Neurobiology of Insect Olfaction

Arachnid evolution, systematics, ecology and conservation; Cave biology; Agroecology

Initiation of fertilization in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

Ecological and evolutionary genetics, insect-plant and insect-environment interactions

Conservation, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and land-use change, insect pollinators and pollination.

Engineering Insect Biology.

Honey bee biology, decision-making in bees, pollination

Yeast Cell Biology and Biotechnology

Biochemistry

פרס קריל 2012

Antifreeze proteins (AFPs)

פרס קריל 2023

The biology of fasting and gene regulation

Studying adaptive mechanisms to nutritional challenges, with the focus on insulin-secreting beta cells

פרס קיי 2022

Novel antimicrobial agents for food applications

Nutritional Neuroscience, prevention of cerebrovascular disease and dementia

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

Beneficial natural products in edible plants, Natural antioxidants.

Skeletal Development Through Endochondral Ossification

פרס קריל 2010

Molecular Recognition of Taste and Smell

Computational methodologies for design of bioactive compounds; Structural features in proteins responsible for ligands activity and specificity

Bioinspired materials, Self-assembly, Peptides, Hydrogels, Food-gels, Gel scaffolds, Bacteria-materials interactions, Antibacterial materials, Nutrient/bacteria/drug delivery

פרס קריל 2007

Biological clock rhythms & nutrition, longevity and inate immune system

Microbial interactions and how they shape the community structure, function and evolution

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

Diabetes, liver, glucose production, hepatocytes, nutrition, metabolism.

פרס קיי 2019

Elucidation of cellular and molecular action of dietary antioxidants.

Environmental economics, health economics, and economic demography

Adaptive decision-making, risk-taking and risk perception.

Bio-statistics, Para-clinical statistics, Design of experiments, Computer experiments.

Algebraic Singularity Theory

Pensions, Insurance, Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Decision making

Pre-Purchase Risk-Reduction Marketing Mechanisms, Branding and promotion of agricultural products.

Automorphic representations; Mathematics

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

Environmental Economics and Management.

The economics of family farms; Public policy in agriculture, labor markets, education and aging.

Economic analysis of agricultural land use.

Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, International Economics

Technological change, macroeconomics, economic growth and development economics.

Biogeochemical Processes in the Environment, Nutrient and Contaminant Dynamics, Elemental Cycling

Digital Agriculture and Remote Sensing

Soil Geochemistry, rock weathering, soil formation

 Environmental Chemistry, Pollutants of Emerging Concern, Soil Chemistry

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

Environmental modeling, ecohydrology, soil degradation, desertification

environmental chemistry, interactions at the surface of soil particles,  development of new organic-mineral materials

Uncover the dynamic interactions between physical, chemical, and biological components affecting the carbon cycle

Soil-root interactions and water and nutrient uptake, Spectral induced polarization for non-invasive detection of rhizosphere processes

Mechanisms underlying plasticity of plant development and patterning, leaf, flower and fruit development

Plant cell wall structure and function; Hygroscopic movement for seed dispersal; Silica in plants.

Meristem development and the mechanism of regeneration, mainly from the chromatin perspective.

Genetics of growth and development of cereal crops, Genotype-by-environment interactions

Human impacts on plants (especially woody species), ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles at organismic, community and ecosystem scales.

Competition and biodiversity in plant communities

Remote & Proximal Sensing, Precision Agriculture, Phenomics

Plant cell wall, cellulose biosynthesis, genes in cell wall function, Seed mucilage to study cell wall metabolism, Fruit tree physiology.

פרס קיי 2010

Identification of novel aroma genes, Metabolic engineering of plants and yeast,Site-specific genome modification and genetic engineering in plants.

Hormone signal transduction and responses (gibberellin and cytokinin)

Photosynthesis and water use efficiency improvement in crops, optimizing mesophyll conductance to CO2, guard cell physiology

 Photosynthesis,  Photosynthetic complexes, Assembly, cyanobacteria, membrane proteins, Cryo-EM

Plant response to environmental stress, novel plant hormones and growth regulators

Mechanisms controlling water-use efficiency, water-potential homeostasis and productivity under normal and abiotic stress

Molecular mechanisms involved in plant developmental regulation, specifically the transition to flowering

Crop evolution in the Near East, Genetics and breeding of chickpea

Regeneration and adventitious root development.

Plant Specialized Metabolism, Metabolic Engineering

פרס קיי 2024
פרס קיי 2015

Plant response to abiotic stress combinations, abiotic stress tolerance in crop-plants, Quantitative genetics of yield.

Computational - theoretical approaches to study self-incompatibility in plant fertilization; evolution and organization of gene regulatory networks.

Redox regulation of metabolism, stress acclimation, and cell death in photosynthetic organisms

פרס ראש הממשלה ליזמות וחדשנות תשע״ג
פרס קיי 2010
פרס קיי 1999

Combining plant molecular biology, protein engineering and nano-biotechnology to develop super-performing materials for affordable and sustainable applications.

Linking individual plant strategies to ecosystem processes. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in natural plant communities

Seed germination and seedling establishment 

Stem Cells

פרס קיי 2023

Metabolism and lactation biology

Fish endocrinology, Neuroendocrine control of larval development

Genetics and evolution of complex traits in fish and yeast.

Understanding the brain-ovarian axis with optical and genetic approaches for improved fertility

פרס קיי 2017

Fish Reproduction

Ruminants Nutrition and Lactation Physiology

Gut Bacteriology

Neuroepigenetics and Molecular Neuroscience

Computational Methods for Animal Psychology and Welfare

The role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) mediated communication in mammalian reproduction, particularly during gametogenesis, early embryo development and embryo-maternal interactions

Avian Physiology.

Reproductive Physiology

Bacterial foodborne infections epidemiology and evolution 

Small animal internal medicine.

Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

Human and animal mycobacterial diseases

Veterinary entomology.

Infectious diseases, vector-borne diseases.

Evolution, co-evolution, domestication and conservation.

Veterinary and Comparative Ophthalmology

Developmental Biology, Molecular Embryology.

Veterinary and comparative ophthalmology

Veterinary public health, Epidemiology.

Neuroscience, Human Stem Cells, Developmental disorders

Reproductive Biology and Theriogenology.

Equine Internal Medicine, Equine Neurology, Large Animal Pharmacology.

פרס קריל 2024

Host-pathogen interactions and fungal immunology

Veterinary neurology neurosurgery, wild animal neurology.

Epidemiology and pathogenesis of infectious diseases in large animals.