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Research Projects Offered for M.Sc.
- Characterization at the genotypic and phenotypic levels of a Pistacia germplasm collection.
- Mechanisms of heavy metals hyperaccumulation in plants.
- The role of dehydrin in stress tolerance in plants.
- Screening, identification, purification and characterization of biologically active compounds from desert plants.
Publications since 2009
El-On, J., Ozer, L., Gopas, J., Sneir, R., and Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2009. Nuphar lutea: In vitro anti-leishmanial activity against Leishmania major promastigotes and amastigotes. Phytomed. 16, 788-792.
El-On, J., Ozer, L., Gopas, J., Sneir, R., Enav, H., Luft, N., Davidov, G. and Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2009. Antileishmanial activity in Israeli plants. Annals of Tropical Med. & Parasitol., 103, 297–306.
Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2009. Bridging the gap between ethnobotany and biotechnology of Pistacia. Isr. J. Pl. Sc. 57, 65-78.
Verkleij, J.A.C., Golan-Goldhirsh, A., Antosiewisz, D.M., Schwitzguébel, J.P. and Schröder, P. 2009. Dualities in plant tolerance to pollutants and their uptake and translocation to the upper plant parts. Environmental and Experimental Botany 67, 10-22.
Barazani, O. and Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2009. Salt-driven interactions between Pistacia lentiscus and Salsola inermis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 16, 855-861. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-009-0231-4.
Tencer, Y., Idan, G., Strom, M., Nusinow, U., Banet, D., Cohen, E., Schroeder, P., Shelef, O., Rachmilevitch, S., Soares, I., Gross, A. and Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2009. Establishment of a constructed wetland in extreme dryland. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 16, 862-875. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-009-0232-3.
Ozer, J., Eisner, N., Ostrozhenkova, E., Bacher, A., Eisenreich, W., Benharroch, D., Golan-Goldhirsh, A. and Gopas, J. 2009. Nuphar lutea thioalkaloids inhibit the nuclear factor κB pathway, potentiate apoptosis and are synergistic with cisplatin and etoposide. CB & T 8, 1860-1868.
Pimenta Leibowitz, M., Ofir, R., Golan-Goldhirsh, A. and Zilberg, D. 2009. Cysteine proteases and acid phosphatases contribute to Tetrahymena spp. pathogenicity in guppies, Poecilia reticulate. Vet. Parasitol. 166, 21-26.
Ostrozhenkova, E., Golan-Goldhirsh, A., Bacher, A. and Eisenreich, W. 2010. Biosynthesis of hermidin from Mercurialis annua: A retrobiosynthetic study. Phytochem. Lett. 3, 33-37.
Zilberg, D., Tal, A., Froyman, N., Abutbul, S., Dudai, N. and Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2010. Dried leaves of Rosmarinus officinalis as a treatment for streptococcosis in tilapia. J. Fish Dis. 33, 361-369.
Shelef, O., Lazarovitch, N., Rewald, B., Golan-Goldhirsh, A. and Rachmilevitch, S. 2010. Root halotropism? salinity effects on Bassia indica Roots. Plant Biosystems 144, 471-478.
Ozer, L., El-On, J., Golan-Goldhirsh, A. and Gopas, J. 2010. Leishmania major: Anti-leishmanial activity of Nuphar lutea extract mediated by the activation of transcription factor NF-κB. Experim. Parasitol.126, 510-516.
Shelef, O., Golan-Goldhirsh, A. Gendler, T. and Rachmilevitch, S. 2011. Physiological parameters of plants as indicators of water quality in a constructed wetland. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 18, 1234-1242.
Bachmetov, L., Gal-Tanamy, M., Shapira, A., Vorobeychik, M., Giterman-Galam, T., Sathiyamoorthy, P., Golan-Goldhirsh, A., Benhar, I., Tur-Kaspa, R. and Zemel, R. 2012. Suppression of hepatitis C virus by the flavonoid quercetin is mediated by inhibition of NS3 protease activity. J. Viral Hepatitis. In Press.
Ward, D., Shrestha K. M. and Golan-Goldhirsh, A. 2012. Evolution and ecology meet molecular genetics: adaptive phenotypic plasticity in two isolated Negev desert populations of Acacia raddiana at either end of rainfall gradient. Annals Botany. 109, 247-255. |