Session I: Signaling in neuronal and photoreceptor microdomains
Program
| 8:30 | David Holcman: Opening remarks |
| Why should experimentalists talk to theoreticians? |
Session I: Signaling in neuronal and photoreceptor microdomains
| 8:45 | Menahem Segal (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Local diffusion of calcium ions in a small sphere within neurons (Abstract) | |
| 9:20 | Uri Ashery (Tel Aviv University) |
| Vesicle mobility and exocytosis (Abstract) | |
| 9:55 | 
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| 10:30 | Baruch Minke (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Open channel block by Ca2+ underlies light adaptation and voltage dependence of Drosophila TRP and TRPL channels (Abstract) |
Session II: Theory of diffusion in microdomains
| 11:05 | David Holcman (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Modeling molecular trafficking in the cytoplasm (Abstract) | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Question session |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 | Zeev Schuss (Tel Aviv University) |
| What can be calculated for particles diffusing in a small domain? (Abstract) | |
| 14:35 | Jacob Rubinstein (Technion & Indiana University) |
| Transport in thin networks (Abstract) |
Session III: Trafficking inside the cytoplasm and the nucleus
| 15:10 | Yosef Shaul (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| On the dilemma of vectorial mobility versus diffusion in the nucleus (Abstract) | |
| 15:45 |
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| 16:15 | Michael Elbaum (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Nucleocytoplasmic transport: a reversible mechanism (Abstract) | |
| 16:50 | Abraham Minsky (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Physical and structural aspects of DNA repair | |
| 18:30 | PIANO RECITAL (by Zeev Schuss, at the Wix Auditorium) (Program) |