Prof. Nir Keren, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Host: Yagut Allahverdiyeva (allahve@utu.fi)

Professor Nir Keren works at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences in Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel). His research is focused on metal transport, accumulation and homeostasis in photosynthetic organisms. In addition, he studies dynamics of the photosynthetic apparatus when photosynthetic organisms adapt to the changing environment.

 Selected publications

• Zer H, Margulis K, Georg J, Shotland Y, Kostova G, Sultan LD, Hess WR, Keren N. (2018) Resequencing of a mutant bearing an iron starvation recovery phenotype defines Slr1658 as a new player in the regulatory network of a model cyanobacterium. Plant J. 93(2):235-245. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13770. Epub 2017 Dec 20.

• Oren N, Raanan H, Murik O, Keren N, Kaplan A. (2017) Dawn illumination prepares desert cyanobacteria for dehydration. Curr Biol. 27(19):R1056-R1057. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.027.

• Bar Eyal L, Ranjbar Choubeh R, Cohen E, Eisenberg I, Tamburu C, Dorogi M, Ünnep R, Appavou MS, Nevo R, Raviv U, Reich Z, Garab G, van Amerongen H, Paltiel Y, Keren N. (2017) Changes in aggregation states of light-harvesting complexes as a mechanism for modulating energy transfer in desert crust cyanobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114(35):9481-9486. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1708206114. Epub 2017 Aug 14.