Information for: Orna Halevy Phone: 972-8-9489204 Fax: 972-8-9489337 Email:halevyo@agri.huji.ac.il Room: 215 Bldg: Animal Sciences

Cell Biology, Muscle Development, Professor

Degrees:

· Ph.D. Biochemistry,  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1986

· M.Sc. Biochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981

· B.Sc. Animal Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1979

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate:

71211 - Separation Techniques

71839 - Principles of Nutrition

71841 - Laboratory in Principles of Nutrition

71851 - Production and Quality of Meat and Eggs in Poultry

Graduate:

71198 - Cell-cycle control

71903 - Metabolism of Lipids

73521 - Chromatography Systems in Biology

73522 - Laboratory in Chromatography Systems in Biology

Research

1. Modulation of regulatory proteins during skeletal muscle cell proliferation and differentiation.

2. Muscle regeneration.

3. Enhancement of muscle growth and meat production in chicks.

Academic Appointments

Member, Teaching Committee

Member of the Assembly of Authority for Research Students in Natural Sciences