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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

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List of Publications

Selected publications

  1. Zubare-Samuelov M, Peri I, Tal M, Tarshish M, Spielman AI, Naim M (2003). Some sweet and bitter tastants stimulate inhibitory pathway of adenylyl cyclase via melatonin and a2-adrenergic receptors in Xenopus laevismelanophores. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 285: C1255-C1262.
  2. Mahattanatawee K, Rouseff RL, Valim, F. Naim  M (2005). Identification and aroma impact norisoprenoids in orange juice. J Agric Food Chem, 53, 393-397.

Prof. Michael Naim

Main research interests:

The biochemistry and physiology of the chemical senses and their relevance to food and nutrition.

Specific topics:

1. Sweet and bitter taste transduction
2. Signal termination of taste: the role of signal termination-related kinases
3. Cross-talk between G Protein-coupled receptors and ERK.
4. Chemical pathways for aroma formation in food.

List of Publications

PhD Thesis: Effect of Soybean Meal and Trypsin Inhibitors on Biosynthesis and Secretion of Pancreatic enzymes in Chick.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Supervisors: Professor Yehudith Birk and Professor Arieh Gertler

Books

Madar Z., Odes, H.S. 1990 Dietary Fiber Research. In: Progress in Biochemical Pharmacology (R. Paoletti, ed.). Karger, Basal. (24)

Madar Z., Raiany, Y. 2004 Nutrition and Popular Remedies– The Yemenite Tradition.(Hebrew)

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details:

Born 1943, Yemen; immigrated to Israel (Operation Magic Carpet, 1949); Military
Service; (1963 – 1966); Married (1967); Three children (1969, 1972, 1979).

Prof. Zecharia Madar

Areas of Research Interests

  1. Molecular analysis of the biological clock in mammals
  2. The relationship between the biological clock and nutrition
  3. Control of the biological clock over the innate immunity
  4. Regulation of mammalian defensin expression.
  5. Structure/function of mammalian defensins
  6. Defensin and Toll–like receptor expression in diabetes
  7. Molecular evolution of defensins

Project description:

List of Publications

Recent publications (2006 – 2008) – until 2005 there were 208 publications

  1. H.E. Paczoska-Eliasiewicz, M. Proszkowiec-Weglarz, J. Proudman J, T. Jacek, M. Mika, A. Sechman, J. Rzasa and A. Gertler. Exogenous leptin advances puberty in domestic hen. Domest. Anim. Endocrinol. 31: 211-226 (2006).
  2. G. Salomon, L. Niv-Spector, EE. Gussakovsky and A. Gertler A. Large-scale preparation of biologically active mouse and rat leptins and their L39A/D40A/F41A muteins which act as potent antagonists. Protein Expression and Purification 47: 128-36 (2006).