Tel Aviv University International Prize Symposium in Biophysics

The Program:

9:00-09:30 - Gathering & coffee

09:30-09:50 - Prof. Yasmine Meroz, Tel Aviv University, Plants: a window on computation and actuation in distributed systems

09:50-10:10 - Dr. Tomer Markovich, Tel Aviv University, Chiral active fluids are both ‘odd’ and non-reciprocal

10:10-10:50 - Prof. Ariel Amir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Insights into bacterial growth and division from single-cell data

10:50-11:20 - Coffee

11:20-11:40 - Award Ceremony

11:40-12:00 - Prof. Roy Beck-Barkai, Tel Aviv University, Biophysics of disordered proteins

12:00-12:20 - Prof. Ayala Lampel, Tel Aviv University, Designer biomolecular condensates guided by nanobiotechnology

12:20-13:40 - Lunch

13:40-14:20 - Prof. Cornelis (Cees) Dekker Delft, University of Technology, The Netherlands, Employing the tools of nanotechnology for biology: from protein sequencing to chromosome organization to synthetic cells

14:20-14:30 - Petr Shendrik, Tel Aviv University, Membrane tension inhibits lipid mixing by increasing the hemifusion stalk energy

14:30-14:40 - Itamar Shitrit, Tel Aviv University, Sokoban percolation on the Bethe lattice

14:40-14:50 - Dor Shohat, Tel Aviv University, Logarithmic aging via instability cascades: from crumpled sheets to seismic aftershocks

14:50-15:20 - Coffee

15:20-16:00 - Prof. Leonid Mirny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Folding of chromosomes by motors