Lab Members

Itay is a PI in the department of postharvest science at the Volcani Center, ARO, Israel. His research focuses on developing methods to enhance the production and accumulation of secondary metabolites in fruits and vegetables. He is particularly interested in understanding the molecular and cellular barriers governing the production of metabolites with nutritional, sensorial, and health-promoting properties.

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Krishna completed his Ph.D. from CSIR-CIMAP Lucknow India, where he worked on plant secondary metabolites production in Catharanthus roseus and pathway manipulation in medicinal and aromatic plants. Currently, he is working on enhancing the fruits and vegetable quality after postharvest via induction of plant defense mechanisms using fungal effector proteins.

Kasi completed his Ph.D. in Botany (specialization in phytochemistry, nutraceuticals, and pharmacology) from Bharathiar University, India. His research mainly focused on analyzing plant compounds' bioactivity, nutritional properties, and food chemistry using in vitro and in vivo models. Currently, he is working on the health-promoting properties and metabolomics of fruits using HPLC, LC-MS, and GC-MS.

Tereza obtained B.Sc in Food and Nutrition from the University of Malawi and is working on her M.Sc in Nutritional Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her current research focuses on studying the metabolite composition in raspberries to explain the fruit quality (Aroma and Flavour) in collaboration with the Dai Lab also from the Volcani Center, Israel

B.Sc in Food Science and Technology from Tel Hai College.
M.Sc student in Food science and Nutrition at Hebrew University.
Her current research is on new red pomelit variety ‘Redson’, the main focus on this study is to examine the bitterness of the ‘Redson’ fruit.