Prof. Shay Ben-Aroya

Personal details:

Date of birth: October 17, 1968

Place of birth: Israel

Military Service (1987-1994)- Graduate of the Israeli Naval Academy-Released as a Major

Academic background:

October 2009-present: Senior lecturer

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat-Gan Israel

2005-July 2009:  Post-doctoral Fellow

University of British Columbia,

Michael Smith Laboratories,

Vancouver, BC, Canada

PI: Dr. Philip A. Hieter

Research: “Identifying and exploiting the underlying molecular defects leading to Chromosome Instability in Cancer”

1999-2003: PhD.

Tel-Aviv University

Dept. of Molecular Micro and Biotech

PI: Professor Martin Kupiec

Thesis Title: “Characterization of factors involved in the maintenance of genome stability in the yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae”

1997-1999: MSc.

Tel-Aviv University

Dept. of Molecular Micro and Biotech

PI: Professor Martin Kupiec

Thesis Title: “Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that show  increased levels of recombination between repeated sequences”

1994 –1997: BSc.

Biology Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel