Nir Ben-Tal
Nir Ben-Tal | |
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Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology |
Known for | ConSurf software and web-site (https://consurf.tau.ac.il/) |
Awards | Alon Foundation Excellence Fellowship, The Wolf Foundation Award of Excellence, The TEVA Foundation Award of Excellence |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational structural biology |
Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
Website | https://www.bentalab.com |
Nir Ben-Tal is the Abraham E. Kazan Chair of Structural Biology at Tel Aviv University.
Early life
Nir Ben-Tal is a professor at Tel Aviv University, where he has held the Abraham E. Kazan Chair of Structural Biology since 2018 as a member of the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics.[1] He received his undergraduate degree in Biology, Chemistry and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1988 and his DSc in Chemistry at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1993.[2]
Career
His research group at Tel Aviv University developed Conservation Surface Mapping (ConSurf) in response to certain algorithmic limitations.[3] He received a 2018 NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme Prize in radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defence for his project “The Anthrax MntABC Transporter: Structure, Functional Dynamics and Drug Discovery”.[4] In 2022 he co-authored the book From Molecules to Cells: The Origin of Life on Earth, which hypothesizes on the beginning of life on Earth.[5] Over his career he has published articles in scientific journals as well as scientific textbooks such as Introduction to Proteins: Structure, Function and Motion.[6]
References
- ^ "August 2018: Ben-Tal awarded the Kazan Chair". Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Nir Ben-Tal Faculty website". Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Stephen Krawetz (2009). Bioinformatics for Systems Biology. Humana Press. p. 327. ISBN 9781597454407.
- ^ "NATO Science Partnership Prize awarded to three outstanding projects". NATO.
- ^ "'How life began merits a preceding discussion of what life actually is'". www.asbmb.org.
- ^ Damian J. Houde and Steven A. Berkowitz (2019). Biophysical Characterization of Proteins in Developing Biopharmaceuticals. Elsevier. ISBN 9780444641748.
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