Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, HUJI

Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment Quality Sciences

The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture

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Nava Moran

Degree:DSc.
Phone: +972 8 9489324
Fax: +972 8 9467763
E-mail: morana@agri.huji.ac.il

Curriculum vitae

1979 - DSc in Biophysics and Physiology, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Haifa
1979-1985 - Biophysics Lab, NIH, NINCDS, Bethesda, USA.
1985-1997 - Neurobiology, Weizmann Inst Sci., Rehovot
1997 - S. Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture
2008 – A. Professor
1997 - 2000 - Monitoring Editor for Plant Physiology
2005-2008 - Head of the Undergraduate Study Program in Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture

Research Interests:

Plant signal transduction, circadian rhythms, regulation of plant membrane transport, Phototransduction, regulation by llipids, regulation & structure-function relationship of ion channels, heavy-metal transport

Current Research Projects:

Plant ion channels and their regulation by membrane lipids.
Structure-function relationship of plant channels.

Keywords:

Signal transduction, phototransduction, phosphorylation, membrane ion transport, ion channel, potassium channel, water channels/aquaporins, Structure-function, calcium, mineral nutrition, heavy metals, leaf movement, biological clock, circadian rhythm, pulvinus, guard cells, motor cell, root, protoplast, patch clamp, fluorescence imaging.

Selected Publications:

Moran N, Palti Y, Levitan E, Staempfli R (1980) Potassium ion accumulation at the external surface of the nodal membrane in frog myelinated fibers. Biophys. J. 32: 939-954 abstract

Huang LYM, Moran N, Ehrenstein G (1984) Gating kinetics of BTX-modified sodium channels in neuroblastoma cells determined from single-channel measurements. Biophys. J. 45: 515-322 article

Moran, N., Ehrenstein, G., Iwasa, K., Bare, C. and Mischke, C., 1984, Ion channels in plasmalemma of wheat protoplasts, Science, 226:835-838. abstract

Moran, N., Ehrenstein, G., Iwasa, K., Mischke, C., Bare, C. and Satter, R.L., 1988, Potassium channels in motor cells of Samanea saman: A patch-clamp study, Plant Physiol., 88:643-648 abstract

Satter, R.L. and Moran, N., 1988, Ionic channels in plant cell membranes, Physiol. Plant. 72:816-820 article

Satter, R.L., Morse, M.J., Lee, Y., Crain, R.C., Cote, G. and Moran, N., 1988, Light and clock-controlled leaflet movements in Samanea saman: A physiological, biophysical and biochemical analysis, Bot. Acta, 101:205-213 article

Ilan, N., Schwartz, A. and Moran, N., 1994, External pH effects on the depolarization-activated K channels in guard cell protoplasts of Vicia faba. J. Gen. Physiol., 103:807-831 abstract

Manor, D., Moran, N., Segal, M. 1994. Interactions among calcium compartments in C6 glial cells: involvement of potassium channels. J. Physiol., 478:251-263 article

Manor D, Moran N. 1994. Modulation of small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in c6 glioma cells. J.Membr.Biol. 140: 69-79 article

Moran, N., Yueh,Y.G. and Crain, R.C., 1996, Signal transduction and cell volume regulation in plant leaflet movements. News Physiol. Sci., 11:108-114 article

Moran, N., 1996, Membrane-delimited phosphorylation enables the activation of the outward-rectifying K channels in a plant cell. Plant Physiol., 111:1281-1292 abstract

Suh, S., Moran, N. and Lee, Y., 2000. Blue light activates depolarization-dependent K channels in flexor cells from Samanea saman motor organs via two mechanisms. Plant Physiol., 123: 833-843 abstract

Homburg, S., Visochek, L., Moran, N., Dantzer, F., Priel, E., Asculai, E., Schwartz, D., Rotter, V., Dekel, N. and Cohen-Armon, M., 2000. A fast signal-induced activation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase: A novel downstream target of Phospholipase C. J Cell Biol. 150:293-307 article

Moshelion, M. and Moran, N., 2000. Potassium-efflux channels in extensor and flexor cells of Samanea saman are not identical. Effects of cytosolic calcium. Plant Physiol. 124:911-919. (Corrected version reprinted in Feb. 2001) article

Yu, L., Moshelion M., Moran N., 2001. Extracellular protons inhibit the activity of inward-rectifying K channels in the motor cells of Samanea saman pulvini. Plant Physiol. 127:1310-1322 article

Jacoby B, Moran N (2001) Mineral nutrients transport in plants. In: Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, M Pessarakli, ed, 2nd Ed. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York article

Moshelion, M., Becker, D., Czempinski, K., Mueller-Roeber, B., Hedrich, R., Attali, B. and Moran, N., 2002. Diurnal and circadian regulation of putative potassium channels in a leaf-moving organ. Plant Physiol. 128:634-642 article

Moshelion, M., Becker, D., Hedrich, R., Biela, A., Otto, B., Levi, H., Moran, N. and Kaldenhoff, R., 2002. PIP aquaporins in the motor cells of Samanea saman: diurnal and circadian regulation. The Plant Cell. 14:727-739 article

Ben-Yair, L., Slaaby, R., Herman, A., Cohen, Y., Biener, E., Moran, N., Yoshimura, A., Whittaker, J., de Meyts, P., Herman, B., Gertler, A., 2002. Preparation and expression of biologically active prolactin and growth hormone receptors and suppressor of cytokine signaling proteins 1, 2, 3, and 6 tagged with cyan and yellow fluorescent proteins. Protein Expres. Purif., 25: 456-464 article

Jeong, J., Suh, S., Guan, C., Tsay, Y-F., Moran, N., Oh, C.J., An, C.S., Pawlowski, K., and Lee, Y., 2004. A nodule-specific dicarboxylate transporter from Alnus glutinosa is a member of the PTR family. Plant Physiol. 134:969-978 article

Moshelion, M., Moran, N., and Chaumont, F., 2004. Dynamic changes in the osmotic water permeability of protoplast plasma membrane. Plant Physiol. 135: 2301-2317 article modeling software

Yu, L., Becker, D., Levi, H., Moshelion, M., Hedrich, R., Lotan, I., Moran, A., Pick, U., Naveh, L., Libal, Y. and Moran N., 2006. Phosphorylation of SPICK2, an AKT2 channel homologue from Samanea motor cells. J. Exp. Bot. 57: 3583-3594 article

Moran N (2007) Rhythmic leaf movements: physiological and molecular aspects. In Rhythms in Plants: Phenomenology, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance, S Mancuso, S Shabala, eds. Springer-Verlag GmbH, Berlin Heidelberg, pp 3-38 article

Moran N (2007) Osmoregulation of leaf motor cells. FEBS Lett 581: 2337-2347 article

Kim Y-Y, Kim D-Y, Shim D, Song W-Y, Lee J, Schroeder JI, Kim S, Moran N, Lee Y (2008) Expression of the novel wheat gene TM20 confers enhanced cadmium tolerance to bakers' yeast. J Biol Chem 283: 15893-15902 article

Ma X, Shor O, Diminshtein S, Yu L, Im YJ, Perera I, Lomax A, Boss WF, Moran N (2009) Phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate Inhibits K+-efflux channel activity in NT1 tobacco cultured cells. Plant Physiol. 149: 1127-1140 reprint

Wigoda N, Ma X, Moran N (2010) Phosphatidylinositol (4,5)bisphosphate regulates plant K+ channels. Biochem Soc Trans 38(2): 705-709 article

Boss, W. F., Winter-Sederoff, H., Im, Y.Ju., Moran, N., Grunden, A.M., Perera, I.Y. 2010. Basal signaling regulates plant growth and development (Future Perspectives in Plant Biology). Plant Physiol 154(2): 439-443. article

Lamdan NL, Attia Z, Moran N & Moshelion M. (2012). The Arabidopsis-related halophyte Thellungiella halophila: boron tolerance via boron complexation with metabolites? Plant, Cell and Environment 35, 735-746 article

Updated: May 2012