Oded Béjà | |
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| Born | January 29, 1964 |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Known for | Bacterial Rhodopsin discovery, Viral Photosynthesis |
| Children | 3 |
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| Fields | Metagenomics, Microbiology |
| Doctoral advisor | Prof. Eitan Bibi |
| Website | https://beja.net.technion.ac.il/ |
Oded Béjà is a professor in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in the field of marine microbiology and metagenomics.[1]
Academic work
Oded Béjà is best known for discovering the first bacterial rhodopsin[2] naming it proteorhodopsin,[3] during his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Edward DeLong. Oded Béjà's laboratory focuses currently on the role and diversity of photosynthetic viruses infecting cyanobacteria in the oceans,[4] and the use of functional metagenomics for the discovery of new light sensing proteins.
In 2018, the team of Oded Beja discovered a new family of rhodopsins with an inverted membrane topology, which can be found in bacteria, algae, algal viruses and archaea.[5] Members of the new family were named heliorhodopsins.[5]
Early life and education
Oded Béjà graduated with a B.Sc. degree from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment - Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1998.
Recognition
- Editorial board of the International Society for Microbial Ecology[6]
- Faculty Member of the Year 2012 by Faculty of 1000.[7]
- EMBO Young Investigator 2002-2004[8]
- American Society for Photobiology 2002 New Investigator Award.
- Ranked 443 in the Ranking of scientists in Israel Institutions according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles[9]
References
- ↑ "Technion - Department of Biology". biology.technion.ac.il. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ↑ Béjà, Oded; Aravind, L.; Koonin, Eugene V.; Suzuki, Marcelino T.; Hadd, Andrew; Nguyen, Linh P.; Jovanovich, Stevan B.; Gates, Christian M.; Feldman, Robert A. (2000-09-15). "Bacterial Rhodopsin: Evidence for a New Type of Phototrophy in the Sea". Science. 289 (5486): 1902–1906. Bibcode:2000Sci...289.1902B. doi:10.1126/science.289.5486.1902. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 10988064.
- ↑ Grote, Mathias; O'Malley, Maureen A. (2011-11-01). "Enlightening the life sciences: the history of halobacterial and microbial rhodopsin research". FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 35 (6): 1082–1099. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6976.2011.00281.x. ISSN 1574-6976. PMID 21623844.
- ↑ Sharon, Itai; Alperovitch, Ariella; Rohwer, Forest; Haynes, Matthew; Glaser, Fabian; Atamna-Ismaeel, Nof; Pinter, Ron Y.; Partensky, Frédéric; Koonin, Eugene V. (2009). "Photosystem I gene cassettes are present in marine virus genomes". Nature. 461 (7261): 258–262. Bibcode:2009Natur.461..258S. doi:10.1038/nature08284. PMC 4605144. PMID 19710652.
- 1 2 Pushkarev, Alina; Inoue, Keiichi; Larom, Shirley; Flores-Uribe, José; Singh, Manish; Konno, Masae; Tomida, Sahoko; Ito, Shota; Nakamura, Ryoko (June 2018). "A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics". Nature. 558 (7711): 595–599. Bibcode:2018Natur.558..595P. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0225-9. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 29925949. S2CID 49330919.
- ↑ "Editors List | ISME-International Society for Microbial Ecology". www.isme-microbes.org. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ↑ "Oded Beja | Faculty Member | Faculty Opinions".
- ↑ "Browse Form". 194.94.44.233. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
- ↑ "Ranking of scientists in Israel Institutions according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles | Ranking Web of Universities". www.webometrics.info. Retrieved 2017-01-26.