About

Prof Adi Avni specialized in Plant Molecular Biology and Plant sensors. He Has a master’s degree in Neurobiology and a PhD. from Plant Science department both form the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel). He is currently a professor in the school of Plant Sciences and Food Security at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Israel). His scientific interests are primarily in the area of plant innate immunity signaling, plant genetics and biosensors. As part of his research, he isolated the receptor for a fugal effector and study the mechanisms underlying plant immunity. Recently his research focused on synthetic biology and genome editing via the Crispr/Cas9 system and on using plants as biosensors, to detect plant stress.