AFFILIATIONS

 

July 2013 - Current

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

2011 - Current

Member of IYAR, The Israel Institute for Advanced Research                                                               

2017 - Current

Officer and Treasurer  of the Israeli section of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR)

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2017 - Current

Member of  the Israel Society of Microbiology (ISM) committee  

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2005 - 2013

Research fellow under the supervision of Dr. L.G. Rahme, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston MA.

Research Interest: “Quorum Sensing and Cell Fate Determination of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa“

 

2004-2005

Post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. S. Ben-Yehuda in the Molecular Biology department of the Microbiology Institute of the Hebrew University in Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Research Interest: “Identification and characterization of an extracellular signal affecting sporulation and swarming of Bacillus subtillis.”

 

2004

Post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of  Dr G. Bacrach’s in

the Faculty of Dental medicine of the Hebrew University in Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Research Interest: “Characterization of novel toxin-antitoxin systems and communication signals of oral bacteria”.

 

1996-2004 

Ph.D. in Microbiology under the supervision of Prof. H. Engelberg-Kulka, at the Molecular biology department of the Microbiology Institute, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Dissertation: "The programmed cell death mediated by the mazEF chromosomal addiction system in E. coli: physiological aspects and the relationship of bacteriophages P1 to this system”.

 

1992-1995

M.Sc. in Microbiology under the supervision of Prof. H. Engelberg-Kulka, the Molecular department of the Microbiology Institute of the Hebrew University at the Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. (In Distinction).

Dissertation: ”Isolation and characterization of the mutation bypA: a mutation that enhances the translational bypass in the trpR gene of E. coli”.

                                   

 

1988-1991

B.Sc. in Biology, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.