• Full Professor and PI (2008-present): Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa 

• The head of the Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Immunity: Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa

• Visiting Professor (2019-2020): Department of Plant Pathology, University of California-Davis Campus, USA.

• Director (2013-2019): Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa.

E-mail: tfahima@evo.haifa.ac.il tfahima@univ.haifa.ac.il 

Phone: +972-48240784

ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5555-0040

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ac81XrsAAAAJ&hl=en

Olga has graduated with her M.Sc. in Embryology at Moscow State University, Russian Federation. During her Master’s, she worked on constitutional chromosome abnormalities of males with disturbed spermatogenesis. After graduation, she started to work as a research scientist in laboratory of genetics of reproduction disorders, and later in laboratory of prenatal diagnosis and cytogenetics, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow. Olga is experienced in Molecular and Cell biology technical skills; she also has a background of working in clinical laboratory. At present, Olga is finishing her PhD degree on condition-dependent recombination in Drosophila at Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel.

Scientific interests: Evolution of recombination, Genetic mapping, Drosophila genetics

Yinghui Li has completed his Ph.D. Crop Genetics and Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.  In his doctoral tenure he was working on the mechanism of powdery mildew resistance induced by glycerol application in wheat. Before joining Haifa university, he was working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China to Identify of powdery mildew resistance genes from Triticum urartu and transferring them into common wheat by wide hybridization. He has a vast experience in the field of wheat genetics and disease resistance in plants. Currently, he is working on dissection of the molecular mechanisms of broad-spectrum resistance conferred by PmG3M to wheat powdery mildew and the diversities and evolution of tandem kinase across the plant kingdoms.

Scientific interests: Plant genetics, Plant disease resistance, Genetic mapping, Gene cloning, Genetic evolution

Prerna Balkrishna Pawar has completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Savitribai Phule Pune University in collaboration with  Bhabha Atomic Research Institute, Mumbai. During her Ph.D. she worked on the beneficial role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) for growth improvement of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea. L) under drought stress conditions. She possesses broad professional skills of biotechnological research with particular interest in Biochemistry, Microbiology, Molecular biology and various analytical methods. Before joining this lab, Prerna was working as a Postdoctoral fellow in Technion Israel institute of Technology, Haifa. At present, she is been working on diploid Triticum monococcum model system for investigation of disease resistance mechanism in wheat.

Scientific interests: Wheat transformation, Wheat Genomics, Gene cloning and Plant disease resistance 

Liubov Govta has graduated with her M.Sc. in Biophysics at Donetsk National University, Ukraine. During her Master’s,  she worked on the investigation of the reaction of cells and organs of animals on vibration. After graduation, she continued her investigation of animal physiology at Donetsk National Medical University as a Ph.D. student. At the same time, she started her career as a lecturer for international medical students. Liubov has experience as a leading chemical engineer in the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries. She has transferable skills in biotechnological research, especially in Plant Pathology, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Microbiology, Molecular biology, and various analytical methods. At the moment, Liubov has been working on investigating the role of WTK1 in the immune signaling network that activates the resistance mechanism conferred by WTK1.

Scientific interests: Plant genetics, Plant disease resistance, Genetic mapping, Gene cloning, Genetic evolution and Genomics

Tamara has procured her education at the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. Her undergraduate thesis was related to studying the biological activity of human saliva peptides. 

Having finished her bachelor’s graduation project and gained practical lab skills, she was working in the biotechnology department of VIR – the most significant gene bank and one of the most known agrobiological research centers in Russia. Tamara has immense experience in developing generations of hybrids of cultivated potatoes and their wild Mexican counterparts. The latter serves as an invaluable genetic source of resistance to various pathogens, and incorporating them into cultivated species’ genomes is an essential and engaging task.

Scientific interests: Plant pathology, Plant resistance genes, Protoplast transformation, Whole pathogen genome sequencing

Hanchao Wang has graduated from Hunan Agricultural university at Tea Science. During his M.D, he worked on wild germplasm analysis of Rucheng Tea. Hanchao has skills in agriculture and biotechnology. He is interest in molecular biology, wheat genetics, statistic analysis through SPSS and R, and bio-informatics analysis through python and linux. 

Scientific interests: Wheat Genetics, Plant Genomics, Disease Resistance Bio-informatics, Molecular biology

Mayss received her Bachelor in science (B.Sc.) degree  in Medical Sciences and Biology from Haifa University.

While in last year of her B.Sc., she worked for one year at Prof. Fahmia's lab on the Wheat Genomic project, with the PmG3M gene which is a Powdery Mildew resistant gene.

After she submitted her B.Sc. project, she started a Master degree at Prof. Fahmia's lab in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology . In her Master’s, she will be working on cereal genomics. Her project is defined to search new genes that are resistant to cereal diseases including Powdery mildew and Yellow rust.

Scientific interests: Gene mapping, Plant disease resistance and Cereal genomics

Angelika Gurianov has graduated with her BSc in Medicinal Chemistry from Ariel University. After completing her bachelor's graduation project, which focused on synthesizing Nitroxides, she secured a position at Omega Ltd, a molecular biology lab. During her time at Omega Ltd, Angelika gained experience in Covid detection and sequencing. Currently, Angelika is a Master of Science (MSc) student in Professor Fahima's lab. Her research involves identifying new genes that are resistant to yellow rust in Einkorn wheat and transferring candidate genes into bread wheat.

Scientific interests: Gene mapping, Plant disease resistance bioinformatics, Molecular biology, and Wheat transformation