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The Bavarian Chapter of the German Society of Friends of the Weizmann Institute held its second Weizmann lecture, hosted by the Max Plank Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, on February 21 2018. About 100 guests were in attendance. The keynote speaker was Prof. Alon Chen, head of the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute…

About Daphna Margolin: Daphna Margolin was born in Kibbutz Tel-Yosef in Israel and is a leading Eco-Tech artist. Over the years her artistic and educational endeavors have been recognized internationally and her work focuses on the themes of ecology, technology, the recycling of the earth’s resources and the human experience. The Gene Touch Exhibition The…

By Jutta Czeguhn December 8th 2017, Exhibition In the pictures by the Israeli artist Daphna Margolin the boundary between biology and technology is no longer perceivable. Now her exhibition ‘Gene Touch’ is being shown in the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, of all places. Anwar el-Sadat, wearing socks, sitting cross-legged, praying. The Egyptian president liked…

By Miriam Pietrangelo-Ankermann December 8th 2017, Exhibition Daphna Margolin’s works delve into ecology and technology and are not on show at the MPI of Biochemistry Martinsried - The Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried really is a fitting exhibition venue for Daphna Margolin. For decades, Margolin has been dealing with the interplay of…