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Dr. Dafna Nathan 

Lecturer, Department of Biotechnology

Dr. Dafna Nathan holds a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the Hebrew University, a Ms. Pharm. From the Hebrew University and a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA). Dr. Nathan worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Shelley Berger at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia PA, where she studied transcription regulation via histone modifications.

Dafna joined the department of Biotechnology as a lecturer in 2008.  In recent years Dr. Nathan is working on implementing and integrating technology in lectures. She is collaborating with staff members to develop and promote the subject and to publish in education research.

Dr. Nathan teaches several courses in the department and oversees the final research project in biotechnology. She also serves as the third-year academic advisor and as a member of several committees including the Research and Professional training committee.

Contact info

dafnana@jmc.ac.il
Phone: 0548160148

Zohar Shpilt Mayer was born in northern Israel in 1991, and raised in Mazkeret Batya. She is married to Guy and a mother to Romi. She moved to Jerusalem in 2012 to pursue three consecutive degrees in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology, completed in 2015; an M.Sc. in Chemistry in the group of Prof. Itamar Willner, in the field of nano-biotechnology, completed in 2017; and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in the group of Prof. Edit Y. Tshuva, which specializes in Titanium-based chemotherapeutics, scheduled to be completed in 2023. During her M.Sc. and Ph.D., she worked as a teaching assistant in several courses in the university, among which are “Organic Chemistry A” for B.Sc. chemistry students, “General Chemistry for Bio-Medical Students”, “General Chemistry Lab for Biology Students”, and “Material Chemistry Lab”. Her research interests include working on the interface between chemistry and biology, in the hopes that better understanding the biological mechanisms of different diseases, and specifically cancer, will enable to improve the treatment options we can provide humanity as chemists.