Members

Group members

  • Sofia & Khalil
  • Paz & Joanna
  • Yair
  • Khalil
  • Under the shade
  • TurkishCoffee

Principal Investigator

Dr. Eitan Lerner

Room 1-435

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: eitan.lerner@mail.huji.ac.il

Phone No. +972-2-6585457

 

Eitan Lerner

Research Associates

Dr. Yair Razvag

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: yair.razvag@mail.huji.ac.il

Phone No. +972-2-6585457

Projects:

  • Development of Super-resolution microscopy approaches
  • Development of a flow virometer
  • BrickMIC implementations
Yair Razvag

Ph.D. Students

Mrs Paz Drori

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: Paz.Drori@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Projects:

  • Development of a flow virometer
  • Development of a cancer-related multiplexed exosome counter
  • α-Synuclein oligomerization profile and its link to toxicity
  • Interplay of chaperones and intrinsically disordered proteins
Paz Drori

Mr. Khalil Joron

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: khalil.joron@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Projects:

  • Structural characterization of transcription initiation stages
  • Tools for assessment of phase-separated condensates
  • Design of mCherry variants for biosensing
  • Heterochromatin bodies along mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation (In collaboration with Prof. Eran Meshorer)
Khalil Joron

Mrs. Aviva Tovey

Room 1-433

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: aviva.tovey@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Project:

  • Synthetic Biology with liquid-liquid phase separation
  • Single-molecule quenchable FRET
Aviva Tovey

M.Sc. Students

Mrs. Ariel Hadad

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address:  ariel.babayof@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Projects:

  • Interplay of intrinsically disordered proteins with membranes

 

Ariel Hadad

Mrs. Shira Brand

(Guided by Prof. Nir Keren & Prof. Eitan Lerner)

Room 3-422

Department of Biological Chemistry & Department of Plant Sciences, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address:  shira.brand@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Projects:

  • Quantum effects in light harvesting by phycobilisome
  • Single Phytoplankton monitoring
Shira Brand

B.Sc. Students

 

Mrs. Gabriel Yedlin

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address:  gabriel.yedlin@mail.huji.ac.il

Projects:

  • Tools for assessment of phase-separated condensates
  • Design of mCherry variants for biosensing

      

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Alumni

Dr. Paul David Harris - PhD

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: paul.harris@mail.huji.ac.il

Projects:

  • Single-molecule conformational dynamics
  • Characterization of α-Synuclein early oligomers
  • Low photon lifetime measurements
  • Optofluidic algae counting (In collaboration with Prof. Nir Keren)
Paul David Harris

Dr. Joanna Zamel - PhD

(Guided by Dr. Nir Kalisman & Prof. Eitan Lerner)

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: joanna.zamel@mail.huji.ac.il

Phone No. 972-2-6585457

Projects:

  • Structural characterization of late transcription initiation intermediates
  • Structural characterization of α-Synuclein early oligomers
  • Function of α-Synuclein in the Nucleus
Joanna Zamel

 

Mrs. Sofia Zaer - M.Sc.

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: sofia.zaer@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Projects:

  • Structural characterization of α-Synuclein short oligomers

 

Sofia Zaer

Mr. Dolev Hagai - B.Sc.

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address: dolev.hagai@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Projects:

  • Simulations of single-molecule fluorescence detection experiments
Dolev Hagai

Mrs. Shani Dvir - B.Sc.

Room 1-440

Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

E-mail address:  shani.dvir@mail.huji.ac.il  

Projects:

  • Structural characterization of transcription initiation stages
  • Tools for assessment of phase-separated condensates
Shani Dvir