Nir Ben-Tal
Nir Ben-Tal | |
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Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology |
Known for | ConSurf software and web-site (https://consurf.tau.ac.il/) |
Awards | Alon Foundation Excellence Fellowship, The Wolf Foundation Award of Excellence, The TEVA Foundation Award of Excellence |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational structural biology |
Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
Website | https://www.bentalab.com |
Nir Ben-Tal is the Abraham E. Kazan Chair of Structural Biology at Tel Aviv University.
Early life
Nir Ben-Tal is a professor at Tel Aviv University, where he has held the Abraham E. Kazan Chair of Structural Biology since 2018 as a member of the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Career
His research group at Tel Aviv University developed Conservation Surface Mapping (ConSurf) in response to certain algorithmic limitations.[3] He received a 2018 NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme Prize in radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defence for his project “The Anthrax MntABC Transporter: Structure, Functional Dynamics and Drug Discovery”.[4] In 2022 he co-authored the book From Molecules to Cells: The Origin of Life on Earth, which hypothesizes on the beginning of life on Earth.[5] Over his career he has published articles in scientific journals as well as scientific textbooks such as Introduction to Proteins: Structure, Function and Motion.[6]
References
- ^ "August 2018: Ben-Tal awarded the Kazan Chair". Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Nir Ben-Tal Faculty website". Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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- ^ "NATO Science Partnership Prize awarded to three outstanding projects". NATO.
- ^ "'How life began merits a preceding discussion of what life actually is'". www.asbmb.org.
- ISBN 9780444641748.