Dr. Gideon Grafi Professor, Plant Biology Ben Gurion university of the Negev, Israel
Biography
Gideon Grafi [Ph.D.] is a Professor of Plant Biology at the Institutes for Desert Research of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture, where he studied the translational regulation of human beta-interferon by poly(A) tail. Following a postdoctoral study on endoreduplication and the maize retinoblastoma protein at the Brian A. Larkins lab (University of Arizona), he joined in 1996 the department of Plant Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, where he studied epigenetics and the control of cellular dedifferentiation in plants. In 2006, he moved to the Ben-Gurion University and his current research interests center on the significance of dead organs enclosing embryo in seed biology and ecology, mechanisms underlying stress tolerance in desert plants and epigenetics of plant response to stress.
