Faculty of Medicine Newsletter 52 (November 22 - December 5, 2021)

לניוזלטרים בעברית לחץ כאן.

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Happy Hanuka!

חנוכה שמח!

Seminars

Faculty Seminar: Folding of an Intrinsically Disordered Iron-Binding Peptide in Response to Sedimentation Revealed by Cryo-EM (Dr. Gabriel Frank, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Faculty Seminar: The identification and evolution of Quorum Quenching enzymes for microbial signal disruption and inhibition (Dr. Livnat Afriat-Jurnou, MIGAL, Galilee Research Institute)

Appointments and Promotions

Congratulations to Prof. Evan Elliott upon his promotion to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Prof. Fahed Hakim upon his promotion to Clinical Associate Professor
Congratulations to Dr. Dalit Porat Ben Amy upon her appointment as Clinical Lecturer

Congratulations

Congratulations to Benny Dayan on the birth of a daughter

Condolences

Condolences to Dr. Amir Kuperman on the passing of his mother.

Social Media

We have increased our social media presence. In particular, we have begun profiling students and staff and uploading pictures. Read up (in Hebrew) about our talented community on Facebook, here and in Instagram here. Help us grow…

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Publications

Reminder that publications by Azrieli faculty are generally posted in chronological order based on publication date, per PubMed listings. If you have published an article recently that appears on PubMed but that was not listed in a Newsletter, I apologize, and please do let me know.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PUBLICATIONS BY RESEARCHERS AT AZRIELI OR ITS AFFILIATE RESEARCH CENTERS MUST PROPERLY CITE THIS AFFILIATION: Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel. IF YOU ARE UNSURE OR NEED GUIDANCE, PLEASE CONTACT US.

Nikola Lukic, Trishna Saha, Stefanie Lapetina, Michal Gendler, Gilad Lehmann, Hava Gil-Henn: Measuring Cell-Edge Protrusion Dynamics during Spreading using Live-Cell Microscopy (J Vis Exp .)
Maya Levhar, Anat Schonblum, Keren Agay-Shay: Residential greenness and hair cortisol levels during the first trimester of pregnancy (Environ Res .)
Shemy Carasso, Edo Y Birati, Offer Amir: The relationship between the body mass index and in-hospital mortality in patients admitted for sudden cardiac death in the United States (Clin Cardiol . )
Omry Koren: Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist (Nat Med . )
Khalaf Kridin: Lichen Planus (Front Med (Lausanne) .)
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Orly Weissberg, Alessandro Gorohovski: Correction to: Specific Susceptibility to COVID-19 in Adults with Down Syndrome (Neuromolecular Med .)
Danna Krupik: National COVID-19 vaccine program progress and parents' willingness to vaccinate their children (Hum Vaccin Immunother .)
Inbar Ben Shachar, Ilan Atlas: Minimally invasive approach in endometrial cancer with lower uterine segment involvement in stage ≥ II: A retrospective study (Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol .)
Ayelet Armon-Omer, Eti Amir, Saleh Khateeb, Itai Mizrachi, Monia Shalan, Uri Yatzkar: Unique Trans-fatty Acid Profile in Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Front Psychiatry .)
Michal Sagiv, Mohammad Adawi: The association between elevated serum interleukin-22 and the clinical diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis: A retrospective study (Int J Rheum Dis .)
Andrei Braester, Alexander Shturman, Bennidor Raviv, Lev Dorosinsky, Eyal Rosental, Shaul Atar: What a Family Doctor Should Know about Incidental Finding of High Mean Platelet Volume, Metabolic Syndrome, and Pre-diabetes (Isr Med Assoc J . )
Andrei Braester, Masad Barhoum: Choosing Wisely Project and Patient Shared Decision-making: Between Hammer and Alvin (Isr Med Assoc J .)
Einat Levy, Amir Kuperman, Eyal Sela, Adham Kashkoush, Abeer Dabbah Miari, Randa Yawer Hana, Ieva Freilich, Ahmad Bader, Maayan Gruber: Utility of the Pediatric Bleeding Questionnaire in Predicting Posttonsillectomy Bleeding (Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg .)
Evgeny Farber, Anaam Hanut, Hagar Tadmor, Ana Ruth, Farid Nakhoul, Nakhoul Nakhoul: Autophagy and Diabetic Nephropathy (Harefuah .)
Khalaf Kridin: Evaluation of Site- and Autoantigen-Specific Characteristics of Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid (JAMA Dermatol . )
Maamoun Basheer, Elias Saad, Dorin Shlezinger, Nimer Assy: Convalescent Plasma Reduces Mortality and Decreases Hospitalization Stay in Patients with Moderate COVID-19 Pneumonia (Metabolites .)
Omry Koren: Over-celling fetal microbial exposure (Cell .)
Shemy Carasso, Offer Amir: Clinical Predictors of Mortality in Prehospital Distress Calls by Emergency Medical Service Subscribers (J Clin Med .)
Immediate Post-Procedural and Discharge Assessment of Mitral Valve Function Following Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair: Correlation and Association with Outcomes (J Clin Med .)
Hava Gil-Henn: Inhibition of Vasculogenic Mimicry and Angiogenesis by an Anti-EGFR IgG1-Human Endostatin-P125A Fusion Protein Reduces Triple Negative Breast Cancer Metastases (Cells .)
Sondra Turjeman, Oren Ziv, Omry Koren: Preterm infant meconium microbiota transplant induces growth failure, inflammatory activation, and metabolic disturbances in germ-free mice (Cell Rep Med . )

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