Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Ph.D
Senior Lecture
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Office Address:
P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Phone: 08 -9489888
Fax: 08-9467940
Email Address: bargal@agri.huji.ac.il
Evolution, co-evolution host-pathogen, domestication and conservation genetics
Veterinary Virology
Zoogeography
New Technologies in research and conservation of cultural heritage in Israel
Plant and animal domestication
Research
Molecular Evolution, ancient DNA, Conservation genetics,
Service
Head of DVM/Ph.D committee , Member of Final thesis DVM students committee
Membership in Scientific organizations
The American Genetic Association;
The Zoological Society of Israel.
Selected Recent Publications
Roca, A.L. *, G. Kahila Bar-Gal*, E. Eizirik, M. S. Springer, K.M. Helgen, R. Maria, S.J. O’Brien and W. J. Murphy. 2004. Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores. Nature 429, 649-651.
(*These authors contributed equally).
Hershkovitz, I., H.D. Donoghue, D.E. Minnikin, G.S. Besra, O.Lee, A.M. Gernaey C, E.Galili, V. Eshed, C.L. Greenblatt, E. Lemma, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, M. Spigelman. 2008. Detection and Molecular Characterization of 9000-Year- Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean. PLoS ONE. 3(10): e3426.
Driscoll, C.A., N. Yamaguchi1, G. Kahila Bar-Gal, A.L. Roca, S. Luo, D.W. Macdonald, S.J. O’Brien. 2009. Mitochondrial Phylogeography Illuminates the Origin of the Extinct Caspian Tiger and Its Relationship to the Amur Tiger. PLoS ONE. 4(1): e4125.
Links
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Koret School of Veterinary Medicine
Special interests