Prof. Ron Goldstein

Telephone
Email
Ron.Goldstein@biu.ac.il
Office
Gonda Building 204, 1st floor, Room 101
Reception Hours
by email appointment
    CV

    Education

    1974-1978, BA, Biology, Columbia College (NY)

    1978-1981, MA, Neurobiology, Columbia University

    1981-1984, PhD, Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University

    Thesis adviser: James H. Schwartz

    1983-1984, Lady Davis Postdoctoral fellow

    Neurobiology& Behavio, Dept. of Zoology, Hebrew University

    1984-1991, Postdoctoral Fellow

    Developmental Neurobiology, Depts. of Anatomy and Embryology/Zoology Hebrew University

    Academic Positions

    1991-2003, SENIOR LECTURER

    Dept. Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University

    2003-2011, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

    The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University

    2011-present PROFESSOR

    The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University

    Research Group

     

    Marina Filatov Safrigin, MSc. Student

    Linoy Golani-ZaidiePhD Student

    Dr. Punam Bisht, post-doctoral fellow

    Dr. Biswajit Das, post-doctoral fellow

    Dr.Tatiana Borodianskiy Shteinberg, Lab manager

     

    Current Funding

    IsraelScience Foundation              2016-2020

    National Institutes of Health            2015-2020

    (with P. Kinchington, Univ. Pittsburgh)

    US-Israel Binational Foundation  2018-2022

     

    Research

    Neurons derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESC) for studying pathogenic viruses

    The differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into neural derivatives and applications in biomedicine has been the central focus of our research since 2001.

    Our lab was the first to generate primary sensory (DRG-like) neurons and their precursors, neural crest cells, from hESC (Pomp et al Stem Cells, 2005, international patents pending and awarded). Since then, we have steadily improved the yield of this neuronal phenotype in our cultures (Brokhman et al, 2008, Pomp et al, 2008). The efficient generation of human neurons now allows us to use them in two biomedical applications.

    The primary research focus in the lab is now using human neurons to study infection by pathogenic neurotropic viruses, i.e. varicella zoster ("chicken pox/shingles"). This project is a close collaboration with Prof. Paul Kinchington from the the Universityof Pittsburgh Medical School.

    Courses

    80-414 BIOTECHNOLOGY SEMINAR

    80-545  BIOTECHNOLOGICAL USES OF STEM CELLS

    80-849 IMAGE PROCESSING FOR BIOLOGISTS

                  INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY B (English for Post-bac Premed program)

    80-902 GRADUATE SEMINAR (A)

     

    Last Updated Date : 02/05/2023