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NAAMA GEVA-ZATORSKY, Assistant Professor at the Technion, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. Ph.D., at the Weizmann Institute, Systems-Biology with Prof. Uri Alon, completed with honors and received the JFK, Teva and Barenholz awards. Postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School, in the lab of Prof. Dennis Kasper, for which she received the Human Frontiers and EMBO fellowships, as well as the UNESCO-L’Oreal awards (national and international). During her postdoc, in addition to characterizing the host response to ~60 different gut bacteria, from across phyla1, she also applied metabolic labeling to enable, for the first time, visualization of anaerobic gut microbes, in real time, and in association with the host2. In her lab, with her team, she is applying Systems-Biology thinking strategies with Microbiology, Immunology, and Bacteriophage biology to study the mechanistic and functional interactions of the gut microbiota with mammalian host physiology in health and disease, and under varying conditions. They are also developing tools to study microbe-host interactions in a dynamic manner and in natural environments. Geva-Zatorsky recently received the Johnson&Johnson WiSTEM2D award, the CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar award of the Humans&Microbiome Program, the Alon and Horev fellowships, and the Human Frontiers career development award.
1. Geva-Zatorsky, N. et al. Mining the Human Gut Microbiota for Immunomodulatory Organisms. Cell 168, 928-943 e911, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.01.022 (2017).
2. Geva-Zatorsky, N. et al. In vivo imaging and tracking of host-microbiota interactions via metabolic labeling of gut anaerobic bacteria. Nat Med 21, 1091-1100, doi:10.1038/nm.3929 (2015).