January 29th, 2008
Rehovot, Israel – January 29th, 2008 - Prof. James Birchler has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of Evogene Ltd. (TASE:EVGN).
Prof. James Birchler is Professor of Biological Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where his studies focus on maize genetics, cytogenetics and genomics with a special interest in the mechanisms of heterosis, gene dosage response, engineered minichromosomes and gene silencing. He joined the University of Missouri in 1991 after serving as an associate professor at Harvard University since 1985.
Evogene’s Scientific Advisory Board now consists of three members: Prof. Avraham Levy, Chairman, Prof. James Birchler and Prof. Gad Galili
Prof. Avraham Levy is leading a research group in the Plant Sciences Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, studying the dynamics of plant genomes via DNA recombination and genome duplication.
Prof. Gad Galili is the Head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is a leading researcher in the field of plant metabolic pathways.
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