Research Interests:
What role do bacterial toxins play in bacterial communities?
Is the main role of bacterial toxins to defend the producer strain niche by prohibiting invadors or to limit the advance of neighboring cells?
What is the impact of biotic and a-biotic conditions on bacterial toxin expression?
Could we use bacterial toxins to ameliorate effects of human disturbance and contamination?
Research project for M.Sc.:
- Investigating the regulation of bacterial toxins.
- Studying the import of bacterial toxins into cells.
- Studying the release of bacterial toxins by “suicide” of the producer cell.
- Using bacterial toxins to detect pathogens in contaminated water.
- Treating water sources using bacterial toxins.
Contact:
Department of Environmental Microbiology and Hydrology
Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research
Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
BGU Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel
Phone: +972-8-6596986
E-mail: gilloro@bgu.ac.il
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