| Name |
Department |
Phone |
E-Mail |
| Shimshon Belkin |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6584192 |
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| Research Fields: |
Microbial ecology of extreme environments, with a focus on the microbial populations of salt-excreting plants; Microbial water quality; Genetically engineered microbial sensors for environmental monitoring, with an emphasis on toxicity and genotoxicity assessment and on the detection of specific classes of compounds, including trace pharmaceuticals and explosives. |
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| Yehuda Cohen |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585110 |
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| Abraham Fahn Z"L |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585251 |
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| Research Fields: |
Structure and ultrastructure of plant tissues: their characteristics in
relation to function. Secretory tissues: development, structural and
ultrastructural aspects of the secretion process. Characteristics of desert
plant tissues, especially adaptation to arid conditions. Wood anatomy and
development.
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| Joseph Gale |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585201 |
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| Research Fields: |
Basic and applied environmental plant physiology. Relationship between
stress and plant-gas exchange. Photosynthesis. Respiration, transpiration
and plant carbon gain.
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| BenZion Ginzburg |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6584953 |
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| Research Fields: |
Biophysical analysis of water and ion behavior in biological systems, with
emphasis on halophilic microorganisms.
Biotechnology of conversion of algae into liquid fuel.
Dielectric spectroscopy of living cells.
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| Rachel Green |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585391 |
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| Research Fields: |
Circadian rhythms in plants 1. Interactions between the components of the circadian system. 2. Cell-specific circadian rhythms. 3. The adaptive advantages of circadian rhythms |
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| Aaron Kaplan |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585234 |
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| Research Fields: |
Study of mechanisms which drive ecological processes mainly in photosynthetic organisms. What determines who is there and how do the organisms interact with one another and with their changing environment. |
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| Nir Keren |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
+972-2-6585233 |
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| Research Fields: |
Metal transport, accumulation and homeostasis in photosynthetic organisms.
Dynamics of the photosynthetic apparatus: adaptation of photosynthetic organisms to the ever changing environment.
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| Zvi Lerner |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6416538 |
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| Alexander Levine |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6586543 |
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| Research Fields: |
The signaling network that coordinates plant responses to environment. |
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| Rachel Nechushtai |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585242 |
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| Research Fields: |
The structure-function relationships of membrane proteins mainly of the
photosynthetic apparatus. Chloroplast development and light regulated
expression of chlorophyll-protein complexes.
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| Aharon Oren |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6584951 |
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| Research Fields: |
Microbial ecology of the Dead Sea;
Microbial ecology of saltern ponds; Adaptation of microorganisms to life at high salt concentrations; UV-absorbing pigments in cyanobacteria;
Prokaryote taxonomy
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| Uzi Plitmann |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6584316 |
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| Research Fields: |
Biosystematics and evolution of wild and cultivated legumes. Reproductive
and population biology with special emphasis on gametophyte population,
mating systems, reproductive efforts and dispersal modes. Population
biology, ecology and evolution of higher plant parasites. Taxonomic and
and molecular systematic studies (Vicieae). Bioactivity of potentially
medicinal plants.
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| Leonora Reinhold |
Plant & Environmental Sciences |
02-6585250 |
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| Research Fields: |
Transport mechanisms for sugars, amino acids, and ions in plant cell
membranes. Inorganic carbon concentrating mechanisms, particularly in
aquatic microorganisms. Membrane function as related to adaptation to
saline stress. Phloem transport
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