Research Group
Research Overview
I’m interested in the chromatin changes associated with pathogen stress in plants, and how these changes affect transcription to facilitate immune responses. Armed with this knowledge, I perform epigenome engineering to boost plant immunity in naïve plants.
Previous positions
2017-2022 Research PhD student in plant science. Prof. Eilon Shani lab, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University.
2015-2017 Research MSc student in plant science. Prof. Eilon Shani lab, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University.
2014-2015 Tissue culture technician. Prof. Assaf Aharoni lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
2013-2014 Research Assistant. Prof. Dani Zamir lab, Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Qualifications
2017-2022 PhD Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
2019 Data scientist certification, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology, Continuting Education Unit.
2015-2017 MSc Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
2012-2015 BSc Plant Sciences in Agriculture. Faculty of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Key publications
Gal, A., Dalal, A., Anfang, M., Sharma, D., Binenbaum, J., Muchaki, P., Kumar, R., Egbaria, A., Duarte, K. E., Kelly, G., de Souza, W. R., Sade, N., 2023. Plasma membrane aquaporins regulate root hydraulic conductivity in the model plant Setaria viridis. Plant Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad469
Binenbaum, J., Wulff, N., Camut, L., Kiradjiev, K., Anfang, M., Tal, I., Vasuki, H., Zhang, Y., Sakvarelidze-Achard, L., Davière, J.-M., Ripper, D., Carrera, E., Manasherova, E., Ben Yaakov, S., Lazary, S., Hua, C., Novak, V., Crocoll, C., Weinstain, R., Cohen, H., Ragni, L., Aharoni, A., Band, L.R., Achard, P., Nour-Eldin, H.H., Shani, E., 2023. Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01391-3
Hu, Y., Patra, P., Pisanty, O., Shafir, A., Belew, Z.M., Binenbaum, J., Ben Yaakov, S., Shi, B., Charrier, L., Hyams, G. and Zhang, Y., 2023. Multi-Knock—a multi-targeted genome-scale CRISPR toolbox to overcome functional redundancy in plants. Nature Plants. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01374-4
Machnev, A., Ofer, D., Gilad, H., Binenbaum, J., Schneidman, L., Levitt-Barmats, Y.A., Ginzburg, P. and Noskov, R.E., 2022. Bound states in the continuum help shrimp eyes to catch more light. ACS Photonics. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01429
Binenbaum, J., Weinstain, R. and Shani, E., 2018. Gibberellin Localization and Transport in Plants. Trends in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2018.02.005
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