We started with an introduction of new members of the Chevruta, and moved on to a nice explanation on molecular recognition and biological pathway by Amir (Excellent review papers are availible to download from this post, thank you Amir!). We discussed computational tools to do sequence alignment:
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalo/
We then discussed RNA folding servers and their uses:
http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/cgi-bin/RNAWebSuite/RNAfold.cgi
We went on to discuss the our understanding of human smell and recent papers discussing the effects of smell on human biochemistry and nuerobiology:
Noam sobel's group - tears as a chemosignal
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/226.figures-only
Noam sobel's group - altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-017-0024-x
We also talked about taste and smell in linguistics, Bar gave us a basic lesson in understanding and researching lignuistiscs with several examples of papers and research interests:
http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/15699994;jsessionid=8dq2us9sl4lmd.x-jbep-live-01
We then discussed the intersting overlap between biology and liguistics in defining the pleasentess of smell.
We ended with a discussion about smell in its theological meaning, and our understanding of religious blessings in relation to biology and linguistics.
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%A...
Thank you for joining this exciting discussion, it was very interesting and fun.
The next week will take place a week before the semseter passover break, I will update this page and by email to notify the exact date.
In this meetings we discussed on upcoming confrences that may be of interest to the group:
Jerusalem Brain Community (JBC) retreat - https://scholars.huji.ac.il/jbc/event/save-date-jbcs-5th-annual-retreat-...
Medicinal Chemical Section - Israeli Chemistry Society (MCS-ICS) - http://www.mcs-ics.org.il/index.asp?catID=89483&siteLang=2
European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO) - https://www.ecro.online/meetings/annual-meeting-2018/
We then discussed how to prepare to confrences and the ability to use the group to practice oral talks or poster presetations. We will soon upload poster templates so everyone would be able to use.
A special guest was Antonella Di Pizio - an expert post-doc in the field of sensory. we discussed time management in the PhD and how to handle stress during the research.
The next meeting will be on April 12th on Jerusalem.
The meeting starteed with greetings and we talked about passover and out vacation. A new attendee preseted hereself.
Yaron presented his research and there was a discussion on the presentation and the research.
Following the previous meeting Amir presented a poster and we highlighted the good and the bad of is poster and how can we make a good poster for confrences.
In the next meeting David or Amir will present their work and additional posters will be presented.