Eliora Z. Ron
Eliora Zenziper Ron is an Israeli microbiologist who is the Secretary General of the European Academy of Microbiology and President of the International Union of Microbiology Societies.
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Life and career
Ron received her MSc in microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry in 1962 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,[1] before moving to the US to do her PhD at Harvard University under the supervision of Professor Bernard D Davies in 1967.[2][3] Her PhD thesis was entitled ‘Studies on the regulation of RNA synthesis in Escherichia coli’.[4]
She was then offered a faculty member position at Tel Aviv University, where her lab is based to this day, becoming a full professor in 1984.[5][3] In 1995, she became the president of the Israeli Society of Microbiology, a capacity in which she served until 1999.[1][3] In 2000 she became Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University and in 2002 she was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.[6] The same year, she became Vice President of the Federation of Israeli Societies of Experimental Biology (FISEB).[7] She remained Dean until 2004.[7] Between 2004 and 2007 she was the President of the Federation of Microbiology Societies and in 2005 she became President of the FISEB.[7] In 2007 she was awarded the EMET prize for Excellence in Arts, Science, and Culture, Israel.[6][5]
In 2009, she was a founding member of the European Academy of Microbiology, and she has served in the role of Secretary General since this point.[6] In 2010, she became the scientific director of the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute,[7] and also received an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University, Israel.[6] In 2011 she became the president of the Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology section of the International Union of Microbiology Societies (IUMS), and later, in 2017, became the president of the IUMS.[6]
She has three children named Michal, Itai and Anat.[5]
References
- Ron, Eliora Z. (2000), Seckbach, Joseph (ed.), "Microbial Life on Petroleum", Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds: Adaptation to Exotic Environments, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 303–315, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4269-4_21, ISBN 978-94-011-4269-4, retrieved 2023-05-07
- "Board of Directors". www.environbiotech-iseb.org. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- "Eliora Z. Ron CV" (PDF). International Society for Environmental Biotechnology. 2023-05-07.
- "Studies on the regulation of RNA synthesis in Escherichia coli". Harvard Library HOLLIS. 1967. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- "Spotlight on...Eliora Z. Ron". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 2021-12-17. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- "Fellows". FEMS. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- "Prof. Eliora Ron | The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences". en-lifesci.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2023-05-07.