Prof. Shahal Abbo
Professor
Jacob and Rachel Liss Chair in Agronomy
Crop evolution in the Near East, Genetics and breeding of chickpea
Academic
Dr. Niv De-Malach
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Competition and biodiversity in plant communities
Prof. Rivka Elbaum
Professor
Plant cell wall structure and function; Hygroscopic movement for seed dispersal; Silica in plants.
Dr. Leor Eshed-Williams
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Meristem development and the mechanism of regeneration, mainly from the chromatin perspective.
Dr. Tamar Friedlander
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Computational - theoretical approaches to study self-incompatibility in plant fertilization; evolution and organization of gene regulatory networks.
Prof. José Grünzweig
Associate Professor
Human impacts on plants (especially woody species), ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles at organismic, community and ecosystem scales.
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.
Dr. Ittai Herrmann
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Remote sensing of vegetation, Hyperspectral imaging, Precision agriculture, High-throughput plant phenotyping
Prof. Menachem Moshelion
Professor
Mechanisms controlling water-use efficiency, water-potential homeostasis and productivity under normal and abiotic stress.
Prof. Assaf Mosquna
Associate Professor
Plant response to environmental stress, novel plant hormones and growth regulators.
Prof. Naomi Ori
Professor
Head of Department
Mechanisms underlying plasticity of plant development and patterning, leaf, flower and fruit development.
Prof. Zvi Peleg
Associate Professor
Plant response to abiotic stress combinations, abiotic stress tolerance in crop-plants, Quantitative genetics of yield.
Dr. Guy Polturak
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Plant Specialized Metabolism, Metabolic Engineering
Prof. Shilo Rosenwasser
Associate Professor
Redox regulation of metabolism, stress acclimation, and cell death in photosynthetic organisms.