Program
The 2nd Bilateral Israel-Taiwan Life Sciences Conference - From Basic to Translational Research in Life Sciences - 7-9 June, 2015, Tel Aviv University
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08:20 - 09:00 |
Morning Coffee |
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Opening Ceremony |
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09:00 - 09:05 |
Chair (Organizing Committee) |
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09:05 - 09:10 |
Joseph Klafter |
President, Tel Aviv University |
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09:10 - 09:15 |
Ido Sharir |
Director General, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, Israel |
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09:15 - 09:20 |
Daniel Chamovitz |
Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU |
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09:20 - 09:25 |
Simona Halperin |
Representative, Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei |
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09:25 - 09:30 |
Yun-Sheng Chi |
Representative, Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Tel Aviv |
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Keynote Lectures |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Ruth Arnon |
President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Chi-Huey Wong |
President, Academia Sinica |
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10:30 - 10:40 |
Coffee Break |
Session 1: Structural Biology
Chairs: Moran Shalev-Ben Ami (WIS), Che Alex Ma (AS)
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10:40 - 11:20 |
Keynote Lecture |
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Ada Yonath (2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) - WIS |
Pathogen specific antibiotics and the microbiome |
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11:20 - 11:45 |
Che Alex Ma - AS |
Structural biology in infectious diseases |
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11:45 - 12:10 |
Nathan Nelson - TAU |
Life under the sun |
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12:10 - 12:30 |
Coffee Break |
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12:30 - 12:55 |
Nei-Li Chan - NTU |
Structural basis of antizyme-mediated regulation of polyamine homeostasis |
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12:55 - 13:15 |
Moran Shalev-Ben Ami - WIS |
The ribosome as a drug target: insights from structural investigations - towards rational drug design. |
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13:15 - 14:15 |
Lunch and Poster Viewing |
Session 2: Omics
Chairs: Eran Segal (WIS), Yuh-Shan Jou (AS)
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14:15 - 14:40 |
Tamar Geiger - TAU |
System-wide clinical proteomics reveals metabolic remodeling upon breast cancer progression |
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14:40 - 15:05 |
Yu-Ju Chen - AS |
Nanoprobe-based affinity mass spectrometry for targeted glycoprotein-omics mining of cancer biomarker |
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15:05 - 15:30 |
Eran Meshorer - HUJI |
Fluorescent libraries in pluripotent stem cells in search of novel regulators of pluripotency”. |
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15:30 - 15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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15:50 - 16:15 |
Sung-Liang Yu - NTUCM |
Development of personalized pedicine: Taiwan experience |
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16:15 - 16:40 |
Eran Segal - WIS |
Personalizing our nutrition to our gut microbes |
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16:40 - 17:05 |
Yuh-Shan Jou - AS |
Integrated genomic approach identified PSPC1 as a master activator of cancer stemness and metastasis |
Session 3: Microbiome and CRISPR
Chair: Udi Qimron
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17:05 – 17:30 |
Eran Elinav - WIS |
Host-microbiome interactions in health and disease |
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17:30 – 17:55 |
Tsung-Lin Li - AS |
Biosynthesis, structural enzymology and drug development of lipoglycopeptide antibiotics |
19:00 Gala Dinner at St. George Restaurant – Presenters only and RSVP.
