Our Team
Danielle Karo-Atar
Principal Investigator
Danielle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. She is a Zuckerman Faculty Scholar and her research focuses on understanding mechanisms of intestinal resilience and immunity at the host-helminth interface.
Danielle pursued her PhD at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Dr. Ariel Munitz, studying type-2 immune responses in the lung. Following an exciting experience in industry she realized that her passion lays with academic research. Therefore, she ventured far to the freezing and beautiful city of Montreal, Canada, where she trained at McGill University under the mentorship of Dr. Irah King in the field of immuno-parasitology. It was then she found great fascination with host-pathogen interactions.
Outside of the lab, she enjoys hiking, swimming and raising 3 little monkeys.
Tamar Eliahu
Master student
Tamar is a Master’s student interested in understandin mechanisms of barrier integrity during helminth infections
Adi Asculai
Undergraduate research trainee
Adi is a third year undergraduate student working to identify the helminth protein promoting fetal reversion in the intestinal stem cell compartment. Soon Adi will start her MS.c in the lab!
Noa van Gelder
Undergraduate research trainee
Noa is a third year undergraduate student interested in understanding the interaction between commensal yeast and the intestinal stem cells compartment. Soon Noa will start her MS.c in the lab!
Hadar Eini Rider
Research associate
Hadar manages the day-to-day operation in the lab, supports all trainees in their work and investigates the role of STAT3 in helminth infections
We are currently recruiting at all levels!
We are looking for self motivated, biology loving curios individuals to join our exploration of host-pathogen interaction.