Corinne Best Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Corinne Best is the Principal Investigator of the Best Lab for Plant Molecular Biology. She received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, where her research focused on plant organellar genomes and the development of advanced genome engineering approaches. Dr. Best’s work centers on chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA, with particular emphasis on transplastomic technologies and organelle–nucleus interactions, aiming to expand the toolbox for organellar genetic engineering in plants.
Education:
2010–2013
B.Sc. in Life Science, Hebrew University, Faculty of Science, Israel
2013–2015
M.Sc. in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Supervisor: Prof. Nir Keren
Thesis: “New insights regarding genes contributing to iron uptake in Cyanobacteria sp. Strain PCC 6803”
2015–2020
Ph.D. in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Supervisor: Prof. Oren Ostersetzer-Biran
Thesis: “Plant mitogenome evolution, gene structure and expression, and the significance of nuclear–organellar cross-talk in these processes”
2020–2021
Postdoctoral Associate, Silberman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Developed in vitro transcription protocols for single-cell analysis of mitochondrial RNA in plants
2021–2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Developed new technologies for organellar DNA engineering in plants