Postdocs and Graduate Students

Khaled Bishara 

Felix Glinka 

Mikhail Gordeev 

Liubov Govta

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 172 | Email: kbishara@staff.haifa.ac.ilSubject: Improving tomato salt tolerance by elucidating the cellular and genetic basis of Na+ transport and accumulation Advisors: Dr. Lidor Shaar-Moshe 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 216| Studied biology (BSc at Ruhr Universitity Bochum) and bioinformatics (MSc at Eberhards Karl University Tübingen). Interested in evolution, population genetics, entomology and bioinformatics. Studied population genomics of African honeybees in his MSc with Martin Hasselmann and Daniel Huson. Now studies the genomic basis (using genomic mapping approaches) of the evolution of collective behavior in the desert harvester ant  Pogonomyrmex barbatus , focusing on foraging behavior in variable climate conditions, in a collaboration with the  lab of Deborah Gordon (Stanford) . 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 224    |   Email:  misha.n.gord@gmail.comSubject:   The molecular biology of environmental stress tolerance in mammalsAdvisors:  Dr. Imad Shams

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 212 | Phone: 972-04-828-8603|Fax:  972-04-8288602  Email:  lagovta83@gmail.comSubject:  Plant Genomics and Disease Resistance  Advisors:  Prof. Tzion Fahima 

Nikolai Govta

Elizaveta Guseva 

Maimona Higazi 

Mark Mazin 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Lady Barbara Davis Wild Cereal Gene Bank | Phone:  972-04-8240783| Fax: 972-04-8288678    Email:  nvgovta82@gmail.comSubject:   Functional characterization of genes associated with nitrogen accumulation in wheat grains Advisors:  Dr. Tamar Krugman, Prof. Assaf Distelfeld 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 212 | Phone: +79522605248 Email: eguseva@campus.haifa.ac.il Subject: Plant Genomics and Disease Resistance Advisors: Prof. Tzion Fahima 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 231 | Email: mimona.higaze@gmail.comSubject: Resistance to Yellow Rust disease in Svevo cultivar wheat Advisors: Prof. Tzion Fahima, Dr. Hanan Sela

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Ph.D. student Office: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 224 | Email: m.mazin@alumni.nsu.ru 

Subject:   Investigating Inflammation Control in Aging on the Model of the Blind Mole Rat Spalax

Advisors:  Dr. Imad Shams, Dr. Irena Manov 

Yael Lev-Mirom 

Irina Mukhametzyanov 

Amani Odeh 

Yoann Pellen 

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Office: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 214 | Email: yael@evo.haifa.ac.il Subject: Wheat domestication and evolutionAdvisors: Prof. Assaf Distelfeld 

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Office: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 212 |Phone: 972-055-918-6354 Email: mhmtznv.irina@gmail.com Subject: Plant Genomics and Disease Resistance Advisors: Prof.  Tzion Fahima 

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Postdoctoral ResearcherOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 224 | Email: amani.o1987@gmail.com I am currently engaged in my second postdoctoral research focusing on sarcopenia. In this field, we investigate force and fatigue measurements in aging mammals, aiming to comprehend the fundamental mechanisms behind skeletal muscle injury 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 216| Email: pellen.yoann@gmail.com Studied at the Toulouse III Paul Sabatier university in France, B.Sc. in cell biology and physiology, M.Sc. in anthropobiology and population genetics. Studied the demographic history of the brown lemur Eulemur fulvus mayotensis. Received IT training and spent one year as a software developer. Now studying adaptive evolution of odorant receptor (OR) genes in Camponotus floridanus, looking for the molecular evolutionary mechanisms of OR specificity towards cuticluar hydrocarbons (CHCs) in a collaboration with the lab of Juergen Liebig (ASU).

Evgenii Potapenko

Tamara Reveguk 

Shaul Sapielkin

Max Zion

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 217| Phone: 972-4-8288039 Fax: 972-4-8288-235 Email: potapgene@gmail.comSubject: The interplay between genomic landscapes and ecological differentiation in natural Israeli populations of wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum and H. bulbosumAdvisors: Prof. Abraham B. Korol, Dr. Sariel Hübner (MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute), Prof. Sagi Snir

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 212 | Phone: +972587260797Email: tmakarova@evo.haifa.ac.il Subject: Discovery of kinase fusion proteins across the plant kingdomAdvisors: Prof. Tzion Fahima, Prof. Gitta Coaker

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 217| Phone: 972-4-8288039 Fax: 972-4-8288-235 Email: sapielkinpda@gmail.com Subject: Analysis of recombination control: From eukaryotic protein space to recQTL mapping and population genetic analysis in Drosophila and wheat Advisors: Prof. Abraham B. Korol, Dr. Eyal Privman 

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Ph.D. studentOffice: Multi-Purpose Building, Room 216 | Phone: 972-4-8280-707 | Fax: 972-4-8288-235.Studied biology at Moscow State University (BSc in evolutionary biology) and engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University (MSc in land systems and robots engineering). Studied the metagenome of black garden ants. Worked as an engineer and software developer. Currently studying the influence of microbiome on the behavior of the black desert ant.