Cnidarians Developmental Biology and Molecular Ecology

Prof. Tamar Lotan -Curriculum Vita

Current Position

Head of the Cnidarian Developmental Biology and Molecular Ecology Lab

Professional Experience

2017-2022 Head of the Marine Biology Department

2015-2021 Director at The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat (http://www.iui-eilat.ac.il).

2011-2015 Member of the board of the Israeli Association of Aquatic Sciences (IAAS) (http://www.israelaquatic.org.il/).

2009-Present Co-founder of the Marine Biology Department of The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at Haifa University.

2008-Present Member of the the General Assembly of the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee (http://www.kinneret.ac.il/).

2008-2020 Director at the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee (http://www.kinneret.ac.il/).

2000-2008 Founder, President and Director at NanoCyte Inc. NanoCyte, leveraged marine extracted nano-injectors for immediate active

delivery of pharmaceuticals and cosmetically active compounds. The company was active between 2000-2019. The technology was successfully tested in-vivo and in clinical trials (Phase II).

1998-2000 Founder and Head of R&D at Nidaria Technology Ltd, a biotechnology company developing marine stinger inhibitor (http://nidaria.com/). Today the company manufactures and exports patented dual protection products to over 20 countries around the globe.

Academic Education

1995-1998 Post doctoral research in Embryogenesis. Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, USA. Characterization of the Arabidopsis LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1) mutant. We found that LEC1 is a key regulator transcription factor during embryogenesis and is sufficient to induce embryonic development in vegetative cells.

1992-1995 Post doctoral research in Molecular Biology. Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Characterization of the carotenoid astaxanthin biosynthesis pathway in the fresh water green alga Haematococcus pluvialis. We used a novel strategy for the gene cloning and succeeded to isolate the gene and functionally expressed it to create red bacteria colonies.

1987-1992 Ph.D. studies in Genetics & Biochemistry. Department of Plant Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. The regulatory pathways of pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins in plants.

1985-1986 Research project in Biochemistry. Department of Chemical Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

1983-1985 M.Sc. studies in Embryogenesis. Department of Zoology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

1980-1983 B.Sc. studies in Biology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Funding Acknowledgement