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Who we are (were) / What we (sometimes) do outside the lab:
People
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Meirav Avital-Shacham (lab manager) After graduating (cum laude) from the Technion's Faculty of Biology, Meirav joined Tamar Klienberger's lab at the Technion's Faculty of Medicine, where she worked on understanding the biochemical mechanism of the adenovirus E4ORF4 protein. After she finished her PhD and a postdoc at the Technion, Meirav moved to the University of Haifa. Meirav's dream ever since she can remember was to be a scientist and she enjoys the challenges of protein research very much, but her husband and adorable kids, Lihi, Omri and Yaeli, are the greatest loves of her life. |
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Anna Bakhman Anna joined the Kosloff lab in 2014 to gain experience in research that focuses on protein structure and function, as part of an undergraduate research project for honor students, focusing on receptor tyrosine kinases. Anna graduated with a BSc in Biology and Medical Sciences from the University of Haifa in 2016, and continued working on the same subject in her MSc in Human Biology. She graduated with top honors in 2018 and continued to a PhD in the lab. |
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Dan (Dani) Elran Following a BSc (cum laude) in computer engineering from the Technion and an MBA (cum laude) from the University of Haifa, Dan spent most of the past 20 years working in the Israeli and American Hi Tech industries, mostly focusing on medical and computer vision systems. Now he is trying to quench his thirst for understanding of how things work in the human body and filling in missing gaps in his knowledge of Biology - towards an MSc in Human Biology. Of course, this is done only when he's not spending time with his lovely wife and 3 incredible kids... |
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Sabreen Higazi
Sabreen completed her BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and
then joined the Kosloff group for an MSc in Human Biology.
Sabreen is motivated to understand protein-protein interactions better on the structural level.
Her research focuses on characterizing the molecular basis for the function of molecular switches
in G-protein coupled signaling networks by the RGS family.
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Mickey Kosloff (group leader) Mickey Kosloff is a computational and experimental biologist. After graduating with a PhD in Structural and Molecular Biochemistry from the Hebrew University (under the mentorship of the late Prof. Zvi Selinger), he switched fields and learned how to be a proper computational biologist with Barry Honig at Columbia University. He then moved to Duke University Medical School (with Vadim Arshavsky), where he combined his experimental background with structural bioinformatics to figure out how RGS proteins selectively recognize G-proteins. He has been a faculty member at the University of Haifa since 2012. When he is not wasting the time of other lab members, Mickey is busy chasing after his 2 very energetic daughters. |
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Isra Sadiya Isra completed her BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences at the Technion. She graduated with an MSc in Human Biology from the Kosloff group in 2017 and continued to a PhD in the Kosloff lab. In her research she uses computational and experimental approaches to decipher the determinants of G protein-RGS interaction specificity. She is very interested in her research and hopes that it will help us to understand the mechanisms of disease processes as well as to develop novel treatment options. |
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Ziva Shapiro Tuchman Ziva graduated with a dual Chemistry and Biotechnology and Food Engineering BSc from the Technion in 2017. In 2018 she joined the Kosloff lab for an MSc in the Bioinformatics program at the Department of Human Biology. She is currently investigating the interfaces of oligomeric bacterial enzymes and in the near future plans to focus on G protein signaling interaction networks. |
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Lab Alumni:
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Ali Asli Ali graduated from the Technion with a BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences in 2010. He worked as a technician at the R&D unit in Protalix Biotherapeutics, until he started his MSc in Human Biology in the Kosloff lab at the University of Haifa in 2012. He continued to a PhD degree in the lab, where he unraveled the secrets of specificity among RGS proteins, combining computational and experimental techniques. Following a very successful and productive PhD, he graduated in 2018 and continued to a research scientist position in Lonza's R&D Innovation Center. |
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Boris Boltyansky Boris graduated with a Computer Science and Biology BSc from the University of Haifa in 2014. While at the Kosloff lab, he worked on the lab's computational pipeline for structural analysis. He continued to an MSc in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Haifa. |
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Inbal Dagan Inbal joined the Kosloff lab in 2016, during her studies towards a BSc in Biology and Medical Sciences in the University of Haifa. Her goal is to gain research experience in the field of structural bioinformatics, as part of an undergraduate research project focusing on the interactions and specificity of the GAP proteins that control the small G-protein Rab family. She continued to a research position in the Technion's Medical School. |
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Shir Deshel - Navot Shir graduated with a BSc in Biotechnology Engineering from the Ort Braude college. Her MSc research in the Kosloff lab focuses on Gq interactions with multiple effectors, such as PLC and RGS proteins. She graduated with an MSc in Human Biology in 2019 and moved to industry. |
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Samia Gharra Samia completed her BSc in Medical Laboratory Sciences at the Technion in 2012, and joined the Kosloff group a year later. Her research focused on understanding how the "wiring together" of G-protein signaling interaction networks drives cellular communication. She graduated with an MSc in Human Biology in 2016 and moved to teaching young minds the wonders of science. |
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Ran Israeli |
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Mohammad Kasom |
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Inbal Mermershtain Inbal finished her PhD studies in the Structural Biology department at the Weizmann Institute. She returned from a postdoc in the University of Alberta, Canada and joined the Kosloff lab in 2014, where she used her strong structural biology background and deepened her knowledge of structure-based computational biology methods - focusing on protein-protein interactions relevant to pathogen modulation of host proteins. She continued to a research position in the Ministry of Health. | |
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Diana Protopopova |
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Denise Salem |
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Tal Wertheimer Tal did a research project in the Kosloff lab in 2013-2014 on receptor tyrosine kinases, during her third year of an BSc in Biology and Mathematics. She continued to an MSc in Mathematics at the Tel Aviv University. |
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Lab Life
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Official opening of the new lab (June 2014):
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Lab trip to the Galilee and Kinneret (September 2014)
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Lab trip to Nahal Tavor (February 2015)
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Lab trip to Yam Carmel / Ofer forest (July 2015)
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Lab trip to Afek Nature Reserve (December 2015)
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Lab trip to Nahal Mearot (April 2017)
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Photographs are (c) Mickey Kosloff (2012-2018), all rights reserved.