Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1989
virology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, micro rna |
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- Virology, Host-virus interactions Molecular biology and epidemiology of Hepatitis C virus; study of microRNA genes in viruses; molecular basis of virus-host cell interactions; molecular diagnosis and novel treatments for viral infections.
- Viral encoded microRNAs.
- MicroRNAs in host viral interactions.
- Pathogens involved in respiratory infection iv. Molecular Diagnostics of viral infections
Major expertise and techniques in the lab
- Molecular Biology and tissue culture
- Virology
Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants
- Alona Kuzmina , Uzi Hadad , Koh Fujinaga , Ran Taube (2012) Functional characterization of a human cyclin T1 mutant reveals a different binding surface for Tat and HEXIM1. Virology, 152:152-161.
- Avis Dafa -Berger, Hila Yitzhak- Asraf , Yonat Shemer-Avini and Ran Taube (2012) Modulation of Hepatitis C Virus Release by the Interferon-Induced Protein BST-2/ Tetherin . In press . Virology.
- Klara Kedem and Michal Ziv-Ukelson , Dept. of Computer Science, BGU. Development of bioinformatics algorithms and tools for microRNA target prediction and for the discovery and analysis of small non-coding RNAs
- Yakov Gopas and Ran Taube– miRNA role in establishment of viral persistence.