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Head of Institute: Prof. Ido Braslavsky
Administrative manager: Rakefet Kalev
Office Address:
Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition,
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Herzl 229, Rehovot 7610001, ISRAEL
Tel: +972 - (0)8-9489385
Fax: +972 - (0)8-9363208
Email Address: rakefetk@savion.huji.ac.il
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Degrees
1998 - Ph.D. in Physics, Technion, Haifa, Israel. "Imaging of The Temperature Fields Around a Dendritic Crystal" under the supervision of Prof. Steve. G. Lipson
1992 - B.A. in Physics, summa cum laude, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Positions
October 2017 - current, Head of BSc Program in Biochemistry and Food Science, Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science, and Nutrition.
July 2017, National representative of the ISEKI (Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge into the Food Chain)- Food Association, IFA.
October 2014 - June 2018, Director, Inter-Faculty Biotechnology Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Rehovot, Israel
June 2014 - ,Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Rehovot, Israel
April 2010 - June 2014, Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, Rehovot, Israel
January 2013 - ,Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH
September 2009 - December 2012, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH
August 2003 - August 2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2000-2003 - Postdoc at Caltech, Pasadena, California. Applied Physics, Prof. Steve Quake Group. In collaboration with Prof. Henry Lester, Biology, Caltech.
1998-1999 Postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Department of Physics of Complex Systems Prof. Joel Stavans Group
Visiting Scientist
2016-2017 Visiting Prof at Stanford University, California, USA
Dec 2007 Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
July 2004 Department of Materials & Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Consulting and Companies
2019 Co-founder, MicroIce, nanoliter osmometers.
2018 Co-founder, SavorEat, 3D food printing.
2013-2018 Consulting "Melodea" on ice templating of cellulose structures.
2004-2007: Consulting "Helicos BioSciences", on single-molecule DNA sequencing techniques.
Membership
Israel Biophysics Society
Current projects
Ice Binding Proteins investigation by:
- Atomic force microscopy
- Fluorescence microscopy and microfluidics devices
- Ice nucleation and supercooling preservation
Cryobiology improvements by infrared heating, directional freezing, and IBPs
Heating methods for 3D printing of food
Awards
2012 Krill Prize
2011 Invitation fellowship programs for research in Japan,JSPS
2000-2001 CMB fellowship, Caltech interdisciplinary program funded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
2000 Lester Deutsch, Technion-Caltech fellowship.
1999-1998 The Sir Charles Clore Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
1997-1992 Successive Technion graduate school scholarships including excellence scholarship 1992.
1992 Technion Physics' Dean honors
1991 Participation in distinguished students summer in physics, sponsored by the Amos De-Shalit foundation, Weizmann institute of science.
1991 Technion Physics' Dean honors.
1990 Technion President's honors.
Funding
Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant
Teaching
Unit Operation In Food Tech
Introduction to Food Science - Principles & Processes
Cryobiology
Professional Activities
Co-organizing conference
2017 Ice Binding Protein Conference III, Israel
2014 Ice Binding Proteins Conference II, Japan
2011 Ice Binding Proteins Conference I, Canada
Session Chair
2014 IBP Session 4: Biotechnical and commercial applications for IBPs Co-chairs: Ido Braslavsky and Sakae Tsuda
2013 New Processing Methods / Chairs: D.CHUNG & I. Braslavsky, at the EUROFOODCHEM XVII conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
2013 Cryo, The 50th Anniversary of the Society for Cryobiology's Annual Meeting
2011 Biotechnology Use of Ice Binding Proteins, and poster session chair at the 1st International Ice binding Proteins Conference.
2010 PCI, Physics and Chemistry of Ice, Sapporo Japan, Session 9-A2 topic: Ice and biology.
2006 APS March Meeting Session D9: Methods in Nanobiotechnology
Research Interests
Ice Template
Experimental complex systems physics, Biophysics, Applied optics.
Anti-freeze proteins: Hyperactive Ice binding proteins, Investigation with fluorescence microscopy and microfluidic devices.
Ice physics, Electrofreezing, The double pyramid structure of ice, growth-melt asymmetry,
Refractive index of water, Crystal growth.
Temperature controlled Microfluidics
Single molecule detection and manipulation: DNAProtein interactions, Single molecule DNA sequencing,
DNA Oxidation at the single molecule level.
Optics: Interferometric measurements, Tomographic interferometry, Confocal fluorescent microscopy, Optical tweezers, Evanescent illumination, Darkfield microscopy, Wavefront Shaping.