| Name |
Department |
Phone |
E-Mail |
| Isaiah (Shy) Arkin |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6584329 |
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| Research Fields: |
Computational and experimental structural biology of
membrane proteins: use and development of novel experimental and
computational approaches to elucidate membrane proteins structure.
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| Daphne Atlas |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585406 |
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| Research Fields: |
The mechanism of exocytosis; Neurodegeneration: Development of drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disorders. |
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| Sergei Braun |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585412 |
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| Research Fields: |
Enzymology and industrial enzymology: development, preparation and stabilization of industrial enzymes; Industrial microbiology;Adhesion proterties of microorganisms. |
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| Ioav Cabantchik |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585420 |
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| Research Fields: |
Molecular basis of iron disorders, mapping of iron in cells and tissues, diagnosis and treatment of iron overload and diseases of iron accumulation. |
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| Ami Citri |
Biological Chemistry |
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| Research Fields: |
Neuroscience, molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, drug addiction, feeding disorders, experience-dependent plasticity, neural circuit adaptations, synaptic physiology and plasticity, transcriptional regulatory networks, non-coding RNA. |
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| Nathan De-Groot |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585457 |
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| Research Fields: |
Genomic imprinting. Epigenetic factors in the regulation of gene
expression. The level of the expression of imprinted genes and their
allelic mode of expression during embryogenesis and carcinogenesis.
Imprinted genes as tumor markers. Interaction between normal trophoblast
cells and cells derived from choriocarcinoma as a model for the development
of tumors in vivo.
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| David Engelberg |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6584718 |
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| Research Fields: |
Development of constitutively active MAP/stress kinases for studies of the etiology cancer and inflammation.
Revealing the mechanism of gene expression under stress in yeast and mammalian cells. Focusing on Gcn4, Hsf1 and Msn2/4. Analysis expression of stress-related genes in oncogenically-transformed cells.
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| Nir Friedman |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6584720 |
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| Research Fields: |
Systems Biology of Transcription and Chromatin, Transcription regulation, Chromatin modifications, systematic yeast genetics. |
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| Hagai Ginsburg |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585539 |
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| Research Fields: |
Biochemistry, physiology and biophysics of red blood cell and malarial
parasite membranes. Biochemistry and physiology of energy and oxidative
metabolism of malarial parasites. Mode of antimalarial action of quinoline
containing drugs and the molecular basis of drug resistance. Development of
new antimalarial drugs. Mathematical modeling of the chemotherapy of
malaria.
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| Abraham Hochberg |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585455 |
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| Research Fields: |
Genomic imprinting. Epigenetic factors in the regulation of gene
expression. The level of the expression of imprinted genes and their
allelic mode of expression during embryogenesis and carcinogenesis.
Imprinted genes as tumor markers. Interaction between normal trophoblast
cells and cells derived from choriocarcinoma as a model for the development
of tumors in vivo.
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| Sebastian Kadener |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585099 |
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| Research Fields: |
miRNAs in the brain: role of miRNA-mediated control in the regulation of circadian behavior and sleep in Drosophila. Role of transcriptional regulation in the control of circadian rhythms. |
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| Roger Kornberg |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585883 |
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| Richard Kulka |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585408 |
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| Research Fields: |
Function of ubiquitin in eukaryotic cells: its role in intracellular
proteolysis, stress and DNA repair. Protein degradation signals in
eukaryotic cells.
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| Yehuda Lapidot |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585449 |
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| Research Fields: |
Chemistry of nucleic acids. |
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| Alexander Levitzki |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585404 |
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| Research Fields: |
Signal transduction, Signal transduction therapy,Cancer Research, Medicinal Chemistry. |
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| Michal Linial |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585425 |
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| Research Fields: |
The dynamic processes of nerve terminals and the molecular aspects of
synapse functioning. Control of exocytosis in regulated secretory systems.
Differentiation and neurotransmitter phenotype acquisition in neurons,
a study by proteomics and genomics approaches. Bioinformatics. Large scale
studies of biological sequences and their global organization. Proteomics.
Structural genomics.
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| Oded Livnah |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6586894 |
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| Research Fields: |
Structural determination of biologically related macromolecules via X-ray
crystallographic techniques. Ligand recognition, initial signaling events,
and the role of dimer/oligomer orientation in cytokine receptor systems.
Structural studies of avidin/streptavidin - biotin high affinity systems.
Structural based drug design and optimization. Combinatorial approaches
in drug discovery.
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| Abraham Loyter |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585422 |
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| Research Fields: |
Translocation of proteins and nucleic acid across the nuclear envelope of
animal and plant cells. Entry of viral genome into nuclei of infected
cells, isolation and characterization of plant cells cytosolic receptors
required for nuclei import, the use of specific synthetic peptides to block
nuclear import of proteins and nucleic acids, as a way to inhibit viral
infection.
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| Itzhak Ohad |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585423 |
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| Research Fields: |
Stress responses in photosynthesis. Dynamics of the photosynthetic
apparatus in terms of its biogenesis, regulation of its activity and
mechanism of stress reaction and protection.
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| Joseph Orly |
Biological Chemistry |
972 2 658 5451 |
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| Research Fields: |
Transcriptional control of genes involved in sex steroid synthesis in
the gonads and placenta. Proteolysis and protein quality control
during mitochondria organellogenesis in steroidogenic cells.
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| Etana Padan |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585094 |
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| Research Fields: |
Molecular membrane biology, structure biology, bioenergetics, biochemistry, biophysics. |
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| Tommer Ravid |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6584349 |
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| Research Fields: |
Intracellular pathways for protein quality control; Mechanisms of endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system; Enzymatic reactions of ubiquitin-chain formation and transfer; Regulation of lipids synthesis, storage, and transport by ubiquitin
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| Dana Reichmann |
Biological Chemistry |
(+972) 2-658-6952 |
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| Research Fields: |
Protein homeostasis and stress response, system biology of redox regulation, intrinsically disordered chaperones, computational and experimental biology,proteomics and mass spectrometry. |
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| Shimon Schuldiner |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585992 |
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| Research Fields: |
Biochemistry of Membrane Proteins/ Multidrug Resistance/ Transport Mechanisms |
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| Yulia Shifman |
Biological Chemistry |
02-658-4078 |
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| Research Fields: |
Computational and Experimental protein design. Development of computational method for redesign of protein-protein interfaces for altered affinity and binding specificity. the projects include redesign of calmodulin-target interactions, AChE-toxin interactions, Ras-effector interactions, and prion protein interactions.
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| Hermona Soreq |
Biological Chemistry |
02-6585109 |
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| Research Fields: |
Stress responses. Antisense technology. Acetylcholinesterase biology.
Molecular neurobiology. Messenger RNA studies
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| Wilfred Stein |
Biological Chemistry |
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