5 Year Celebration Speakers
Professor Tal Dvir
Tel Aviv University
Tal Dvir is a Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He obtained his B.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D (2008) degrees from the faculty of Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His Ph.D research, under the supervision of Prof. Smadar Cohen focused on cardiac tissue engineering and regeneration. Tal continued his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Robert Langer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT. His postdoc research focused on advanced materials for tissue engineering and regeneration.
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In October 2011 Tal was recruited by the Department of Biotechnology and the Center for Nanotechnology at Tel Aviv University to establish the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. In 2013, Tal also joined the newly established Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tel Aviv. Since 2021 Tal is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Tal’s laboratory designs and develops smart bio and nanomaterials and technologies for engineering complex tissues and organs, such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, intestine, eyes and more. During his career Tal has published many high impact papers and received numerous prizes and awards. Tal is also an inventor of numerous patents.
Tal is currently the Director of Tel Aviv University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and the Founding Director of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology.
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Dr. Geffen Kleinstern
Faculty Scholar
University of Haifa
Focusing on analyzing genome-wide association studies (GWAS), tumor sequencing data and epidemiological data to explore the etiology and prognosis of cancer and develop inherited and tumor genetic scores for prediction models.
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Examining whether these genetic scores can bring us closer to identifying individuals with monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis (MBL), a pre-cancerous condition, who may be at greater risk of progressing to chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Evaluating the prevalence of MBL in the Israeli population as a whole, as well as by ethnicity, and whether MBL increases the risk of threat to life due to SARS-CoV-2 infection in these populations.
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Dr. Lior Lobel
Faculty Scholar
Bar-Ilan University
Investigating the molecular mechanisms by which dietary components interact with gut microbes to regulate host physiology, a top priority for colon-related diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer.
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Hoping to discover novel mechanisms of diet-microbe host interactions that could be harnessed for human diagnostics and therapeutics.
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Dr. Yisroel Mirsky
Faculty Scholar
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Research into defending against the threat of offensive artificial intelligence. In particular, the prevention of real-time deepfakes to perform social engineering attacks, which use psychological manipulation to trick users into revealing sensitive information.
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This can include calling the elderly using the voices of their children, leading victims to make security mistakes or transfer money in phone scams.
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Dr. Omri Ram
Faculty Scholar
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Studying industrial and natural processes that are either limited by or rely on highly transient phenomena in fluid mechanics that involve high accelerations, rapid phase changes or interfacial phenomena, with numerous and far-reaching applications to energy, fluids, and environmental systems.
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Dr. Michal Ramot
Faculty Scholar
Weizmann Institute of Science
Using a novel covert neurofeedback technique and other methods to explore how different large-scale neural networks in the human brain, which integrate various cognitive domains, give rise to particular behaviors.
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Hoping eventually to help clinicians verify the causes of aberrant networks, and even to provide methods for rewiring brain networks to modulate neurological and psychiatric conditions and potentially enhance brain functions such as memory, learning, and perception.
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Dr. Dekel Rosenfeld
Faculty Scholar
Tel Aviv University
Using magnetic nanomaterials to repair organ dysfunction and study the organ-brain connection in health and in neurological disorders.
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Hoping to expand the potential of minimally invasive stimulation techniques and eventually use them on other deep organs in the body.
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Dr. Daphna Shimon
Faculty Scholar
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the tool of choice for chemists probing molecular identity and structure, along with dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), a method of enhancing the NMR signal, to study small molecules on heterogeneous surfaces of porous materials.
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Studying several processes: reactions that take place during CO2 sequestration in rocks and minerals for long term storage of CO2, stone consolidation and protection using nanoparticles to stop stone buildings and statues from crumbling or cracking, and examining the residual organic molecules trapped inside the pores of clay pottery walls for archaeological chemistry purposes.
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