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Nor Chejanovsky, Prof. (Researcher)

Plant Protection, Entomology and the Nematology and Chemistry units

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Tel: +972-3-9683694

Cell: 050-6220694

Email: ninar@volcani.agri.gov.il

Office location: Entomology, The Volcani Center

Department of Entomology
Agricultural Research Organization
The Volcani Center
P.O.Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel

Research lab Director. Entomology Department, Institute of plant Protection, The Volcani Center.

Professor of Virology (The hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences).

Research Interests / Job description
	Insect Viruses: Baculoviruses (host range, implementation in pest control). Bee Viruses (host range, prevention, Colony collapse disorder CCD). The insect antiviral response: innate immunity, RNAi, apoptosis.


Relevant recent publications V. Soroker, A. Hetzroni, B. Yacobson, D. David, A. David, H. Voet, Y. Slabezki, H. Efrat, S. Levski, Y. Kamer, E. Klinberg, N. Zioni, S. Inbar, N. Chejanovsky (2010). EVALUATION OF COLONY LOSSES IN ISRAEL IN RELATION TO THE INCIDENCE OF PATHOGENS AND PESTS. Apidologie. Chejanovsky N. (2007) Using the baculovirus/insect cell system to study apoptosis. Methods Mol Biol. 388:435-46. Rivkin, H., Kroemer, J. A., Bronshtein A., Belausov E., Webb B. A. and Chejanovsky N. Response of immunocompetent and immunosuppressed Spodoptera littoralis larvae to baculovirus infection (2006). J. Gen. Virol. 87, 2217-2225 Regev A, Rivkin H, Gurevitz M, Chejanovsky N. (2006). New measures of insecticidal efficacy and safety obtained with the 39K promoter of a recombinant baculovirus. FEBS Lett. 580:6777-82. Liu Q, Chejanovsky N. (2006).Activation pathways and signal-mediated upregulation of the insect Spodoptera frugiperda caspase-1. Apoptosis. 11:487-96. Liqun L, Rivkin H, Chejanovsky N. (2005). The immediate-early protein IE0 of the Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus is not essential for viral replication. J Virol. 79 :10077-82. Liu Q, Qi Y, Chejanovsky N. 2005. Spodoptera littoralis caspase-1, a Lepidopteran effector caspase inducible by apoptotic signaling. Apoptosis. 10:787-95. Thiem S. M. and Chejanovsky N. (2004). The role of baculovirus apoptotic suppressors in AcMNPV-mediated translation arrest in Ld652Y cells. Virology, 319:292-305. Regev A., Rivkin H., Inceoglu B., Gershburg E., Hammock B. D., Gurevitz M. and Chejanovsky N. (2003). Further enhancement of baculovirus insecticidal efficacy with scorpion toxins that interact cooperatively. FEBS Lett. 537: 106-110. Lu L., Du Q. and Chejanovsky N. (2003). Reduced expression of the immediate early protein IE0 enables efficient replication of Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus in poorly permissive Spodoptera littoralis cells. J. Virol. 77: 535-545. Pei Z., Reske G., Huang Q., Hammock B.D. , Qi Y. , Chejanovsky N.. (2002) Characterization of the apoptosis suppressor protein P49 from the Spodoptera littoralis nucleopolyhedrovirus. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 48677-48684. Zoog S. J., Schiller J.J., Wetter J.A., Chejanovsky, N. and Friesen P.D. (2002). Baculovirus apoptotic suppressor P49 is a substrate inhibitor of initiator caspases resistant to P35 in vivo. The EMBO J. 21: 5310-5314. Du, Q., Lehavi, D., Faktor, O., Qi, Y. and N. Chejanovsky (1999). Isolation of an Apoptosis Suppressor Gene of the Spodoptera littoralis nucleopolyhedrovirus. J Virol. 73: 1278-1285.

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