{"id":1783,"date":"2022-04-04T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/2022\/04\/04\/prof-prof-estee-kurant\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:18:36","slug":"prof-prof-estee-kurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/2022\/04\/04\/prof-prof-estee-kurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Prof. Estee Kurant"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1783\" class=\"elementor elementor-1783 elementor-902\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-546f1a5e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"546f1a5e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3cd34118\" data-id=\"3cd34118\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f8942c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1f8942c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Prof. Prof. Estee Kurant<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-905\" src=\"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/\u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Affiliation Faculty \/ Department:<\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Academic Background:<\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">B. Sc. Technion, Faculty of Biology<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">M.Sc. Technion, Faculty of Biology<br \/>\n<u><\/u><u><\/u>Ph.D. Technion, Faculty of Medicine<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Postdoc Developmental Neurogenetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Research Interests:<br \/>\n<\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u>My research focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms of glia-neuron interactions during embryogenesis and in the adult brain. Our model system\u00a0is fruit\u00a0fly\u00a0<i>Drosophila Melanogaster<\/i>.\u00a0We study glial contribution to normal brain development and aging. We also study the role of glia in\u00a0<i>Drosophila<\/i>\u00a0models of neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><u><\/u><b>Home Page URL: <\/b><u><\/u><u><\/u><u><\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/kurantlab.haifa.ac.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/kurantlab.haifa.ac.il\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Prof. Estee Kurant Affiliation Faculty \/ Department: Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences &nbsp; Academic Background: B. Sc. Technion, Faculty of Biology M.Sc. Technion, Faculty of Biology Ph.D. Technion, Faculty of Medicine Postdoc Developmental Neurogenetics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA &nbsp; Research Interests: My research focuses on molecular and cellular mechanisms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-staff","category-1","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbh.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}