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The Sesquicentenary of Fritz Haber's birth - A Symposium at the Harnack-Haus, Fritz Haber Institute Berlin-Dahlem

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10 December, 2018

Organized by: Bretislav Friedrich and Gerard Meijer

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The symposium will cover aspects of Fritz Haber’s life and work ranging from his scientific and organisational activities to the discovery of the catalytic synthesis of ammonia in collaboration with Robert Le Rossignol to the environmental impact of artificial fertilizers to Haber’s cultural and political attitudes, including his Jewish identity.

Fritz Haber Beirat meeting symposium

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17 December, 2018

The symposium will be held on December 17-18 2018 at the Los Angeles Auditorium, Safra Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

It is organized by Dr. Igor Schapiro.

The Schedule can be downloaded here

 
 

   

 

Erich Sackmann to give a tutorial on the Cell Membranes, Adhesion and Locomotion

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16 May, 2018

1100 Lecture 1: The shell-string (tensegrity) model of cells
 The composite cell envelope
 Self-stabilization of cells by actin-microtubule cross talk
 A short look at the classical thermodynamic-elastic concept
 of membrane sculpturing
 An example: Lipid-protein sorting by the concept of
 hydrophobic matching.
 Adhesion domains as generators of solitary actin gelation
 pulses

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