1. Mills, E., and Avraham, R. (2017). Breaking the population barrier by single cell analysis: one host against one pathogen. Current Opinion in Microbiology 36: 69-75. Invited review.
2. Katsowich, N., Elbaz, N., Pal, R.R., Mills, E., Kobi, S., Kahan, T. and Rosenshine, I. (2017). Host-cell attachment elicits post-transcriptional regulation in infecting enteropathogenic bacteria. Science 355(6326): 735-739.

Lab Website: Gut Bacteriology Research Group

Publications in Google Scholar

Research Interests:

Degrees:

• Ph.D. - The Weizmann Instiute of Science, Rehovot Israel -1983
• M.Sc. - The Weizmann Instiute of Science, Rehovot Israel -1978
• B.Sc. - Bar Ilan University, Kiryat Ono, Israel -1975

Teaching Responsibilities:

71810 – Introductory Endocrinology
73503 - Biology of the Mammalian Ovary

Research Interests:

Recent Publications:

Short Biography

Ruminants Nutrition and Lactation Physiology

2000

• Leshem, Y., Spicer, D.B., Gal-Levi, R., Halevy, O. (2000) Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) inhibits skeletal muscle cell differentiation: a role for the bHLH protein twist and the cdk inhibitor p27. J. Cell. Physiol. 184:101-109.
• Halevy, O. , Geyra, A., Barak, M. , Uni, Z., and Sklan, D. (2000) Early posthatch starvation decreases satellite cell proliferation and skeletal muscle growth in chicks. J. Nutr. 130:858-864.

Degrees:

• Ph.D. Biochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1986
• M.Sc. Biochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981
• B.Sc. Animal Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1979

Teaching Responsibilities:

Undergraduate:

71211 – Chromatography of Micro and Macromolecules
71805-  Introduction to Physiology A

Graduate:

73521 - Chromatography Systems in Biology
73522 - Laboratory in Chromatography Systems in Biology

Cell Biology, Muscle Development

Research Interests:

1. Regulation of proliferation and differentiation of skeletal muscle cells
2. Skeletal muscle repair
3. Environmental and nutritional effects on muscle growth and meat production in chicken