Affiliation: Technion Institute of Technology, Israel

Naama Geva-Zatorsky is an Assistant Professor at the Technion Institute of Technology and The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. She completed her PhD with honors in Systems-Biology at the Weizmann Institute, in Prof. Uri Alon’s lab, and received the JFK, Teva, and Barenholz awards. Her postdoctoral studies were at Harvard Medical School, in the lab of Prof. Dennis Kasper, for which she received the Human Frontiers and EMBO fellowships, as well as the UNESCO-L’Oreal awards (national and international). During her postdoc, in addition to characterizing the host response to roughly 60 different gut bacteria, from across phyla, she also applied metabolic labeling to enable, for the first time, real time visualization of anaerobic gut microbes, in association with the host. With the help of her team, her lab is applying Systems-Biology thinking strategies with Microbiology, Immunology, and Bacteriophage biology to study the mechanistic and functional interactions of the gut microbiota with mammalian host physiology in health and disease, and under varying conditions. They are also developing tools to study microbe-host interactions in a dynamic manner and in natural environments. Geva-Zatorsky recently received the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D award, the CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar award of the Humans & Microbiome Program, the Alon and Horev fellowships, and the Human Frontiers career development award.