Affiliation: Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine, Israel

Dr. Bar is a principal investigator at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His research focuses primarily on understanding the molecular mechanisms of aging. Dr. Bar gained his bachelor’s degree in physics and biology from Tel Aviv University. He later went on to complete his PhD in genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the lab of Prof. Gruenbaum. Here, Dr. Bar worked on the nuclear lamina and lifespan regulating pathways in C. elegans. He continued to a visiting-fellow position at the lab of Dr. Collins at the National Human Genome Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health, USA. He worked on proximity labeling, focusing on the nuclear lamina in primary human samples, before returning to Israel to take up his current position.