Growth and development: prokaryotes.
Orna Amster-Choder is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she holds the Dr Jacob Grunbaum Professional Chair in Medical Sciences. Research in her group focuses on molecular mechanisms underlying signal transduction in bacteria, spatial and temporal organization of proteins and RNA transcripts in bacterial cells, transcription regulation, and molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial pathogenicity. e-mail: ornaam@ekmd.huji.ac.il.