Infectious Disease Research Laboratory
Director: Prof. Ohad Gal-Mor, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University Medical School and Senior Lecturer for graduate and post graduate degree students.
The Infectious Disease Research Laboratory is part of the Infection Disease Unit focusing on understanding the mechanisms of bacterial virulence and the manner in which they contribute to the development of disease in humans. The lab also studies mechanisms for acquiring bacterial antibiotic resistance and discovering innovative methods to battle the phenomenon.
The lab conducts extensive research on salmonella bacteria and understanding the mechanism of illnesses caused by this group of bacteria. The study combines advanced epidemiological, molecular, cellular and sequencing approaches, applying a variety of advanced models and tools. The lab contributes a great deal to understanding the epidemiology of salmonella bacteria in Israel, monitoring the expression of bacterial virulence and studying various diseases, including digestive system inflammations and Typhoid Fever, caused by these bacteria.
The lab is operated by a professional team of researchers and postgraduate students from the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine. The team conducts fruitful collaborations with leading groups in Israel and abroad, commercial companies involved in vaccine development and various startup companies, offering research solutions on clinical and environmental microbiology issues, according to company needs.
One of the recent studies conducted at the lab focuses on how gravity impacts bacterial capacity to acquire antibiotic resistance.
Additional Lab Studies
- Why and how different Salmonella enterica serovars are differ in host-specificity and clinical outcome?
- Virulence regulation in Salmonella and its response to environmental signals.
- Mechanisms of population dynamics and changes in serovars prevalence at the national level.
- The biology of invasive and persistent Salmonella infections.
