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Biography
Oded Béjà is a professor in the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, in the field of marine microbiology and metagenomics. Oded Béjà is best known for discovering the first bacterial rhodopsin naming it proteorhodopsin, during his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Edward DeLong. Oded Béjà's laboratory focuses currently on the role and diversity of photosynthetic viruses infecting cyanobacteria in the oceans
Early life and education
Oded Béjà graduated with a B.Sc. degree from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment - Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his M.Sc and Ph.D from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1998.[1]
Honoraria, Fellowships, and Memberships
Editorial board of the International Society for Microbial Ecology
Faculty Member of the Year 2012 by Faculty of 1000.
EMBO young inverstigator 2002-2004
American Society for Photobiology 2002 [1] New Investigator Award.
Ranked 443 in the Ranking of scientists in Israel Institutions according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles