Welcome to the first Ageing and Epigenetics meeting in Israel
Ageing and Epigenetics meeting
January 28-29th 2019
Register
The meeting has no cost, however registration is necessary to accommodate all the participants
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Poster contest
4 Student talks will be selected
Submit your abstract for Talk opportunity ageingandepigenetics@gmail.com
deadline December 15th
Organizing committee
Dr. Deborah Toiber: Life Sciences Department
Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Email: toiber@bgu.ac.il
Dr. Michael Klutstein: The faculty of Dental Medicine.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Email: michaelk@ekmd.huji.ac.il
Prof. Gil Atzmon: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Haifa University and Institute for Aging Research and the Diabetes Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Email: gatzmon@univ.haifa.ac.il
Dr. Roi Gazit: Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics.
Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Email: gazitroi@bgu.ac.il
Speakers
International guests
Eva Hoffmann
Bio
Eva R Hoffmann is professor of genomics and reproductive health at Center for Chromosome Stability, University of Copenhagen, where her lab focuses on understanding the mechanisms mediating genome diversification and causes of chromosome instability in the human germline and their impact on pregnancy loss and infertility. She completed her PhD at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK, and conducted postdoctoral training at the Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, UK and HHMI, Yale University before starting her own own lab at the MRC Genome Damage and Stability Center in 2005. She directs the Human MeioMap Project and is a former EMBO Young Investigator. Her research is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the ERC.
Speakers
Howard Cedar
Prof. Howard Cedar was born in New York in 1943. He received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from M.I.T. and then went on to do an M.D. and Ph.D. in microbiology under the tutelage of Dr. James Schwartz at N.Y.U., graduating in 1970. He carried out postdoctoral research with Dr. Eric Kandel at N.Y.U. and then with Dr. Gary Felsenfeld at the N.I.H. in the framework of the Public Health Service. In 1973 he immigrated to Israel where he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University, becoming a full professor in 1981. Prof. Cedar is the recipient of the Hestrin Award for Biochemistry (1979) and the Hebrew University Outstanding Investigator Award (1991). He was elected to EMBO in 1982, received the Israel Prize in 1999 and became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences in 2003. He received the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2008 and the Emet Prize in Life Sciences in 2009, the Gairdner International Award in 2011, the Rothschild Prize for 2012 and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 2016.
