Steering Committee

Prof. Yoram Reiter

Director

Email:	reiter@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829 2785

Prof. Reiter took the position of heading the Lokey Center in February 2013

Prof. Yuval Shoham

Biotechnology and Food Engineering

Email:	yshoham@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829 3072
Fax:	+972-4-829 3399

Research Interests:
Molecular Microbiology, Biotechnology of Thermophiles
Gene Regulation in Bacillus stearothermophilus
Structure- Function of Hemicellulases and Cellulases, Applied Enzymology
URL: http://biotech.technion.ac.il/Members/Shoham.html

Assoc. Prof. Noam Adir

Faculty of Chemistry

Email:	nadir@techunix.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-2141
Fax:	+972-4-829-5703

Prof. Adir’s research work is carried out in the Macromolecular Structure Research Laboratory, where he deals with the structural determination of biological macromolecules using X-ray crystallography.

Prof. Erez Braun

Faculty of Physics

Email:	erez@physics.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-4-829-2879
Fax:	+972-4-4-829-5755

Prof. Braun's research interests include:
- Diverse systems including genetic regulatory networks and their evolution
- Adaptation dynamics of cell populations
- Synthesis of logic and electronic circuits by biology

web site: http://physics.technion.ac.il/

Prof. Michael Glickman

Faculty of Biology

Email:	glickman@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-4552
Fax:	+972-4-822-5153

Dr. Glickman’s research interests focus on the study of biochemical and genetic analysis of proteasome function. The proteasome is a multi-subunit protease responsible for degrading numerous cellular proteins, including many which are involved in cancer or viral diseases.

Assoc. Prof. Shulamit Levenberg

Faculty of Biomedical Engineering

Email:	shulamit@bm.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-4-829-4810
Fax:	+972-4-4-829-4599

Dr. Levenberg’s research interests focus primarily on stem cell tissue engineering. The widely acclaimed journal Scientific American named Dr. Shulamit Levenberg among its top 50 contributors to research, business, and policymaking for 2006.

Prof. Ben-Zion Levi

Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering

Email:	blevi@technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-3345
Fax:	+972-4-829-3399

Prof. Levi’s research interests include:
- Molecular biology.
- Transcriptional regulation.
- The role of IRFs in modulating the immune system,
- IRF-8 as a modulator of myeloid cells.

Prof. Ron Pinter

Faculty of Computer Science

Email:	pinter@cs.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-4599
Fax:	+972-4-822-1128

Dr. Pinter’s research interests include systems biology, bioinformatics, high-performance computing and data integration. His current focus is on comparative genomics and the analysis of biological networks. Dr. Pinter is a founding member of the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (and served on its council during 2003-06), Co-Principal Investigator of the National Knowledge Center for Bioinformatics Infrastructure in Israel, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Technion's pharmacogenetics project.

Prof. Benjamin Podbilewicz

Faculty of Biology

Email:	podbilew@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-3454
Fax:	+972-4-822-5153

Prof. Podbilewicz’s research interests include understanding the development and evolution of organs and organ systems, which is one of the major challenges in present day biology. He is focusing on two basic biological problems: how cells fuse to form giant multinucleate cells and how organs form in animals. In addition, he is studying how these two universal processes have changed during evolution.

Assoc. Prof. Adi Salzberg

Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

Email:	adis@technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-5227
Fax:	+972-4-829-5225

Prof. Salzberg’s research focuses on studying the molecular mechanisms that control neural development by using the peripheral nervous system (PNS) of the fruit fly Drosophila melaogaster as a model system. She is focusing mainly on two aspects of PNS development – the involvement of homeotic genes and their co-factors in the generation of segment-specific patterns and the development of proprioceptors.

Distinguished Prof. Moti Segev

Faculty of Physics

Email:	msegev@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-802-3616
Fax:	+972-4-823-5107

Prof. Segev’s research interests include: nonlinear optics and quantum electronics. Current projects deal with solitons, nonlinear frequency conversion, nonlinear guided waves, nonlinear dynamics, and photorefractive materials. His research is both theoretical and experimental, and all of his graduate students are required to learn both aspects.

Prof. Moshe Shoham

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Email:	shoham@technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-3264
Fax:	+972-4-829-5711

Prof. Shoham’s research interests include:
- Robotic systems - kinematics and dynamics of robots.
- Sensor-based robots.
- Multi-fingered hands.
- Medical robotics.

Prof. Ishi Talmon

Faculty of Chemical Engineering

Email:	ishi@technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-2007
Fax:	+972-4-829-5672

Prof. Talmon’s research interests include:
- Interfacial and colloidal phenomena.
- Electron microscopy and electron diffraction of micro-structured fluid systems and biological systems.
- Cryoelectron microscopy: theory and development.
- Applications of electron microscopy in chemical engineering, food technology and polymer science.

Mrs. Shira Sagee

Administrative Manager, Lokey Center

Email:	shira@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone:	+972-4-829-2642
Fax:	+972-4-829-4900

Ms. Shira Sagee joined the Lokey center in September 2011. Shira brings with her over 20 years of experience as a lab manager at the Faculty of Biology, in the field of yeast genetic and molecular biology. Shira holds a M.Sc and B.Sc degrees in Biology from the Technion.