Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Date of Birth: July 27th 1969
Family Status: Married + 2
Country of Birth: Israel
Citizenship: Israeli
Telephone: 08-934-2769
E-mail: oren.schuldiner@weizmann.ac.il

Education

2003-2008 Post Doctoral Studies:
“Molecular mechanisms of axon pruning”; Developmental neuroscience; Under the supervision of Prof. Liqun Luo, HHMI & Dept of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA, USA.
1997-2002 Ph.D in Genetics:
“Identification and characterization of genetic targets of the c-myc oncogene”; Cancer biology; Under the supervision of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, Dept of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1995-1997 M.Sc in Genetics:
“Identification and characterization of genetic targets of the c-myc oncogene”; Cancer biology; Under the supervision of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, Dept of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1993-1995 B.Sc in Biology, cum laude:
“Identification and characterization of genetic targets of the c-myc oncogene”; Cancer biology; Under the supervision of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, Dept of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Employment History

Aug. 15 2008 Started Senior Scientist tenure track position at the Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science.
2003-2008 Post Doctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Studies on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of axon pruning. Under the supervision of Prof. Liqun Luo, HHMI & Dept of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA, USA.
1999-2001 Editor and writer of the life science column in the popular Israeli periodical Galileo.
1995-2002 Graduate Student, Hebrew University
Studies on identification and characterization of genetic targets of the c-myc oncogene. Under the supervision of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, Dept of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1994-1995 Undergraduate Student, Hebrew University
Studies on identification and characterization of genetic targets of the c-myc oncogene. Under the supervision of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, Dept of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1993-1999 Group leader and tour guide in Sinai
Geographical tours – Naot Hakikar

Other Appointments

1996-2002 Teaching Assistant, Dept Genetics, Hebrew University
  • General Genetics: Laboratory teaching assistant
  • Human Genetics: Teaching assistance
  • Topics in Classical and Molecular Genetics: I designed and taught a basic section on nucleotide and protein comparisons using web tools such as BLAST.
  • Functional Genomics: I prepared, designed and taught the microarray experiment performed in the course.

International Recognition

2008 Invited speaker, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO.
2007 Speaker, selected from submitted abstracts, Drosophila neurobiology meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
2007 Invited speaker, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, N.Y.
2007 Speaker, selected from submitted abstracts, 48th annual Drosophila research conference, Genetics Society of America, Philadelphia, PA.
2002 EMBO post doctoral fellowship
2000 Marcus Prize for excellence in Genetics studies
1999 The Clore Scholarship Program for excellence in Ph.D. studies
1997 Pollak Prize for excellence in Life Sciences studies
1994 Winokur Prize for excellence in Genetics studies