Shelly
Tzlil
Young Investigators Fund for Innovative, Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Biomedical Engineering Research Fellow
Education
- 1999 – B.Sc. in Chemistry and Computer Science (Cum Laude), Hebrew university, Jerusalem
- 2007 – Ph.D. Physical Chemistry (2007), Hebrew university, Jerusalem
Research Interests
- Cell Mechanics and cell mechanosensing
- Cell-Biomaterial interaction
- Development of Mechano-sensitive soft biomaterials
- Nerve regeneration using mechanical signals
- Measurements of submicron deformations and picoNewton forces at the single molecule level
- Biophysics, complex fluids, soft matter and nano-mechanics
Guest Appointments
- Postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) at the division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2007-2011)
Honors and Awards
- Elwing prize for Excellency in analytical chemistry (1996)
- Rector prize for M.Sc students (2001)
- Wolf prize for PhD students (2003)
- Canadian scholarship for Excellency (2004)
- Rector scholarship (2005-2006)
- Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) postdoctoral fellow (2007-2010)
- James Kindt, Shelly Tzlil, Avinoam Ben-Shaul and William M. Gelbart , DNA Packaging and Ejection Forces in Bacteriophage, PNAS. 98, 13671-13674 (2001).
- Shelly Tzlil, James Kindt, William M. Gelbart and Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Forces and Pressures in DNA Packaging and Release from Viral Capsids, Biophys. J. 84, 1616-1627 (2003)
- Shelly Tzlil, Markus Deserno, William M. Gelbart and Avinoam Ben-Shaul, A Statistical-Thermodynamic Model Of Viral Budding, Biophys. J. 86, 2037-2048 (2004)
- Shelly Tzlil and Avinoam Ben-Shaul, Flexible Charged Macromolecules on Mixed Fluid Lipid Membranes: Theory and Monte-Carlo Simulations, Biophys. J. 89, 2972-2987 (2005)
- Shelly Tzlil, Diana Murray and Avinoam Ben-Shaul, The “Electrostatic-Switch” mechanism: Monte Carlo study of MARCKS-membrane interaction, Biophys. J. 95, 1745-1757 (2008)
- Eileen Fong*, Shelly Tzlil* and David A. Tirrell, Boundary crossing in epithelial wound healing, PNAS, 107, 19302-19307 (2010)
* These authors contributed equally to this work.
- Shelly Tzlil and David A. Tirrell, Strain propagation within artificial extracellular matrix proteins accelerates cell spreading and polarization, submitted to PNAS
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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