Education:

• Ph.D. in Agricultural Science, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel (1995-2000)
• B.Sc. in Plant Protection, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel (1991-1994)

Professional Experience:

• Post-doctoral fellow at the BioTech Center, Cook College, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (2000 - current)
• Graduate Student in Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel (1995-2000)

Abstracts:

• D. Prusky, I. Kobiler, R. Ardi, D. Beno-Moalem, N. Yakoby. 1998. Mechanisms of defense of unripe avocado fruits against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides attack. Phytoparasitica. 26:354.
• N. Yakoby, I. Kobiler, A. Dinoor, D. Prusky. 1999. The level of pH at the avocado pericarp modulates the pathogenicity of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Phytoparasitica. 27:147.
• N. Yakoby, R. Zhou, I. Kobiler, A. Dinoor, D. Prusky. 2000. Identification and characterization of reduced pathogenicity mutants of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides obtained by REMI. Phytoparasitica. 28:279-280.

Books:

• D. Prusky, I. Kobiler, R. Ardi, D. Beno-Moalem, N. Yakoby. 2000. Mechanisms of defense of unripe avocado fruits against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides attack. pp. 232-244. In: Host Specificity, Pathology and Host Pathogen Interaction of Colletotrichum. eds: D. Prusky., S. Freeman., M. B. Dickman. American Phytopathological Society Press, St Paul, MN.

Manuscripts:

• N. Yakoby, I. Kobiler, A. Dinoor, D. Prusky. 2000. pH regulation of pectate lyase secretion modulates the attack of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides on avocado fruits. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 66:1026-1030.
• N. Yakoby, S. Freeman, A. Dinoor, N. T. Keen, D. Prusky. 2000. Expression of pectate lyase from Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in C. magna promotes pathogenicity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 13:887-891.
• N. Yakoby, R. Zhou, I. Kobiler, A. Dinoor, D. Prusky. 2001. Development of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides restriction enzyme-mediated integartion mutants as biocontrol agents against anthracnose disease in avocado fruit. Phytopathology. 91:143-148.
• D. Prusky, D. Eshel, I. Kobiler, N. Yakoby, D. Beno-Moalem, M. Akerman, Y. Zuthi, R. Ben Arie. 2001. Postharvest chlorine treatments for the control of the persimmon black spot disease caused by Alternaria alternata. Postharvest Biology and Technology. 22:271-277.
• N. Yakoby, D. Beno-Moualem, N. T. Keen, A. Dinoor, O. Pines, D. Prusky. 2001. Colletotrichum gloeosporioides pelB is an important virulence factor in avocado fruit-fungus interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 14:988-995.
• N. Yakoby, D. Beno-Mualem, I. Kobiler, D. Prusky. 2002. The analysis of fruit protection mechanisms provided by reduced pathogenicity mutants of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides obtained by Restriction Enzyme Mediated Integration. Phytopathology 92:1196-1201.
• Ilya Raskin, David M. Ribnicky, Slavko Komarnytsky, Neboiša Ilić, Alexander Poulev, Nikolai Borisjuk, Anita Brinker, Diego A. Moreno, Christophe Ripoll, Nir Yakoby, Joseph M. O'Neal, Teresa Cornwell, Ira Pastor and Bertold Fridlender. 2002. Plants and human health in the twenty-first century. Trends in Biotechnology, 20:12:522-531
• D. Prusky and N. Yakoby. 2003. Pathogenic fungi: leading or led by ambient pH? Molecular Plant Pathology, Vol. 4, (6):509-516.
• N. Yakoby and I. Raskin. A simple method to determine trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitory activity. 2004. Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods. In print.

Scholarships and awards:

1. Recipient of personal scholarship from the Fruit Board of Israel, 1995, for 1 year.
2. Recipient of personal scholarship from The Association of Trustees and Friends of Agricultural Research at the Volcani Center, in the name of "Yehuda Horin", 1996, for 1 year.
3. Recipient of personal scholarship from The Association of Trustees and Friends of Agricultural Research at the Volcani Center, in the name of "Avigad and his daughter Dovrat", 1998, for 1 year.
4. Recipient of personal scholarship program for "Future Leadership in Orchards", from the Fruit Board of Israel and Agricultural Ministry, 1998, for 3 years.
5. Award for the "Student's Outstanding Lecture" in The Israeli Phytopathological Society 20th Convention, 1999.
6. Recipient of personal scholarship from Vaadia-BARD Postdoctoral fellowship, number FI-302-2000, 2000.