Dr. Yael Nevo-Caspi

Email: Yael.Caspi@Sheba.health.gov.il

Phone: 972-3-53088630; 972-50-6412942

Position: Research Director BSL3 laboratory

Areas of Expertise: Airway organoids, Microbiology, Host-Pathogen interactions

Research Interest:

Epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, focusing on elucidating both host and pathogen-related factors underlying various infectious conditions

Education:

1996, Postdoctoral training, Drosophila Genetics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

1992, PhD, Recombination in Yeast, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

1990, MSc, Recombination in Yeast, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Affiliation:

2022, BSL3 Lab, Clinical Microbiology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Research Grants & Awards:

2024-2026, Sheba-Weizmann joint grant: Dissecting cellular-level tissue dynamics and immune responses to Acinetobacter baumanii infections by applying single-cell RNA-seq to infected patient-derived multilineage lung organoids

2024-2025, Tel-Aviv University grant: Multi-lineage, patient-derived, organoids as a model for studying hMPV infection 

2022-2024, Sheba 2nd chance: Multi-lineage, patient-derived organoids as a model for studying pathogenesis and evaluating novel treatments of selected biohazardous pathogens
 

Publications:

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