| Current position: | Assistant Professor Dept. of Biochemistry Rapapport Institute of Medical Research Faculty of Medicine Technion Haifa ISRAEL |
Former Positions
| 2009 – 2014 | Post-Doctoral fellow, Labs of Prof. Chris Burge, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Prof. Susan Lindquist, the Whitehead Institute. |
Education
| 2005 – 2009 | Ph.D. in Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Advisors: Prof. Moshe Oren and Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel. Thesis: Coupling transcriptional and post-transcriptional miRNA regulation in the control of cell proliferation. |
| 2002 – 2005 | M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Advisors: Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel and Prof. Ron Shamir. Thesis: Discovery of functional sequence motifs and their combinations through gene annotations. |
| 1999 – 2002 | B.Sc. in Computer Science (Cum Laude) and Life Sciences (Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, Israel (double major). |
Awards and fellowships
| October 2011 | The Machiah Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship. |
| July 2010 | National Postdoctoral Award for Advancing Women in Science (Israeli national award). |
| January 2010 | EMBO Long term Post-Doctoral Fellowship. |
| June 2007 | EMBO Short term Fellowship, given for a collaborative visit to Prof. Stephen Cohen’s lab, EMBL Heidelberg. |
| 2007 | Prof. Lee Segal Award for Mathematical applications to Biological systems. |
| 2006 – 2008 | Horowitz Foundation for Complexity Sciences, PhD Fellowship. |
| 2005 | Center for Systems Biology Award, Weizmann Institute of Science. |
| 2002 | B.Sc. cum laude. |
| 2002 | Dean’s excellence list, Faculty of Exact Sciences. |
| 2000 | Dean’s excellence list, Faculty of Life Sciences. |
Travel awards
| October 2008 | The 14th International p53 Workshop Shanghai, China. |
| August 2008 | International Conference of Systems Biology – ICSB2008, Gothenburg, Sweden. |
Invited talks
- “Widespread regulation of translation by elongation pausing in heat shock”. ASBMB Annual meeting, Experimental Biology 2013, Boston, MA. April 2013.
- “Widespread regulation of translation elongation pausing in the mammalian stress response”. Special seminar, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, School of Medicine. March 2013.
- “Widespread regulation of translation elongation pausing in heat shock is mediated by chaperones”. Epigenomics seminar, Broad Institute. Oct 2012.
- “Widespread regulation of translation elongation pausing in heat shock is mediated by chaperones”. CSHL Molecular Chaperones and stress responses meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, NY. May 2012.
- “Widespread regulation of translation elongation pausing in heat shock”. New England RNA Data club. March 2012.
- “Lost in translation: Novel mode of translational control in heat shock – elongation pausing”. Systems Biology department seminar, Harvard. October 2011.
- “Shared transcription programs for miRNAs and their targets in mammalians”. OncomiRs EC grant meeting, Barcelona, Spain. November 2008.
- “Shared transcription programs for miRNAs and their targets is a common feature in the mammalian regulatory network”. International Conference of Systems Biology – ICSB2008, Gothenburg, Sweden. August 2008.
- “Global and local architecture of the mammalian microRNA-transcription factor regulatory network”. Guest Lecture, Felsenstein Medical Research Center (FMRC) Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Rabin Medical Center. March 2008.
- “Global and local architecture of the mammalian microRNA-transcription factor regulatory network”. Guest Lecture, Computational Genomic Seminar, Tel Aviv University. October 2007.
- “Regulation of transcript stability and post-transcriptional processes – from yeast to human”. Regulatory Sequence Motif Discovery workshop, EMBRACE. Sweden, November 2006.
Teaching experience
| 2008 | Introduction to Matlab & Data Analysis, Weizmann Institute of Science, Teaching assistant. |
| 2003 – 2007 | Perl Programming Course for Bioinformatics and Internet, Weizmann Institute of Science, Teaching assistant. |
| 2004 – 2006 | Object-Oriented and Database Programming for Bioinformatics and Internet, Weizmann Institute of Science, Teaching assistant. |
| 2004 | Evolutionary Genomics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Teaching assistant. |
Professional activities
Journal reviewing: RNA, Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS Computational Biology, Medical Oncology, BMC Bioinformatics.