judith In Program:, 167 Lavi, Sara In Program:, 78, 244 Lavi-Itzkovitz, Anat In Program:, 164 Lavon, Hagar In Program:, 239 Lavon, Iris In Program:, 165 Lavy Shahaf, Gitit In Program:, 68 Layani-Bazar, Adi In Program:, 140 Lazar, Eitay In Program:, 51 Lazar, Itay In Program:, 93, 232 Lazar, Viktoria In Program:, 184 Lazmi-Hailu*, Astar In Program:, 72 Leavitt, Azita In Program:, 67, 115 Lebendiker, Mario In Program:, 141 Lecina, Daniel In Program:, 135 Lederkremer, Gerardo In Program:, 50 Lee, Ah Young In Program:, 90 Lee, Aletheia In Program:, 34 Lee, Eun-Jin In Program:, 41 Lee, Hae Kyung In Program:, 84 Lee, James J. In Program:, 21 Lee, Jeannie T. In Program:, 137 Lee, Jookyung In Program:, 132 299 Last updated 16.02.2017

Lee, Kevin In Program:, 109 Lee, Ming In Program:, 131 Lee, Won Dong In Program:, 19 Lee, Yu-Nee In Program:, 218 Leibman-Markus, Meirav In Program:, 120 Leibovich, Limor In Program:, 244 Leibowitz-Amit, Raya In Program:, 221 Leibson, Keren In Program:, 203 Leiserowitz, Leslie In Program:, 192 Leitner-Dagan, Yael In Program:, 44 Leor, Jonathan In Program:, 105, 131, 132, 191, 211 Lerer, Bernard In Program:, 237 Lerman, Eugene In Program:, 68 Lerman, Galya In Program:, 221 Lerner, David In Program:, 116 Lerner, Eitan In Program:, 132 Lerner, Natalie In Program:, 146 Lerner, Shaul In Program:, 244 Lerrer, Batia In Program:, 19 Leshem, Ben In Program:, 88 Lesnik, Chen In Program:, 61 Lev- Buchman, Ifat In Program:, 91 Lev, Atar In Program:, 106, 128, 218 Lev, Itamar In Program:, 193 Levanon, Erez In Program:, 31, 152, 222, 230 Levanon, Erez Y. In Program:, 65, 66, 69, 83, 150, 153 Levanon, Keren In Program:, 222 Levaot, Noam In Program:, 41, 173, 209 Levenberg, Shulamit In Program:, 54, 124, 136, 156, 171, 227 Levi, Adi In Program:, 103 Levi, Avraham In Program:, 154 Levi, Ben-Zion In Program:, 90 Levi, Doron In Program:, 151 Levi, Liraz In Program:, 36 Levi, Liron In Program:, 107 Levi, Mali In Program:, 100 Levi, Matan In Program:, 118 Levi, Omer In Program:, 48 Levi, Shahar In Program:, 196 Levi-Ferber, Mor In Program:, 163 Levin Kotler, La Paz In Program:, 132 Levin, Ariel In Program:, 23 Levin, Edward D In Program:, 104 Levin, Eran In Program:, 226 Levin, Liron In Program:, 153 Levin, Noam In Program:, 212 300 Last updated 16.02.2017

Levin, Shai In Program:, 178 Levin, Yishai In Program:, 24, 60, 200 Levine, Raphael D. In Program:, 207 Levin-Khalifa, Michal In Program:, 71 Levin-Kotler, La-Paz In Program:, 191 Levin-Reisman, Irit In Program:, 22 Levinton, Nelly In Program:, 29 Levin-Zaidman, Smadar In Program:, 85, 213 Levi-Rosenzvig, Reut In Program:, 51 Levitas, Eli In Program:, 130 Levitzki, Alexander In Program:, 139 Levkovitch, Orr In Program:, 138 Levkowitz, Gil In Program:, 28, 88 Lev-Ram, Varda In Program:, 169 Levy Moonshine, Ami In Program:, 144 Levy, Avraham In Program:, 242 Levy, Carmit In Program:, 87, 126, 139 Levy, Chaya In Program:, 133 Levy, Dan In Program:, 20, 77, 92, 157, 170 Levy, Emmanuel In Program:, 22, 39, 58, 67, 151 Levy, Gahl In Program:, 88, 191, 228 Levy, Lior In Program:, 154 Levy, Maayan In Program:, 200 Levy, Matan In Program:, 102 Levy, Michael In Program:, 94 Levy, Nurit In Program:, 92 Levy, Oren In Program:, 38, 152 Levy, Orr In Program:, 31 Levy, Sasha F In Program:, 208 Levy, Talia In Program:, 202 Levy, Yaakov In Program:, 24 Levy, Yinon In Program:, 113 Levy-Adam, Flonia In Program:, 147, 151 Levy-Barda, Adva In Program:, 73 Lewin-Dafna, Limor In Program:, 170 Lewin-Epstein, Ohad In Program:, 235 Lewis, Richard A. In Program:, 102 Lezmi, Elyad In Program:, 103 L'homme, Chloé In Program:, 48 Li, Catherine In Program:, 133 Li, Fangfei In Program:, 208 Liang, Jinsheng In Program:, 74 Liberman, Amihai In Program:, 165 Liberman, Raya In Program:, 53 Lichtenberg, Dov In Program:, 97 Lieberman, Kristi In Program:, 27 301 Last updated 16.02.2017

Lilja, Anna In Program:, 91 Lin, Hua In Program:, 167 Lin, Jimmy In Program:, 85 Linde, Ian In Program:, 22 Linder, Jonathan In Program:, 220 Lindquist, Susan In Program:, 30 Lindsay, Penelope L. In Program:, 53 Lindzen, Moshit In Program:, 60 Linial, Michal In Program:, 30, 211 Linial, Nathan In Program:, 30 Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer In Program:, 192 Liraz-Zaltsman, Sigal In Program:, 240 Liron, Tamar In Program:, 41, 42 Lisak, Bela In Program:, 126 Lishner, Michael In Program:, 75 Liu, Manway In Program:, 74 Liu, Rui In Program:, 240 Livnah, Oded In Program:, 70 Livneh, Etta In Program:, 80, 96 Livneh, Zvi In Program:, 44 Livny, Jonathan In Program:, 223 Livof, Alejandro In Program:, 83 Livoff, Alejandro In Program:, 165 Livshits, Leonid In Program:, 50 Liwag, Terrin In Program:, 57 Loayza-Puch, Fabricio In Program:, 15 Lobel, Dr. Leslie In Program:, 101 Loewe, Alexander In Program:, 125 Loewenstein, Shelly In Program:, 166 London, Mickey In Program:, 28 London, Nir In Program:, 58, 236 Loog, Mart In Program:, 14, 98 Lopatina, Anna In Program:, 115 Lopes, Rui In Program:, 230 Lopez-Berestein, Gabriel In Program:, 73 Lorberboum-Galski, Haya In Program:, 213 Loshe, David In Program:, 75 Lossos, Alexander In Program:, 165 Lotan, Tamar In Program:, 36 Lotem, Michal In Program:, 158, 212 Lowe, Scott In Program:, 166 Lowenton-Spier, Noa In Program:, 212 Loza, Olga In Program:, 213 Lu, Shijia In Program:, 132 Lubezky, Nir In Program:, 166 Lublin, Avishai In Program:, 98 302 Last updated 16.02.2017

Luboshits, Galia In Program:, 163 Lukatsky, David In Program:, 129 Lunenfeld, Eitan In Program:, 130 Luo, Yuan In Program:, 144 Lupski, James R. In Program:, 102 Luria, Gilad In Program:, 40, 51 Lustig, Yaniv In Program:, 183 Luu, Tuan Anh In Program:, 186 Luxenburg, Chen In Program:, 216 Luzzatto Knaan, Tal In Program:, 198 Luzzatto-Knaan, Tal In Program:, 154 Lyko, Frank In Program:, 229 M Klausner, Joseph In Program:, 166 M. Duggan, Brendan In Program:, 198 M. Kerätär, Juha In Program:, 224 M. Meijler, Michael In Program:, 174 Maayan, Gadi In Program:, 89 Maayan, Rachel In Program:, 241 Macarov, Michal In Program:, 131 Madar, Adi In Program:, 112 Madar, Ravit In Program:, 25 Madhusoodana, Anil In Program:, 205 Madi, Asaf In Program:, 239 Madore, Jason In Program:, 85 Magen, Amit In Program:, 142 Magen, Daniella In Program:, 210 Mager, Alexander In Program:, 111 Maggs-Kölling, Gillian In Program:, 121 Magod, Prerna In Program:, 222 Mahlab, Shelly In Program:, 30 Mahmood, Iram In Program:, 71 Maicher, Andre In Program:, 75 Maimon, Roy In Program:, 217 Maixner, Nitzan In Program:, 105, 246 Majdalani, Pierre In Program:, 193 Makarov, Alexander In Program:, 23 Makdasi, Efi In Program:, 70 Makedonski, Kiril In Program:, 247 Maldonado, Marcus In Program:, 44 Mali, Sachitanand M. In Program:, 92 Malick, Assaf In Program:, 231 Malihi, Shimrit In Program:, 121 Malitsky, Sergey In Program:, 200 Malka, Assaf In Program:, 33 Malka, Laura In Program:, 114 Malka, Osnat In Program:, 151 303 Last updated 16.02.2017

Malka, Ronit In Program:, 54 Malkinson, Guy In Program:, 42 Maltsev, Alexander In Program:, 33 Mamon, Elad In Program:, 101, 186 Mamroud, Emanuelle In Program:, 113 Mandabi, Aviad In Program:, 174 Mandelbiom, Ofer In Program:, 47 Mandelboim, Michal In Program:, 97 Mandelboim, Ofer In Program:, 21, 35, 50, 106, 108, 110, 178, 221 Mandel-Gutfreund, Yael In Program:, 59, 61, 68, 148, 155, 225 Mandrup, Susanne In Program:, 229 Mangala, Lingegowdas In Program:, 73 Mann, Mati In Program:, 109 Manor, Yair In Program:, 125 Mansour, Abed A. In Program:, 202 Mansour, Yousef In Program:, 170 Maor, Louise In Program:, 107, 108, 179 Maor, Roey In Program:, 29 Maoz, Anat In Program:, 111 Maoz, Miriam In Program:, 58 Maoz, Sharon In Program:, 113 Marais, Eugene In Program:, 121 Marano, Roberto In Program:, 115 Marciano, Odeya In Program:, 74 Marciano-Levi, Iris In Program:, 141 Marcu, Orly In Program:, 61 Mardamshina, Mariya In Program:, 164 Mardoukh, Jacques In Program:, 162 Margaliot, Ido In Program:, 176 Margalit, Alon In Program:, 212 Margalit, Hanah In Program:, 224, 242 Margalit, Liad In Program:, 191 Margalit, Tal In Program:, 120 Margolin Miller, Yulia In Program:, 76 Marin, Irina In Program:, 86, 150, 164, 231 Marjavaara, Lisette In Program:, 75 Markel, Gal In Program:, 77, 78, 82, 161, 235 Markus, Amos In Program:, 115 Markus, Barak In Program:, 243 Marmary, Yitzhak In Program:, 49 Marom David, Milit In Program:, 56 Marom, Lital In Program:, 114 Martemyanov, Kirill In Program:, 85 Martenson, James In Program:, 170 Martin, Donna M. In Program:, 102 Martin, Stephen F. In Program:, 133 304 Last updated 16.02.2017

Martinotti, Adi In Program:, 45 Martins, Fabio In Program:, 131 Martsiano, Shani In Program:, 128 Masalha +, Moamen In Program:, 221 Masaphy, Segula In Program:, 116 Mashriki, Tal In Program:, 93, 232 Masika, Hagit In Program:, 247 Maskit, Shiran In Program:, 93 Masliah, Eliezer In Program:, 139 Massalha, Hassan In Program:, 206 Masuho, Ikuo In Program:, 85 Matalon, Omri In Program:, 52, 179 Matalon, Or In Program:, 58, 151 Mathis, Diane In Program:, 35 Matitiyahu, Avi In Program:, 196 Matityahu, Avi In Program:, 168, 194, 215 Matiuhin, Yulia In Program:, 62 Mattson, Mark In Program:, 160 Matullo, Christine In Program:, 181 Matzner, Pini In Program:, 239 Mauzeroll, Janine In Program:, 48 Max, Klaas In Program:, 225 Maya, Dadiani In Program:, 86 Maya, Idit In Program:, 151 Mayer, Michal In Program:, 38, 62 Mayo, Avi In Program:, 218 Mayo, Lior In Program:, 239 Mayorek, Nina In Program:, 170 Mayrose, Itay In Program:, 26 Mayshar, Yoav In Program:, 141 Maza, Itay In Program:, 126, 228 Mazkereth, Ram In Program:, 246 Mazor, Yaron In Program:, 211 Mazurkiewicz, Stephanie In Program:, 48 Mcalonis, Melissa In Program:, 44 Mccue, Marshall D. In Program:, 226 Mcglade, Jane In Program:, 202 Mchaourab, Hassane In Program:, 57 Mcmahon, Moira In Program:, 90 Mechoulam, Raphael In Program:, 86 Medits, Iris In Program:, 35 Meerson, Ari In Program:, 237 Megnaji, Tali In Program:, 48 Mehazri, Linoy In Program:, 74 Mehr, Ramit In Program:, 68 Mehta, Arnav In Program:, 109 305 Last updated 16.02.2017

Meihls, Lisa N. In Program:, 53 Meijer, Mariska In Program:, 200 Meijler, Michael In Program:, 24 Meiner, Vardiella In Program:, 194 Meir, Sagit In Program:, 206 Meiri, Gal In Program:, 193 Meirom, Michal In Program:, 27 Melamed Kadosh, Dganit In Program:, 201 Melamed, Doron In Program:, 69 Melamed, Sahar In Program:, 224 Melamed, Sarah In Program:, 67, 115 Melamed-Book, Naomi In Program:, 105, 110, 134 Melcer, Shai In Program:, 126 Meller, Anatoly In Program:, 95, 151 Melton, Douglas In Program:, 28 Meltser, Victoria In Program:, 44 Menashe, Idan In Program:, 144 Mendelsohn, Sigal In Program:, 93 Mendelson, Ella In Program:, 97, 183 Mendillo, Marc In Program:, 30 Meningher, Tal In Program:, 145, 172 Menuchin, Amitai In Program:, 166 Menuchin-Lasowski, Yotam In Program:, 232 Meoli, Luca In Program:, 28 Merbl, Yifat In Program:, 29 Merchuk, Lianne In Program:, 59 Merdler, Uri In Program:, 124 Merhavi-Shoham, * Efrat In Program:, 183 Merhavi-Shoham, Efrat In Program:, 82 Merksamer, Philip In Program:, 95 Mermershtain, Inbal In Program:, 206 Mernberger, Marco In Program:, 95 Merquiol, Emmanuelle In Program:, 86, 147 Meshesha, Mesfin In Program:, 178 Meshorer, Eran In Program:, 126, 228, 248 Mesika, Ravit In Program:, 127 Metzl-Raz, Eyal In Program:, 90 Meyer, Kerstin In Program:, 44 Meyer, Lueder H. In Program:, 159 Meyuhas, Oded In Program:, 177 Mghndaf, Areen In Program:, 13 Michaelevski, Izhak In Program:, 122 Michaeli Hoch, Yael In Program:, 244 Michaeli, Miri In Program:, 68 Michaeli, Shulamit In Program:, 14, 61, 67, 135, 173 Michaeli, Simon In Program:, 245 306 Last updated 16.02.2017

Michalet, Xavier In Program:, 132 Michele, Daniel In Program:, 219 Michoviz, Shalom In Program:, 76 Michowitz, Shalom In Program:, 159 Michowiz, Shalom In Program:, 211 Miga, Karen In Program:, 90 Mildner, Alexander In Program:, 108 Miller, Elizabeth A. In Program:, 91 Miller, Ezer In Program:, 111 Miller, Freda D. In Program:, 34 Miller, Gad In Program:, 40, 51, 119, 121 Miller, Irit In Program:, 71 Millman, Adi In Program:, 66, 115 Mills, Joshua M. In Program:, 224 Milo Cochavi, Shira In Program:, 188 Milo, Ron In Program:, 185, 242 Milrot, Elad In Program:, 110 Mincberg, Michal In Program:, 103 Minsky, Abraham In Program:, 110 Mintz, Reshef In Program:, 127 Minz, Dror In Program:, 112, 113, 114, 181, 182, 205 Minz, Dror In Program:, 111 Minzel, Waleed In Program:, 76, 143, 239 Miodownik, Shir In Program:, 50 Mishmar, Dan In Program:, 66, 128, 153 Mishra, Amartya In Program:, 172 Miskin, Hagit In Program:, 98 Mistry, Anushay A. In Program:, 230 Mitrani-Rosenbaum, Stella In Program:, 90 Mittelman, Moshe In Program:, 41, 42 Miyasaka, Masayuki In Program:, 107 Mizrahi, Itzhak In Program:, 242 Moaraf, Stan In Program:, 38 Mock, Ulrike In Program:, 75 Modepalli, Vengamanaidu In Program:, 174 Modis, Yorgo In Program:, 116 Mogilianski, Yana In Program:, 106, 126 Mohan, Vishnu In Program:, 77 Moldavski, Ofer In Program:, 185 Molotski, Natali In Program:, 211 Molotski, Nataly In Program:, 132 Mondal, Jagannath In Program:, 143 Mongkolsapaya, Juthathip In Program:, 35 Monto, Arnold In Program:, 195 Mor*, Nofar In Program:, 228 Mor, Amir In Program:, 192 307 Last updated 16.02.2017

Mor, Hadar In Program:, 168, 215 Morag, Ely In Program:, 117 Morais, Sarah In Program:, 117 Morales Torres, Cristina In Program:, 228 Moran, Dror In Program:, 31 Moran, Maya In Program:, 85 Moran, Michael F. In Program:, 34 Moran, Nava In Program:, 187 Moran, Yehu In Program:, 23, 174 Mordechai, Anat In Program:, 165 Mordechai-Daniel, Talya In Program:, 163 Mordret, Ernest In Program:, 137, 208 Mordukhovic, Gideon In Program:, 119 Mordukhovich, Gideon In Program:, 145 Moresi, Claudia In Program:, 200 Morey, Rob In Program:, 125 Morgan, Tan In Program:, 188 Morgenshtern, Millana In Program:, 64 Morgenstern, David In Program:, 36 Morgulis, Miri In Program:, 231 Morin, Shai In Program:, 151, 188 Morrell, Steven In Program:, 216 Morse, Natasha In Program:, 74 Mory, Adi In Program:, 210 Morzaev, Dana In Program:, 86, 87, 150 Moshe, Asher In Program:, 38, 117, 135, 197 Moshe, Itai In Program:, 83, 86 Moshelion, Menachem In Program:, 187 Moshitzky, Gilli In Program:, 125 Moshitzky, Pnina In Program:, 188 Moskovich, Oren In Program:, 73 Moskovitz, Neta In Program:, 83, 165 Moss, Joshua In Program:, 58, 62 Motanis, Mihael In Program:, 174 Motro, Benny In Program:, 89, 136 Moussaieff, Arieh In Program:, 170 Mozes-Autmazgin, Ziv In Program:, 51 Mudgett, Mary Beth In Program:, 205 Mugami, Shany In Program:, 105 Mugesh, Govindasamy In Program:, 237 Mukha, Dzmitry In Program:, 19 Mukherjee, Diptendu In Program:, 123, 149 Mulla, Wesam In Program:, 220 Munishkin, Dmitry In Program:, 156 Munitz, Ariel In Program:, 21 Murik, Omer In Program:, 26, 153 308 Last updated 16.02.2017

Murik, Omer In Program:, 120 Murninkas, Michael In Program:, 220 Musallm, Ranem In Program:, 162 Mutsafi, Yael In Program:, 96, 110 Mutukula, Naresh In Program:, 202 Myers, Nadav In Program:, 59 Myler, Peter, J. In Program:, 96 Naaman, Hila In Program:, 181 Nachman, Iftach In Program:, 65, 103, 175 Nachmansson, Natalie In Program:, 180 Nachmias, Dikla In Program:, 110, 192 Nadav, Golan In Program:, 96, 155 Nadav, Yotam In Program:, 172 Nadorp, Bettina In Program:, 135 Naftali-Shani, Nili In Program:, 105, 191 Nagamani, Sandesh Cs In Program:, 85 Nagamani, Sandesh In Program:, 20 Nagar, Elad In Program:, 100, 148 Nagar, Meital In Program:, 172, 210 Nagaraj, Karthik In Program:, 82, 237 Nagler, Arnon In Program:, 80 Nahmias, Yaakov In Program:, 54, 127, 156, 191, 228 Nahum, Liat In Program:, 92 Naiman, Shoshana In Program:, 19, 132, 247 Nakhlas, Alexander In Program:, 106 Naor, Adit In Program:, 235 Naor, Adit In Program:, 243 Naor, Zvi In Program:, 105 Naser, Victoria In Program:, 187, 198, 208 Nasser, Lena In Program:, 93 Nath, Pulak Ranjan In Program:, 76 Natour, Muhammad In Program:, 91 Navarro Sanchez, Erika In Program:, 35 Naveh-Many, Tally In Program:, 177, 199 Navon, Ami In Program:, 133 Navon, Ilana In Program:, 79 Navon, Roy In Program:, 59 Navon-Venezia, Shiri In Program:, 153 Navot, Shir In Program:, 206 Nechama, Morris In Program:, 177 Nechemia-Arbely, Yael In Program:, 90 Necula, Daniela In Program:, 86 Nemet, Ital In Program:, 86 Nemichenitzer, Diana In Program:, 63 Nemlich, Yael In Program:, 77 Ner-Gaon, Hadas In Program:, 69, 142 309 Last updated 16.02.2017

Nesher, Elimelech In Program:, 81, 122 Netanely, Dvir In Program:, 64 Neufeld, Gera In Program:, 161, 245 Neufeld, Noa In Program:, 169 Neugebauer, Karla In Program:, 169 Neumann, Drorit In Program:, 41, 42, 105 Neutze, Richard In Program:, 57 Nevedomskaya, Ekaterina In Program:, 230 Nevenzal, Hadas In Program:, 94 Nevo, Nava In Program:, 244 Nevo, Yuval In Program:, 107 Nevo-Yassaf, Inbar In Program:, 135 Nicenboim, Julian In Program:, 42 Nigam, Akanksha In Program:, 113 Nilbratt, Matts In Program:, 156 Nili Gal-Yam, Einav In Program:, 222 Nir, Ido In Program:, 40 Nir, Ronit In Program:, 46, 168 Nir, Uri In Program:, 74 Nirenberg Arad, Valerie In Program:, 189 Nir-Keren, Yael In Program:, 141 Nisemblat, Shahar In Program:, 56 Nissenkorn, Andreea In Program:, 224 Nist, Andrea In Program:, 95 Nita, Iulia I. In Program:, 56 Nitzan Koren, Roni In Program:, 96 Nitzan, Erez In Program:, 245 Niv, Leonora In Program:, 126 Niv, Masha In Program:, 85 Nizri-Megnaji, Tali In Program:, 73 Noach-Hirsh, Meirav In Program:, 94 Nocedal, Isabel In Program:, 95 Noerenberg, Astrid In Program:, 228 Nolan, Garry P. In Program:, 159 Nolte, Shannon In Program:, 57 Noren Hooten, Nicole In Program:, 160 Noseda, Alessandro In Program:, 140 Notarangelo, Luigi In Program:, 218 Nour-Eldin, Hussam In Program:, 186 Nouriel, Shira Simcha In Program:, 14 Nourshargh, Sussan In Program:, 216 Nov, Ori In Program:, 104 Novack Md, Victor In Program:, 97 Novaplansky, Ofra In Program:, 238 Novershtern, Noa In Program:, 125, 228 Novikov, Ilya In Program:, 73 310 Last updated 16.02.2017

Novoplansky Zoor, Ofra In Program:, 158 Noy, Elad In Program:, 48 Noy, Yael In Program:, 130 Noyhouzer, Tomer In Program:, 48 Noy-Lotan, Sharon In Program:, 98 Nunnari, Jodi In Program:, 214 Nuriel, Roye In Program:, 118, 119 Nussbaum Shochat, Anat In Program:, 92 Nussbaum, Gabriel In Program:, 109, 127 Nussenzweig, Michel C In Program:, 179 Oaknin Benzaken, Ana In Program:, 74 Obiedat, Akram In Program:, 50 Obolski, Uri In Program:, 208 Oderberg, Isaac In Program:, 43 Ofek, Shai In Program:, 245 Ofek-Lalzar, Maya In Program:, 205 Offen, Daniel In Program:, 241 Ofir Birin, Yifat In Program:, 172 Ofir, Gal In Program:, 67 Ofir, Rivka In Program:, 49 Ofir, Sivan In Program:, 82 Ofir-Birin, Yifat In Program:, 145, 172, 177, 234 Ofri, Ron In Program:, 232 Ogen-Stern, Navit In Program:, 50 Ogran, Arik In Program:, 181 Ohad, Itzhak In Program:, 26 Ohayon, Ariel In Program:, 76 Ohayon, Shilo In Program:, 154 Ohlund, Daniel In Program:, 222 Ohtmit, Suzanne In Program:, 195 Oiknine-Djain, Esther In Program:, 107 Oks, Olga In Program:, 208 Okun, Eitan In Program:, 25 Olam, Devorah In Program:, 162 Olender, Tsvia In Program:, 182 Olender, Tsviya In Program:, 59, 93, 121, 193, 210 Olsen, Carl In Program:, 186 Olshvang, Evgenia In Program:, 58 Omary, Moutasem In Program:, 187, 208 Onn, Itay In Program:, 168, 194, 196, 215 Opatowsky, Yarden In Program:, 39 Ophir, Yotam In Program:, 226 Oppenheim, Olya In Program:, 101 Oppenheimer-Shaanan, Yaara In Program:, 181, 182 Orbach, Ron In Program:, 13 Ordon, Frank In Program:, 59 311 Last updated 16.02.2017

Orellana, Luis H In Program:, 188 Oren, Matan In Program:, 129 Oren, Moshe In Program:, 201, 221 Oren, Nadav In Program:, 120, 153 Oren, Ofek In Program:, 171 Oren, Sonia In Program:, 116 Orenbuch, Ayelet In Program:, 41, 173, 209 Oren-Giladi, Pazit In Program:, 232 Orenstein, Yaron In Program:, 194, 207 Orevi, Tomer In Program:, 133 Orgil, Ola In Program:, 168, 194, 215 Ori, Naomi In Program:, 102, 118, 120, 187 Orly, Joseph In Program:, 134 Orly, Josheph In Program:, 105 Oron, Dan In Program:, 88 Oron, Oded In Program:, 102 Orr-Urtreger, Avi In Program:, 244 Orshan, Laor In Program:, 183 Ortenberg, Rona In Program:, 78 Orzech, Ena In Program:, 72 Oster, Howard In Program:, 42 Oster, Howard S. In Program:, 41 Ott, Carolyn In Program:, 192 Ottolenghi, Aner In Program:, 209 Oude Vrielink, Joachim In Program:, 15 Ovadia, Aviv In Program:, 73 Ovadia-Shochat, Avital In Program:, 194, 198 Ovadya, Yossi In Program:, 95 Ovciarikova, Jana In Program:, 124 Overholtzer, Michael In Program:, 245 Oweis, Walaa In Program:, 38 Oz, Eden In Program:, 60 Ozer, Eden In Program:, 23, 70 Ozer, Efrat In Program:, 93, 232 Ozer, Janet In Program:, 80 Oz-Levi, Danit In Program:, 210 P. Nag, Partha In Program:, 167 Paas, Yoav In Program:, 155 Pacht, Tal In Program:, 134 Padala, Prasanth In Program:, 38 Padler-Karavani, Vered In Program:, 201 Palande, Vikrant In Program:, 63 Paldor, Iddo In Program:, 165 Paldor, Mor In Program:, 49 Palevski, Dahlia In Program:, 132, 191 Palmer, Michelle In Program:, 167 312 Last updated 16.02.2017

Palmer, Nathan In Program:, 144 Palmeri, Karla J. In Program:, 37 Palmi, Chiara In Program:, 159 Palomares, Axxell In Program:, 40 Panda, Sayantan In Program:, 149 Pando, Rakefet In Program:, 97 Pandya, Pinakin In Program:, 76 Panet, Amos In Program:, 107 Panet, Einat In Program:, 93, 232 Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Angela In Program:, 230 Papa, Feroz In Program:, 95 Papenfuss, Anthony T. In Program:, 234 Paperna, Tamar In Program:, 210 Papo, Niv In Program:, 171, 209 Pappo, Orit In Program:, 162 Pardo, Michal In Program:, 134 Parikh, Roma In Program:, 87 Park, Sinwook In Program:, 36 Parnasa, Rami In Program:, 100 Parvari, Ruti In Program:, 130, 193 Pasmanic-Chor, Metsada In Program:, 166 Pasmanik-Chor, Metsada In Program:, 21, 62 Pass, Avi In Program:, 113 Paster, Inga In Program:, 143 Pasternak, Zohar In Program:, 111 Pataki, Emese In Program:, 91 Pato, Aviad In Program:, 212 Patterson, George H. In Program:, 135 Pavlovski, Anya In Program:, 86, 87, 150 Pavlovsky, Anya In Program:, 231 Paz Yaacov, Nurit In Program:, 83 Paz, Avital In Program:, 199 Paz, Aviv In Program:, 57 Paz, Inbal In Program:, 68, 148 Pazarentzos, Evangelos In Program:, 74 Paz-Elizur, Tamar In Program:, 44 Paz-Yaacov, Nurit In Program:, 63, 230 Pe’er, Dana In Program:, 78 Pearl-Mizrahi, Sivan In Program:, 208 Pearlsman, Malenia In Program:, 119 Pecellin, Marina In Program:, 208 Pecht, Tal In Program:, 104, 110, 246 Peer, Asaf In Program:, 224 Peer, Dan In Program:, 84 Peled, Amnon In Program:, 49, 80 Peled, Neta In Program:, 180 313 Last updated 16.02.2017

Peled-Hajaj, Shany In Program:, 232 Peleg, Yoav In Program:, 115, 141 Pelizzola, Mattia In Program:, 130 Pellach, Michal In Program:, 194 Pelossof, Raphael A. In Program:, 74 Peng, Yao In Program:, 198 Penias-Navon, Sharon In Program:, 60 Pereg, Yaron In Program:, 80 Peretz, Mordecai In Program:, 191 Peretz, Tamar In Program:, 212, 242 Peretz, Yuval In Program:, 202 Perez, José In Program:, 167 Perez, Shira In Program:, 164 Perez, Yonatan In Program:, 128, 129, 193, 203, 243 Peri, Gili In Program:, 231 Perk, Shimon In Program:, 98 Perl, Shmuel In Program:, 98 Perless, Sharon In Program:, 138 Perlson, Eran In Program:, 13, 123, 190, 217 Perov, Sergei In Program:, 38 Perry, Chava In Program:, 79 Perry, Eyal In Program:, 163 Perry, Gili In Program:, 86, 87, 150 Perry, Noam In Program:, 142 Persi, Erez In Program:, 20 Pertwee, Roger G. In Program:, 209 Peshes-Yaloz, Naama In Program:, 86 Pesic, Milena In Program:, 41, 173, 209 Pestova, Tatyana In Program:, 133 Peters, Lee Zeev In Program:, 50 Peterson, Stephen In Program:, 177 Petrenko, Margarita In Program:, 183 Petres, Stéphane In Program:, 35 Pewzner-Jung, Yael In Program:, 49 Pharhi, Lishay In Program:, 47 Piasezky, Alon In Program:, 111 Piccioni, Federica In Program:, 201 Pick, Edgar In Program:, 91 Pick, Uri In Program:, 54 Pickman, Yishai In Program:, 68 Pienkny, Silke In Program:, 53 Pikarsky, Eli In Program:, 22, 86, 104, 132, 143, 170, 229 Pilo Kerman, Ori In Program:, 84 Pilpel, Noam In Program:, 95 Pilpel, Tzachi In Program:, 89 Pilpel, Yitzhak In Program:, 23, 67, 137, 208, 228 314 Last updated 16.02.2017

Pimentel, Matthew A. In Program:, 234 Pinchev, Mila In Program:, 44 Pinchuk, Ilya In Program:, 97 Pinhasov, Albert In Program:, 122, 153, 189, 211 Pinsky, Mariel In Program:, 93 Pinto, Yishay In Program:, 66, 153, 222, 230 Pinzon-Olejua, Alejandro In Program:, 25 Piran, Ron In Program:, 176 Piriatinskiy, Gadi In Program:, 36 Pisanty, Odelia In Program:, 118, 186, 198, 208 Pismenyuk, Tatyana In Program:, 38 Pitcovski, Jacob In Program:, 109 Pittel, Ilya In Program:, 155 Pizarro, Lorena In Program:, 120 Pizem, Yoav In Program:, 82, 180 Plaschkes, Inbar In Program:, 210 Plaser, Morasha In Program:, 242 Pliner, Margarita In Program:, 26 Plotnik, Omer In Program:, 55 Plotnikov, Alexander In Program:, 73 Pode, Ben In Program:, 20 Pode-Shakked, Ben In Program:, 224 Podini, Daniele In Program:, 129 Poisson, Laila In Program:, 84 Polak, Paz In Program:, 31 Polisar, Rutie In Program:, 78 Polishchuk, Maya In Program:, 148 Politi, Yoav In Program:, 146 Pollack, Dan In Program:, 102 Pollak, Yeroslav In Program:, 27 Polliack, Aaron In Program:, 79 Pollier, Jacob In Program:, 149 Polonsky, Michal In Program:, 45 Polotov, Dana In Program:, 202 Polturak, Guy In Program:, 26 Polycarpou-Schwarz, Maria In Program:, 244 Ponder, Bruce In Program:, 44 Ponnoor, Nikhil Anto In Program:, 76 Popov, Georgy In Program:, 205 Popovtzer, Aharon In Program:, 83 Popovtzer, Aron In Program:, 238 Popovtzer, Rachela In Program:, 55 Poppe, Laszlo In Program:, 155 Porat, Ely In Program:, 154 Porat, Ziv In Program:, 78, 172, 177, 221 Porath, Hagit In Program:, 63, 152, 230 315 Last updated 16.02.2017

Porat-Kuperstein, Lilach In Program:, 142 Porgador, Angel In Program:, 63, 164, 178, 230 Porter, Kathryn In Program:, 236 Potier, Pierre In Program:, 195 Potikha, Tamara In Program:, 162 Potocki, Lorraine In Program:, 102 Pour, Maayan In Program:, 175 Povodovski, Lital In Program:, 55 Pozniak, Yair In Program:, 20, 201, 212, 221, 223 Pradeep, Sunila In Program:, 73 Prakash, Shanmugam In Program:, 119 Pras, Elon In Program:, 128 Prat, Alexandre In Program:, 239 Preger-Ben Noon, Ella In Program:, 232 Prestwood, Tyler In Program:, 22 Pri-Chen, Sara In Program:, 86 Priel, Avi In Program:, 56 Priel, Esther In Program:, 70, 77, 88, 123 Prigozhina, Tatyana B. In Program:, 70 Prill, Sebastian In Program:, 156 Pritz, Christian In Program:, 25, 122 Propper, Guy In Program:, 126 Proskorovski, Regina In Program:, 129 Proskorovski-Ohayon, Regina In Program:, 193 Prywes, Noam In Program:, 148 Puglisi, Elisabetta V. In Program:, 60 Puglisi, Joseph D. In Program:, 60 Puigserver, Pere In Program:, 167 Pupko, Tal In Program:, 183 Q. Balaban, Nathalie In Program:, 198 Qimron, Udi In Program:, 21 Qiq, Omar In Program:, 41 Qualmann, Britta In Program:, 39 Quinnell, Daniel In Program:, 214 Quintana, Francisco J. In Program:, 239 Qutob, Nouar In Program:, 85 R. Gurnon, James In Program:, 110 Raanan, Hagai In Program:, 26, 153 Raanan, Hagai In Program:, 120 Raanani, Pia In Program:, 146 Raas-Rothschild, Annick In Program:, 224 Rabadan, Angeles M. In Program:, 245 Rabani, Stav In Program:, 165 Rabinovich, Shiran In Program:, 20, 85 Rabinowicz, Noa In Program:, 73 Rabinowitz, Grace In Program:, 89 316 Last updated 16.02.2017

Rabinowitz, Joshua In Program:, 20 Rabner, Alona In Program:, 155, 225 Rachmilevitch, Sofia In Program:, 35 Rachmut, Yakov In Program:, 85 Raddatz, Gunter In Program:, 229 Radinsky, Olga In Program:, 109 Radzinski, Meytal In Program:, 49, 127, 133 Rahamim Ben Navi, Liat In Program:, 105 Rahamim, Gil In Program:, 133 Raini, Gali In Program:, 124 Rais*, Yoach In Program:, 228 Raiteri, Paolo In Program:, 137 Raizman, Sophie In Program:, 72, 195 Raj, Arjun In Program:, 15 Rajan, K. Shanmugha In Program:, 14 Rajchman, Dana In Program:, 227 Rak, Roni In Program:, 89 Rakovsky, Aviya In Program:, 68 Rall, Glenn In Program:, 181 Ram, Oren In Program:, 26 Ram, Oren In Program:, 126 Ram, Yoav In Program:, 208 Ramalho, Ruben In Program:, 52 Ramia Krishnamoorthy, Yoganathan In Program:, 104 Ramm, Yael In Program:, 166 Rand, Daniel In Program:, 84 Randolph, Adrienne G. In Program:, 230 Rankovic, Sanela In Program:, 52 Raphael, Bitya In Program:, 209 Rapp Lerner, Olga In Program:, 155 Rappaport, Noa In Program:, 211 Rashti, Aviv In Program:, 97 Rathaus, Moran In Program:, 92 Ratzon, Einav In Program:, 236 Rauner, Gat In Program:, 237 Raveh, Barak In Program:, 58 Ravel-Vilk, Shoshana In Program:, 98 Ravetch, Jeffrey In Program:, 238 Ravid, Dana In Program:, 106 Ravid, Jasmin In Program:, 53 Ravid, Shosh In Program:, 99, 173 Ravid, Shoshana In Program:, 13 Ravid, Tommer In Program:, 127, 133 Ravins, Miriam In Program:, 185 Rawat, Radhika In Program:, 190 Razin, Aharon In Program:, 58 317 Last updated 16.02.2017

Razin, Talya In Program:, 105, 134 Razon, Hila In Program:, 238 Rechav, Katya In Program:, 110 Rechavi, Erez In Program:, 218 Rechavi, Gideon In Program:, 106, 128 Rechavi, Oded In Program:, 67, 89, 124, 129, 193, 228 Reches, Adi In Program:, 108 Reddien, Peter In Program:, 43 Reem, Efrat In Program:, 126 Regev, Aviv In Program:, 31, 54, 109, 201 Regev, Miriam In Program:, 99 Regev-Rudzki, Neta In Program:, 145, 172, 177, 234 Regnault, Thomas In Program:, 186 Reibstein, Israel In Program:, 97 Reich, Eli In Program:, 41 Reich, Ziv In Program:, 100 Reichenstein, Moshe In Program:, 237 Reicher, Barak In Program:, 48 Reichman, Hadar In Program:, 21, 87 Reichmann, Dana In Program:, 49, 126, 127, 133, 135 Reich-Zeliger, Shlomit In Program:, 69, 78, 102 Reikhav, Sharon In Program:, 242 Rein, Avigail In Program:, 81 Reiner, Orly In Program:, 175, 202 Reisner, Yair In Program:, 227 Reiss, Niv In Program:, 224 Reiter, Yoram In Program:, 82, 179, 180, 238 Ren, Bing In Program:, 90 Renier, Nicolas In Program:, 28 Rennert, Gad In Program:, 44 Rentsch, Doris In Program:, 60 Reshef, Inbar In Program:, 231 Reshef, Leah In Program:, 47 Reticker-Flynn, Nathan In Program:, 22 Reubinoff, Benjamin E. In Program:, 122 Reubinoff, Benjamin In Program:, 163, 227 Reuven, Nina In Program:, 44, 137 Reuveni, Eli In Program:, 102 Revel, Ariel In Program:, 163 Rey, Félix In Program:, 35 Reznik, Nava In Program:, 96 Reznik, Noam In Program:, 51 Riabov-Bassat, Daria In Program:, 227 Ricardo-Lax, Inna In Program:, 137 Rice, Edward J. In Program:, 66 Rijensky, Nataly In Program:, 201 318 Last updated 16.02.2017

Rimer, Jacob In Program:, 69 Rimon, Oded In Program:, 49, 126 Rincon-Mestre, Natividad In Program:, 188 Rines, Amy K. In Program:, 167 Rinne, Mikael In Program:, 247 Rintoul, Robert In Program:, 44 Riven, Inbal In Program:, 70, 107 Rivkin, Anna In Program:, 172 Rivkin, Dmitri In Program:, 89, 138, 148 Rivkin, Mila In Program:, 94, 145 Rivlin, Amitai In Program:, 76, 143, 239 Robie, Alice In Program:, 124 Robinzon, Shachar In Program:, 116 Rodman, Christopher In Program:, 201 Rodnina, Marina In Program:, 133 Rodon, Jordi In Program:, 74 Rodriguez-Aguayo, Cristian In Program:, 73 Rodríguez-Martínez, Sarah In Program:, 208 Roeper, Jochen In Program:, 56 Roffler, Steve R In Program:, 75 Rogachev, Ilana In Program:, 26, 206 Rogotner, Shelly In Program:, 141 Roichman, Asael In Program:, 19, 132 Rokney, Assaf In Program:, 65 Rolls, Asya In Program:, 240 Rom, Aviv In Program:, 72, 100 Romi, Hava In Program:, 189 Ron, Gil In Program:, 31 Roncato, Francesco In Program:, 216 Ron-El, Raphael In Program:, 71 Ronen, Daniel In Program:, 13, 173 Ron-Harel, Noga In Program:, 20 Ronin, Irine In Program:, 198 Roopin, Modi In Program:, 231 Rose-John, Stefan In Program:, 49, 138 Rosell, Rafael In Program:, 74 Rosen, Chava In Program:, 227 Rosen, Haim In Program:, 194 Rosen, Naomi In Program:, 210 Rosen, Neal In Program:, 74 Rosenberg, Gili In Program:, 102, 113, 182, 223 Rosenberg, Michael In Program:, 137 Rosenberg, Miriam In Program:, 15 Rosenberg, Nofar In Program:, 160 Rosenberg, Steven In Program:, 85 Rosenblatt, Kinneret In Program:, 68 319 Last updated 16.02.2017

Rosenblum, Daniel In Program:, 146 Rosenblum, Kobi In Program:, 33 Rosenfeld, Jill A. In Program:, 102 Rosenfeld, Lior In Program:, 209 Rosenstein, Netanel In Program:, 29 Rosental, Benyamin In Program:, 37, 129 Rosenthal, Amir In Program:, 146 Rosenthal, Joshua In Program:, 152 Rosenthal, Noemie In Program:, 68 Rosenwald, Mercedes In Program:, 187 Rosenzweig, Rina In Program:, 39 Rosenzweig, Tovit In Program:, 173, 177 Rosin-Arbesfeld, Rina In Program:, 75, 77 Roslane, Farah In Program:, 236 Rosner, Guy In Program:, 75, 83 Rostovsky, Dr. Ira In Program:, 101 Rostovsky, Ira In Program:, 103 Rot, Sharon In Program:, 80 Rotblat, Barak In Program:, 79 Rotem, Asaf In Program:, 201 Rotem, Assaf In Program:, 26 Rotem, Eitan In Program:, 198 Rotem, Shahar In Program:, 107, 113 Rotem-Bamberger, Shahar In Program:, 196 Roth, Hilel In Program:, 230 Roth, Hillel In Program:, 69 Roth, Ohad In Program:, 118, 208 Roth, Zvi In Program:, 176 Rothschild*, Daphna In Program:, 200 Rotman, Aviv In Program:, 208 Rottapel, Robert In Program:, 73 Rousso Noori, Liat In Program:, 162 Rousso, Itay In Program:, 52 Rousso-Noori, Liat In Program:, 83, 84, 222 Rout, Michael In Program:, 58 Rouvinski, Alexander In Program:, 35 Roy, Friedman In Program:, 88 Roy, Udita In Program:, 93 Rozales, Kinneret In Program:, 95 Rozenberg, Konstantin In Program:, 173, 177 Rozenberg, Perri In Program:, 21 Rozenblatt-Rosen, Orit In Program:, 201 Rozenbluth, Ezra In Program:, 98 Rozen-Zvi, Benaya In Program:, 241 Rozin, Shachar In Program:, 200 Ruach, Rotem In Program:, 25 320 Last updated 16.02.2017

Rubin, Eitan In Program:, 63, 230 Rubin, Lee L. In Program:, 34 Rubinek, Tami In Program:, 236 Rubinstein, Amir In Program:, 62 Rubio Wilhelmi, María Del Mar In Program:, 26 Rud, Vladislav In Program:, 123 Rudich, Assaf In Program:, 104, 105, 110, 134, 199, 246 Rudich, Yinon In Program:, 134 Ruppin, Eytan In Program:, 20 Russ, Dor In Program:, 115 Ruth, Barshir In Program:, 68 Rutter, Guy In Program:, 203 Ryazanov, Sergey In Program:, 198 Ryvkin, Arie In Program:, 102 Ryvkin, Julia In Program:, 123 S. Campbell, Kerry In Program:, 178 S. Manor, Yair In Program:, 228 S.Greenberg, David In Program:, 125 Saada, Ann In Program:, 55 Saadi, Esraa In Program:, 87, 195 Sabag, Batel In Program:, 179 Sabah, Rawan In Program:, 210 Sabanay, Helena In Program:, 99, 192 Sabatini, David M. In Program:, 247 Sabatini, Karen In Program:, 125 Sabbah, Rawan In Program:, 82, 162 Sachkova, Maria In Program:, 23 Sacofsky, Sophie In Program:, 248 Sade, Nir In Program:, 26 Sade-Feldman, Moshe In Program:, 47, 83 Sadeh, Ronen In Program:, 45 Sadiya, Isra In Program:, 206 Safra, Modi In Program:, 46, 136, 168 Safran, Marilyn In Program:, 210 Safran, Samuel In Program:, 99 Sage, Peter In Program:, 20 Sagi Phd, Orli In Program:, 97 Sagi, Dror In Program:, 89 Sagi, Ido In Program:, 191 Sagi, Irit In Program:, 77 Sagi, Irit In Program:, 227 Sagi, Michal In Program:, 131 Sagi, Nur In Program:, 158 Sagie, Shira In Program:, 128 Sagron, Corinne In Program:, 195 Sagy, Naor In Program:, 65, 103 321 Last updated 16.02.2017

Sahai, Aparajit In Program:, 71 Sahn, James J. In Program:, 133 Sahu, Indrajit In Program:, 92 Sakuntabhai, Anavaj In Program:, 35 Salach, Azam In Program:, 242 Salah, Zaidoun In Program:, 64 Salama, Rachel In Program:, 58 Salame, Tomer Meir In Program:, 78 Salame, Tomer-Meir In Program:, 108 Salaymeh, Yaser In Program:, 81, 162 Saleev, Natalia In Program:, 83 Salem, Denise In Program:, 206 Sali, Andrej In Program:, 58 Salinas, Nir In Program:, 38, 135 Sal-Man, Neta In Program:, 35, 112, 116, 117, 169 Salmon-Divon, Mali In Program:, 150, 151, 153, 154, 211 Salomon, Dor In Program:, 218 Salomon, Yoram In Program:, 241 Salzberg, Adi In Program:, 25, 175 Salzberg, Yehuda In Program:, 73 Samet, Alon In Program:, 89 Sampson, Sanford. R In Program:, 177 Sams, Aaron J. In Program:, 66, 153 Samson, Abraham In Program:, 33 Samuels, Yardena In Program:, 82, 85, 222 Sánchez-López, Javier Arturo In Program:, 136 Sander, Laureen In Program:, 139 Sanderson, Ralph In Program:, 140 Sandler, Oded In Program:, 133, 208 Sang Lee, Joo In Program:, 20 Santagata, Sandro In Program:, 30 Santo, Erwin In Program:, 83 Santos Garcia, Diego In Program:, 151 Santos, Daniel In Program:, 20 Sapir, Tamar In Program:, 202 Sapoznik, Stav In Program:, 222 Saragovi, Amijai In Program:, 125, 142 Saranga, Yehoshua In Program:, 59 Sarfstein, Rive In Program:, 82, 237 Sarid, Ronit In Program:, 159 Sarig, Rachel In Program:, 227 Sarni, Dan In Program:, 83 Sarno, Jolanda In Program:, 159 Saroha, Ashish In Program:, 49 Saroussi, Shai In Program:, 53 Sarusi Portuguez, Avital In Program:, 229 322 Last updated 16.02.2017

Sarusi Purtuguez, Avital In Program:, 64 Sarusi-Portuguez, Avital In Program:, 119, 149 Sarver, Alona In Program:, 246 Sas-Chen, Aldema In Program:, 244 Sasson, Tiki In Program:, 134 Satchi-Fainaro, Ronit In Program:, 143 Sathappan, Shanthi In Program:, 219 Sathyamoorthy, Rajesh In Program:, 111 Satorhelyi, Peter In Program:, 155 Satyanarayanan, Senthil In Program:, 180 Sauer, Mark V. In Program:, 191 Savaldi-Goldshtein, Sigal In Program:, 40 Savaldi-Goldstein, Sigal In Program:, 186 Savidor, Alon In Program:, 60, 115 Savino, Angela Maria In Program:, 159 Savino, Angela-Maria In Program:, 165 Savion, Naphtali In Program:, 180 Savir, Yonatan In Program:, 154 Sayer, Alon In Program:, 71 Sberro, Hila In Program:, 67 Sbieh, Reem In Program:, 76 Scaffidi, Paola In Program:, 228 Scaliter, Oded In Program:, 53 Scaltriti, Maurizio In Program:, 74, 158, 238 Scapa, Erez In Program:, 83 Schachter, Jacob In Program:, 77, 78, 82, 139, 161 Schachter, Maya In Program:, 43 Schaffer, Amos A. In Program:, 150 Schaffer, Amos In Program:, 152 Scharff, Ye'ela In Program:, 84 Schauer, James J In Program:, 134 Schayek, Hilla In Program:, 174 Scheinert, Gaelle In Program:, 172 Scherz, Avigdor In Program:, 241 Scherz-Shouval, Ruth In Program:, 73 Schiby, Ginette In Program:, 68, 86, 128 Schif-Zuck, Sagi In Program:, 161 Schif-Zuck, Sagie In Program:, 21, 180 Schilling, Roger In Program:, 167 Schimpf, Reiner In Program:, 221 Schirman, Dvir In Program:, 208 Schlauch, Karen In Program:, 40 Schlesinger, Michal In Program:, 133 Schlesinger, Orr In Program:, 23, 70 Schlesinger, Sharon In Program:, 126, 191 Schlossberg, Miriam In Program:, 88 323 Last updated 16.02.2017

Schlussel, Shai In Program:, 30 Schmidt, Hayden R. In Program:, 133 Schmiedel, Dominik In Program:, 108 Schneider, Ronen In Program:, 145 Schneidman, Dina In Program:, 58 Schnur, Einat In Program:, 52 Schorb, Martin In Program:, 127 Schotland, Yoram In Program:, 153 Schramm, Christoph In Program:, 145 Schreiber, Gideon In Program:, 212 Schreiber, Ruth In Program:, 203 Schreiber, Stuart L. In Program:, 167 Schreiber-Avissar, Sofia In Program:, 98, 146 Schroeder, Avi In Program:, 143 Schroeder, Julian In Program:, 40, 198 Schueler-Furman, Ora In Program:, 61, 196, 236 Schug, Jonathan In Program:, 173 Schuldiner, Maya In Program:, 15, 91, 93, 94, 127, 133, 168, 170, 185, 213, 225, 242 Schuldiner, Oren In Program:, 202 Schuldiner, Shimon In Program:, 57, 185 Schulman, Alan In Program:, 206 Schultheiss, Tom In Program:, 231 Schulze, Eva In Program:, 53 Schuman, Erin In Program:, 25 Schuster, Silvia In Program:, 120 Schutz, Nili In Program:, 62 Schwappach, Blanche In Program:, 91 Schwartz, Eli In Program:, 145, 172 Schwartz, Michal In Program:, 64, 119, 149, 229, 240 Schwartz, Schraga In Program:, 46, 91, 137, 168 Schwartz, Tomer In Program:, 169 Schwartzman, Tali In Program:, 60 Schwarz, Dominik In Program:, 64 Schwarz, Rakefet In Program:, 100, 101, 148 Schwechheimer, Claus In Program:, 186 Scoyler, Richard In Program:, 85 Screaton, Gavin In Program:, 35 Sebban, Shulamit In Program:, 81 Sedov, Egor In Program:, 248 Sefty, Hanna In Program:, 97 Segal Gilboa, Netta In Program:, 141 Segal, Daniel In Program:, 139, 197 Segal, Eran In Program:, 200 Segal, Tamar In Program:, 150 Segal-Hayoun, Yifat In Program:, 179 Seger, Rony In Program:, 139 324 Last updated 16.02.2017

Segev, Idan In Program:, 28 Seidel Posner, Einat In Program:, 110 Seidel, Einat In Program:, 50 Seita, Jun In Program:, 37 Sekar, Vaishnovi In Program:, 63 Sekler, Israel In Program:, 56 Sela Tzuriano, Lital In Program:, 160 Sela, Mor In Program:, 118 Sela, Noa In Program:, 111, 119, 145, 188, 205 Sela-Donenfeld, Dalit In Program:, 202 Selig, Sara In Program:, 128 Sella, Tamar In Program:, 58 Selmecki, Anna In Program:, 137 Semo, Oz In Program:, 61 Sendersky, Eleonora In Program:, 100 Sendersky, Eleonora In Program:, 100, 101 Seraya, Chen In Program:, 80 Seroussi, Uri In Program:, 193 Sessa, Guido In Program:, 121, 205 Sevilya, Ziv In Program:, 44 Shaashua, Lee In Program:, 239 Shabashov-Stone, Dalia In Program:, 240 Shabat-Simon, Maytal In Program:, 239 Shabtai, Moshe In Program:, 239 Shachar, M In Program:, 181 Shachar, Mor In Program:, 112 Shachar, Tom In Program:, 174 Shagal, Ayelet In Program:, 195 Shah, Janki In Program:, 166 Shahar, Amit In Program:, 81 Shahar, Michal In Program:, 194 Shahar, Or In Program:, 25 Shahar, Tal In Program:, 165 Shahar, Yael In Program:, 247 Shaheen, Naim In Program:, 221 Shai, Ben In Program:, 218 Shai, Eliezer In Program:, 165 Shai, Nadav In Program:, 127, 194, 213, 225 Shainberg, Asher In Program:, 191 Shakartchy, Efrat In Program:, 182 Shakartzi, Sivan In Program:, 39 Shaked, Iftach In Program:, 240 Shalah, Rose In Program:, 108, 178 Shalem, Bar In Program:, 154 Shalev, Hanna In Program:, 203 Shalev, Moran In Program:, 41 325 Last updated 16.02.2017

Shalev, Stavit In Program:, 243 Shalev, Yarden In Program:, 116 Shalgi, Reut In Program:, 15, 50, 95, 147, 151 Shalgi, Ruth In Program:, 71 Shallev, Lea In Program:, 230 Shallom, Omri In Program:, 124 Shalom, Batel In Program:, 81, 162 Shamalov, Katerina In Program:, 73 Shamay, Meir In Program:, 158 Shamay, Yosi In Program:, 166 Shamir, Inbal In Program:, 61, 133 Shamir, Maya In Program:, 66, 115 Shamir, Ron In Program:, 63, 64, 194 Shamri, Revital In Program:, 99 Shamshoum, Melina In Program:, 117 Shandalov, Yulia In Program:, 156 Shani, Eilon In Program:, 118, 186, 187, 198, 208 Shani, Guy In Program:, 142 Shani, Noam In Program:, 70 Shanmugha Rajan, K. In Program:, 173 Shannon, Karin Reut In Program:, 147 Shapira, Michal In Program:, 235 Shapira, Ofer In Program:, 217 Shapira, Ronnie In Program:, 82 Shapira-Frommer, Roni In Program:, 161 Shapiro, Hagit In Program:, 104, 200 Shapiro, Mika In Program:, 79 Sharabi, Kfir In Program:, 167 Sharabi, Shani In Program:, 185 Sharaby, Yehonatan In Program:, 208 Sharan Sams, Dev In Program:, 33 Sharan, Roded In Program:, 163 Sharet, Reut In Program:, 124 Sharma, Amit In Program:, 57 Sharma, Arvind In Program:, 35 Sharma, Pyush In Program:, 49 Sharma, Shruti In Program:, 57 Sharma, Sushma In Program:, 75 Sharon, Eran In Program:, 239 Sharon, Michal In Program:, 23, 60 Sharon, Moran In Program:, 68 Sharon, Nir A. In Program:, 162 Sharony, Reuven In Program:, 131 Sharp, Ayala In Program:, 78 Sharpe, Arlene In Program:, 20 Shashar, Nadav In Program:, 188 326 Last updated 16.02.2017

Shatz-Azoulay, Hadas In Program:, 209 Shaul, Yoav In Program:, 77 Shaul, Yosef In Program:, 44, 59, 137 Shaulitch, Rotem In Program:, 126 Shavit, Uri In Program:, 36 Shav-Tal, Yaron In Program:, 70, 93, 156, 160, 169, 192 Shay, Tal In Program:, 69, 142 Shaya, Oren In Program:, 148 Shechtman, Yoav In Program:, 143 Sheftel, Hila In Program:, 129 Sheinboim, Danna In Program:, 126 Sheiner, Lilach In Program:, 124 Shemer, Anat In Program:, 107, 108 Shemer, Ruth In Program:, 58, 62, 158 Shemer, Yonat In Program:, 181 Shemer-Avni Phd, Yonat In Program:, 97 Shemer-Avni, Yonat In Program:, 178 Shemesh, Avishai In Program:, 164, 178 Shemesh, Itay Israel In Program:, 241 Shemesh, Keren In Program:, 75 Shemesh, Netta In Program:, 45, 49, 194 Shemesh, Nitzan In Program:, 96 Shemesh, Tom In Program:, 40 Shen, Sarah In Program:, 95 Sheng, Qing In Program:, 74 Shenhav, Liraz In Program:, 157 Shenkar, Noa In Program:, 36 Shenkar, Yaara Yam In Program:, 23 Shenkman, Marina In Program:, 50 Shen-Orr, Shai In Program:, 235 Shenoy, Anjana In Program:, 86, 150, 231 Shental, Noam In Program:, 154 Shepard, William In Program:, 35 Sher, Naamit In Program:, 212 Sher, Noa In Program:, 180, 231 Sher, Osnat In Program:, 166 Sherf, Dror In Program:, 149 Sherman, Chen In Program:, 121 Sherman, Eilon In Program:, 146 Sherman, Shachar In Program:, 100, 192 Shezen, Eli In Program:, 227 Shiber, Ayala In Program:, 136 Shibolet, Oren In Program:, 228 Shichrur, Keren In Program:, 76, 161 Shifman, Sagiv In Program:, 102 Shilo, Benny In Program:, 65 327 Last updated 16.02.2017

Shiloach, Tamar In Program:, 162 Shiloh, Ruth In Program:, 94 Shimon Efrat, Liraz Shenhav In Program:, 157 Shimoni, Eyal In Program:, 110, 192, 242 Shimoni-Shor, Einav In Program:, 25 Shimony, Nilly In Program:, 82 Shin, Irina In Program:, 202 Shinderman-Maman, Lena In Program:, 80 Shinnawi, Rami In Program:, 221 Shir, Alexei In Program:, 139 Shirihai, Orian In Program:, 247 Shir-Shapira, Hila In Program:, 194, 198 Shiti, Assad In Program:, 221 Shkedy, Dganit In Program:, 166 Shkedy, Fanny In Program:, 70 Shklyar, Boris In Program:, 240 Shkoda, Irina In Program:, 98 Shkolnik, Doron In Program:, 118 Shlapoverski, Mark In Program:, 83 Shlomai, Joseph In Program:, 172 Shlomi, Tomer In Program:, 19 Shlomo, Dovi In Program:, 247 Shnaps, Ortal In Program:, 163 Shneyer, Boris I. In Program:, 13 Shnitzer, Inbar In Program:, 226 Shochat, Chen In Program:, 41 Shoham, Efrat In Program:, 82, 156 Shoham, Gil In Program:, 58, 149 Shoham, Shy In Program:, 124 Shoham, Yuval In Program:, 58, 70, 134, 149 Shohami, Esther In Program:, 213, 240 Shohat, Hagai In Program:, 40 Shohat, Shahar In Program:, 102 Shohat, Tamar In Program:, 97 Shohat-Ophir, Galit In Program:, 123, 124, 189 Shomron, Noam In Program:, 131 Shomron, Olga In Program:, 135 Shor, Ekaterina In Program:, 38 Shor, Erez In Program:, 124 Shorer, Zamir In Program:, 203 Shoshan, Yigal In Program:, 165 Shoshana, Nofar In Program:, 188 Shoshani, Ofer In Program:, 44, 90 Shoval, Hila In Program:, 80 Shpungin , Sally In Program:, 74 Shraga, Amit In Program:, 58, 192 328 Last updated 16.02.2017

Shraga, Netta R. In Program:, 83 Shraibman, Bracha In Program:, 201 Shrivastava, Rohit In Program:, 235 Shtainfeld, Rachel In Program:, 248 Shubinsky, George In Program:, 80 Shulami, Smadar In Program:, 134 Shulman, Lester In Program:, 183 Shulman, Ziv In Program:, 48 Shumacher, Adi In Program:, 109 Shuman, Stewart In Program:, 133 Shurki, Avital In Program:, 209 Shushan, Avital In Program:, 206 Shuster, Yonatan In Program:, 185 Shvartsburd, Ilya In Program:, 133 Shwartshtien, Omer In Program:, 58 Siani, Aviad In Program:, 75 Sidi *, Yechezkel In Program:, 221 Sidi, Yechezkel In Program:, 128, 145 Siegler, Nurit In Program:, 98, 217 Siersbaek, Rasmus In Program:, 229 Sietsma Penington, Jocelyn In Program:, 172 Silberman, Alon In Program:, 20, 85, 246 Silva, Alcino In Program:, 240 Silver, Justin In Program:, 177 Silverbush, Dana In Program:, 163 Silverman, Shahar In Program:, 67, 115 Siman-Tov, Ronen In Program:, 77 Simchovitz, Alon In Program:, 56 Simerzin, Alina In Program:, 75, 94, 145, 212 Simkovsky, Ryan In Program:, 100 Simon, Amos In Program:, 218 Simon, Amos J. In Program:, 106, 128 Simon, Itamar In Program:, 61, 133, 208 Simon-Lorière, Etienne In Program:, 35 Sinay, Rosa In Program:, 80 Singer, Robert H. In Program:, 15 Singh, Amar In Program:, 186 Singh, Amit Kumar In Program:, 118 Singh, Preeti In Program:, 87 Singh, Sumeet K. In Program:, 92 Sinha, Rahul In Program:, 37 Sirota, Marina In Program:, 231 Sirota-Madi, Alexandra In Program:, 182 Sisquella, Xavier In Program:, 172, 234 Sivan, Aviad In Program:, 64 Sivan, Sara In Program:, 243 329 Last updated 16.02.2017

Skalka, Nir In Program:, 77, 173, 177 Skarzinski, Galina In Program:, 180 Sklan, Ella In Program:, 228 Sklarz, Menachem In Program:, 68 Skorecki, Karl In Program:, 220 Skornick, Itai In Program:, 140 Sloan, Katherine E In Program:, 15 Slobodin, Boris In Program:, 15 Sloutskin, Anna In Program:, 148, 198 Slutsky, Inna In Program:, 33 Slutsky, Noa In Program:, 104 Slutsky-Smith, Elana In Program:, 51 Slyper, Michal In Program:, 81 Smirin-Yosef, Pola In Program:, 151 Smith, Courtney In Program:, 129 Smith, Joshua D. In Program:, 102 Smloy, Ilan In Program:, 96 Smolkin, Tatyana In Program:, 245 Smoly, Ilan In Program:, 45 Smoum, Reem In Program:, 86 Sneh, Tal In Program:, 83 Snir-Alkalay, Irit In Program:, 143, 239 Snitser, Olga In Program:, 65 Sobol, Guy In Program:, 121 Soen, Yoav In Program:, 40 Sogolovsky-Bard, Ilana In Program:, 78 Soifer, Ilya In Program:, 242 Sokol, Ethan In Program:, 30 Sokolov, Meirav In Program:, 131 Solomon, Oz In Program:, 68, 152, 154 Solomon-Alemayehu, Semaria In Program:, 178 Solomonov, Inna In Program:, 77 Somech, Raz In Program:, 106, 128, 218 Sonawane, Prashant In Program:, 149 Sonenshein, Abraham In Program:, 134 Soni, Krishna In Program:, 185 Sonnenblick, Amir In Program:, 63 Sood, Anil K. In Program:, 73 Soreanu, Inga In Program:, 194 Sorek, Matan In Program:, 248 Sorek, Rotem In Program:, 31, 66, 67, 115, 223 Soreq, Hermona In Program:, 28, 56, 60, 125, 135, 189 Sorrentino, Rosa In Program:, 106 Soteriou, Despina In Program:, 248 Soucy, Shannon In Program:, 116 Soucy, Shannon In Program:, 243 330 Last updated 16.02.2017

Soueid-Baumgarten, Sharon In Program:, 245 Sparks, Samuel In Program:, 58 Spiegel, Ivo In Program:, 24, 122 Spiller, Kara L. In Program:, 171 Spitzer, Matthew In Program:, 22 Spitzer-Rimon, Ben In Program:, 53 Sporny, Michael In Program:, 39 Sprinzak, David In Program:, 89, 101, 138, 148, 166, 174, 196, 213 Sredni, Benjamin In Program:, 140 Sredni, Benjamin In Program:, 86, 158, 164, 241 Srinivasan, Siddarth In Program:, 223 Srivastava, Dhruv Aditya In Program:, 54 Stahmer, Kyle R. In Program:, 91 Stanevsky, Maria In Program:, 173 Stein, Ilan In Program:, 104, 132 Stein, Natan In Program:, 108, 221 Steinberg, Avital In Program:, 151 Steinberg, Nitai In Program:, 102, 182, 223 Steinberg, Noam In Program:, 190 Steinberger, Yosef In Program:, 112, 118, 121, 176, 182 Steinberger-Levy, Ida In Program:, 115 Steinberg-Shemer, Orna In Program:, 98 Steiner-Mordoch, Sonia In Program:, 185 Steinitz, Hadas In Program:, 226 Stelzer, Gil In Program:, 154, 210 Stemmer, Salomon In Program:, 164, 165 Stemmer, Solomon In Program:, 83 Stepanenko, Nataliia In Program:, 101 Stephan, Aaron In Program:, 40 Stern, David In Program:, 232 Stern, Estee In Program:, 80 Stern, Raphael In Program:, 121 Sternberg, Hasana In Program:, 186 Stern-Ginossar, Noam In Program:, 228 Stettner, Noa In Program:, 20, 246 Stiasny, Karin In Program:, 35 Stiewe, Thorsten In Program:, 86, 95 Stokar, Avigail In Program:, 115 Stokar-Avihail, Avigail In Program:, 149 Stolovich-Rain, Miri In Program:, 199 Storz, Gisela In Program:, 224 Strasser, Rona In Program:, 60 Strauss, Carmit In Program:, 191 Straussman, Ravid In Program:, 78 Strick, Terence In Program:, 132 Strulovich, Roi In Program:, 56 331 Last updated 16.02.2017

Stylopoulos, Nicholas In Program:, 28 Su, Yu-Ya In Program:, 95 Suban , Shiran In Program:, 101 Sui, Lina In Program:, 191 Suissa, Ronit In Program:, 113 Sukenik, Assaf In Program:, 111 Sukenik, Sigalit In Program:, 108 Sun, Qin In Program:, 85 Sunagar, Kartik In Program:, 23 Sung, Myong-Hee In Program:, 229 Surrey, Thomas In Program:, 52 Susid, Keren In Program:, 212 Suss, Ohad In Program:, 49, 126 Swain, Jitendriya In Program:, 133 Sweetat, Sahar In Program:, 122 Swisa, Avital In Program:, 167 Szklanny, Ariel A. In Program:, 156 Szoke, Tamar In Program:, 184 Szolovits, Peter In Program:, 144 Szostak, Jack In Program:, 148 Szuchman-Sapir, Andrea In Program:, 51 Szymanski, Jedrzej In Program:, 149, 206 T. Papenfuss, Anthony In Program:, 172 T.Jones, David In Program:, 83 Taatjes, Dylan In Program:, 132 Tabach, Yuval In Program:, 45 Tabachnikov, Orly In Program:, 38, 62, 117, 197 Tabak, Saray In Program:, 98 Tabibian-Keissar, Hilla In Program:, 68 Tabouy, Laure In Program:, 122 Taglicht, Daniel In Program:, 72, 195 Tagore, Somnath In Program:, 63, 150 Tahor, Maayan In Program:, 28 Tal, Arnon In Program:, 113 Tal, Iris In Program:, 186, 208 Tal, Noa In Program:, 165 Talhami, Alaa In Program:, 109, 139 Talmon, Ishi In Program:, 212 Talmor, Shauli In Program:, 162 Tam, Angela In Program:, 74 Tam, Yehudit In Program:, 119 Tam, Yossi In Program:, 138 Tamar, Einat In Program:, 114 Tamarkin-Ben-Harush, Ana In Program:, 59 Tamary, Hannah In Program:, 98, 243 Tamayo, Pablo In Program:, 201 332 Last updated 16.02.2017

Tamir, Liat In Program:, 70 Tamir, Snait In Program:, 51 Tannenbaum, Miriam In Program:, 119 Tarayrah, Lama In Program:, 99, 197, 245 Tarkowski, Petr In Program:, 187 Tarnovscki, Tanya In Program:, 199 Tarnovsky, Tanya In Program:, 104 Tartakover Matalon, Shelly In Program:, 75 Taube, Ran In Program:, 112, 114 Taurog, Joel D. In Program:, 106 Tavares, Clint D. J. In Program:, 167 Tavarez, Urraca In Program:, 24 Tavori, Hagai In Program:, 220 Tawil, Shadi In Program:, 76 Tayar, Alexandra In Program:, 94 Tayeb-Fligelman, Einav In Program:, 38, 62, 117, 197 Taylor, Susan In Program:, 169 Te Kronnie, Gertruuy In Program:, 159 Tee, Yee-Han In Program:, 99 Teixido, Cristina In Program:, 74 Teltsh, Omri In Program:, 63, 230 Teper, Doron In Program:, 205 Terskikh, Alexey V. In Program:, 156 Tessier-Lavigne, Mark In Program:, 28 Tetzlaff, Fabian In Program:, 166 Tfilin, Matanel In Program:, 103 Thaiss*, Christoph A. In Program:, 200 Tharwani, Sonum In Program:, 104 Thiru, Prat In Program:, 247 Thomas, Paul G. In Program:, 230 Thomson, Nicholas In Program:, 223 Tidhar, Avital In Program:, 113 Tijsen, Anke In Program:, 221 Tikhonov, Tatiana In Program:, 122 Tilahun, Firehiwot In Program:, 95 Timney, Benjamin In Program:, 58 Tinman, Simon In Program:, 132 Tirosh, Boaz In Program:, 50 Tischler, Nicole D. In Program:, 116 Tobi, Dror In Program:, 67 Tobiasson, Victor In Program:, 94 Todd, Emily In Program:, 38 Tohya, Kazuo In Program:, 107 Tokarsky-Amiel, Ronit In Program:, 79, 95 Toker, Itai A. In Program:, 129 Toledano, Helen In Program:, 76, 159, 211 333 Last updated 16.02.2017

Toledano, Hila In Program:, 142 Topman, Shiri In Program:, 181 Toren, Amos In Program:, 84, 86, 139 Torne, Tanmayee In Program:, 187 Tornovsky, Sharona In Program:, 167 Touboul, Thomas In Program:, 125 Tover, Ana In Program:, 164 Tovi, Nesli In Program:, 182, 205 Towers, Ruth In Program:, 137 Trainin, Taly In Program:, 25 Trakhtenbrot, Luba In Program:, 73 Trauger, Sunia A. In Program:, 239 Trentin, Luca In Program:, 159 Treves, Haim In Program:, 26, 153, 184 Trudeau, Kyle In Program:, 247 Trusina, Ala In Program:, 95 Tsai, Albert In Program:, 60 Tsarfaty, Ilan In Program:, 166 Tschudi, Christian In Program:, 14, 61, 173 Tseng, Yun-Yu In Program:, 245 Tseytin, Irit In Program:, 117 Tsoory, Michael In Program:, 244 Tsoref, Olga In Program:, 131 Tsukerman, Pinchas In Program:, 108 Tsur, Erez In Program:, 144 Tsur, Shira In Program:, 151 Tsvetkov, Peter In Program:, 30 Tsvirkun, Darya In Program:, 86 Tsytkin-Kirschenzwieg, Sabina In Program:, 156 Turgeman, Gadi In Program:, 103 Turgeman-Grott, Israela In Program:, 116 Turk, Boris In Program:, 147 Turm, Hagit In Program:, 122, 149, 189 Turra, David In Program:, 188 Tuschl, Thomas In Program:, 225 Tushinsky, Carmel In Program:, 158 Tuveson, David In Program:, 222 Twena, Shai In Program:, 136 Twik, Michal In Program:, 210 Tyomkin, Dalia In Program:, 131 Tzadok, Michal In Program:, 224 Tzahor, Eldad In Program:, 219 Tzahor, Eldad In Program:, 227 Tzdaka, Kobi In Program:, 70 Tzfati, Yehuda In Program:, 76, 128, 172 Tzin, Vered In Program:, 53 334 Last updated 16.02.2017

Tzipilevich, Elhanan In Program:, 112 Tzur, Amit In Program:, 93, 232 Tzur, Yonat In Program:, 135 Tzur, Yonatan B. In Program:, 27 Tzur, Yonatan In Program:, 142 Udi, Yael In Program:, 227 Ugalde, Alejandro In Program:, 230 Ulitsky, Igor In Program:, 20, 31, 59, 65, 72, 100, 123, 151, 244 Ullu, Elisabetta In Program:, 173 Ultisky, Igor In Program:, 228 Umnajkitikorn, Kamolchanok In Program:, 26 Unciuleac, Mihaela-Carmen In Program:, 133 Unger, Ron In Program:, 14, 61, 64, 67, 154, 173 Unger, Tamar In Program:, 141, 149 Urbach, Achia In Program:, 79, 191, 248 Ušaj, Marko In Program:, 13 Ushakov, Kathy In Program:, 100, 130 Ustaev, Eve In Program:, 210 Usyskin, Alla In Program:, 114 Uzan, Atara In Program:, 47, 83 Uziely, Beatrice In Program:, 58 Vadai, Ezra In Program:, 95 Vadigepalli, Rajanikanth In Program:, 65, 103 Vagima, Yaron In Program:, 113 Vainberg Slutzkin, Ilya In Program:, 168 Vainer, Gilad In Program:, 200 Vainstein, Aexander In Program:, 53 Vaks, Lilach In Program:, 106 Valencia, Alfonso In Program:, 63 Valensisi, Cristina In Program:, 130 Valinsky, Lea In Program:, 65 Valk, Ervin In Program:, 14, 98 Valter, Shirly In Program:, 119 Van Anken, Eelco In Program:, 94 Van Casteren, Adriana C. In Program:, 34 Van De Putte, Tom In Program:, 232 Van Praag, Yael In Program:, 73 Vaney, Marie-Christine In Program:, 35 Vardi, Oriya In Program:, 61 Vardi-Oknin, Dikla In Program:, 171 Varol, Diana In Program:, 107 Varsano, Neta In Program:, 192 Vatarescu, Maayan In Program:, 104, 110, 246 Vazquez, Miguel In Program:, 63 Vecsler, Manuela In Program:, 93, 232 Veisman, Batya In Program:, 106 335 Last updated 16.02.2017

Veksler-Lubinsky, Isana In Program:, 181 Veluchamy, Prabhawathi In Program:, 96 Venkatachalam, Avanthika In Program:, 76, 143, 164 Vergara-Jaque, Ariela In Program:, 57 Vershinin, Zlata In Program:, 157 Vershkov, Dan In Program:, 157 Victoria, Trembovler In Program:, 213 Vieri, Margherita In Program:, 159 Vinik, Yaron In Program:, 209 Vinnikov, Natalie In Program:, 73 Vistoropsky, Yulia In Program:, 38 Vitkin, Edward In Program:, 152 Vitre, Benjamin In Program:, 44 Viukov, Sergey In Program:, 125, 228 Vivante, Anat In Program:, 192 Vizel, Bella In Program:, 78 Vlodavsky, Israel In Program:, 75, 87, 140 Voichek, Yoav In Program:, 89 Volberg, Tova In Program:, 212 Volin, Marina In Program:, 142 Volinsky*, Evgenia In Program:, 72 Volkman, Rotem In Program:, 202 Volkova, Daria In Program:, 217 Volodarsky, Michael In Program:, 203 Volodin, Alexandra In Program:, 29 Volordarski, Michael In Program:, 128 Volovelsky, Oded In Program:, 177 Volpe, Marina In Program:, 29 Von Heijne, Gunnar In Program:, 94 Von Huth, Pale In Program:, 21 Vonshak, Ohad In Program:, 94 Voronov, Elena In Program:, 48 Voskoboynik, Ayelet In Program:, 37 Wachtel, Chaim In Program:, 194 Wagle, Nikhil In Program:, 201 Wainer Katsir, Kerem In Program:, 211 Wakamatsu, Kazumasa In Program:, 95 Wakim, Jean In Program:, 41 Waknin-Lellouche, Cecilia In Program:, 108 Wald, Hanna In Program:, 80 Wald, Ori In Program:, 80 Waldman Ben-Asher, Hiba In Program:, 84, 173 Waldman, Dalia In Program:, 86 Walker, Michael D In Program:, 174 Walsh, Tom In Program:, 130, 131 Walter, Peter In Program:, 94 336 Last updated 16.02.2017

Wang, Cun In Program:, 40 Wang, Huiqin In Program:, 74 Wang, Mingxun In Program:, 198 Wang, Shuang In Program:, 132 Wang, Tim In Program:, 247 Wang, Yin In Program:, 44 Wardi, Joram In Program:, 91 Warshawsky, David In Program:, 211 Wasserman, Elad In Program:, 41 Wasserman, Michal In Program:, 88 Weber, Achim In Program:, 145 Wege, Henning In Program:, 145 Weibezahn, Jimena In Program:, 95 Weidenfeld, Keren In Program:, 161 Weil, Lital In Program:, 157 Weill, Uri In Program:, 93, 168, 185 Weinberger, Leehee In Program:, 228 Weiner, Howard L. In Program:, 239 Weiner, Steve In Program:, 88 Weingarten, Galina In Program:, 78 Weinrick, Brian In Program:, 223 Weinstain, Roy In Program:, 91, 174, 186 Weinstein, Shiri In Program:, 146 Weinstein-Marom, Hadas In Program:, 212 Weisblum, Yiska In Program:, 107 Weiser, Diana In Program:, 155 Weisman, Ronit In Program:, 91, 167, 168, 214 Weisman-Shomer, Pnina In Program:, 158 Weiss, Anthony S. In Program:, 156 Weiss, David In Program:, 40 Weiss, Gad In Program:, 111 Weiss, Leah In Program:, 183 Weiss, Lola In Program:, 80 Weiss, Noga In Program:, 198, 208 Weiss, Ron In Program:, 99, 245 Weiss, Shimon In Program:, 132 Weissbein, Uri In Program:, 55, 191 Weissberg, Mira In Program:, 53 Weissman, Irving L. In Program:, 37 Weissman, Jonathan In Program:, 95 Weissman, Yishai A In Program:, 226 Weissman, Ziva In Program:, 93 Weissmann, Marina In Program:, 21, 75, 161 Weiss-Sadan, Tommy In Program:, 147 Weisz, Avivit In Program:, 80 Weisz, Boaz In Program:, 218 337 Last updated 16.02.2017

Weiz, Hana In Program:, 159 Weller, Peter F. In Program:, 99 Werner, Haim In Program:, 82, 237 Wertheimer, Efrat In Program:, 78 Weston, David In Program:, 188 Whitesell, Luke In Program:, 30 Wiemann, Stefan In Program:, 64, 244 Wiener, Reuven In Program:, 38 Wiese, Martin In Program:, 60 Wiest, David L. In Program:, 128 Wietrzynski, Wojciech In Program:, 54 Wigelman, Yoav In Program:, 94 Wigoda, Noa In Program:, 187 Wildbaun, Gizi In Program:, 238 Wilentzik, Roni In Program:, 153 Willensky, Shmuel In Program:, 116 Winter, Eitan In Program:, 27 Wintner, Oren In Program:, 176 Wircer, Einav In Program:, 28 Wittkopp, Tyler In Program:, 53 Wittwer, Malte In Program:, 94 Witwer, Kenneth In Program:, 160 Witz, Isaac In Program:, 140 Witzenberger, Monika In Program:, 56 Wolf, Dana In Program:, 107, 217 Wolf, Ido In Program:, 236 Wolf, Sharon In Program:, 96 Wolf, Yochai In Program:, 107, 179 Wolfenson, Haguy In Program:, 13 Wolfson, Haim In Program:, 61 Wollman, Francis-Andre In Program:, 54 Wongwiwat, Wiyada In Program:, 35 Wood, Michael D. In Program:, 133 Wormser, Ohad In Program:, 129, 193 Wostrikoff, Katia In Program:, 54 Wu, Bin In Program:, 15 Wu, Chen In Program:, 34 Wu, Song In Program:, 208 Wurtzel, Omri In Program:, 43 Xia, Bing In Program:, 236 Xiang, Cunli In Program:, 84 Xie, Qing In Program:, 232 Y. Levanon, Erez In Program:, 63 Yaakov, Gilad In Program:, 116 Yaari, Gur In Program:, 164 Yablonski, Debbie In Program:, 108, 178 338 Last updated 16.02.2017

Yablonski, Deborah In Program:, 108 Yacobi, Rinat In Program:, 210 Yacobi-Sharon, Keren In Program:, 197 Yacobovich, Joanne In Program:, 98 Yacobson, Shiri In Program:, 151 Yacoby, Iftach In Program:, 207 Yadav, Sandeep In Program:, 216 Yadav, Sudhanshu In Program:, 214 Yadid, Gal In Program:, 241 Yadid, Itamar In Program:, 116 Yadid, Moran In Program:, 219 Yado, Sofi In Program:, 163 Yaffe, Dana In Program:, 57 Yaffe, Yakey In Program:, 202 Yagel, Dina In Program:, 224 Yagel, Simcha In Program:, 107, 108 Yair - Sabag, Shira In Program:, 106 Yakhini, Zohar In Program:, 59, 152, 154, 244 Yakobov, Marina In Program:, 88 Yakobson, Boris In Program:, 98 Yalon, Michal In Program:, 84 Yalovsky, Shaul In Program:, 101, 121, 186 Yamin, Kathrin In Program:, 194 Yamin, Rachel In Program:, 108 Yanai, Itai In Program:, 27, 246 Yang, Yaping In Program:, 102 Yanichkin, Natalia In Program:, 76 Yaniv, Elitsur In Program:, 206 Yaniv, Isaac In Program:, 76, 159, 160, 161, 162 Yaniv, Karina In Program:, 42 Yaniv, Sarit In Program:, 36 Yanuka, Dorit In Program:, 103 Yanuka, Ofra In Program:, 191 Yarden, Jennifer In Program:, 161 Yarden, Oded In Program:, 185 Yarden, Yosef In Program:, 60, 241, 244 Yardeni, Tal In Program:, 224 Yarmolovsky, Tal In Program:, 21 Yaseen, Wesal In Program:, 245 Yavin, Eylon In Program:, 211 Yavno, Stan In Program:, 36 Yayon, Nadav In Program:, 28, 189 Yeger-Lotem, Esti In Program:, 45, 49, 68, 69, 96, 206 Yegorov, Yana In Program:, 159 Yegorov, Yevgeni In Program:, 113 Yeheskel, Adva In Program:, 62 339 Last updated 16.02.2017

Yehuda, Hila In Program:, 237 Yehudai-Reshef, Shlomit In Program:, 82, 162, 210 Yelin, Idan In Program:, 65, 137 Yelin, Ronit In Program:, 231 Yeo, Giselle C. In Program:, 156 Yeshaya, Josepha In Program:, 151 Yifa, Oren In Program:, 227 Yifrach, Eden In Program:, 93 Yifrach, Ofer In Program:, 155, 170, 189 Yin, Ning In Program:, 184 Yissachar, Nissan In Program:, 35 Yizhak, Keren In Program:, 31 Yizhar-Barnea, Ofer In Program:, 130, 131 Ylanko, Jarkko In Program:, 156 Yofe, Ido In Program:, 93, 168 Yoffe, Yael In Program:, 55 Yogev, Ohad In Program:, 49, 126, 127, 133 Yogev, Orli In Program:, 161 Yogev, Yuval In Program:, 128, 193 Yona, Meital In Program:, 141 Yonai, Shiran In Program:, 155 Yonemura, Yoji In Program:, 135 Yong-Kyu, Kim In Program:, 124 Yoon, Wan Hee In Program:, 102 Yosef, Reut In Program:, 95 Yosef, Sarah In Program:, 164 Yosefzon, Yahav In Program:, 248 Yossifon, Gilad In Program:, 36 Young, Kristen M. In Program:, 99 Yuan, Justin In Program:, 244 Yung, Yuval In Program:, 222 Yuval, Jonathan B. In Program:, 145 Zabludovsky, Natalia In Program:, 176 Zada, Lior In Program:, 93, 225 Zadka, Hila In Program:, 183 Zadok, Oranit In Program:, 222 Zaffryar-Eilot, Shelly In Program:, 245 Zagairy, Fadia In Program:, 96, 155, 194 Zahavi, Amotz In Program:, 103 Zahavi, Eitan Erez In Program:, 190, 217 Zaidel-Bar, Ronen In Program:, 99 Zajfman, Eyal In Program:, 196 Zak, Hila In Program:, 124 Zakay-Rones, Zichria In Program:, 107 Zalckvar, Einat In Program:, 93, 170, 213, 225 Zalcman, Nomi In Program:, 165 340 Last updated 16.02.2017

Zaleski, Paul In Program:, 76 Zamir, Gideon In Program:, 85 Zamor, Vanessa In Program:, 202 Zander, Itzhak In Program:, 183 Zarenkin, Adi In Program:, 137 Zaretsky, Ira In Program:, 48 Zaretsky, Irina In Program:, 69 Zarfati, Giulia In Program:, 73 Zaritsky, Assaf In Program:, 245 Zarivach, Raz In Program:, 203 Zaslaver, Alon In Program:, 25, 122, 149 Zauberman, Ayelet In Program:, 113 Zayat, Valery In Program:, 176 Zecharia, Eli In Program:, 101 Zehavi, Arie In Program:, 149 Zehavi, Liron In Program:, 208 Zeidan, Mouhammad In Program:, 119 Zeituni-Molad, Michal In Program:, 60 Zelikovitch, Bracha In Program:, 165 Zelinger, Einat In Program:, 136 Zeltzer, Tal In Program:, 70 Zemel, Assaf In Program:, 216 Zemmour, Hai In Program:, 167 Zender, Lars In Program:, 75 Zer, Shir In Program:, 124 Zerbib, Mirie In Program:, 228 Zhang, Hailei In Program:, 31 Zhang, Xiaokang In Program:, 35 Zhang, Yi In Program:, 186 Zhang, Yu Shrike In Program:, 71 Zhang, Yuqin In Program:, 198 Zhang, Yuqin In Program:, 208 Zhao, Jinghui In Program:, 30 Zhao, Yunde In Program:, 187 Zhitomirsky, Benny In Program:, 142 Zhou, Hong In Program:, 35 Zhu, Ting In Program:, 244 Zick , Aviad In Program:, 242 Zick, Aviad In Program:, 58 Zick, Yehiel In Program:, 209 Zig, Uri In Program:, 119 Zigler, Maya In Program:, 139 Zikich, Dragoslav In Program:, 82 Zilbebrerg, Noam In Program:, 66 Zilberberg, Noam In Program:, 190 Zilberstein, Aviah In Program:, 51 341 Last updated 16.02.2017

Zilberstein, Dan In Program:, 60, 96 Zilka, Miri In Program:, 36 Zimerman, Michal In Program:, 191 Zimmer, Anat In Program:, 218 Zimmer, Andreas In Program:, 209 Zimmerman, Shahar In Program:, 210 Zinger, Adar In Program:, 22, 143 Zinoviev, Alexandra In Program:, 133, 235 Ziv, Noam In Program:, 24 Ziv, Oren In Program:, 122 Ziv, Oren In Program:, 167 Ziv, Tamar In Program:, 24, 54, 158 Ziv-Ukelson, Michal In Program:, 45 Zlotkin, Efrat In Program:, 110 Zlotogora, Joel In Program:, 243 Zmora, Oded In Program:, 239 Zohar, Barak In Program:, 136 Zohar, Matat In Program:, 25 Zohar, Yaniv In Program:, 87 Zohar, Yehudit In Program:, 185 Zolti, A In Program:, 181 Zolti, Avihai In Program:, 113 Zor, Tsaffrir In Program:, 91, 196 Zorde-Khvalevsky, Elina In Program:, 145 Zourelidou, Melina In Program:, 186 Zuchman, Rina In Program:, 24 Zuckerman, Tsila In Program:, 82, 162, 210 Zundelevich, Adi In Program:, 87, 222 Zur, Yuval In Program:, 209 Zurer, Irit In Program:, 73 Zurgil, Udi In Program:, 80 Zvi, Naama In Program:, 242 Zviran*, Asaf In Program:, 228 Zwart, Wilbert In Program:, 230 Zwighaft, Ziv In Program:, 38

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