Sivan Alkalay-Oren
EDUCATION
- · Student in the PhD direct-track program for honored students in the Hebrew university, guided by Prof. Ronen Hazan and Prof. Ran Nir-Paz.
Research fields: Phage therapy compassionate treatment- research and development of the phage therapy field from the lab to compassionate treatment of patients, phage therapy in agriculture and bacterial communication systems in Listeria.
- MBA - Entrepreneurship, Innovation and High-Tech Management track.
**ACDEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH ** 2017- present Microbiology lab instructor. The Hebrew University. ** 2013- 2015 Student position in Prof. Guy Bloch lab, The Hebrew University. ** ** Project’s aim: **To understand the way genes expression effect division of labor in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). 2011- 2012 Lab assistant in Prof. Gil Goobes lab. **Department of Chemistry, ** Bar-Ilan University. ** ** ** Project’s aim: Developing solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tools to understand the nature of proteins acting in hard tissues. 2008- 2009 Working at Prof. Elisha Gootwine lab, instructed by Dr. Shay Raicher. The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University. ** Project’s aim: Examination of genetic variability in the structural gene CNGA3 that causes day-blindness in sheep, and development of method for determining the individual genotype in the gene locus