Bio-Molecular Bacterial Mastery | MIGAL - Galilee Research Institute

Our lab mission is to explore how bacteria are communicating with each other, better understand how bacteria shape the species composition of their community, and examine whether we could apply molecules which are naturally used by bacteria for rational design of bacterial communities.

About the lab

The lab works in two directions which crosstalk:

1. The ecological line - explores natural bacterial communities, examines their genomic reservoir, and searches for community composition shaping genes

2. The molecular line - which investigates the mechanisms of function of protein based naural antibiotics

Principal Researcher

Dr. Ruth Cohen-Khait

Bio-Molecular Bacterial Mastery

ruthc@migal.org.il

My research interests are to better understand natural processes of bacterial community shaping.

Latest Publications

Peptidoglycan maturation controls outer membrane protein assembly

Gideon Mamou, Federico Corona, Ruth Cohen-Khait, Nicholas G Housden, Vivian Yeung, Dawei Sun, Pooja Sridhar, Manuel Pazos, Timothy J Knowles, Colin Kleanthous, Waldemar Vollmer

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Dr. Ruth Cohen-Khait

Nature

2022

Colicin-mediated transport of DNA through the iron transporter FepA

Ruth Cohen-Khait, Ameya Harmalkar, Phuong Pham, Melissa N Webby, Nicholas G Housden, Emma Elliston, Jonathan TS Hopper, Shabaz Mohammed, Carol V Robinson, Jeffrey J Gray, Colin Kleanthous

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Dr. Ruth Cohen-Khait

mBio

2021