Principal Investigators
Assaf Distelfeld
Assaf Distelfeld
Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology Director, Institute of EvolutionOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, room 214 | Phone: 972-4-8288328Email: adistelfe@univ.haifa.ac.il Subject: Cereal evolution and domestication, particular interest in wheat nutritional value, flowering time and seed morphology.
Sarit Avrani
Sarit Avrani
Lecturer, Department of evolutionary and environmental biologyOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 80| Phone: 972-4-8240617 | Lab: 972-4-8240179Email:savrani@univ.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Aquatic Microbial Interactions
Tzion Fahima
Tzion Fahima
Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyDirector of the Institute of Evolution during 2013-2019Office: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 212 | Phone: 972-4-8240-784 | Fax: 972-4-8288-602Email: tfahima@evo.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Plant genomics; genomics of plant disease resistance; characterization, utilization and conservation of wild cereals.
Moshe Inbar
Moshe Inbar
Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 70| Phone: 972-4-8288-767 | Fax: 972-4-8288-779Email: minbar@research.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Animal – plant interactions
Tamar Krugman
Tamar Krugman
Senior Researcher, Curator of Lady Barbara Davis Wild Cereal Gene Bank (ICGB)Office: Lady Barbara Davis Wild Cereal Gene Bank | Phone: 972-4-8240-783 | Fax: 972-4-8288678Email: tkrugman@evo.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Collection, preservation and genetic studies in wild cereals from Israel. Identification of genes associated with drought resistance and high grain protein in wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, and wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum, for crop improvement
Lady Barbara Davis Wild Cereal Gene Bank | Photo album | Publications |CV
Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 220 | Phone: 972-4-6647990 Email: alivnat@univ.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Evolutionary theory; population genetics; the evolution of sex and recombination; mutational mechanisms;modularity; conflict and cooperation; research at the interface of theoretical computer science and evolutionary biology
Irena Manov M.D.
Irena Manov M.D.
Associate ProfessorOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 224 | Phone: 972-4-6647954 | Mobile: 972-545243408Email: irena.manov@univ.haifa.ac.il | irenamanov@gmail.comSubject: Evolution, aging and cancer: tumor suppressive mechanisms and anti-inflammatory network in long-lived, hypoxia-tolerant subterranean rodent, Spalax
Eyal Privman
Eyal Privman
Senior Lecturer, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 216 | Phone: 972-545224888Email: eprivman@univ.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Evolution of social insects, evolution of social structure, evolution of sex determination, evolution of olfaction and chemical communication, evolutionary genomics, population genomics, inference of selectionpressures and adaptive evolution
Senior ResearcherOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 229 | Phone: 972-4-8288-038 | Fax: 972-4-8288-678Email: eugenia@research.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Population and evolutionary genetics of Drosophila, sexual selection and isolation, genetic bases of heat adaptation, molecular evolution
Olga Raskina
Olga Raskina
Senior ResearcherOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 149 | Phone: 972-4-8240-785 | Fax: 972-4-8288-235Email: raskina@research.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Evolution and speciation of wild wheats; microevolution; repetitive DNA in plant evolution; molecular cytogenetics
Ram Reshef
Ram Reshef
Senior Lecturer, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyPhone: 972-4-8288-960 Email: reshefr@sci.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Vertebrate Developmental Biology and Evolution
Nir Sapir
Nir Sapir
Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyOffice: Beit Sala, Room 108 | Phone: 972-4-6647966Email: nirs@sci.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Animal flight
Lidor Shaar-Moshe
Lidor Shaar-Moshe
Senior Lecturer, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology
Office: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 172 | Phone: 972-4-824-9304
Email: lidorshaar@sci.haifa.ac.il
Subjects: Plant tolerance to abiotic stresses, Cell type function and developmental regulation, Stress physiology, Plant anatomy, Single-cell transcriptomics, Targeted genome editing
Imad Shams
Imad Shams
Senior LecturerOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 224| Phone: 972-4-8249972 | Fax: 972-4-8288-235Email: imad.shams@univ.haifa.ac.ilDepartment website: http://deeb.haifa.ac.il/Subject: Physiological and molecular adaptations to environmental stress in mammals
Sagi Snir
Sagi Snir
Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental BiologyOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room M14 | Phone: 972-4-8288-774 | Fax: 972-4-8288-788Email: ssagi@research.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Evolution in particular Microbial and Non Tree-Like Evolution, Mathematical and Phylogenetics, Computational Genomics, Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization"
Eran Tauber
Eran Tauber
Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology Office: Multi-Purpose Building, room 222 | Phone: 972-4-8288784Email: etauber@univ.haifa.ac.il Subject: The genetics of the circadian clock and seasonal timing, with particular interest in natural genetic variation, population genetics and molecular evolution.
ResearcherOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 149 | Phone: 972-4-8249-697 | Fax: 972-4-8288-235Email: marina@evo.haifa.ac.ilSubject : Taxonomy, diversity, ecology, phytogeography, and biochemistry of lichens; bioindicationLichens and lichenicolous fungi of Israel