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Administration

Prof. Naomi Ori

Professor
Head of Department
Phone: +972-(0)8-9489605
naomi.ori@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Site
Mechanisms underlying plasticity of plant development and patterning, leaf, flower and fruit development.
Neomi Maimon

Administrative Director
+972-(0)8-948-9251
neomim@savion.huji.ac.il

Active Faculty Members

Prof. Shahal Abbo

Professor

Jacob and Rachel Liss Chair in Agronomy

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489443

shahal.abbo@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Crop evolution in the Near East, Genetics and breeding of chickpea

Dr. Niv De-Malach

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489684

niv.demalach@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Competition and biodiversity in plant communities

Dr. Idan Efroni

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489252

idan.efroni@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Publications

Regeneration and adventitious root development.

Prof. Rivka Elbaum

Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489335

rivka.elbaum@mail.huji.ac.il

Building A, Room 2118

Personal Site

Plant cell wall structure and function; Hygroscopic movement for seed dispersal; Silica in plants.

Dr. Leor Eshed-Williams

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489964

leor.williams@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Meristem development and the mechanism of regeneration, mainly from the chromatin perspective.

Dr. Tamar Friedlander

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489262

tamar.friedlander@mail.huji.ac.il

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Computational - theoretical approaches to study self-incompatibility in plant fertilization; evolution and organization of gene regulatory networks.

Prof. José Grünzweig

Associate Professor

+972-(0)8-9489782

jose.gruenzweig@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Human impacts on plants (especially woody species), ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles at organismic, community and ecosystem scales.

Dr. Smadar Harpaz-Saad

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Cyril Rosenbaum Senior Lectureship in Horticulture

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489264

smadar.harpaz@mail.huji.ac.il

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Plant cell wall, cellulose biosynthesis, genes in cell wall function, Seed mucilage to study cell wall metabolism, Fruit tree physiology.

Dr. Ittai Herrmann

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489757

ittai.herrmann@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Publications

Remote sensing of vegetation, Hyperspectral imaging, Precision agriculture, High-throughput plant phenotyping

our location (kml)

Prof. Menachem Moshelion

Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489781 | Mobile: +972-(0)54-8820182

menachem.moshelion@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Publications

Mechanisms controlling water-use efficiency, water-potential homeostasis and productivity under normal and abiotic stress.

Prof. Assaf Mosquna

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)54-4506508

assaf.mosquna@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Plant response to environmental stress, novel plant hormones and growth regulators.

Prof. Naomi Ori

Professor

Head of Department

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489605

naomi.ori@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Mechanisms underlying plasticity of plant development and patterning, leaf, flower and fruit development.

Prof. Zvi Peleg

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489638

zvi.peleg@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Lab Website

Plant response to abiotic stress combinations, abiotic stress tolerance in crop-plants, Quantitative genetics of yield.

Dr. Guy Polturak

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

08-9489094

guy.polturak@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Plant Specialized Metabolism, Metabolic Engineering

Prof. Shilo Rosenwasser

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489735/737

shilo.rosenwaser@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Redox regulation of metabolism, stress acclimation, and cell death in photosynthetic organisms.

Prof. Alon Samach

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489812

alon.samach@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Molecular mechanisms involved in plant developmental regulation, specifically the transition to flowering.

Prof. Yehoshua Saranga

Professor

Haim Gvati Chair in Agriculture

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489040

shuki.saranga@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Physiological and genetic aspects of crop adaptation to stress conditions, Sustainable agriculture, Crops for arid regions.

Prof. Efrat Sheffer

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489513

efrat.sheffer@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Linking individual plant strategies to ecosystem processes. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in natural plant communities

Dr. Doron Shkolnik

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

doron.shkolnik@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Seed germination and seedling establishment

Prof. Oded Shoseyov

Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489084

oded.shoseyov@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Publications

Combining plant molecular biology, protein engineering and nano-biotechnology to develop super-performing materials for affordable and sustainable applications.

Dr. Hila Toporik

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

hila.toporik@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Photosynthesis, Photosynthetic complexes, Assembly, cyanobacteria, membrane proteins, Cryo-EM

Prof. Alexander Vainstein

Professor

Wolfson Family Chair in Floriculture

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489082/0

alexander.vainstein@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Identification of novel aroma genes, Metabolic engineering of plants and yeast, Site-specific genome modification and genetic engineering in plants.

Prof. David Weiss

Professor

James de Rothschild Chair in Horticulture

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489436

david.weiss@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Hormone signal transduction and responses (gibberellin and cytokinin).

Dr. Yotam Zait

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Yotam.Zait@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Page

Lab Site

Photosynthesis and water use efficiency improvement in crops, optimizing mesophyll conductance to CO2, guard cell physiology

Emeritii

Prof. Zach Adam

Emeritus

Phone: 972 54 882 0601

zach.adam@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Proteolysis in Chloroplasts

Prof. Arie Altman

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489477 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9489899

arie.altman@mail.huji.ac.il

Building H

Personal Site

Molecular regulation of plant response to drought and salinity, Forestry biotechnology, Plant tissue culture and propagation, Plant gene-culture coevolution and niche construction.

Prof. Avigdor Cahaner

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489214 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9489432 | Mobile: +972-(0)54-8820091

avigdor.cahaner@mail.huji.ac.il

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Quantitative genetics; genotype-by-environment interaction(GxE); chicken breeding, DNA markers, heat tolerance, ascites, immune response, fat deposition, water consumption and feed efficiency.

Prof. Henryk Hanokh Czosnek

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489249/903 | Cell: +972-(0)54-8820627 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9468265

hanokh.czosnek@mail.huji.ac.il

Building H

Personal Site

Interactions between viruses, their host plant and their insect vector; Virus indexing and plant resistance in the Middle East.

Dr. Yonatan Elkind

Emeritus

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489246

yonatan.elkind@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Application of genetic engineering to plant breeding and physiology.

Prof. Shmuel Gazit

In Memoriam

Plant Science and Genetics

Personal Site

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Shmuel Gazit

1029 - 2020

Reproductive biology and productivity of subtropical fruit tree crops; avocado, mango and litchi breeding.

Prof. Eliezer E. Goldschmidt

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9481353 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9468263

eli.goldsmit@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Chlorophyll breakdown and chloroplast senescence; role of ethylene in citrus fruit ripening; flower induction in fruit trees; history and genetics of the Citron.

Prof. Joseph (Jossi) Hillel

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)77-7014324 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9354833

joseph.hillel@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Population and Quantitative geneticist with experience in gene mapping projects aimed to detect genes (QTLs) controlling quantitative complex traits.

Prof. Jaime Kigel

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489916

Jaime.Kigel@mail.huji.ac.il

Building H

Ecology of Mediterranean and semiarid plant communities, grazing effects, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, plant-environment interactions, climate change, physiology and ecology of seed germination.

Prof. Gideon Ladizinsky

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489253

ladizins@agri.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Evolution of cultivated crops; Chormosomal and genetic diversity in wild relatives.

Prof. David Levy

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489764 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9489899

Levy.david@mail.huji.ac.il

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Prof. Nava Moran

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489324 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9489325

nava.moran@mail.huji.ac.il

Building A

Personal Site

Plant signal transduction, regulation of plant membrane transport, plant ion channels, bundle sheath.

Prof. Haim D. Rabinowitch

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489244 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9462384

haim.rabinowitch@mail.huji.ac.il

Kennedy Leigh A

Personal Site

Vegetable physiology, breeding & seed production, esp. tomatoes, alliums, and potatoes.

Prof. Joseph Riov

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)54-8820686 l Fax: +972-(0)8-9489544

joseph.riov@mail.huji.ac.il

Kennedy Leigh A, room 220

Personal Site

Mechanisms of controlling adventitious root formation, with an emphasis on auxin activity and metabolism. Genetics of forest trees. Abscission control of plant organs.

Prof. Baruch Rubin

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489248 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9362083 | Cell: +972-(0)54-8820054

rubin@mail.huji.ac.il

Building A

Personal Site

Weed biology and management; herbicide physiology and action in crops, weeds and environment; Mechanisms of herbicide-resistance in weeds.

Prof. Amnon Schwartz

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489917 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9489069 | Cell: +972-(0)52-8634452

amnon.schwartz@mail.huji.ac.il

Building A

Personal Site

Plant water relations, Plant gas exchange, Irrigation scheduling of orchards and vineyards based on physiological parameters.

Prof. Elisha Tel-Or

Emeritus

Tel: +972-(0)8-9489262 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9468785

elisha.telor@mail.huji.ac.il

Building A

Personal Site

Plant Responses to Environmental Abiotic Stresses; Phytoremediation of industrial sludges by the Nymphae is being developed for polluted sludge in Haifa Bay.