B5 : Soft matter & Biophysics II

Chair Information
Chairman details: 
Adi Vaknin (HU)
Information
Location: 
Eng. School
Program start time: 
16:00
Program end time: 
17:30

Lectures for this program:

Lecture Time Speaker Lecture subject
16:50-17:10 Matan Dishon [1] Ion Specific Interactions in Aqueous Solution
Ever since the seminal work of Franz Hofmeister in 1888 on the effect of background salt type on the precipitation of pr...
17:10-17:30 Oded Agam [1] Localized Rayleigh instability in evaporation fronts
A qualitatively different manifestation of the Rayleigh instability is demonstrated, where, instead of the usual ex...
16:30-16:50 Inbal Hecht Determining the scale of the Bicoid morphogen gradient
Bicoid is a morphogen that sets up the anterior-posterior axis in early Drosophila embryos.
16:00-16:30 David Biron ”So, do worms sleep?” and other questions that may have never crossed your mind
In a famous example of studying a sleep-like behavior in a phylogenetically ancient model organism, Seymour Benzer – phy...