Research Interests

In the Schlesinger lab, we study epigenetic reprogramming following fertilization. In particular, we are interested in the process leading to the formation of heterochromatin de novo and silencing of transposable elements and retroviruses. We use embryonic stem (ES) cells from mice and from farm animals to get a deeper understanding of the general characteristics of pluripotency in all mammalian cells.

Google Scholar List of Publications

Short biography:

1997 – 2000 B.Sc. in Life Sciences, "Etgar" project for excellent students. the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

2000 – 2001 M.Sc. studies, The Hebrew University- Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

Custom Made Antibodies

As experienced chicken immunologists, we make extensive use of chicken antibodies purified from egg yolks and bile. We have perfected the methods for purifying IgY from yolk and chIgA from bile, and have recently begun to provide custom made antibodies to many of our colleagues that were unable to produce or purchase antibodies that matched their  demands. We provide highly specific and purified antibodies at a cost that covers our expenses and that enables us to maintain our layer colony.

Courses and Teaching

at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Enviroment
and the Koret School for Veterinary Medicine

Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to Cell Biology ( 71079: 2 credits): 
A compulsory course for first-year students in animal and food sciences. A weekly 2 hour lecture covers the general aspects of mordern cell biology.

Alumni (partial list)

Doron Melamed, PhD - Rappaport Institute, Technion

Yaakov Waksman, PhD

Avner Adini, PhD

Shay Weiss, PhD

Ran Zichel, PhD

Helena Yagev, PhD

Eyal Klipper, PhD

Assaf Adlershtein

Vets and Vets to be...

Liron Hirsch

Raaya Ilia

Shirly Cohen

Ana Dorfman

The Group

Enav Bar Shira, PhD : Lab manager and project coordinator

Ph.D. Students

Inbal Bromberger. Expression and characterization of Ig transporters in the chick cloacal bursa and gut.

M.Sc. Students

Neta Netzer-Cohen: Selection of B lymphocyte repertoire by bacterial products in the cloacal bursa (LPS and CpG).

Ori Elad: Transfer of maternal IgA from the egg to the avian embryonic gut and its uptake by goblet cells.

Several Key Publications

1. Weiner, H.L., Friedman, A., Miller, A., Khoury, S.J., Al-Sabbagh, A., Santos, L.M.B., Sayegh, M., Nussenblatt, R., Trentham, D.E . and Hafler, D.A. 
   Oral tolerance: immunologic mechanisms and treatment of murine and human organ specific autoimmune diseases by oral administration of autoantigens. Annu. Rev. Immunol. 1994; 12: 809-838.

2. Friedman, A. Induction of anergy in Th1 lymphocytes by oral tolerance. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 1996; 103-110.