Program (all talks will be delivered in Hebrew)
Speaker: Prof. Martin Yarmush
Founding Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusettes General Hospital, Department of Biomedical Engineeringת Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
Title: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING INNOVATION
Title: Title: Computational and Experimental Foundations for Single-Cell Genomics
Speaker: Prof. Haifan Lin
Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology
Professor of Genetics, and of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Director, Yale Stem Cell Center
Yale University School of Medicine
Title: Uniting the Genome: Novel Functions of piRNAs in the Germline
Speaker: Dr. Eugene Koonin
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Title: “CRISPR-Cas: Origin of adaptive immunity from selfish genetic elements and the evolutionary continuum from Darwin to Lamarck
The Farkas-Himsley Prize for a young researcher (in memory of Hannah Farkash- Himsley and Alexander Himsley) is awarded to Dr. Dana Reichman (Dept. of Biological Chemistry) and Dr. Alon Zaslaver (Dept. of Genetics).
