Nir Ohad

Biography

Nir Ohad was born in Jerusalem Israel in 1959. He has a first degree in Biology and Earth sciences, a second and third degree in Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Upon completing his Ph.D diploma under the guidance of Professor J. Hirschberg, entitled "Molecular Characterization of the D1 protein of photosystem II in cyanobacteria: function-structure relationship" Professor R. Fischer in UC. Berkeley, USA, studying Plant Embryogenesis. Dr. Ohad has joined the Department of Plant Sciences at Tel-Aviv University in 1998. Since then, he has been studying epigenetic regulation of gene expression mediated by polycomb proteins (PcG), which is methylate Histone 3 on L27. Dr. Ohad research is at the core of PcG in regulating plant development. To this end, it is a good example of the plant organism. Dr. (BiFC) to study protein-protein interactions in plants. Dr. Ohad is teaching introductory class on plant biology as well as advanced classes on plant development. Dr. Ohad was a visiting scientist at the New York Botanical Gardens Laboratories, USA on summer 2006.

Research Interest

His current research focuses on Molecular and biochemical characterization of Physcomitrella patens Polycomb mutants