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Recipients 2011

Future: Ageing - Facing the Challenge

BARAK Boaz

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Neurobiology

Title of Research:
“Elucidating the Involvement of Synaptic Proteins in Synaptic Plasticity Processes”

 

CARY Michael

Personal Details:
University of California, San Francisco, The Department of Biomedical Informatics

Title of Researach:
“Elucidating Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity Control through Comparative Analysis of
Large Scale Genomic and Proteomic Data Sets”

 

HOGRI, Roni

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Psychology

Title of Research:
“The Inferior Olivary Error Signal: Properties, Modulation, and Consequences”

 

IDELEVICH Anna

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The Hebrew University, Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition

Title of Research:
“The Role of Bone Gla Protein in the Metabolism and Mineralization of Cartilage and Vasculature”

 

VANNINI Patrizia

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Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Title of Research:
“Impact of Amyloid on Memory Function in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease”

 

WEI Yuehua

Personal Details:
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Title of Research:
“Biochemical Analysis of a New Signaling Pathway that Regulates Lifespan”           

 

 

Present: Cinema and Society

BERTOZZI Eddie

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University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies

Title of Research:
“One Step Forward into Reality: Redefining the Realist Style in Contemporary Chinese Cinema”

 

GALILI Doron

Personal Details:
University of Chicago, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Title of Research:
“Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television and the Modern Mediascape, 1878-1939”



GEVA  Dan

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Multidisciplinary Program in the Arts/Film & Television, Faculty of the Arts

Title of Research:
“The Image of the Documentarist on Joris Ivens' Oeuvre”

 

LEE Toby

Personal Details:
Harvard University, Department of English, Program in Communications and Culture

Title of Research:
“The Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Space, Scale and Public Culture on the Margins of Europe”

 

NUMA Irit

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Film and Television
Title of Research:

“Hyper-Narrative Cinema as an Empowerment Tool: Developing Optional Thinking Among Youth in Situations of Risk and Distress”

 

RAVIV Orna

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, The School of Philosophy

Title of Research:
“Beyond the Screen: The Ethical Dimension of the Cinematic Experience”

 

RAZ Gal

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Film and Television and the Faculty of Medicine
Title of Research:

“Neural Markers of Cinematic Emotion Experience - The Role of Inter-regional Coupling Dynamics”

 

   

Past Time Dimension: Evolution

AIDEN Erez

Personal Details:
Harvard University, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics

Title of Research:
“Evolutionary Game Theory based on Massively Multiplayer Economic Experiments”

 

COHEN Ofir

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, The Department of Cell Research and Immunology

Title of Research:
“Evolutionary Models for Analyzing Gene Content”

 

ELYASHIV Eyal

Personal Details:
The Hebrew University, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior

Title of Research:
“Characterizing the Genome-wide Effects of Natural Selection on Patterns of Genetic Variation
in Drosophila and Great Apes”

 

HABER Annat

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Zoology

Title of Research:
“Macroevolutionary Aspects of Morphological Integration”

 

LURIE-WEINBERGER Mor

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Title of Research:

“Contribution of Lateral Gene Transfer to Host-microbe Interaction”

 

M’GONIGLE Leithen

Pesonal Details:
University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology

Title of Research:
“Multi-species Interactions and the Evolution of Biological Systems”

 

VORTMAN Yoni

Personal Details:
Tel Aviv University, Department of Zoology

Tltle of Research:
“The Evolution of Sexual Signals in the East-Mediterranean Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica transitiva)”