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Prof. Malka Halpern Associate Professor Phone: 972-4-9838978 Email: mhalpern@research.haifa.ac.il
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Education 2003 - PhD (Microbiology), University of Haifa 1997 - M.Sc. (Zoology), Tel Aviv University |
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Research Interests I am an Environmental Microbiologist. My main research interests are:
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Selected Publications |
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Senderovich, Y. and Halpern, M. (2013) The protective role of endogenous bacterial communities in chironomid egg masses and larvae. ISME Journal. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.100. Halpern, M., Fridman, S., Aizenberg-Gershtein Y. and Izhaki, I. (2012) Transfer of Pseudomonas flectens Johnson (1956) to Phaseolibacter gen. nov., in the family Enterobacteriaceae, as Phaseolibacter flectens comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63: 268-273. Fridman S., Izhaki, I., Gerchman Y. and Halpern M. (2012) Bacterial communities in floral nectar. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 4: 97–104. Halpern, M. (2010) Novel Insights into Hemagglutinin Protease (HAP) Gene Regulation in Vibrio cholerae. Molecular Ecology. 19: 4108-4112. Senderovich, Y., Izhaki, I. and Halpern, M. (2010) Fish as reservoirs and vectors of Vibrio cholerae. PLoS ONE. 5: e8607. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008607. Halpern, M., Senderovich, Y. and Izhaki I. (2008) Waterfowl — the missing link in epidemic and pandemic cholera dissemination? PLoS Pathogens. 4: e1000173. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000173. Senderovich, Y., Gershtein, Y. Halewa, E. and Halpern, M. (2008) Vibrio cholerae and Aeromonas; do they share a mutual host? ISME Journal. 2: 276-283. Broza, M. and Halpern, M. (2001) Chironomid egg masses and Vibrio cholerae. Nature 412: 40.
Teaching Introduction to Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology workshop
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