Evolve and develop bio-molecules, in the form of proteins/DNA/RNA, to shape and design natural bacterial populations. The evolved biomolecules could serve as alternative antibiotics, microbiome designers, growth inducers for cultivated farm animals and plants, recruit bacteria to fight and eliminate environmental hazards, and help to achieve any other goal which might involve bacteria.
Principal Researcher
Dr. Ruth Cohen-Khait
Bio-Molecular Bacterial Mastery
My research interests are to develop a way to mimic natural processes of bacterial community shaping.
Latest Publications
Imaging bacterial membrane vesicles with a delicate touch
Nature Reviews Microbiology
2021
Colicin-mediated transport of DNA through the iron transporter FepA
mBio
2021
Selecting for fast protein–protein association as demonstrated on a random TEM1 yeast library binding BLIP
Biochemistry
2018
Promiscuous protein binding as a function of protein stability
Structure
2017
Positions
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Contact Information
The brand new lab is now recruiting students/postdocs/a lab manager.
Interested?
Please send an email to ruthc@migal.org.il
Talk to you soon :-)