(PI; Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Project(s) involved: XIb - Soba/Wiegert/Yizhar
www.weizmann.ac.il/neurobiology/labs/yizhar/home
Curriculum Vitae
1. Education
2008 – 2011 Postdoctoral research scholar, Stanford University
Advisor: Prof. Karl Deisseroth, M.D. Ph.D.
2001 – 2008 Graduate studies – Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University
Awarded Ph. D. with distinction, April 2008; Advisor: Dr. Uri Ashery
1998 – 2001 B. Sc., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
B. Sc. with distinction, September 2001 Life Science Honors Program (“Etgar”)
2. Academic appointments
Oct. 2011 – Nov. 2019 Senior Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science
Nov. 2019 – Present Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Aug. 2019 – July 2020 Visiting Professor, Harvard University
3. Honors and Awards
2019 Recipient of the Sir Bernard Katz Prize
2018 Recipient of the Adelis Brain Research Award
2013 Career Development Award, Human Frontier Science Program
2012 ‘Alon Fellowship’ for returning scientists, granted by the Israeli Council for Higher
Education
2011 Recipient of the Sieratzki Prize for Advances in Neuroscience
4. Key Publications (out of 53)
1. Rubi-Levy D., Tamir T., Kaufman M., Parabucki A., Weissbrod A., Schneidman E., Yizhar O.
Dynamics of social representation in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience
2019 Dec;22(12):2013-2022.
2. Scheggia D, Managò F, Maltese F, Bruni S, Nigro M, Dautan D, Latuske P, Contarini G,
Gomez-Gonzalo M, Requie LM, Ferretti V, Castellani G, Mauro D, Bonavia A, Carmignoto
G, Yizhar O, Papaleo F. Somatostatin interneurons in the prefrontal cortex control affective
state discrimination in mice. Nature Neuroscience. 2020 Jan;23(1):47-60.
3. Mahn M., Gibor L., Cohen-Kashi Malina K., Patil P., Printz Y., Oring S., Levy R., Lampl I.,
Yizhar O. High-efficiency optogenetic silencing with soma-targeted anion-conducting
channelrhodopsins. Nature Communications 2018 Oct 8;9(1):4125.
4. Klavir O.*, Prigge M.*, Sarel A., Paz R., Yizhar O. Manipulating fear associations through
optogenetic modulation of amygdala inputs to the prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 2017
Mar 13. doi: 10.1038 / nn.4523.
5. Mahn M., Prigge M., Ron S., Levy R., Yizhar O. Biophysical constraints of optogenetic inhibition
at presynaptic terminals. Nature Neuroscience 2016 Apr;19(4):554-6.
6. Scott N, Prigge M, Yizhar O*, Kimchi T*. A sexually dimorphic hypothalamic circuit controls
maternal care and oxytocin secretion. Nature 2015, Sep 24;525(7570):519-22. (* cocorresponding)
7. Yizhar O*, Fenno LE*, Prigge M, Schneider F, Davidson TJ, O’Shea DJ, Sohal VS, Goshen I,
Finkelstein J, Paz JT, Stehfest K, Fudim R, Ramakrishnan C, Huguenard JR, Hegemann P,
Deisseroth K. Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social
dysfunction. Nature. 2011 Jul 27; 477(7363):171-8.
8. Yizhar O.*, Matti U.*, Melamed R., Hagalili Y., Bruns D., Rettig J., Ashery U. Tomosyn inhibits
priming of large dense-core vesicles in a calcium-dependent manner. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2004 Feb 24;101(8):2578-83.
5. All publications:
See in “My Bibliography”:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/ofer.yizhar.1/bibliography/40900702/public/
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