Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal

School Contact Information

Koret School of Veterinary Medicine,
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural, Food & Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Address: Herzl 229, P.O. Box 12,
Rehovot 76100, Israel

Phone: +972-(0)8-9489021/31;
Fax: +972-(0)8-9467940
E-Mail: vet.school@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Special interest

Evolution, co-evolution host-pathogen, domestication, anthropology, human ecology, conservation genetics and wildlife forensic.

Teaching

Veterinary Virology
Zoogeography
New Technologies in research and conservation of cultural heritage in Israel
Plant and animal domestication
Ancient DNA
Natural history collection and zoo collection

Research

Molecular Evolution, ancient DNA, anthropology, co-evolution host-pathogen, Forensic, Conservation genetics.

Service

Director of the National Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University, Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) – member of the Executive Committee (Secretary) and head of the Research Science Research working group (SciReG), Society for Wildlife Forensic Sciences (SWFS) member of the Board - Director of Policy and Partnership, Representative of the Israel Natural Science Collections Consortium” (“INSCC”) at Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo), Representative of Israel in European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), Member at the Safety committee of the Hebrew University, The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine - Member of research and development committee and the Head of DVM/Ph.D committee , Member of Final thesis DVM students committee