Team:BGU Israel/Team
OUR TEAM
Mey Tal Banar
(Student Leader)
Age: 26
Where From: Los Angeles, California, USA.
Studies: B.Sc. in Life Sciences.
Aspiration: Become a medical surgeon and have a big family.
Quote: “Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.” -Victoria Holt
Assaf Vital
Age: 24
Where From: Jerusalem, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Life Sciences.
Aspiration: To be happy.
Quote: “If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” –RuPaul
Hadar Buium
Age: 26
Where From: Nazareth, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Life Sciences.
Aspiration: Save the world from humanity.
Quote: “Live and let live”
Ofir Hurvitz
Age: 26
Where From: Tel Aviv, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Psychobiology.
Aspiration: To be happy and accomplished.
Quote: “Even if you are on the right road, you will get run over if you just sit there”
Yoav Dagmi
Age: 26
Where From: Ein Gedi, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Medical Science.
Aspiration: To travel around the world and out of it.
Quote: “The more the merrier”
Nofar Cohen
Age: 26
Where From: Rishon Le Zion, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Life Sciences.
Aspiration:To participate in an independent ceremony for helping people and finding new things in my field of study.
Quote: “Hakuna Matata”
Hen Zinger
Age: 27
Where From: Betzet, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Life Sciences.
Aspiration: To live and raise a family in a moshav (settlement).
Quote: “Love only”
Reut Rahamim Molgan
Age: 26
Where From: Sderot, Israel.
Studies: B.Sc. in Life Sciences.
Aspiration: To be a great mom and medical doctor.
Quote:"A smile is a crooked line that sets things straight" -Phyllis Diller
Eden Ozer
(Student Instructor)
Age: 29
Where From: Rishon Le Zion, Israel.
Degree: B.Sc. Biotechonology Engineering Ben Gurion University, M.Sc. Life Sciences Ben Gurion University.
Studies: Currently a Ph.D. Life Sciences student at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Quote: ““Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” -Carl Sagan
Dror Aizik
(Student Instructor)
Age: 27
Where From: Holon, Israel.
Degree: B.Sc. Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Studies: Currently an M.Sc. Life Sciences student at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Quote: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” -Carl Sagan
Mor Pasi
(Student Instructor)
Age: 28
Where From: Tzur Moshe, Israel.
Degree: B.Sc. Biotechnology Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Studies: Currently a Ph.D. Life Sciences student at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
Quote: “You create your own fate” -Marton Zelovics
Ramon Y. Birnbaum
(Secondary PI)
Where From: Rehovot, Israel.
Degree: B.Sc. Economics and Management from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. M.Sc. Biotechnology from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ph.D. Human Genetics from Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Post-Doctoral Studies I’m Functional Genetics at UCSF. Assistant professor at BGU since 2013.
Aspiration: To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream.
Quote: “Evolutionary changes in anatomy and way of life are more often based on changes in the mechanisms controlling the expression of genes than on sequence changes in proteins” -Mary Claire King and A.C. Wilson, Science, 1975
Lital Alfonta
(Primary PI)
Where From: Dimona, Israel.
Degree: B.Sc. Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Chemistry.
Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Bioelectrochemistry.
Post-Doctoral Studies: Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla California: Synthetic Biology.
At Ben-Gurion University since 2007, Full Professor since 2017.
Aspiration: To keep doing good science for many more years to come.
Quote: “What we cannot create we cannot understand” Richard P. Feynman