Partnership Workshop, 9 July 2015

Presentation of research results from ongoing tandem projects

Dalit Sela-Donenfeld (Rehovot) and Martin Blum (Hohenheim): Nucelar matrix metalloproteases: Investigation of novel physiological functions in chicken and frog embryonic neural crest cells. Abstract

Yuval Gottlieb-Dror (Rehovot) and Johannes Steidle (Hohenheim): The role of Wolbachia in speciation of the parasitoid wasp Lariophagus distinguendus. Abstract

Smadar Harpaz-Saad (Rehovot), Alon Samach (Rehovot) and Jens Wünsche (Hohenheim): Internal factors controlling reproductive rate in fruit trees. Abstract

Jaap van Rijn (Rehovot) and Walter Vetter (Hohenheim): Establishing conditions for the generation of valuable furan fatty acids in fish grown in an zero discharge aquaculture system. Abstract

Invited Presentation

Simone Heil (Humboldt Foundation): The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Networks of Excellence: Programmes and Initiatives for Israel. Presentation

Presentation of new proposals for tandem projects

Zvi Peleg (Rehovot): A comparative approach revelas unique adaptation mechanism to multiple environmental stresses in grasses. Abstract

Efrat Monsonego-Ornan (Rehovot): Nutritional aspects of skeletal development. Abstract

Zvi Hayouka (Rehovot): Towards the design of effective antibacterial agents. Abstract

Saul Burdman (Rehovot): Know the enemy - deciphering virulence and pathogenicity determinants of the plant pathogenic bacterium Acidovorax citrulli. Abstract

Tobias Link and Ralf Vögele (Hohenheim): Rust fungal effectors. Presentation

Karl Schmid (Hohenheim): Genomic aspects of adaptation mechanisms to multiple environmental stresses in grasses. Abstract

Poster Session

Adi Moshe, R. Gorovits, Y. Liu and H. Czosnek (Rehovot): Tomato plant cell death induced by inhibition of HSP90 is alleviated by tomato yellow leaf curl virus infection. Abstract

Adi Kliot, H. Czosnek and M. Ghanim (Rehovot): Transcriptomics of tritrophic interactions between whiteflies, viruses and bacterial symbionts. Abstract

Shlomit Guy, V. Yashunsky, H. Chayet and I. Braslavsky (Rehovot): Controlling ice growth using selective infrared radiation. Abstract

Yoni Genzer, M. Dadon, C. Burg, N. Chapnik and O. Froy (Rehovot): Timed high-fat diet counteracts the disruptive effect of ketogenic diet on circadian brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression and associated signaling. Abstract

Ayelet Kohl,  A. Klar and D. Sela-Donenfeld (Rehovot): Hindbrain dorsal interneurons - molecular regulators that govern their circuit formation. Abstract

Amnon Haberman, M. Ackerman, J.-J. Kelner, E. Costes and A. Samach (Rehovot): Apple fruit may inhibit development of following year's inflorescences through induction of a flowering repressor. Abstract

O. Shemer, Udi Landau, H. Candela, A. Zemach and L. Eshed-Williams (Rehovot): Competency for shoot regeneration from Arabidopsis root explants is regulated by DNA methylation. Abstract

Racheli Tamir-Bochnik and Z. Hayouka (Rehovot): Designing novel antibiotics against Staphylococcus aureus. Abstract

Dorit Levy, E. Gdor, D. Mandler and O. Shoseyov (Rehovot): Electrodeposition of Ag nanoparticles using SP1 nanopore as template. Abstract

Indira Paudel, S. Cohen, A. Shaviv, N. Bernstein, A. Schwartz and J. Ephrath (Rehovot): Effects of treated wastewater irrigation on phenotypic plasticity of root characteristics of citrus in two contrasting soils. Abstract