Lior Tal is a senior lecturer in the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security. She was trained as an undergrad in Plant sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University. She received a masters in Plant genetics from the Weizmann Institute of Science and a PhD in Plant Developmental Genetics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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2022 – Present |
Senior lecturer |
Tel Aviv University |
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2019 – 2022 |
Post-doctoral fellow |
The University of California, Davis |
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2018 – 2019 |
Post-doctoral fellow |
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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2011 – 2016 |
Ph.D. |
The Weizmann Institute of Science |
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2009 – 2011 |
M.Sc. |
The Weizmann Institute of Science |
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2006 – 2009 |
B.Sc. |
The Hebrew University |
Plants employ complex and intertwining signaling cascades, driven by chemical signals to translate and adapt to environmental changes. Local heterogeneities in water and nutrient availability, sudden changes in temperature, light or other stresses trigger and result in changes in growth. These developmental responses occur in a timely manner and involve swift changes in cellular protein abundance. Protein stability is a key element in the regulation of protein abundance, making the plant ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) regulatory function fundamental to plant response signals. We study the regulatory role of the UPS in plant signaling cascades and seek to uncover the molecular mechanisms that rapidly fine-tune protein abundance in plant cells in response to stress.
