
Dr. Ofer Yifrach: Curriculum Vitae
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name:
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Ofer
Yifrach
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Date of Birth:
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December 1966, Israel
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Address at work:
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Department of Life Sciences
Ben Gurion
University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Beer sheva 84105, Israel
Tel
(Office): 972-8-6479172
Tel
(Lab): 972-8-6479158
email:
ofery@bgu.ac.il
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2. EDUCATION
1995
-1999 |
Ph.D.
Studies, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Structural Biology
Thesis: Allosteric control of the molecular chaperone GroEL: implications
for the mechanism of protein folding. Mentor: Prof. Amnon Horovitz |
1992-1994 |
M.Sc in Chemistry,
Weizmann Institute of Science
Thesis: Nested cooperativity in ATP hydrolysis by the molecular chaperone GroEL.
Mentor: Prof. Amnon Horovitz.
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1982-1992 |
B.Sc. in Geology, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Cum Laude
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3. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
August 2003 to date |
Senior Lecturer, Dep. of Life
Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
2002-2003 |
Post-doctoral fellow, the
Weizmann Institute of Science, Departments of Structural Biology and
Neurobiology. |
1999-2002 |
Post-doctoral fellow, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and
Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York. |
1998-1999 |
Lecturer, the teachers training
center of the Achva college |

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