Stern - פקולטה לביולוגיה Biology Faculty

Education/ Resume:

Oct 2018 – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Biology, The Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Andre Deloro Career Advancement Chair

2014 – 2018 EGL and HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University and HHMI, New York, USA

2007 – 2012 Ph.D. The Weizmann Institute if Science, Israel

2005 – 2007 M.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude), Chemical Engineering and Physics, The Technion.

2001 – 2004 B.Sc. Computational Biology, BIU, Israel

Recent Publications:

Stern S., Kirst C., Bargmann C.I. (2017) Neuromodulatory control of long-term behavioral patterns and individuality across development. Cell 171:1649-1662.
Highlighted in Nature Reviews Neuroscience: Yates D. 19, 2-3 (2018).

*Fridmann-Sirkis Y., *Stern S., Elgart M., Galili M., Zeisel A., Shental N., Soen Y. (2014) Delayed development induced by toxicity to the host can be inherited by a bacterial-dependent, transgenerational effect. Front Genet. 5:27. *Equal contribution

*Stern S., *Snir O., Mizrachi E., Galili M., Zaltsman I., Soen Y. (2014) Reduction in maternal Polycomb levels contributes to transgenerational inheritance of a response to toxic stress in flies. J Physiol. 592(11):2343-55. *Equal contribution

Stern S., Fridmann-Sirkis Y., Braun E., Soen Y. (2012) Epigenetically heritable alteration of fly development in response to toxic challenge. Cell Reports 1:528-542.

*Science Editor’s Choice: Purnell BA, Stressful for the Long Haul, Science 336, pp. 780 (2012).

Stern S., Dror T., Stolovicki E., Brenner N. and Braun E. Genome-wide transcriptional plasticity underlies cellular adaptation to novel challenge (2007) Molecular Systems Biology 3:106.

* News & Views accompanying this article by Koonin E. (Molecular Systems Biology 3:107, 2007) * EMBO Editors pick (EMBO Encounters,issue 8, 2007).

Shay Stern