Systems Immunology & Immunotechnology
Our Team.
Principal Investigator
Yarive Wine, PhD.
Green Building, room 222
Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Faculty of Life Sciences
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv
Israel, 6997801
Tel: +972 3 6408723
Email: yarivwine@tauex.tau.ac.il
Laboratory Manager
Yael Dror, M.Sc
Green building, room 224
Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Faculty of Life Sciences
Tel-Aviv University
Ramat-Aviv
Israel, 6997801
Tel: +972 3 640 7518 Fax: +972 3 640 5147
Email: Dror11@tauex.tau.ac.il
PhD. Students
PhD. Student
Shai Rosenstein
Shai joined our group in Oct-2015 after completing her BSc. at the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
During her BSc. studies she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Zoology and in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology.
In her MSc. project Shai focused on the characterization of the antibodies elicited following infusion of anti-TNFa agent (Infliximab) to IBD patients. Specifically, Shai will look for associations between neutralizing anti drug antibodies and various cytokines (e.g. BAFF).
PhD. Student
Aya Kigel
Aya joined our group in Oct-2017 after completing her BSc. at the Robert H. Smith faculty of agriculture, food and environment, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
During her PhD, Aya focus on the molecular landscape of B cell immunity at the maternal-infant interface which involves the study of maternal immunization.
In her MSc. project Aya focused on developing computational and experimental frameworks for proteomic analysis of serum antibodies.
PhD. Student
Ligal Aizik
Joined on may-2019 after completing her BSc in Biotechnology at the faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
In her PhD project Ligal is working on characterizing the phenotype of tumor infiltrating B lymphocytes, tumor-associated B cells and their distinct antibody repertoire.
During her BSc she gained experience as research assistant in our lab, working on production, purification and validation of Tetanus Toxoid C fragment (rTTC), and purification of rTTC and TT-specific antibodies from pregnant women.
PhD. Student
David Taussig
David joined our group in may-2020 after completing his BSc. in biomedical engineering at UAS Vienna ,Austria.
David's project involves the development of an enhanced screening method of semi-synthetic phage libraries using NGS after phage-panning.
PhD. Student
Talya Bar-Am
Joined on October-2021 after completing her B.Sc in Biology at the faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University. Talya's project is in the field of NGS and phage-panning.
During her B.Sc she gained experience as research assistant in our lab, working on vector cloning and human antibody expression.
M.Sc Students
M.Sc Student
Camilla Terracina
Camilla joined our group in October-2021 after completing B.Sc in biology at the Faculty of Life Science, Sapienza University of Rome.
In her M.Sc Camilla is working on the dynamics of the vaccine-specific antibody and mother-baby interface
M.Sc Student
Bar Avidov
Bar joined our team on October-2022 after completing his Bsc in Biology at the faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
He is doing his M.sc. in Computational Biology. His project involves studying paratope-epitope interactions in antibodies.
M.Sc Student
Meital Mazin
Meital joined our group on October-2022 after completing her B.Sc in the Inter-faculty Program in Medical and Life sciences at Tel-Aviv University.
Her M.Sc involves characterising the phenotype and gene expression of tumor infiltrating B lymphocytes.
M.Sc Student
Gaya Roga
Gaya joined our group on October-2022 after completing her BSc in Biology at the faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
Gaya's project is in the field of B cell immunity at the maternal-infant interface.
During her BSc she gained experience as research assistant in our lab, working on purification of vaccine-specific antibodies from breast milk.
Alumni
M.Sc Student
Limor Levy
Limor joined our group in Apr-2016 after completing her masters thesis at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University.
During her PhD, Limor focused on the impact of pregnancy on the nature of the immune response following maternal immunization.
In her MSc studies, she developed an ex-vivo system for high-throughput analysis of molecular chaperon as therapeutic strategy for the Von Hipple–Lindau syndrome.
Alongside her PhD research, Limor tutored future scientists from the ‘Tel Aviv University for youth’ that promotes young scientists to discover and research in the academy during mid and high school.
M.Sc Student
Tsuf Eyran
Joined the Wine lab in October 2019 after completing his BSc. in Life Sciences in the Faculty of Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University.
Tsuf focused his study and research on the longitudinal kinetics of the serological response in COVID-19 recovered patients over the period of 14 months with a comparison to the differences and effects in longitudinal kinetics between recovered patients, naïve BNT162b2 vaccinees and recovered patients post vaccination.
PhD. Student (co-advisor Prof. Itay Benhar)
Anna Vaisman Mentesh
Anna joined our group in Oct-2014 after completing her M.Sc thesis at the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology.
In her PhD. project Anna worked on analyzing the drug-antibody repertoire in inflammatory bowel disease patients treated with Infliximab.
During her M.Sc she worked on developing an animal model for in-vivo restoration of p53 cancer associated mutations and the development of a novel method of examining p53 DNA binding.
Research Associate
Yaron Hillman, PhD.
Yaron completed his PhD. in Tel Aviv University, at the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler faculty of Medicine, under the supervision of Prof. Zvi Fishelson.
Yaron worked on a novel therapeutic monoclonal antibody to combat multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria.
In his PhD. he studied and characterized microRNAs that modulated the sensitivity of cancer cells to complement-dependent cytotoxicity.
M.Sc Student
Dan Lustiger
Dan joined our group in Oct-2017 after completing his BSc. in Marine Biotechnology at the Ruppin Academic Center.
During his BSc. Dan participated in a research project under the supervision of Dr. Nir Nesher & Dr. Tal Shomrat which focused on characterization of structure and anti-bacterial activity of Octopus vulgaris skin mucus. In addition, his M.Sc involved the study of anti-bacterial immunotherapy.