Judith Berman

Judith Berman, Ph.D., is Professor and Nathan Galston Chair of Antimicrobial Drug Research and Director of the Center for Genome Stability and Fungal Tolerance at Tel Aviv University, and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emerita at the University of Minnesota. She earned her BSc from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, her PhD in biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science and conducted postdoctoral research in molecular genetics at Cornell University. She joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota College of Life Sciences in 1986. In 2012, she moved her lab to Tel Aviv University, joining the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, where she is an active member of the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research. She is also an Honorary Professor at the MRC Center for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the NAS, as well as a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology.