Contact
Email: yoav.voichek(at)gmi.oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: +43 1 79044/9510
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8460-7018
FORMER AND CURRENT POSITIONS
since 2019 - Postdoctoral Fellow in the Nordborg Group
2018-2019 - Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Detlef Weigel at the Max Plank Institute
2016 - PhD at The Weizmann Institute of Science
2008 - BSc at The Open University
Academic Honors and Awards
2021 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
2020 VIP2 three-year postdoctoral fellowship
2019 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (graciously declined)
Research interests
I am interested in the unique characteristics of gene transcription in plants. Our perception of transcription in plants is largely an extrapolation* from non-plant systems. However, there is ample evidence of the uniqueness of the transcription process in the plant kingdom relative to other model organisms. In my work, I study the basic properties of gene transcription in plants, as well as how it facilitates divergence of gene expression patterns in natural populations.