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The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences warmly congratulates our steering committee member Prof. Catherine Dulac for receiving the prestigious Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience. The prize is given to leading researchers whose contributions throughout their career have made a significant impact on the field of neuroscience. The Ralph W. Gerard Prize is given to Prof. Dulac for her significant insights into the sensing of pheromones and the control of social behaviors in mammals.

Prof. Liran Carmel (Life Sciences), in collaboration with Prof. Eran Meshorer (ELSC and Life Sciences), provide the first anatomical reconstruction of the elusive Denisovans.

Authors: Lior Lebovich, Ran Darshan, Yoni Lavi, David Hansel* and Yonatan Loewenstein*

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0682-7

Published in Nature Human Behaviour on September 2019

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Authors: Matan Sorek, Lea R Z Cohen, Eran Meshorer

Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqz003

Published in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics on April 2019

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Authors: Roey Schurr, Shir Filo, Aviv A. Mezer

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116121

Published in NeuroImage on November 2019

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Prof. Israel Nelken, Prof. Adi Mizrahi and Prof. Hagai Bergman are a part of the team leading the development of the brain research center.

for further reading (in Hebrew): https://new.huji.ac.il/article/37961

Authors: Eva Kimel and Merav Ahissar

Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000717

Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition on May 2019

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Authors: Shir Filo, Oshrat Shtangel, Noga Salamon, Adi Kol, Batsheva Weisinger, Sagiv Shifman and Aviv A. Mezer

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11319-1

Published in Nature Communications on July 2019

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Dear past and present students, members and administrative staff,

The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences invites you to join the 10 years celebration!

The celebration will take place on November 14th, 2019, at 18:00, at the Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building.

Follow the event page here for more information that will be added closer to the time of the celebration.

During the first half of 2019 ELSC members have published over 40 papers in scientific journals, among them some of the leading journals in the field of neuroscience, such as Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, PNAS and more. The list of publications presented here demonstrates the commitment of ELSC members to creating scientific collaborations among researchers from different fields of brain sciences. These collaborations are manifested in a number of joint publications, for example: An article by the linguist, Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky and the theoretician, Prof.