78 Polymeric Chiral Nanoparticles. Mastai and his colleagues, have gained international reputation in these fields, and have pioneered several new concepts and techniques in the following areas: SAM’s for the preparation of Chiral Nanosurfaces for Chiral resolution by crystallization. Chiral ordered Mesoporous silica by Chiral polymer -Templated Synthesis. An innovative new Carbon Chiral Mesoporous, based on the Carbonization of Chiral Ionic liquids. The development of Optical Scanning Microscopy (NSOM) and Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC) for the determination of Nanoscale Chirality. HE-TEM images of Chiral Titania (TiO2) nanofilms. Publications 2021 and 2022 · Meir Abuaf, Yitzhak Mastai. “Electrospinning of polymer nanofibers based on chiral polymeric nanoparticles”. Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 2022. · Reut Yemini, Shalev Blanga, Hagit Aviv, Ilana Perelshtein, Eti Teblum, Shahar Dery, Elad Gross, Yitzhak Mastai, Malachi Noked, Ortal Lidor-Shalev. “Growth of Hybrid Chiral Thin Films by Molecular Layer Deposition Zinc/Cysteine as a Case Study”. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022. · Sapir Shekef Aloni2, Molhm Nassir, Yitzhak Mastai. “Chiral Porous Carbon Surfaces for Enantiospecific Synthesis”. Polymers, 2022. · Subhomoy Das, Alexander V Butenko, Yitzhak Mastai, Moshe Deutsch, Eli Sloutskin. “Topology-driven surface patterning of liquid spheres”. Nature Physics, 2022. · Liroy Lugasi, Gil Otis, Matan Oliel, Shlomo Margel, Yitzhak Mastai. “Chirality of proteinoid nanoparticles made of lysine and phenylalanine”. Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 2022. · Gil Otis, Denial Aias, Ilya Grinberg, Sharon Ruthstein, Yitzhak Mastai. “Probing Chirality of Crystals using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy”. Research Square, 2022. · Kusha Sharma, Hari Krishna Sadhanala, Yitzhak Mastai, Ze’ev Porat,Aharon Gedanken. “Sonochemically Prepared BSA microspheres as adsorbents for the removal of organic pollutants from water”. Langmuir, 2021. · Zarina Baranchiyeva, Gulziya Seilkhanova, Akmaral Rakhym, Yitzhak Mastai, Yenlik Ussipbekova. “Adsorption of Pb (II) and Cd (II) from aqueous solutions on polyvinylpyrrolidone modified Kyzylsok natural clay”. International Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 2021. · Gil Otis, Michal Ejgenberg, Yitzhak Mastai. “Solvent-Free Mechanochemical Synthesis of ZnO Nanoparticles by HighEnergy Ball Milling of ε-Zn(OH)2 Crystals”. Nanomaterials, 2021. · Akmaral B Rakhym, Gulziya A Seilkhanova, Yitzhak Mastai. “Physicochemical evaluation of the effect of natural zeolite modification with didodecyldimethylammonium bromide on the adsorption of Bisphenol-A and Propranolol Hydrochloride”. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2021. · Milena Perovic, Sapir Shekef Aloni, Wuyong Zhang, Yitzhak Mastai, Markus Antonietti, Martin Oschatz. “Toward Efficient Synthesis of Porous AllCarbon-Based Nanocomposites for Enantiospecific Separation”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021. · Zarina Baranchiyeva, Gulziya Seilkhanova, Akmaral Rakhym, Yitzhak Mastai, Yenlik Ussipbekova. “Adsorption of Pb (II) and Cd (II) from aqueous solutions on polyvinylpyrrolidone modified Kyzylsok natural clay”. International Journal of Biology and Chemistry, 2021. · Kusha Sharma, Hari Krishna Sadhanala, Yitzhak Mastai, Ze’ev Porat, Aharon Gedanken. “Sonochemically Prepared BSA Microspheres as Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic Pollutants from Water”. Langmuir, 2021. Prof. Michaeli Shulamit Vice President for Research The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences Member of BINA Medicine Center Research Areas • Mechanism and machinery of nucleolar gene silencing • The use of nanoparticles for cytoplasmic and nuclear gene silencing • Trans-splicing in trypanosomatids • Protein translocation in trypanosomatids • RNA modifications mediated by guide RNAs • RNAi silencing in plants • The use of nano particles as RNAi carriers into the nucleous Publications 2021 and 2022 · Fabien Guegan, K Shanmugha Rajan, Fábio Bento, Daniel Pinto-Neves, Mariana Sequeira, Natalia Gumińska, Seweryn Mroczek, Andrzej Dziembowski, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish, Tirza Doniger, Beathrice Galili, Antonio M Estévez, Cedric Notredame, Shulamit Michaeli, Luisa M Figueiredo. “A long noncoding RNA promotes parasite differentiation in African trypanosomes”. Science Advances, 2022. · Hari Krishna Sadhanala, Saurav Aryal, Kusha Sharma, Ziv Orpaz, Shulamit Michaeli, Aharon Gedanken. “Nitrogendoped carbon dots as a highly selective and sensitive fluorescent probe for sensing Mg2+ ions in aqueous solution, and their application in the detection and imaging of intracellular Mg2+ ions”. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022. · K Shanmugha Rajan, Katerina Adler, Tirza Doniger, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish, Noa Aharon-Hefetz, Saurav Aryal, Yitzhak Pilpel, Christian Tschudi, Ron Unger, Shulamit Michaeli. “Identification and functional implications of pseudouridine RNA modification on small noncoding RNAs in the mammalian pathogen Trypanosoma brucei”. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022.
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