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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Plant and Cell Developmental Biology,Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas |
| Keywords | plant movement, structure and function, plant cell wall, silica in plants, biomineralization |
Current contact address
| Country | Israel |
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| City | Rehovot |
| Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Institute | Faculty of Agriculture |
| Homepage | http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/plantscience/people/Rivka_Elbaum/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Fratzl | Abteilung Biomaterialien, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Potsdam |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/02/2006 |
Programme(s)
| 2005 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2015 | Markovich O., Kumar S., Cohen D., Addadi S., Fridman E., Elbaum R.: Silicification in leaves of sorghum mutant with low silicon accumulation. In: Silicon, doi:10.1007/s12633-015-9348-x, 2015, |
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| 2012 | Tamburu C., Klein E. Dunlop J., Fartzl P. Raviv U. Elbaum R.: Structural basis for the coiling of storks bills awns. In: Journal of the Royal Society Interface , 2012, 640-647 |
| 2008 | Peter Fratzl, Rivka Elbaum, Ingo Burgert: Cellulose fibrils direct plant organ movements. In: FARADAY DISCUSSION, 2008, 275-282 |
| 2008 | Rivka Elbaum, Stanislav Gorb, Peter Fratzl: Structures in the cell-wall that enable hygroscopic movement of wheat awns. In: Journal of Structural Biology, 2008, 101-107 |
| 2007 | Rivka Elbaum, Liron Zaltzman, Ingo Burgert, Peter Fratzl: The Role of Wheat Awns in the Seed Dispersal Unit. In: Science , 2007, 884-886 |