Prof. Efrat Sheffer
Associate Professor
Linking individual plant strategies to ecosystem processes. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in natural plant communities
plant science and genetics
Prof. Yehoshua Saranga
Professor
Haim Gvati Chair in Agriculture
Physiological and genetic aspects of crop adaptation to stress conditions, Sustainable agriculture, Crops for arid regions.
Prof. Alon Samach
Associate Professor
Molecular mechanisms involved in plant developmental regulation, specifically the transition to flowering.
Prof. Shilo Rosenwasser
Associate Professor
Redox regulation of metabolism, stress acclimation, and cell death in photosynthetic organisms.
Prof. Zvi Peleg
Associate Professor
Plant response to abiotic stress combinations, abiotic stress tolerance in crop-plants, Quantitative genetics of yield.
Prof. Naomi Ori
Professor
Head of Department
Mechanisms underlying plasticity of plant development and patterning, leaf, flower and fruit development.
Prof. Assaf Mosquna
Associate Professor
Plant response to environmental stress, novel plant hormones and growth regulators.
Prof. Menachem Moshelion
Professor
Mechanisms controlling water-use efficiency, water-potential homeostasis and productivity under normal and abiotic stress.
Dr. Ittai Herrmann
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Remote sensing of vegetation, Hyperspectral imaging, Precision agriculture, High-throughput plant phenotyping
Dr. Smadar Harpaz-Saad
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Cyril Rosenbaum Senior Lectureship in Horticulture
Plant cell wall, cellulose biosynthesis, genes in cell wall function, Seed mucilage to study cell wall metabolism, Fruit tree physiology.
Prof. José Grünzweig
Associate Professor
Human impacts on plants (especially woody species), ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles at organismic, community and ecosystem scales.
Dr. Tamar Friedlander
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Computational - theoretical approaches to study self-incompatibility in plant fertilization; evolution and organization of gene regulatory networks.
Dr. Leor Eshed-Williams
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Meristem development and the mechanism of regeneration, mainly from the chromatin perspective.
Prof. Rivka Elbaum
Professor
Plant cell wall structure and function; Hygroscopic movement for seed dispersal; Silica in plants.