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Orit Shaul is a senior lecturer at the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences of the Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She did her PhD study at the Department of Plant Sciences of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Gad Galili. She did her post-doctoral research at the Department of Genetics of the Gent University, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof. Marc van Montagu and Prof. Dirk Inz?. She moved to the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University in 1999. Her areas of interest include: plant magnesium/proton exchanger (MHX) transporters, regulation of plant gene expression [particularly nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD) and intron mediated enhancement (IME)], and biofuel production in microalgae.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
Jan 1987 → Jan 1992
Award Date: 1 Jan 1992
Master, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 1982 → Jun 1985
Award Date: 30 Jun 1985
Bachelor, Tel Aviv University
Oct 1979 → Jun 1982
Award Date: 30 Jun 1982
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Plant transcripts with long or structured upstream open reading frames in the NDL2 5ÊUTR can escape nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in a reinitiation-independent manner
Cymerman, M. A., Saul, H., Farhi, R., Vexler, K., Gottlieb, D., Berezin, I. & Shaul, O., 1 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Experimental Botany. 74, 1, p. 91-103 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Feedback mechanisms controlling the plant nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway
Cymerman, M., Vexler, K., Golani, L., Saul, H., Berezin, I., Lasnoy, M. & Shaul, O., 8 Sep 2017, In: FEBS Journal. 284, suppl. 1, p. 165 1 p., P.2.2-001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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How introns enhance gene expression
Shaul, O., Oct 2017, In: International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 91, p. 145-155 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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The Arabidopsis NMD factor UPF3 is feedback-regulated at multiple levels and plays a role in plant response to salt stress
Vexler, K., Cymerman, M. A., Berezin, I., Fridman, A., Golani, L., Lasnoy, M., Saul, H. & Shaul, O., 29 Sep 2016, In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 7, September2016, 1376.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The feedback loop regulating UPF3 expression is essential for plant NMD (nonsense mediated mRNA decay)
Degtiar, E., Vexler, K., Berezin, I., Golani, L., Fridman, A., Saul, H., Zimmerman, M. A., Zinkin, M. & Shaul, O., 2016.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review