Anat A Herskovits
Tel Aviv University
Israel
Biography
Anat is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She received her Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of science in Israel, in 2003. She carried out postdoctoral research at University of California Berkeley, USA, working on Listeria monocytogenes and its interaction with the mammalian innate immune system. She joined the Tel Aviv university at 2008, and research in her laboratory focuses on understanding the impact of host–pathogen and host-pathogen-phage interactions on L. monocytogenes virulence. Anat published 24 papers in highly reputed journals and she is curently serving as the president of the Israeli society of microbiology.
Abstract
Abstract : Listeria monocytogenes prophage turns itself into a molecular switch to support bacterial virulence