Talks & Presentations
A selection of invited seminars, keynote presentations, panel sessions, and public outreach spanning RNA structural dynamics, molecular machines, and target-based biophysics.
Invited Talks & Research Seminars
Structural Dynamics of Viral & Functional RNA
- Bay Area RNA Conference, UCSF, Talk. 2026.
- HIV Structural Biology Meeting, National Institutes of Health, Invited Talk. 2025.
- Inter-Lab Structural Biology Symposium, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Talk. 2025.
- CHEETAH Consortium Seminar Series, NIH, Consortium Research Presentation. 2022 & 2024
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Invited Panelist. 2022.
Mucosal Barrier Biophysics & Defense Mechanisms. Layers of Protection: From Molecular Mechanisms to Organism Defense.
- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Seminar. 2019.
- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF, Seminar. 2019.
- Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Seminar. 2019.
- Frontiers of Biophysics (17th Course), Erice, Italy, Flash Talk. 2019.
Ribosomal Mechanisms & Antibiotic Targeting. Avilamycin induces structural changes in the ribosome.
- Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC), New York Structural Biology Center, Seminar. 2019.
- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Seminar. 2016.
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Seminar. 2016.
- Ribosome Structure and Function, EMBO Conference, Strasbourg, France, Poster. 2016.
- Israel Crystallography Association (ICA), Tel-Aviv University, Talk. 2016.
- 8th Graduate Students Chemistry Symposium, Ben-Gurion University, talk. 2016
Proto-Ribosome Evolution & Prebiotic Machines
- Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution Conference, Tel-Aviv University, (Best Lecture Award). 2015.
- Israel Society for Astrobiology and the Origin of Life (ILASOL), Ben-Gurion University, talk. 2016.
- RNA Bioinformatics, Structure, Function, and Regulation Workshop, Technion, Talk. 2013.
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Seminar. 2013.
Panels, Leadership & Symposia
- Co-Organizer: Bay Area RNA conference, UCSF, CA (2020, 2023).
- Symposium Chair & Lead Organizer: 4th Annual MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium, Boston, MA (2019).
- Invited Speaker: Finding a Postdoc & Career Trajectories, MIT (2018).
- Symposium Organizer: Frontiers in Chemical Sciences Symposium, Weizmann Institute of Science (2015).
- Panel Leader: Gender Balance in Chemical Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science (2015).
- Panel Organizer & Speaker: Selecting Rotation Laboratories & Academic Advising, Weizmann Institute (2013).
Media & Science Communication
- Future Directions in HIV Therapy: Horizons in Treatment & Prevention: Guest expert on Talking Science, discussing structural mechanisms and next-gen antiretroviral strategies.
