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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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Congratulations to Yael Pelman on receiving the Strauss Institute scholarship

Open Positions

 


למעבדה חדשה בקמפוס רחובות


דרושים סטודנטים מצטיינים למאסטר ודוקטוראט למחקר מרתק
שיתמקד בפיתוח חומרים אנטימיקרוביאליים חדשים כנגד בקטריות של מזון

 

נושאי המחקר:

פיתוח אריזות מזון אנטימיקרוביאליות חדשות

Lab Members

Dr. Einav Malach – Lab Technician

Dr. Irena Peri – Lab advisor

Heli Bochnik-Tamir - PhD Candidate Exploring Toxin anti-toxin system in bacteria at the molecular level.

Tal Stern - PhD candidate, Studying Food borne pathogens and developing chemical tools to tackle them.

Avishag Yehuda - MSc candidate, exploring the quorum sensing sysem of food borne pathogen Bacillus cereus.

Research Interests

Novel antimicrobial agents for food applications

Food-borne and other infectious enteric diseases are significant sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The high demand for minimally processed, easily prepared and ready-to-eat ‘fresh’ food products poses a major challenge for food safety and quality.

Recent outbreaks of food-borne microbial pathogens have driven the search for innovative ways to inhibit microbial growth in foods while maintaining quality, freshness and safety.

List of Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2019

  • Amso Z, Hayouka Z. Antimicrobial random peptide cocktails: a new approach to fight pathogenic bacteria. Chem Commun (Camb). 2019; 55, 2007-2014. (Invited Review- Featured article).
  • Yehuda A, Slamti L, Malach E, Lereclus D and Hayouka Z. Elucidating the Hot Spot Residues of Quorum Sensing Peptidic Autoinducer PapR by Multiple Amino Acids Replacements, Frontiers Microbiology, 2019; 10, 1246.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details:

Name: Oren Froy
Place and Date of Birth: 1968, Tel–Aviv, Israel

2019 - present

Full Professor
the Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition,
Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

Prof. Oren Froy

The research in my laboratory focuses on the relationship between the circadian clock, nutrition, metabolic diseases and aging.

 

List of Publications

Blum, JPI., M. Setty-Fichman S, L. Efron S, S. Shaik, RC. G. HarveyC. 1994. 
On the regioselectivity in transformation of benzo[a]pyrene 4,5-oxide and 3-methylcholanthrene 11,12-oxide to the corresponding β-amino-alcohol derivatives. 
Tetrahedron. 50(28): 8505-514. 2.160; 13/45; 2.

Setty-Fichman, M S., J. Blum PI, Y.Sasson PI, and M. Eisen C. 1994. 
Polystyrene-supported RhCl3-quaternary ammonium ion pair as a long-lived, efficient and recyclable catalyst. 
Tetra. Lett. 35(5): 781-84. 2.617; 9/45; 8.