Curriculum Vitae

Name: Michal Sharabi Schwager Address: 21st Ha’amal, Ramat Gan 5257218, IsraelTelephone: +972-54-2284280 E-Mail: michalsharabi@gmail.com

Education

2006 – 2011: Direct Ph.D. track, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture Major: Biotechnology, Plant Science

1999 – 2001: BA, the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Major: Computer Science

Work Experience

10/2011 – Present: Postdoctoral Fellow. Department of Plant Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) – Dr. Ron Ophir’s bioinformatics lab.

Data analysis of expression data including statistical tests and exploratory methods. RNA-Seq analysis – including Illumina and Solid-ABI. Annotation and quantification of small RNA genes. Automatic annotation. Alternative splicing analysis (RNA-seq data). Phylogenetic analysis. Advanced R programming – graphical data presentation, interactive exploratory tools,

clustering and linear models. Machine learning and statistical modelling. Unsupervised clustering GitHubRepo: https://github.com/michalsharabi/ctsGE

2006 – 2011: Direct Ph.D. track. Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) – Dr. Ron Porat’s lab. Thesis: “Involvement of the CBF1 transcription factor in retardation of leaf senescence and extension of longevity of Arabidopsis plants”

2003 - 2006: Help Desk Specialist. MIRS Ltd

Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve a wide range of software, hardware and network issues. Provide technical support for all workers. Prioritize and escalate issues where required. Install, configure and modify hardware and software to ensure optimal performance. Plan and lead training sessions for new and existing users

2001 – 2003: Customer Service. MIRS Ltd

Army Service

12/1994 – 12/1996: Israeli Air Force. Air traffic control.

International courses and training

17/10/2016 – 1/1/2017: Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera. Certificate earned on January 5, 2017

1/6/2016: Python programing, Codecademy https://www.codecademy.com/

7/04/2016 – 21/04/2016: Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona. I took part in STSM (short term scientific mission) as part of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) program. With the help of the experience bioinformaticians at the host lab, I explored different methods for estimation of alternatively-spliced genes in order to develop the best and most suitable workflow to analyze alternative splicing events in our data (RNA-seq of table grapes).

24/10/2012 – 26/10/2012: Centro de Investigaciones Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain. Blast2GO International Course in Automated Functional Annotation and Data Mining. The course teaches on the principles and practical aspects of automated functional annotation of (novel) sequence data.

Teaching Experience:

During my PhD and post-doctoral I was tutoring high school and practical engineer students in their final projects. The students were involved in variety of projects; in molecular biology, biotechnology and bioinformatics. I supervised short and long term projects.

Publications:

1. Sharabi-Schwager M, Lers A, Samach A, Porat R. Relationship between plant stress tolerance, senescence and life span. Stewart postharvest reviews 2009; Volume 5 (2), pp. 1-6.

2. Sharabi-Schwager M, Lers A, Samach A, Guy CL,Porat R. Overexpression of the CBF2 transcriptional activator in Arabidopsis delays leaf senescence and extends plant longevity. Journal of Experimental Botany 2010; Volume 61 (1), pp. 261-273.

3. Sharabi-Schwager M, Samach A,Porat R. Overexpression of the CBF2 transcriptional activator in Arabidopsis suppresses the responsiveness of leaf tissue to the stress hormone ethylene. Plant Biology 2010; Volume 12 (4), pp. 330-338.

4. Sharabi-Schwager M, Samach A,Porat R. Overexpression of the CBF2 transcriptional activator in Arabidopsis counteracts hormone activation of leaf senescence. Plant Signaling & Behavior 2010; Volume 5 (3), pp. 296-299.

5. Sharabi-Schwager M, Samach A,Porat R. Overexpression of the CBF2 transcriptional Activator Enhances Oxidative Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis Plants. International Journal of Biology 2011; Volume 3 (2), pp. 94-105.

6. Ophir R, Sherman A, Rubinstein M,·Eshed R,·Sharabi Schwager M, Harel-Beja R,·Bar-Ya'akov I, Holland D.·Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers from De-Novo

Assembly of the Pomegranate Transcriptome Reveal Germplasm Genetic Diversity. PLoS ONE 2014, Volume 9(2): e88998

7. Chejanovsky N, Ophir R, Sharabi Schwager M, Slabezki Y, Grossman S, Cox-Foster D. Characterization of viral siRNA populations in honey bee colony collapse disorder. Virology 2014; Volume 454-455 ,pp. 176-183.

8. Harel-Beja, R., Bar-Ya'akov, I., Hatib, K., Trainin, T., Ben-Simhon, Z., Holland, D., Eshed, R., Sharabi, M., Rubinstein, M., Ophir, R. and Sherman, A. Pomegranate Breeding: Utilization of Molecular and Genetic Data for Improvement of Fruit Quality and Adaptation to Different Climatic Conditions. Acta Hortic, 2015, 1089, 249-252.

9. Sherman A, Rubinstein M, Eshed R,· Benita M,· Ish-Shalom M , Sharabi-Schwager M, Rozen A, Saada D, Cohen Y, Ophir R.· Mango (Mangifera indica L.) germplasm diversity based on single nucleotide polymorphisms derived from the transcriptome. Plant Biology 2015, Volume 15,p.p 277.

10. Sherman A, Eshed R,·Peer R,·Rubinstein M, Benita M,·Yablovitz Z, Sharabi M,·Kamara I, Rozen A,·A. Flaishman M,·Ophir R.· Discovery of Sex Linkage Markers – a Molecular Proof for the Genetic Model for of Sex Determination in Fig (Ficus carica L.). International Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXII 2014.

11. Sherman A,·Rubinstein M, Eshed R,·Benita M,·Ish-Shalom M, Sharabi-Schwager M,·Rozen A,·Saada D,·Ophir R, Cohen Y.· Creating Genomic Infrastructure for Mango Breeding. International mango symposium, Punta Cana, June 2013.

12. Sharabi-Schwager M, Rubinstein M, Ish-Shalom M, Eshed R, Rozen A, Sherman A, Cohen Y, Ophir R. Experimental Pipeline for SNP and SSR Discovery and Genotyping Analysis of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) bio-protocol 2016, Volume 6 Iss 16.