Chaya Kalcheim
Neurobiology
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
Chaya Kalcheim was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 25, 1955. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel, is married and has two children, Einat and Yoav. She studied her undergraduate studies in Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot, where she graduated in Neurobiology. In 1984, she moved to Paris to the Institute of Embryology Cellulaire et Moleculaire, where she specialized with Prof. Nicole Le Douarin in Developmental Neurobiology. Back in Israel in 1987, she joined the Dept. of Anatomy and Embryology, now the Dept. of Medical Neurobiology of the Faculty of Medicine, where she is a full professor since 2001. Dr Kalcheim holds the Alice and Siegfried Menkes Chair in Cancer Research and Experimental Medicine and received numerous awards including the Bernard Katz Prize in Neurobiology from the University of Heidelberg. In 1999, Dr Kalcheim published his work on the development of the "Neural Crest", a study of developmental biology, cell biology, and neuroscience
Research Interest
Her current research focuses on Mechanisms of Neural Crest specification Cell commitment vs. multipotency at the premigratory stage Segregation between Neural Crest and Roof Plate fates. The relationship between cell specification and the choice of migratory pathways
Publications
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(2002). The interactions between the cell cycle and the neural crest . Developmental Cell. 3, 383-395
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Le Douarin, NM and Kalcheim, C. (1999) The Neural Crest . 2 cond Edition. Cambridge University Press. new York
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[0002] F-spondin is expressed in somite regions by neural crest cells and mediates, the inhibition of distinct domains to neural crest migration Neuron 22, 475-488
