Contact Information:

Professor N.Y. Shpigel

The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine

POB 12, Rehovot 76100

Israel

Email: Shpigeln@agri.huji.ac.il

Office: 972 8 9489534

Lab: 972 8 9489554

Fax: 972 8 9489138

Mobile: 972522851383

Current Research Projects:

• Colonization and virulence mechanisms of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis infection in human and bovine intestinal xenograft model in SCID mice
• Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis in Crohn's disease
• Colonization and virulence mechanisms of Enetrohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC O157:H7) in human and bovine intestinal xenograft model in SCID mice  
• Molecular basis of virulence of mammary pathogenic E. coli (MPEC)
• The mammary immune response to pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMP) of mammary pathogenic E. coli
• Bovine Necrotic Vulvovaginitis