Eugene Rosenberg
| Eugene Rosenberg | |
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| Born |
October 16, 1935 New York City |
| Residence | Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli, American |
| Education | B.Sc. - UCLA, Ph.D. - Columbia University |
| Known for | Myxobacteria, Microorganisms to Combat Pollution, hologenome concept |
| Spouse(s) | Leah Petlak-Rosenberg (1938-1988), Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg (1942) |
| Children | Robin Esther Doron, Stephanie Shosh Rotem, Denise Rosenberg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Microbiology, Biotechnology |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University |
Eugene Rosenberg (Hebrew: יוג'ין רוזנברג) (October 16, 1935) is a microbiologist at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University., an expert in the field of applied environmental microbiology, in particular his work on Myxobacteria, microorganisms to combat pollution (bioremediation), and the Hologenome theory of evolution.
Rosenberg was born in New York City in 1935, grew up in Los Angeles, and immigrated to Israel in 1970. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Ph.D. from the Department of Biochemistry at Columbia University, New York (1961). His doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Steven Zamenhof, describes the chemical structures of the capsules of Hemophilus influenzae, types B, E, and F. Rosenberg went on to postdoctoral research in organic chemistry under the guidance of Lord Todd in Cambridge University (1962). Between 1962 and 1970 he was first Assistant and then Associate Professor of microbiology at UCLA, concentrating on the biochemistry of Myxococcus xanthus. In 1970 he has been a member of the academic staff in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology at Tel Aviv University, where he was appointed Full Professor in 1975 and Professor Emeritus in 2006. He has held the Gol Chair in Applied and Environmental Microbiology since 1989. Recently, he served as the editor-in-chief for The Prokaryotes, a comprehensive reference encyclopedia on Bacteria and Archea.
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