Plant & Environmental Sciences

Research in our department focuses on plants and microorganisms – from molecules through organisms to populations and ecosystems.

Plants, algae, and microbiomes serve in our department as ideal model systems for studying metabolism, epigentics, stress physiology, signaling, artificial photosynthesis, biogeography, and even material science.

Research Topics

Events

Lecture / Seminar

Principles of gene regulation quantitatively connect DNA to RNA and proteins in bacteria

Lecturer: Prof. Terry Hwa | University of California, San Diego

Dr. Einat Segev

11
December
2022

Sunday At 14:00

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences , Room Room 690
Social

Hanukkah candle lighting & donuts

Lecturer: Short guest lecture followed by candle lighting and sufganiyot

Merav Hagag

20
December
2022

Tuesday At 11:30

Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Biological Sciences , Room Auditorium

All events

Grants & Prizes

Date: May 15, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Jonathan Gressel

Elected as an Honorary Fellow of the International Parasitic Plant Society
Date: April 7, 2022

Congratulations to Emanuel Avrahami

Recipient of the Lev Margulis Prize

All Grants & Prizes

Latest Publications

Compositional variances in cuticular lipids of wild and domesticated barley leaves and their impact on plant-environment interactions
Sarkar S., Arya G. C., Negin B., Manasherova E., Levy M., Aharoni A. & Cohen H. (2023) Environmental and Experimental Botany.
Let's Connect Nature with Hypothesis-Based Experimentation and Explore Life in Context
Negin B. & Aharoni A. (2022) The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology.
Tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca) cuticular wax composition is essential for leaf retention during drought, facilitating a speedy recovery following rewatering
Negin B., Hen-Avivi S., Almekias-Siegl E., Shachar L., Jander G. & Aharoni A. (2022) The New Phytologist.
Omicron infection enhances Delta antibody immunity in vaccinated persons
, Khan K., Karim F., Cele S., Rosenberg Y. & Milo R. (2022) Nature (London).
Asymmetric belowground carbon transfer in a diverse tree community
Avital S., Rog I., Livne-Luzon S., Cahanovitc R. & Klein T. (2022) Molecular Ecology.

Mazal Tov

October 31, 2022
Congratulations
To Tal Dahan and Zohar Meir on the birth of their daughter Sarah
November 3, 2022
Congratulations
To Yemima and Shai Duchin Rapp on the birth of their daughter