Tel Aviv University Magnetic Resonance Club

TAU-MR seminars 
Coming Lecture: Dr. Noam Harel, University of Minnesota Medical School "Applications for in-vivo mapping of the brain at ultra-high field MRI"

Magnetic Resonance seminars are held at Tuesdays, 11am at the Multidisciplinary building Rm 315


2010/11 Seminars
Oct 5: Dr. Karin Shmueli, NIH, Bethesda, MD "MRI Frequency Contrast: Magnetic Susceptibility, Chemical Exchange and Other Contributions"
Oct 19: Dr. Yaniv Assaf, Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of life sciences, Tel Aviv University
Nov 2: Bosmat Refaeli, School of chemistry, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
"New isotopic methods for protein NMR research using the Entner-Doudoroff pathway in E. Coli"
Nov 16: Prof. Kim Butts Pauly, Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Ultrasound-based Neuromodulation"
Nov 30: Debbie Anaby, School of Chemistry, TAU
"q-Space Diffusion MRI (QSI) of the Central Nervous System of Long Evans Shaker (les) Rats"
Dec 14: Prof. Asher Schmidt, Shulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion "The molecular details of bioorganic-inorganic interfaces by solid state NMR:  from model systems to biomineralized materials"
Dec 28: Dr. Liat Ben Sira, Department of Radiology, Sourasky medical center, Tel Aviv
"From the Fetus to Adulthood - challenges in Pediatric MR"
Jan 4:
 Dr. Raanan Carmieli, Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, Evanston, IL
"From charge transfer in DNA to molecular quantum switches"
Jan 18: Prof. Alexej Jerschow, New York University (NYU)
"Optimized  Spectroscopy and Imaging with Spin 3/2 (Sodium)” 
Feb 8: Yana Simonenko, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
"Spectroscopic measurements of T1 of 6Li in blood using SSFT with a modification of the method"
Feb 22 Dr. Yael Schiffenbauer, Aspect-MR
Mar 15 Prof. Robert Schurko, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
"Seeing the "Invisible" Nucleus: Adventures in Ultra-Wideline
Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy"
Mar 22 Dr. Noam Shemesh, School of chemistry, Tel Aviv Univesity
Ph.D. lecture
Jul 12 Dr. Noam Harel, The Center For Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School
"Applications for in-vivo mapping of the brain at ultra-high field MRI"
 

2009/10 seminars
Dec 1: Gili Abramov, School of chemistry, Tel Aviv University
"A filamentous Bacteriophage studied by magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR: sample preparation and NMR characterization of the coat protein in fd virus."
Dec 15: Shlomi Lifshits, Department of neurobiology, faculty of life sciences, Tel Aviv University
"Intra-Cranial Pressure (ICP) and T2 gray levels".
Dec 29: Yoni Hertzberg
"Ultrasound focusing using magnetic resonance acoustic radiation force imaging"
Jan 12: Osnat Rosen, department of structural biology, Weizmann Institute of sciences
"From NMR structures to HIV vaccine design"
Mar 2: Alon Fridman, Deparment of biomedical Engineering, Ben Gurion University
"Towards in-vivo quantification of blood-brain barrier permeability changes - the why, when and hows"
Mar 23: Revital Manor,
"Manetization transfer response of deep grey matter structures in a very pre-term brain"
Apr 13: Noam Shemesh, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
"From Single-PFG to double-PFG NMR: obtaining new microstructural information from heterogeneous specimens"
May 25: Dr. Ute Goerke,  CMRR/University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Novel Approaches to functional magnetic resonance imaging at ultra-high magnetic field strength".
Jun 1: Rachel Katz-Brull, Center for Hyperpolarized Molecular Imaging, Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
"Hyperpolarized molecular imaging"
Jun 15: Dafna Ben-Ba'ashat, Sorasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv
"Advanced MR methods in brain tumors: classification, grading and assessing therapy response"
 

Past seminars (2009)

  • Jun 2: Dr. Rinat Abtamovitch  Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah University Hospital
    Topic: "fMRI a non-invasive tool for monitoring angiogenesis and hemodynamical changes in pathology"
    Abstract

  • May 19: Dr. P.K. Madhu   Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India 
    Topic: "Insights into heteronuclear dipolar decoupling in solid-state NMR"

  • May 12: Ory Levy   Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology, TAU 
    Topic: "High Resolution MRI of Enriched Environment Induced Structural Brain Changes"
    Abstract

  • Mar 17: Noam Shemesh School of Chemistry,TAU 
    Topic: "Characterization of the Quinolinic acid lesion in the rat brain and migration of stem cells as viewed by MRI/MRSI"

  • Mar 3: Dr. Alexej Jerschow Department of chemistry, NYU, NY, USA 


  • Jun 14: Noam Ben-Eliezer Department of chemical Physics, Weizmann institute of science
    Topic: "Single-scan spatially encoded MRI: Principles and applications"
    Abstract