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Prof. Avraham Levy, Chairman
Prof. Avraham Levy is a world-renowned researcher in the field of plant genetics and a professor of genetics in the Plant Sciences Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in biology at Stanford University and in cell biology at INRA (Versailles, France). He leads a group of some 12 researchers working on various aspects of plant genome evolution. Prof. Levy studies mechanisms that contribute to the accelerated evolution of plant genomes, such as transposons, DNA damages, DNA recombination and genome duplications. Prof. Levy is the chairman of the Israeli Graminae consortium, has served on the board of the Israeli Genetics Society and on the editorial board of the Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. He is the coordinator of an EU consortium on gene targeting in plants.
Prof. Levy holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in Plant Genetics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Prof. Gad Galili
Prof. Gad Galili is the Head of the Plant Science Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. A leading researcher in the field of plant metabolic pathways, he has co-authored more than 110 publications, is a co-editor of a book entitled Seed Development and Germination and is an editorial board member of The Journal of Experimental Botany. He is the Chief Scientific Advisor on the Scientific Advisory board of Protalix, an Israeli biotechnology company that produces proteins in plant cell cultures.
Prof. Galili holds a B.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the Department of Plant Genetics of the Weizmann Institute of Science. His post-doctoral research was done in the laboratory of Prof. Larkins at Purdue University.
Prof. James Birchler
Prof. James Birchler is Professor of Biological Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He was formerly a chairman of the Genetic Area Program at the University of Missouri. He joined the University of Missouri in 1991 after serving as an associate professor at the Harvard University since 1985. Prof. Birchler lab's research interests include gene expression in polyploids of maize, the molecular basis of aneuploid syndromes and of heterosis, the structure and behavior of chromosomes and centromeres in maize, the construction of engineered minichromosomes and in general the consequences of dosage-sensitive gene regulatory mechanisms in multicellular eukaryotes.
Prof. Birchler received his PhD in genetics and biochemistry in 1977 from Indiana University, where he studied dosage effects on gene expression in maize. His postdoctoral work was done at Oak Ridge National Lab, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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