The Research and Development Authority - ISF Awarded Grants for Cycle 2020 Submissions

Aug. 25, 2020

For the second year in a row, BGU has been ranked in the top three Universities in the country!

Below is the list of ISF awardees, their research topic and a link to their research abstract.

The Faculty of Natural Sciences

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
Department of Chemistry	David Lukatsky	Effect of Short Tandem DNA Repeats on Transcription Factor-DNA Binding and Epigenetic Landscape in Embryonic Stem Cells
	Doron Pappo	Asymmetric Oxidative Coupling Reactions by Chiral Bis-Anionic Iron Complexes
	Eyal Arbely	The regulation of G6PD and 6PGD by lysine acetylation
	Gonen Ashkenasy (with Nurit Ashkenasy)	Living Electronic Materials (BIKURA/F.I.R.S.T Program)
	Joshua Baraban	Screening Bimolecular Reactions of Radicals
	Michael Meijler	Chemical Regulation of Pathogenic Gut Bacteria
	Raz Jelinek	Carbon dots as new antibacterial and antiviral vehicles
	Yossef Weizmann	Exploring plasmonic photothermal nanoparticles for ultrafast magneto-immunoPCR
Department of Computer Science	Itai Dinur	Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Tradeoffs
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences	Yuval Tal	A laboratory study of the effects of fault non-planarity on the dynamics of earthquake ruptures
Department of Life Sciences	Alal Eran	Dissecting autism spectrum disorder using massive electronic health records
	Gabriel Abraham Frank	How a simple molecular machine performs complex tasks: The prokaryotic proteasomal ATPase
	Shai Pilosof	Ecological multilayer networks: advancing theory andmethodology for understanding the complexity of ecological systems
	Jerry Eichler	Exploring N-glycosylation in Halobacterium salinarum at the transcript, protein, lipid carrier and cellular levels
Department of Mathematics	Daniel Disegni	Special Cycles and Relative Iwasawa Theory
	Menachem Kojman	The set-theory of Strong colorings over partitions
	Michael Levin	p-adic actions on compact metric spaces
	Shakhar Smorodinsky	Transversals for Geometric and General Hypergraphs
Department of Physics	Eran Palti	Constraints on effective field theories arising from quantum gravity
	Muntaser Naamneh	Designing nickelates for high-temperature superconductivity and revealing their electronic structure.
	Shaul Mordechai (withMahmoud Huleihel)	Rapid Diagnosis of Bacterial and Viral Human Infections Using Infrared Microscopy of Peripheral Blood
	Yigal Meir	Thermoelectricity in strongly correlated electron systems

The Faculty of Engineering Sciences

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
Department of Biomedical Engineering	Ilana Nisky	Sensorimotor control of translation and orientation of instruments in robot-assisted surgery
Department of Chemical Engineering	Anne Bernheim	Shape deformations driven by the cell cortex – an in vitro study
	Eran Edri	Defect tolerance in quasi one-dimensional tri-chalcogenide van der Waals semiconductors interfaces
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management	Dan Hermelin and Dvir Shabtay	Revisiting Classical Pseudopolynomial Scheduling Algorithms
	Omer Lev	Multi-stage Decision-Making Processes
Department of Materials Engineering	Yaniv Gelbstein	Thermoelectric optimization of quaternary (Mg2Si,Ge,Sn) alloys
	Nurit Ashkenasy (with Gonen Ashkenasy)	Living Electronic Materials (BIKURA/F.I.R.S.T Program)
Department of Mechanical Engineering	Yoav Green	Electro-convection and surface conductance as electrical current enhancers and electrical currentrectifiers in nanofluidics
Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering	Isana Veksler Lublinsky	Evolution of animal microRNAs and their regulatory interactions
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Alina Karabchevsky	Thermo-Optomechanically driven ‘nano-torches’ as a new technique for investigating fundamental biological mechanisms via optical tracking.
	Niv Gilboa	New Directions in Secure Computation beyond the Circuit Size Barrier
	Ron Dabora	Inherent Limitations and Signal Processing for Communications with Asynchronous Sampling
	Yakov (Kobi) Cohen	Active Federated Learning and Inference in Wireless Communication Networks
	Yitzhak Yitzhaky	Image clarification for prosthetic vision based on 3D multiple-perspective imaging and machine learning
	Yonatan Sivan	Comprehensive theory of the electronic, optical and thermal response of metal nanostructures

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences	Nir Fresco	Conceptualising ‘Information’ in the Study of Mind and Brain
Department of Economics	Ada Gonzalez-Torres	The Effects of Whistleblowing at the Workplace: A Field Experiment in Bangladesh’s Garments Sector
Department of Education	Assaf Meshulam	School choice in middle-class minoritized communities: Arab-Palestinian parental choice in Israel
	Galia Plotkin Amrami	The ADHD "epidemic", medicalization and managing students' diversity: How teachers and parents frame the ADHD diagnosis for students from different social backgrounds
	Gideon Dishon	Social Perspective Taking – An Epistemic Network Approach
	Tehila Kogut	Organ donation decisions: The role of conscious and unconscious beliefs
Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics	Efraim Sicher	Is There a Poetics of the Holocaust? Reassessing the Poetry of Jewish Victims of Nazi Persecution
	Idan Landau	Broadening the grammatical perspectives on Argument Ellipsis
	Barbara Hochman	“What Shall We Tell Our Children?”: Reading for children in the New York Public Library of the 1920s”
Department of Geography and Environmental Development	Itzhak Katra	Formation of large aeolian sand ripples on Mars
	Naama Teschner	Energy trilemma in future decarbonized-decentralized electricitysystems: a new evaluation framework and criteria
	Nurit Alfasi	Anti-Adaptive Neighborhoods: Is there a way back from planning and building comprehensively-planned inward-turned neighborhoods?
Department of Hebrew Language	Moshe Kahan	Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Exegesis from a Logician’s Point of Viewand a Critical Edition of Joseph ibn Kaspi's Retukot Kesef
	Christian Stadel and Elisha Qimron	The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: A Critical Edition and Translation into Hebrew
Department of Hebrew Literature	Eliezer Papo	Annotated Edition of the Ladino Text of Me’am Lo’ez on Prophets and Writings, accompanied by Transcription, Hebrew Translation and Introductory Research
Department of Jewish Thought	Adiel Kadari	A Critical Edition of Seder Eliyahu Rabba and Seder Eliyahu Zuta
	Jonatan Meir	The Renaissance of Bratslav Hasidism in Poland (1906-1942)
	Daniel J. Lasker	An Academic Commentary on Rabbi Judah Halevi's Book of Kuzari (Continuation)
Department of Middle-East Studies	Hagai Ram	The Social Life of an Illicit Thing: Changing Perceptions of Hashish Consumption among Jewish Citizens in the State of Israel from 1948 to the Present
	Yoram Meital	Synagogues and Jewish Heritage in Cairo: Reconfiguring Past and Present
Department of Philosophy	Uri Leibowitz	Anti-Theory in the Philosophy of Science and Ethics
Department of Sociology - Anthropology Department of Politics and Government	Sara Helman and Daniel Filc	"Homo Sabionus": the construction of the neo-liberal common sense in stories of self among high rise residents in new suburban neighborhoods.
Department of Politics and Government	Jennifer Oser	“Yes I can…?” Political efficacy in the digital era
	Lynn Schler	“Crossing the Rubicon to Independence”:Relations between Nigeria’s Western Region and Israel during Nigeria’s First Republic, 1960-1966
Department of Psychology	Andrea Berger	Dealing with frustration: An electrophysiological and behavioral study of self-regulation in young children and their mothers
	Hagit Cohen	The role of microglia in the (mal)adaptive response to traumatic experience: Integrating endo-neuroimmune
	Ilan Dinstein	Behavioral and neural variability in toddlers with autism
	Nachshon Meiran	The emergence of reportable emotional experience: An integrated computational-behavioral-electrophysiological model
	Niv Reggev	Conceptualising ‘Information’ in the Study of Mind and Brain
Department of Social Work	Ephrat Huss	Creating an Empirically-Based Theoretical Model of Social Arts: Training, Typology, and Impact
	Michal Krumer - Nevo	Poverty-Aware Social Work in Arab-Palestinian Society in Israel: Development of a Context-Sensitive Model
Department of the Arts	Maayan Amir	Surveilling the Surveillers: Exploring the Production of Visual EvidenceIn the Israeli Military’s Visual War Room

Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism	Avi Bareli and Ofer Shiff	Mamlakhtiyut and American Jewry, 1948-1982: The Ben-Gurion Model and its Aftermath
	Tali Tadmor Shimony	Wearing Two Hats: Immigrant Teachers in Israel as Newcomers and Educators (1949-1966)

The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR)	Amit Gross	Chemical conversion of human excreta following hydrothermal carbonization as a process for energy and nutrient recovery
	Oded Nir	Modeling acid-base dynamics in reverse osmosis and nanofiltration applied to wastewater effluents
	Zeev Ronen and Eilon Adar	Examining the drivers determining the spatial distribution of microbial communities in deep groundwater of different ages along the Negev fossil Nubian Sandstone Aquifer.
French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnologies of Drylands	Ilya Gelfand	Understanding effects of varying nitrogen and carbon availability on soil emissions of nitrogen oxides in drylands
	Shimon Rachmilevitch	Carbon and metabolic benefits and costs of self/non-self recognition in plants
	Vered Tzin	Understanding the dynamics of plant defense strategies
The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental & Energy Research	Itamar Giladi	Levels of intraspecific variation in dispersal traits and their potential consequences

The Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
Department of Management / Department of Business Administration	Simone Moran and Amos Schurr	Moral evaluations of decisions and actions in automated settings: effects of overriding pre-set defaults
Department of Business Administration	Daniel Shapira	The Triggering Effects of Asymmetric Ties in UGC Network Platforms

The Faculty of Health Sciences

Department	Researcher Name	Research Topic
Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology	Elie Beit Yannai and Sophia Schreiber-Avissar	Oxidative Stress Signaling in the Anterior Segment of the Eye: The Role of Exosomes and the Implication for POAG Treatment
Department of Health Systems Management	Jacob Moran-Gilad	Inter-Connected Human and Environmental Resistomes in Bedouin Communities in the Negev
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology	Alon Friedman and Ofer Prager	The Blood-Brain Barrier as a Target for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological Disorders
	Arie Moran and Amos Katz	The structure-function relationship underlying the many-functions of ZnT-1: a Zn2+ extruder, an L-type calcium channels inhibitor and an ERK signaling activator
	Michal Hershfinkel	The zinc receptor, ZnR/GPR39: a regulator of salivary gland function
Department of Public Health / Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology	Tamar Wainstock and Ilana Shoham-Vardi and Shimrit Yaniv Salem	Recurrent Preterm Birth, Risk Association with Environmental and Genetic Factors
The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics	Mahmoud Huleihel (with Shaul Mordechai)	Rapid Diagnosis of Bacterial and Viral Human Infections Using Infrared Microscopy of Peripheral Blood Samples and Machine Learning Algorithms
	Tomer Cooks	Elucidating the mechanisms underlying the ability of pathogenic Acidovorax temperans and its derived extracellular vesicles to drive lung cancer progression

We wish our researchers rewarding and successful research and
the best of luck in the coming cycle.

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