Dr Liat Ben-Tovim - Curriculum Vitae

Home page	Education - Prizes - Publications - Languages - Employment - Interests - Referees Dr Liat Ben-Tovim Address Moshe Vilenski 3/3, Tel Aviv, 69623 Phone 03 644 3185 / 054 599 201 email Liat_and_Evan@yahoo.com Born 7 November 1971, Safed, Israel Nationality Dual U.S.A./ Israeli citizenship Marital status Married
To top	Academic Career Cambridge University, Clare College October 93 - October 99 MB/PhD course leading to MB, ChB and PhD qualifications. PhD thesis: "NMR studies of Ras and its interactions", supervised by Dr. Ernest Laue, Department of Biochemistry, passed December 1999 Awarded MB, ChB with passes in Medicine and Surgery, December 1998. Bristol University October 90 - June 93 Awarded BSc (1st Class Honours) in Biochemistry, June 1993. Awarded 2nd MB, ChB, June 1992. Lady Eleanor Holles School - Hampton, Middlesex 1982-90 GCE 'A' levels: Chemistry (A), Physics (A), Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A) 1990 Use of English examination (pass) 1990 GCE 'A/O' level: Mathematics (A) 1988 GCSE examinations: English Literature (A), French (A), German (A), Latin (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A), Biology (A) 1988 GCE 'O' levels: Mathematics (A), English Language (B) 1987
To top	Prizes and awards Smith Kline Beecham Prize For the most outstanding seminar given at the MB/PhD Symposium. November 1996 Wellcome Trust Scholarship Awarded for exceptional research potential to fund PhD research. October 1994 - June 1998 Wolfson Grant Awarded for exceptional academic merit to fund intercalated BSc. October 1993 2nd MB Prize For outstanding results in the 2nd MB examinations. June 1992 LEH School Prizes Scholarship for sixth form studies and school prizes for Science, French and English. 1988, 1990
To top	Publications and Posters An approach to global fold determination using limited NMR data from larger proteins selectively protonated at specific residue types. The Journal of Biomolecular NMR, Vol 8 (1996) pp 360-368. Co-authored with Brian O. Smith, et al. NMR studies of the Ras p21 - Raf-1interaction. Poster at the 17th International conference on magnetic resonance in biological systems, Keystone, Colorado. (August 1996) Structural studies of Ras p21 and its interactions. Poster at the International school of biological magnetic resonance, Erice, Sicily. (May 1995)
To top	Languages Native in English and Hebrew. Fluent in written and spoken German and French. Familiarity in written Russian and Latin.
To top	Work Experience/ International work placements RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, JAPAN Two placements of over a month, working with collaborator Yutaka Ito running NMR spectroscopy experiments. 1997 Clare College, Cambridge University Supervisor for Natural Sciences 1994-5 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK Summer studentship 1992 Young Enterprise Managing Director of a Young Enterprise company. Sponsored by Thames TV and Thorn EMI. 1988
To top	Interests Travel Have lived or travelled in North and South America, South Africa, Australia, Japan, much of Europe, Israel, Egypt, Britain and countries of the Far East. Sports Swimming, fencing (silver standard), skiing, snow-boarding and running
To top	Referees Dr. Ernest Laue PhD Supervisor Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge 80 Tennis Court Rd, Old Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge CB2 1GA edl1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk +44 (0) 1223 333 677 fax +44 (0) 1223 766 002 Professor T.M. Cox Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge Level 5, Addenbrookes Hospital, Box 157 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ +44 (0) 1223 336 866 fax +44 (0) 1223 336 846 Dr. Roger Tapp Graduate Tutor Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 ITL rlt10@cam.ac.uk +44 (0) 1223 333 200 fax +44 (0) 1223 333 219