Naomi Habib
נעמי חביב
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Scientific career
FieldsComputational neuroscience
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral advisorNir Friedman
Hanah Margalit

Naomi Habib (Hebrew: נעמי חביב) is an Israeli computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience. She has worked as the Goren-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2018.

Life

Habib earned a Ph.D. in computational biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012.[1] Her doctoral advisers were Nir Friedman and Hanah Margalit.[2][1] Her dissertation was titled Computational Comparative Study of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes.[1] She conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute under Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev.[2] She was researching the development of a single nucleus RNA-sequencing technology.[2]

Habib is a computational neuroscientist who researches cognitive decline and resilience.[3] She specializes in computational biology, genomics, and genome engineering.[2] In August 2018, she returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the Gorem-Khazzam Lecturer in Brain Sciences and an assistant professor at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences.[2][3] Her research includes Alzheimer's disease pathology.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Habib, Naomi. Computational Comparative Study of Transcriptional Regulation in Eukaryotes (Ph.D. thesis). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. OCLC 875077561.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Naomi Habib". International Society of Neuroimmunology. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  3. ^ a b "Naomi Habib Lab". Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. ^ "Dr. Naomi Habib,". www.thescientistschannel.com. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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