Sebastian Kadener

Associate Professor of Biology
Life Sciences
Brandeis University
United States of America

Academician Neurology
Biography

1993-1998 The University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. School of Sciences, Department of Biology. Degree: Lic. Cs. Biologicas (equivalent to MSc in Sciences). Major: Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology. Summa cum laude. 1998-2002 The University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. School of Sciences, Department of Biology. Degree: PhD. Title: “Role of transcriptional elongation on alternative Splicing”. Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. Alberto Kornblihtt.. 2002-2008 Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Brandeis University, MA, USA. Host: Prof. Michael Rosbash, HHMI. Subject: Molecular Neurosciences (circadian rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster).. 2008-present Senior Lecturer, Biological Chemistry Department, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Field: Molecular Neurobiology.

Research Intrest

Molecular Neurobiology and RNA metabolism

List of Publications
Afik S, Bartok O, Artyomov MN, Shishkin AA, Kadri S, Hanan M, Zhu X, Garber M, Kadener S. Defining the 5΄ and 3΄ landscape of the Drosophila transcriptome with Exo-seq and RNaseH-seq. Nucleic Acids Research. 2017 Feb 22.
Levin-Klein R, Fraenkel S, Lichtenstein M, Matheson LS, Bartok O, Nevo Y, Kadener S, Corcoran AE, Cedar H, Bergman Y. Clonally stable Vκ allelic choice instructs Igκ repertoire. Nature Communications. 2017;8.
Cohen-Hadad Y, Altarescu G, Eldar-Geva T, Levi-Lahad E, Zhang M, Rogaeva E, Gotkine M, Bartok O, Ashwal-Fluss R, Kadener S, Epsztejn-Litman S. Marked differences in C9orf72 methylation status and isoform expression between C9/ALS human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem cell reports. 2016 Nov 8;7(5):927-40.