academic staff

Dr. Jedediah (Jed) Silver

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

jedediah.silver@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Website

Development economics, Agricultural productivity, Misallocation, Credit, risk, and factor markets

Prof. Avi Simhon

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489400

asimhon@huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Technological change, macroeconomics, economic growth and development economics.

Dr. Aliza Stark

Senior Teacher

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489612. Fax: +972-(0)8-9363208.

aliza.stark@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Nutrition education, health promotion, improving nutritional and therapeutic value of foods.

Prof. Amir Steinman

Professor

Phone: +972-(0)3-9688544

amirst@savion.huji.ac.il

personal page

Equine Internal Medicine, Equine Neurology, Large Animal Pharmacology

Dr. Eran Tas

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Senior Lectureship in Agriculture

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489139

eran.tas@mail.huji.ac.il

Lubell building, office 15

Lab site

Personal site

Agro-meteorology, atmosphric chemistry, air-pollution, modelling, field measurements.

Prof. Oren Tirosh

Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489623.

oren.tirosh@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Elucidation of cellular and molecular action of dietary antioxidants.

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. Aron Troen

Associate Professor

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489476

aron.troen@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Nutritional Neuroscience, prevention of cerebrovascular disease and dementia.

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.

Dr. Yossi Wein

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

D.V.M, Ph.D. Immunology

Phone:+972-(0)8-9489289

yosi.wein@mail.huji.ac.il

Animal Sciences, Room: 004C

Personal Site

Animal histology, physiology & immunology
Faculty animal care ethics committee
Farm animals supervising veterinarian

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).

Prof. Oded Yarden

Professor

Buck Family Chair in Plant Pathology

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489298/315 | Fax: +972-(0)8-9468785

oded.yarden@mail.huji.ac.il

Aaronsohn building

Personal Site

Molecular mechanisms of fungal growth and development, cell wall biosynthesis, regulation of hyphal elongation and branching.

Dr. Avihu Yona

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

avihu.yona@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Utilizing lab evolution to develop novel microbial food additives and therapeutical probiotics for the human microbiome

Dr. Shikma Zaarur

Senior Lecturer

+972-(0)8-9489174

shikma.zaarur@mail.huji.ac.il

Personal Site

Soil Geochemistry, rock weathering, soil formation

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

The Robert H. Smith

Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment

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academic staff

Dr. Jedediah (Jed) Silver

Prof. Avi Simhon

Dr. Aliza Stark

Prof. Amir Steinman

Dr. Eran Tas

Prof. Oren Tirosh

Dr. Hila Toporik

Prof. Aron Troen

Prof. Alexander Vainstein

Dr. Yossi Wein

Prof. David Weiss

Prof. Oded Yarden

Dr. Avihu Yona

Dr. Shikma Zaarur

Dr. Yotam Zait