Nathalie Q. Balaban is an

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biophysicist and systems biologist. She is a

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at the Racah Institute of Physics at the

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. and a member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM), the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Education and career

Balaban completed her

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degree in

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at the

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. She first became interested in biophysics and studied mechanical forces in cells with Benny Geiger in 2000. She then joined Stanislas Leibler’s lab in

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as a postdoctoral researcher, where she was a

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Fellow. Since 2003, she has been a

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in the Physics Department of the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. Her research today is considered groundbreaking in the biophysical description of the responses of bacteria under antibiotic treatments, and their implications for understanding treatment failure and evolution of resistance

Recognition

* The

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from the

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for Excellence in Scientific Research in 2009. * The Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science in 2016. * Elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) in 2016. * Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) in 2018. * Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2021 * Excelling researcher in all research fields at the Hebrew University for the year of 2022

Dissemination

Balaban initiated and established, together with Professor Eran Sharon the "Scholar-Teacher" which creates academic research positions at the Hebrew University that include also part-time science teaching in high schools for the advancement of science teaching.

Selected publications

* Yoav Kaplan, Shaked Reich, Elyaqim Oster, Shani Maoz, Irit Levin-Reisman, Irine Ronin, Orit Gefen, Oded Agam, Nathalie Q Balaban (2021)
"Observation of universal ageing dynamics in antibiotic persistence."
''Nature'' 600: pages 290-294. * NQ Balaban, J Merrin, R Chait, L Kowalik, S Leibler (2004)
"Bacterial persistence as a phenotypic switch."
''Science'' 305: 1622-1625. * A Brauner, O Fridman, O Gefen, NQ Balaban (2016)
"Distinguishing between resistance, tolerance and persistence to antibiotic treatment."
''Nature Reviews Microbiology'' 14: 320-330. * NQ Balaban, S Helaine, K Lewis, M Ackermann, B Aldridge, DI Andersson, ... (2019)
"Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence."
''Nature Reviews Microbiology'' 17: 441-448. * Oded Sandler, Sivan Pearl Mizrahi, Noga Weiss, Oded Agam, Itamar Simon, Nathalie Q Balaban (2015)
"Lineage correlations of single cell division time as a probe of cell-cycle dynamics."
''Nature'' 519: 468–471. * O Fridman, A Goldberg, I Ronin, N Shoresh, NQ Balaban (2014)
"Optimization of lag time underlies antibiotic tolerance in evolved bacterial populations."
''Nature'' 513: pages 418–42. * Irit Levin-Reisman, Irine Ronin, Orit Gefen, Ilan Braniss, Noam Shoresh, Nathalie Q Balaban (2017)
"Antibiotic tolerance facilitates the evolution of resistance."
''Science'' 355: pages 826-830.

References

External links

Balaban Lab website
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