שלי
צליל
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ליידי דייויס, 323
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)
Selected Publications
- 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
תחומי מחקר
הבנת האינטראקציות המכניות שבין תאים וחומרים ביולוגיים, חישה מכנית של תאים ביולוגיים, מדידה של דפורמציות וכוחות ברמה מולקולרית, פיתוח ואפיון של פולימרים ביולוגיים, רגנרציה של תאי עצב על ידי סיגנלים מכניים. ביומכניקה, ביופיזיקה וחומרים מרוכבים.
מעוניינים.ות ללמוד את מקצוע העתיד?
הפקולטה להנדסת מכונות, קרית הטכניון, חיפה
"*" אינדוקטור שדות חובה
