Daniel Chamovitz
American-born Israeli biologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel Chamovitz (דניאל חיימוביץ; born April 18, 1963 ) is an American-born plant geneticist and the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel.[1] Previously he was Dean of the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the director of the multidisciplinary Manna Center Program in Food Safety and Security.[2][3]
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Born | (1963-04-18) April 18, 1963 (age 61) |
Citizenship | Israel, United States |
Alma mater | Yale University (1993-1995, Postdoc) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1993, PhD, Genetics) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986, B.Sc., Biology,) Hopewell High School (Pennsylvania), Aliquippa, PA (1981) |
Known for | Carotenoid biosynthesis Discovering the COP9 signalosome What a Plant Knows (2012) |
Spouse | Shira Yalon-Chamovitz |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Plant Biology Molecular genetics Food security |
Institutions | Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Tel Aviv University |
Thesis | Molecular Analysis of the Early Steps of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Cyanobacteria: Phytoene Synthase and Phytoene Desaturase |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph Hirschberg |
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