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Visiting Scholars  Benny Geiger, Weizmann InstituteLab Website: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/Geiger/index.html Prof. Benjamin Geiger conducted his undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University, his M.Sc. studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, in 1977, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science. That same year, he was granted a Chaim Weizmann Fellowship, and began postdoctoral research at the University of California at San Diego. In 1979, Prof. Geiger returned to Israel and joined the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Chemical Immunology. Four years later, he was appointed Associate Professor and in 1988, Full Professor. He is married to Selly and has three children: Anat (1974), Tami (1976) and Avner (1982). Prof. Geiger chaired the Board of Studies in Biology at the Institute’s Feinberg Graduate School, and later served as its Dean (1989-1995). He headed the Institute’s Department of Molecular Cell Biology from its establishment in 1995, until 2003. In October of that year, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Biology, a position he held until October, 2009. Since 1998, Prof. Geiger has served as Director of the Yad Abraham Research Center for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy. With the establishment of the Clore Center for Biological Physics in November 2000, he was designated its first Director, a position he held for nine years. In March 2007, he also became the first Director of the Kirk Center for Childhood Cancer and Immunological Disorders. Prof. Geiger is the incumbent of the Professor Erwin Neter Chair in Cell and Tumor Biology. On the Israeli national scene, Prof. Geiger has played a leading role in the planning and implementation of new programs in science and technology education for the Israeli educational system, and is actively involved in the promotion of art and culture. He currently chairs the Academic Board of the Israel Science Foundation, the primary research funding foundation in Israel, affiliated with the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His professional affiliations and assignments include elected membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), Board Member of the European Cell Biology Organization and, from 1992 to 1996, President of the Israel Cell Biology Organization and the Israel Society for Microscopy. He is also a member of the European Cytoskeletal Forum, serving as its President since 2001. As a scientist, Prof. Geiger focuses mainly on the mechanisms responsible for communication between cells, both normal and cancerous. He is attempting to identify and trace the specific molecules involved in cell-cell recognition and communication, and to investigate those molecules that mediate such interactions. Over the years he and his group discovered many of the basic mechanisms involved in the cell’s interaction with its surroundings, and in the environmental regulation of cell activity and fate. Particular attention is given to the aberrant communication of cancerous cells. Prof. Geiger’s research has yielded several patents, which are currently being implemented by industry for the development of new glaucoma therapy, as well as a novel type of automated cell imaging system. Peter Walter, UCSF Lab Website: http://webminer.ucsf.edu/Site/Home.html Julie Theriot, Stanford Lab Website: http://cmgm.stanford.edu/theriot/ |
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