Lab members

Principal Investigator


Arnon Henn

Arnon Henn, Ph.D.

Associate Professor · Faculty of Biology, Technion-IIT

  • Postdoctoral Training: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University
  • Ph.D.: Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Research: Myosins and helicases — molecular motors
  • Teaching: Biochemistry (undergraduate) · Biomolecular Machines (graduate)

+972-4-8294839|arnon.henn@technion.ac.il

Lab Manager


Harel Kasuto

Harel Kasuto, Ph.D.

Lab Manager · Faculty of Biology, Technion-IIT

  • Ph.D.: Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University
  • Research: Lab technologies and biochemistry

+972-4-8294839|harel.k@technion.ac.il

Graduate Students


Alina Trestin

Alina Trestin, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student · Faculty of Biology, Technion

  • M.Sc.: Faculty of Biology, Technion-IIT, Israel
  • B.Sc.: Molecular Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, Technion-IIT, Israel
  • Research: Structure and function of myosins

+972-77-8871913|alinatrestin@campus.technion.ac.il

Qianchen Lu

Qianchen Lu, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student · Faculty of Biology, Technion

  • M.Sc.: Genomics, University of Southampton, UK
  • B.Sc.: Pharmacology, University of Southampton, UK
  • Research: Myo19 mitochondrial biology

+972-77-8871913|qianchen.lu@technion.ac.il

Kai-Jou Lin

Kai-Jou Lin, B.Sc.

M.Sc. Student · Faculty of Biology, Technion

  • B.Sc.: Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Research: Cellular functions of the Myo19 cytoskeletal motor in neurons

+972-77-8871913|kaijou-lin@campus.technion.ac.il

Former Lab Members


  • Dr. Vera Gaydar — Research Scientist, Remark, Israel
  • Dr. Marko Ušaj — Research Engineer, Linnaeus University, Sweden
  • Dr. Naama Motiuk-Wiesel — Research Scientist, Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel
  • Zipora Lanski, M.Sc. — PhD student, Weizmann, Israel
  • Dr. Rani Zananiri — Research Scientist, GE HealthCare, Israel
  • Dr. Boris Shneyer — Postdoctoral Fellow, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Dr. Lilach Zattelman — Research Scientist, TEVA, Israel
  • Dr. Saied Layla — Postdoctoral, Israel
  • Ronit Regev, M.Sc. — Former lab manager (retired)
  • Alaa Jbara, M.Sc. — Research Scientist, TEVA, Israel
  • Roy Siegelman, M.Sc. — PhD student, Weizmann, Israel
  • Dr. Mangapuram Venkata Sivasubramanyan — Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, USA
  • Kapil Jain, M.Sc. — PhD student, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Dolev Elisha, M.Sc. — PhD student, Faculty of Biology
  • Johara Qadi-Amer, M.Sc. (summa cum laude) — CRC, Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel

Former Undergraduate Students


  • Dan Yahalom — BSc Biochemical Engineering, HP, Haifa
  • Rinat Cohen — BSc Engineering
  • Maria Poley — PhD student, Technion, Israel
  • Hadar Levi — BSc Engineering
  • Or Dvir — BSc Chemical Engineering, Microsoft, Israel
  • Liat Rosenfield — BSc Biology, Technion-IIT, Israel
  • Matan Yampolsky — MSc student, Technion, Israel
  • Hend Heno — BSc Biochemical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tzfat
  • Rand Kamal — BSc Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa