Meir Rozenbaum

M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies, 2008-2016

Meir studied the roles of translational regulation in growth and regeneration of sensory neurons. He then moved to a postdoc at Tel Aviv University and Tel HaShomer Hospital.

Dima Yudin

Ph.D., 2005-2011.
Dima characterized the role of the small Ran GTPase system in regulation of neuronal retrograde injury signaling. After a postdoc with Chris Henderson at the Motor Neuron Center of Columbia University (New York) he returned to Israel to a position in the biotech industry.

Liraz Harel

PhD, 2005-2010.
Liraz studied the role of CCM2 in TrkA-mediated cell death in pediatric tumors of neural origin. She then moved to a position in the biotech industry.

Yael Segal-Ruder

PhD, 2004-2009.
Yael worked on identifying the transcriptional response to the retrograde injury signal using microarray-based approaches.

Eran Perlson

Ph.D., 2000-2005.
Eran used proteomic approaches to identify axoplasmic proteins involved in retrograde injury signaling, and discovered a role for the intermediate filament vimentin in Erk transport in this system. He continued to a postdoc in Erika Holzbaur's group at the University of Pennsylvania during 2005-2010. Towards the end of 2010 he moved back to Israel to establish his own laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University.

Hanna Jaaro-Peled

Hanna completed her PhD studies on different p75 ligands, during which she also developed a new yeast screen for membrane-targeted proteins. She then moved on to a postdoc with Akira Sawa at Johns Hopkins (2005-2009), and is currently an Instructor in the Hopkins Schizophrenia Center.

Letizia Marvaldi

Postdoc 2014-2021

Letizia joined Mike's lab in 2014, focusing on the Importin alpha function in peripheral nervous system, working with Importin alpha KO mice. She discovered the role of Importin alfa-3 in the chronic pain pathway in peripheral sensory neurons by publishing her discovery in the journal Science. After that, she moved to the University of Turin, where she opened her laboratory.

Marco Terenzio

Postdoc 2012-2019

Marco discovered a critical role for mTOR mRNA localization in local translation regulation in axons. He moved to a faculty position at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in August 2019. His lab' website is at https://groups.oist.jp/mnu

Christin Albus

Postdoc 2012-2016

Christin studied protein-protein interactions in the axonal retrograde signaling complex, and initiated a still-ongoing project to understand the role(s) of alternative polyadenylation on growth and regeneration of sensory neurons. She moved to the U.K. in 2016.

Barbara Costa

Postdoc and Visiting Scientist, 2007-2013.
Barbara studied cell death mechanisms downstream of the TrkA neurotrophin receptor and identified Stk25 as a catalytic effector for receptor tyrosine kinase death signaling. She then did a second postdoc with Prof. Peter Angel at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, before moving in 2019 to work at EIT Health, also in Heidelberg.

Marek Rajman

Postdoc, 2008-2011.
Marek's postdoctoral projects were focused on proteomics analyses of neuronal growth and injury responses. After a second postdoc in the Schratt group at the University of Marburg, he moved to a position in the pharma industry.

Izhak Michaelevski, Ph.D

Postdoc, 2004-2009.
Izhak combined proteomics, mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics approaches to characterize signaling to transcription networks in axonal injury, working in collaboration with Al Burlingame’s mass spectrometry facility at UCSF. He now heads his own laboratory at Ariel University.

Avi Rimler

Postdoc 2003-2006.
Avi worked on regulation of neuronal signaling by the p75 receptor.

Tal Gradus

Tal worked as a technician in the lab during the years 2006-2008. She then moved to a position in the glaucoma research laboratory at Tel-HaShomer Medical Center, and after that to Eran Perlson's laboratory in Tel-Aviv University.