Opportunities for Israel
Virtual event
In its new Programme Molecules to Ecosystems, EMBL will build on its existing expertise and expand into new research areas, including microbial ecosystems, human ecosystems, planetary biology and infection biology. The new Programme also offers a unique collaborative model to EMBL member states, allowing them to coordinate and truly integrate research across national borders and disciplines. This workshop aims to maximize existing links and explore new synergies between EMBL and the Israeli scientific community, to encourage cooperation on joint projects to deliver research relevant to pressing societal challenges.
| Time IDT | Topic and session details NB: All times are listed in Israel Daylight Time (IDT) |
|---|---|
| 12:30 | Opening remarks Abraham J. Domb Chief Scientist, Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel |
| 12:40 | EMBL and its new Programme: Opportunities for Israel Edith Heard EMBL Director General |
| 12:55 | Session 1: Human Ecosystems (10 min, 5 min Q&A per speaker) Chair Iris Eisenberg Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel Speakers Helen Parkinson, Head of Molecular Archival Resources, EMBL-EBI Thomas Keane, Team Leader, European Genome-phenome Archive and European Variation Archive, EMBL-EBI Ilan Tsarfaty, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University |
| 13:30 | Coffee break |
| 13:50 | Session 2: Structural Biology Chair Matthias Wilmanns Head of EMBL Hamburg Speakers Oded Livnah Head of Research Group Structural Biology of Proteins, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Julia Mahamid Group Leader, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, EMBL Heidelberg Meytal Landau Israel Institute of Technology – Technion, Visiting Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg |
| 14:35 | Session 3: EMBL Imaging Centre presentation Chair Joel Sussman Weizmann Institute of Science Speaker Christoph Müller Head of Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg |
| 14:50 | Short break |
| 14:55 | Session 4: Planetary Biology Chair Detlev Arendt Group leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg Speakers Meital Reches Associate Professor of Chemistry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yannick Schwab Team Leader and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility, EMBL Heidelberg |
| 15:25 | General discussion and Q&A Moderators Matthias Wilmanns Head of EMBL Hamburg Joel Sussman Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 16:00 | Closing |
EMBL Director General. Edith Heard’s group is studying epigenetic mechanisms in development and disease. The Heard group focuses on epigenetic processes such as X-chromosome inactivation, in order to learn more about the basic principles of gene regulation, and to explore the roles of chromatin modifications, chromosome organisation and non-coding RNAs on gene expression in development and disease.
Team Leader for the European Genome Phenome Archive (EGA) and the European Variation Archive (EVA) at EMBL-EBI. Thomas is responsible for strategic planning for EGA and EVA, is a member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) steering committee, and co-leads the Large-scale Genomics workstream. His research interests are in using genomic technologies to understand biological processes, with a particular focus on rodent models for human disease.
Head of Molecular Archival Resources at EMBL-EBI, comprising several EBI core resources including the European Nucleotide Archive, European Genome-phenome Archive, European Variation BioSamples database. Helen Parkinson leads the Samples, Phenotypes and Ontologies team, delivering databases, data integration tools and ontologies for biomedicine and participates extensively in external collaborations ranging from data analysis and generation projects to infrastructural integration projects such as the ELIXIR-led initiatives BioMedBridges, CORBEL and EXELERATE and EOSCLife.
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and Director, Sackler Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center (SCMIC). Prof. Tsarfaty’s research focuses on further understanding the role of Met (a receptor tyrosine kinase) and Mimp/Mtch2 (a mitochondrial carrier homologue cloned in the lab) in cancer progression and metastasis, and to develop modalities for personalizing targeted Met therapy.
Israel Institute of Technology – Technion, Visiting Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg. At EMBL Hamburg, Meytal Landau is exploring protein fibrils in the context of infectious diseases – studying proteins that make bacteria more harmful, and the role of these fibrils in causing neurodegenerative diseases. Meytal Landau decided to spend a year at EMBL Hamburg, where she would have access to the cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy infrastructure at the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB).
Head of Research Group Structural Biology of Proteins, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Livnah group is focusing on the structural determination of biologically related macromolecules via X-ray crystallographic techniques. Ligand recognition, initial signaling events, and the role of dimer/oligomer orientation in cytokine receptor systems. Structural studies of avidin/streptavidin – biotin high affinity systems. Structural based drug design and optimization and combinatorial approaches in drug discovery.
Group Leader, the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, EMBL Heidelberg. Mahamid’s group is studying in situ structural analysis of phase separation and molecular crowding. The Mahamid group brings together two disciplines in biology, namely the emerging field of phase-separated dynamic assemblies in cell biology and state-of-the-art cellular cryo-electron tomography, to advance the understanding of the molecular organisation of the cytoplasm.
Head of EMBL Hamburg. Wilmanns group is investigating the structure and function of molecular machinery for protein translocation across membranes. The Wilmanns group employs an integrative structural biology approach complemented by functional experiments to investigate the overall structures of challenging protein complexes of biomedical relevance to address major research questions in the infection process of pathogenic bacteria but also in cancer, cardiology, and nephrology.
Head of Structural and Computational Biology Unit and Group Leader at EMBL. Müller group is investigating molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes. The Unit pursues an ambitious research programme in integrated structural and computational systems biology bridging between various spatial and temporal scales. The Müller research group uses cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, biophysical and biochemical approaches to learn about the molecular mechanisms of transcription regulation in eukaryotes, in whom DNA is packaged into chromatin.
Detlev is a group leader and senior scientist in the Developmental Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg and holds an honorary professorship at the Centre for Organismal Studies at Heidelberg University. Along with his laboratory work, Detlev is a leading figure in EMBL’s new research area of Planetary Biology and was heavily involved in setting up the Green EMBL initiative.
Associate Professor of Chemistry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Meital’s research interest is understanding how proteins adsorb to inorganic surfaces, a line of enquiry that is important in many biotechnological applications, including the design of medical implants, fabrication of antibacterial surfaces and biomineralization.
Team Leader and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg. The Schwab team is developing tools for the 3D correlation of data generated by multiple imaging modalities, such as fluorescence microscopy, X-ray imaging and electron microscopy.
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Date: Wednesday 2 June 2021
Time: 11:30-15:00 (CEST) / 12:30-16:00 (IDT)
Location: virtual
Fees: free
Contact: Maria Ananchenkova, International Relations Officer, EMBL
Detlev Arendt
Group leader, Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
Abraham J. Domb
Chief Scientist, Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel
Iris Eisenberg
Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel
Thomas Keane
Team Leader, European Genome-phenome Archive and European Variation Archive, EMBL-EBI
Meytal Landau
Israel Institute of Technology – Technion, Visiting Group Leader at EMBL Hamburg
Oded Livnah
Head of Research Group Structural Biology of Proteins, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Julia Mahamid
Group Leader, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
Christoph Müller
Head of Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg
Helen Parkinson
Head of Molecular Archival Resources, EMBL-EBI
Meital Reches
Associate Professor of Chemistry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yannick Schwab
Team Leader and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility, EMBL Heidelberg
Joel Sussman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Ilan Tsarfaty
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University
Matthias Wilmanns
Head of EMBL Hamburg