RESEARCH EXPERIENCE                       

From January 2013:Research engineer in the group of David Granot, ARO.

2009-2012: Research engineer in the group of  Yigal Elad, ARO.

 2004-2009:Research fellow at the University of Leeds, UK.

2000-2002 Research fellow at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherland. 1996-1999 Postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Curie, University of Orsay, France and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

1994-1996 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

1990-1993Ph.D. in Phytopathology  (Cum Laude), Orsay University, Paris France/, Plant Genetics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Project: Molecular biology of a gene induced by ethylene and encoding a basic protein related to pathogenesis.

1988-1989M.Sc. in Phytopathology (Passed with Honours), Orsay University, Paris France/Department of Phytology University Laval, Quebec, CanadaProject: characterization of the genetic variation of the fungus Rhizoctonia solani by R.F.L.P. (Restriction fragment length polymorphism) and Research associate working on Citrus Blight (Fusarium solani), more specifically on immunocytochemical localization of the fusarian toxin Isomarticin in Citrus tissue, in collaboration with Dr. S. Nemec (United State Department of Agriculture, Orlando, Florida, USA).

1986-1988B.Sc. in Cellular Biology and Plant Physiology (Passed with Honours), Orsay University, Paris France.