ADAMA center courses:
The ADAMA center courses are now open to MSc and PhD students from all Academic Institutes in Israel
The Basics of Agrochemical Formulations Work

Course No. 0351-4110
School of Chemistry
Lecturers: Prof Yael Roichman, Prof. Lihi Abramovich, Dr. Gilad Silbert
Short Course Description
Introduction to pesticides formulation-crop protection and pesticides; formulation types; codes; Soft matter; dispersion and suspension; colloids;
TAU students - MSc students register through Ms. Sarit Bartov chemistry@tauex.tau.ac.il and PhD students register through Ms. Ronit Weingarten ronitwe@tauex.tau.ac.il
Non-TAU students – please submit an inter-institutional course registration confirmation from your academic Institute (“רישום בין מוסדי”), to Ms. Zohara Holtzblat zoharah@tauex.tau.ac.il ( for MSc Students), or to Ms. Gila Holtzman gilah@tauex.tau.ac.il ( for PhD Students) from the Academic Secretariat. To complete registration please contact Ms. Cila Roth Bloch chemist@tauex.tau.ac.il.
Formulation Approaches in Crops Protection

Course No. 0411-3250
School of Plant Sciences and Food Security
Lecturers: Dr. Nir Sade, Dr. Roy Weinstain, Dr. Harry Teicher
Short Course Description
The course focuses on current formulations in use for crops protection. It provides fundamentals in plant physiology and anatomy as well as in active ingredients ?pharmacokinetics? in plants, which present challenges in crops protection. The course focuses on cutting edge formulation strategies to overcome these challenges, from formulation chemistry to its interaction with the plants and their environment.
TAU students - register through Ms. Nurit Rosenman nuritr@tauex.tau.ac.il from the Faculty of Life Sciences.
Non-TAU students – please submit an inter-institutional course registration confirmation from your academic Institute (“רישום בין מוסדי”), to Ms. Zohara Holtzblat zoharah@tauex.tau.ac.il (for MSc Students), or to Ms. Gila Holtzman gilah@tauex.tau.ac.il (for PhD Students) from the Academic Secretariat. To complete registration please contact Ms. Nurit Rosenman nuritr@tauex.tau.ac.il .
Agrochemical Formulations Lab

Course No. 0351-4107
School of Chemistry
Lecturers: Prof. Roey Amir and Team leaders from ADAMA
Short Course Description:
The lab course will focus on teaching how to plan and develop pesticides formulation, evaluate its physicochemical properties, test its stability and biological performance.
**Completing the course The Basics of Agrochemical Formulations Work is a prerequisite for participating in the lab course**
TAU students - MSc students register through Ms. Sarit Bartov chemistry@tauex.tau.ac.il and PhD students register through Ms. Ronit Weingarten ronitwe@tauex.tau.ac.il .
Non-TAU students – please submit an inter-institutional course registration confirmation from your academic Institute (“רישום בין מוסדי”), to Ms. Zohara Holtzblat zoharah@tauex.tau.ac.il (for MSc Students), or to Ms. Gila Holtzman gilah@tauex.tau.ac.il (for PhD Students) from the Academic Secretariat. To complete registration please contact Ms. Cila Roth Bloch chemist@tauex.tau.ac.il .
(Students from Ariel University and Reichman University, which currently don’t have an mutual agreement with TAU, can contact the center directly at adamacenter@tauex.tau.ac.il )
Affiliated courses:
New frontiers in drug release

0116-5942-01
School of Physiology and Pharmacology
Lecturer: Prof. Ronit Satchi Fainaro
Short Course Description:
1.Introduction to DDS : the medical need, Pharmacokinetics
2.Angiogenesis as a common denominator of disease and the Enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect
3.Rational design of Polymer Therapeutics :
4.Polymeric drugs, hyperbranched polymers, Dendrimers and Micelles as drug and oligonucleotide nanocarriers
5.Lipid based nanoparticles (liposomes, gagomers and collagomers) : structural, physico-chemical characterization.
6.Antibodies as targeting moieties for DDS
7.Oligonucleotides therapeutics: challenges and opportunities
8.Immuno Nanotoxicity
9.Designing stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems
10.Controlled release systems in tissue engineering
11. Colonic delivery systems
12-14. - Seminars
Dynamics of liquids

0351-4055-01
School of Chemistry
Lecturer: Prof. Haim Diamant
Short Course Description:
Dynamics of Complex Fluids is a graduate course, dedicated to the laws that govern the flow of complex and biological fluids, and the motion of microscopic objects inside them. It addresses the dynamics of colloidal suspensions, polymer solutions, and fluid membranes, and the viscoelastic response of soft materials.
New frontiers in nanotechnology

0103-5060-01
School of Medicine
Lecturer: Prof. Lihi Abramovich
Short Course Description:
New Horizons in Nanotechnology
Introduction to the field of nanotechnology with an emphasis on medical and biological aspects, building blocks used in the field and tissue engineering applications, sensor development, controlled drugs release. Being acquainted with the main research tools and leading innovative research in the field.
Physical chemistry of polymers

0351-4201
School of Chemistry
Lecturer: Dr. Amit Sitt
Short Course Description
Polymers surround us in our daily lives, emerging in many different systems, from industry to medicine and biology. Although the chemical structure of various polymers can be quite different, many polymers exhibit similar physical properties which emanate from the fact that they are composed of giant chains that interact through (usually weak) intermolecular forces.
The first part of the course will deal with the physical chemistry of polymers. We will examine and characterize what is common and different between different polymers. We will describe the kinetics of the polymerization process, define models for the structure of polymer chains, and examine how the structure affects the mechanical properties of the polymers and their thermodynamics in the mixtures and in solutions.
In the second part of the course, we will focus on topics at the forefront of science and review the physical chemistry of a number of polymeric systems, with an emphasis on stimulus-responsive polymers, copolymer block, and conductive polymers.
Design, synthesis and applications of smart polymers

0351-4430-01
School of Chemistry
Lecturer: Prof. Roey Amir
Short Course Description
The course will start with introduction to polymers and will include basic terms in polymer chemistry, types of polymerizations (radical, anionic, cationic, etc.) and common characterization techniques. We will then focus on the formation of structures with different architectures (copolymers, block-copolymers, grafted polymers, dendrimers, dendrimer-polymer hybrid, etc.), characterization approaches and discussion in the challenges that are associated with the preparation of various macromolecules. Next, we will discuss the “behavior” of stimuli-responsive polymers, their ability to self-assemble into supramolecular structures and the relation between the structure of polymers and the formed assemblies. The major part of the course will be dedicated to studying and reviewing examples for the design and synthesis of supramolecular assemblies based on stimuli-responsive polymers that can change their physical and chemical properties in response to external stimuli (light, pH, temperature and enzymes) while addressing the potential of smart polymeric assemblies.
Plant-pathogen interactions

0455-3424-01
Faculty of Life Sciences -
Biology
Lecturers: Prof Guido Sessa, Prof Amir Sharon
Short Course Description
Course description: Pests have threatened crop production from the beginning of plants domestication. Among different types of pests, plant pathogens are the most significant cause of crop damages, accounting for more than 20% yield losses annually. The course presents the area of plant diseases with emphasis on the molecular mechanisms of interactions between pathogens and plants. The course objective is to introduce to the students the plant immune system and the different groups of plant pathogens.
The course will include the following topics: the plant immune system, pathogens and pathogenicity mechanisms of fungal, bacterial, and viral plant pathogens. The general characteristics and interaction mechanisms of each group of pathogens with plants will be presented along with examples of advanced disease control methods as alternatives for chemical pesticides.
Drug-Eluting Biomedical Devices

0553-5332
Faculty of Engineering -
Bio-Medical Engineering
Lecturer: Prof Meital Zilberman
Short Course Description
Three weekly hours. 3 points.
Prerequisite: Biomaterials, or materials science and engineering (at least 3 points).
This course focuses on systems for controlled release of bioactive agents and includes four main chapters as follows:
(a) Bioresorbable polymers: poly(hydroxy acids), polyortho esters, polyanhydrides etc. Mechanisms of degradation, structure and properties.
(b) Methods for preparation of drug-eluting systems: solution processing, melt processing and emulsion-based techniques.
(c) Mechanisms of drug release from polymeric biomaterials and related mathematical models.
(d) Specific examples of drug-eluting devices: antibiotic releas, antiproliferative agent release, and release of bioactive molecules from scaffolds for tissue engineering.
Introduction to Surface Science

0581-5121
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Lecturer: Prof. Shachar Richter
Short Course Description
Credit points: 3
The goal of this short course is to introduce to the students the Principles of surface physics and chemistry.
Selected topics will include the followings:
surface crystallography; reconstruction and relaxation; Energetics at surfaces; Electronic properties of surfaces;
Adsorption phenomena; Surface science analytical tools.