Seminar topic: How does a neuron grow?

"I was born in Tanzania, East Africa, where an early exposure to the wildlife of the Serengeti Plains and the Indian Ocean instilled a lifelong fascination with the biological sciences. After completing my Ph.D. with Eliahu Zlotkin at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992, I moved for postdoctoral training with Carlos Ibáñez at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and Guus Smit at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My joint project in these two host laboratories led to discovery of the first invertebrate neurotrophic factors and receptors. I joined the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1997 and have been there ever since. My research group discovered importin-based mechanisms for long distance intracellular communication in neurons, and is studying their roles in regulating neuronal maintenance, injury responses, and growth."

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