Award Recipients 2010 Supported by • Clore Israel Foundation • Charles H. Revson Foundation, USA • Bay Area Fund for Women Scientists, USA The Kaplan Family Fund • Maureen and Jack Dym, Canada • Morris Feder Family, USA • Janine Gordon, USA • Arlyn Imberman, USA • The Pearl Welinsky Merlo Foundation, Ellen Merlo, USA • Michigan Women of Wisdom Fund, USA • Rueff-Wormser Postdoctoral Fellowship, USA • Mike and Valeria Rosenbloom through the Mike Rosenbloom Foundation, Canada • The Rowland and Sylvia Schaefer Foundation, USA Marla Schaefer, Bonnie Schaefer, Roberta Waller, Directors • Prof. Maxine Singer, USA • Fredda Weiss Foundation, USA Additional support • Francie and Stuart Klein, Canada • Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sherman, USA • Marion Silberberg, USA מכון ויצמן למדע — תוכנית לאומית לפרסי מחקר בתר–דוקטוריאליים לקידום נשים במדעWeizmann Institute of Science — National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science
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Award Recipients 2010Supported by• CloreIsraelFoundation
scientific productivity and publications in leading journals; as well
as strong recommendations of advisors and scientists familiar with
the work; recognition from the candidate’s own institution; and
scientific prizes.
All applicants expressed their intention to return to Israel following
postdoctoral training to pursue a scientific career.
In this brochure, we are proud to present the 11 postdoctoral award
recipients for 2010.
T he Weizmann Institute of Science is grateful to our
friends throughout the world who have generously
supported the cause of Women in Science
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ד”ר הגר גלברד-שגיב Dr. Hagar Gelbard-Sagiv
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Neurobiology
Advisor: Prof. Rafael Malach
Ph.D. Thesis: Neuronal activity in the human medial temporal lobe during memory formation and recollection
Post-doctorate: California Institute of Technology, United States
Department: Division of Biology
Advisor: Prof. Christof Koch
Research Topic: Seeking a neuronal signature of conscious perception in the human frontal lobe
ד“ר אורלי גנתDr. Orly Gnat
Ph.D.: Tel-Aviv University
Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Advisor: Prof. Amiel Sternberg
Ph.D. Thesis: Non-equilibrium metal ionization in cosmological environments: conduction fronts, radiatively cooling gas, and fast shocks
Post-doctorate: California Institute of Technology, United States
Department: Theoretical Astrophysics
Advisor: Prof. Marc Kamionkowski
Research Topic: The observational signatures of diffuse ionized gas: equilibrium and non-equilibrium processes
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ד“ר לירן גורןDr. Liran Goren
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research
Advisor: Prof. Einat Aharonov
Ph.D. Thesis: The evolution of pore fluid pressure in porous rocks and soils, and its geodynamics effects
Post-doctorate: ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Department: Earth Sciences
Advisor: Prof. Sean D. Willett
Research Topic: Earth surface response to tectonics and climatic forcing - a new landscape evolution model
ד“ר קרן מיכאליDr. Karen Michaeli
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Condensed Matter Physics
Advisor: Prof. Alexander Finkel’stein
Ph.D. Thesis: Thermal transport phenomena in disordered interacting electron systems
Post-doctorate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, United States
Department: Physics
Advisor: Prof. Patrick A. Lee
Research Topic: Strongly correlated electron systems
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ד“ר ויקי פלקסDr. Vicki Plaks
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Biological Regulation
Advisor: Profs. Michal Neeman and Nava Dekel
Ph.D. Thesis: In vivo MRI studies of angiogenesis in reproduction and embryonic development in transgenic mice
Post-doctorate: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States
Department: Anatomy
Advisor: Zena Werb
Research Topic: The interplay between stem cells and their environmental niches in normal development and cancer transformation of the mammary gland: live imaging- assisted studies
ד“ר רינה רוזנצויגDr. Rina Rosenzweig
Ph.D.: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Department: Biology
Advisor: Prof. Michael Glickman
Ph.D. Thesis: Pinpointing molecular interactions with and within the base subcomplex of he proteasome
Post-doctorate: University of Toronto, Canada
Department: Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Lewis E. Kay
Research Topic: Characterization of structure and dynamics of Hsp104/ClpB chaperon machinery
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ד“ר רות שרץ-שובלDr. Ruth Scherz-Shouval
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Biological Chemistry
Advisor: Prof. Zvulun Elazar
Ph.D. Thesis: A novel mechamism for redox regulation of autophagy via the Atg4 cysteine protease
Post-doctorate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, United States
Department: Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research
Advisor: Prof. Susan Lindquist
Research Topic: The role of mitochondria and redox in the heat shock response in cancer
ד“ר מיכל סגל-רוזנהיימרDr. Michal Segal-Rosenheimer
Ph.D.: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Yael Dubowski
Ph.D. Thesis: Environmental fate of semivolatile pesticides in the atmosphere: Implementation of FTIR techniques in the investigation of heterogeneous reactions
Post-doctorate: NASA Ames Research Center, United States
Department: Atmospheric Science
Advisor: Dr. Philip B. Russell
Research Topic: Developing data products for an airborne prototype hyperspectral spectrometer for sky-scanning, sun-tracking atmospheric research (4STAR-Air)
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ד“ר רעות שלגיDr. Reut Shalgi
Ph.D.: Weizmann Institute of Science
Department: Molecular Cell Biology
Advisor: Profs. Moshe Oren & Tzachi Pilpel
Ph.D. Thesis: Coupling transcriptional and post-transcriptional miRNA regulation in the control of cell proliferation
Post-doctorate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, United States
Department: Biology
Advisor: Profs. Chris Burge & Susan Lindquist
Research Topic: Post-transcriptional diversity in mammalian cells during stress - potential substrate for evolution and tumor development
ד“ר טלי )אביטל( טרייביץDr. Tali (Avital) Treibitz
Ph.D.: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Department: Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Yoav Schechner
Ph.D. Thesis: Geometry and photometry of imaging through a medium
Post-doctorate: University of California, San Diego, United States
Department: Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. David Kriegman
Research Topic: Vision under extreme variations in illumination and pose
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ד“ר אנה זמנסקיDr. Anna Zamansky
Ph.D.: Tel-Aviv University
Department: Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Arnon Avron
Ph.D. Thesis: Non-deterministic multi-valued logics and their applications
Post-doctorate: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Department: Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry
Advisor: Prof. Matthias Baaz
Research Topic: Non-deterministic matrices and their applications for non-classical logics
Recipients 2009
Dr. Mirela Ben-Chen
Dr. Noam Ginossar (Stern)
Dr. Shlomit Greenberg
Dr. Ilana Kolodkin-Gal
Dr. R’ada (Jada) Massarwa
Dr. Smadar Naoz
Dr. Yana Nec
Dr. Yael Politi
Dr. Michal Rivlin-Etzion
Dr. Asia Rolls
Dr. Maya Zayats
Committee:Prof. Adi Kimchi, Chair
Prof. Lia Addadi, Dean, Feinberg Graduate School
Prof. Irit Dinur
Prof. Batsheva Kerem
Dr. Hanna Rapaport
Prof. David Cahen
Prof. Yosef Nir
Dr. Avraham Yaron
Yosefa Givoli, Secretary
About the Weizmann Institute of Science:The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world’s top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,600 scientists, students, technicians and supporting staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.
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