TEACHING POSITIONS & SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

 

1967   Assistant Professor of Biology, California State College at Los Angeles (Biology course).

 

1972‑1974  General Biology and  Botany. Jerusalem College for Women (Michlelet Yerushalaym).

 

1972-1975  General Biology and special courses in Botany at the Pre‑Academic Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

1975  Plant Structure and Function (one semester) Technion, Haifa.           

 

1975/6   General Biology and Plant Anatomy. Tel Aviv U. Ramat Aviv.

 

1978    Plant Sciences of the Israel Vegetation. Lifschitz Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under the auspice of the Open (Every Man's) University (Ramat Aviv).

 

1985/87    General Biology and Genetics, one semester to a class of Dental assistants, Department of Dental Studies, Med.School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

1978-1994   Rothberg School for Overseas Students, The Hebrew U. Jerusalem present at Mount Scopus. Courses: Introduction to present Biology, Cell Biology, Israel Plant Life, Biblical Botany and genetics and biochemistry.

 

1992-1999  Instructor/supervisor for chemistry teachers and in charge of teaching, matriculation final examination in Agric Chemistry (Rural Education, Ministry of Education

 

1998 - 1999  Teaching Biology at local High Schools in Efrat..

 

 

 

SOCIETIES AND COMMITTEES (PAST AND CURRENT)

 

           Sigma Xi, Chicago Chapter since  1965 (UoC)           

 

           Member of Israel Botanical and Electron-microscopic Soc. (IBS)        

 

           International Society for Endocytobiology  (IES).                      

 

           International Society of Symbiosis (ISS)

 

           Interntl.& Israel Soc.for Study the Origin of Life (ISSOL).   

 

            Phycological Society of America (PSA).

 

            European Geosciences Union – member (EGU) 2011

 

Chief Organizer of the Memorial Symposium for the memory of Jerome F. Fredrick (On the Origin and Evolution of the First Cells) in Freiburg Germany withing the frame of the Endocytobiology VII conference. (April 1998) 

The 7th International Colloquium on Endocytobiology and Symbiosis

 

Member of the Organizer committee and chair person of the Astrobiology International Meeting, [SPIE’s 44^th Ann. Meeting] Denver, CO. (July 1999/2000)

 

Member of Scientific Committee and Proceeding Editor of the International Symposium on Algae and Extreme Environments,  Trebon, Czech Republic (Sept. 2000).

 

Member of the ESA, Exo/Astrobiology European society for Exobiology and Astrobiology (May 2001) established in Frascati, Italy. .

 

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for Perspectives in Astrobiology, NATO Advanced Studies Institute,in Chania, Crete (Sept. 29-October 10, 2001).

 

Board member of Life Journal (2014-à).