Vered Irihimovitch Ph.D.

Head of Fruit Tree Sciences Department, Orchard Researcher (Avocado and Mango)

1988 – 1991
B.Sc. in Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Life Sciences.
1993 – 1995
M.Sc. in Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Department of Life Sciences. Title of thesis: Phenology, breeding system and fruit development of Argan (Argania spinosa). Supervision: Prof Yosef Mizrahi and Dr Avinoam Nerd.
1996 – 2001
Ph.D. in Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Department of Life Sciences. Title of thesis: Regulation of the rbcL gene in the green algae Chlamydomonas renihardtii in response to a shift from low light to high light. Supervision: Prof Michal Shapira
2001 – 2003
Postdoctoral position at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Department of Life Sciences with Prof Jerry Eichler. Research subject - Relation between translation and translocation of secreted proteins in Archaea.
2003 – 2006
Postdoctoral position at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (B.T.I). Cornell University Ithaca, New York with Prof. David Stern. Research subject - Chloroplast sulfur stress responses in model organisms.
2007-
Research Scientist at the ARO, The Volcani Center, Institute of plant Sciences. Department of fruit trees