Curriculum Vitae
Ady Vaknin, Ph.D
Racah Institute of Physics
Hebrew University
Phone: 972 – 2 – 6584266 (work)
972 – 50 – 2052873 (cell)
Fax:
972 – 2 – 6586168
Email: avaknin@phys.huji.ac.il
Education
B.Sc. The Hebrew University, Physics, 1993.
M.Sc.  The Hebrew University, Physics, 1995.
Ph.D.  The Hebrew University, Physics, 2001 (concluded with special distinction)
Post -doctoral appointments
2001
Hebrew university, Neurobiology.
2002  2006 Harvard University, Biophysics.
Publications
Vaknin, A., Frydman, A., Ovadyahu, Z., and Pollak, M. (1996). High-field magnetoconductance in
Anderson insulators. Phys. Rev. B 54: 13604-13610.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. (1997). The above-gap structure in normal-metal-superconductor
junctions. J. Phys. C: Solid-State 9: L303-L306.
Vaknin, A., Ovadyahu, Z. and Pollak, M. (1998). Non-equilibrium transport in Anderson insulations.
Phys. Status Solidi B 205: 395-398.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. (1998). Anomalies in tunnelling through localized states. Phys. Status
Solidi B 205: 413-416.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. and Pollak, M. (1998). Evidence for interactions in nonergodic
electronic transport. Phys. Rev. Letters 81: 669-672.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. and Pollak, M. (1998). Temperature dependence of non-equilibrium
effects in a Fermi glass. Europhysics Letters 42: 307-311.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. (1999). Microwaves-induced oscillations in Andreev tunnelling.
Europhys. Letters 47, 615-620.
Vaknin, A., Frydman, A., Ovadyahu, Z. (2000). Excess conductance in normal-metal/Anderson
insulator/superconductor junctions. Phys. Rev. B 61: 13037-13044.
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Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. (2000). Coherent tunnelling through localized states. Phys. Status
Solidi B 218: 319-225.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. and Pollak, M. (2000). Heuristic model for slow relaxation of excess
conductance in electron glasses. Phys. Rev. B 61: 6692-6695.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. and Pollak, M. (2000). Aging effects in an Anderson insulator. Phys.
Rev. Letters 84, 3402-3405.
Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. and Pollak, M. (2002). Nonequilibrium field effect and memory in the
electron glass. Phys. Rev. B 65: 134208.
Orlyanchik, V., Vaknin, A., and Ovadyahu, Z. (2002). Impairing the memory of an electron-glass by IR
excitation. Phys. Status Solidi B 230: 61-66.
Vaknin, A., and Berg, H. C. (2004). Single-cell FRET imaging of phosphatase activity in the
Escherichia coli chemotaxis system. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 17072-17077.
Vaknin, A., and Berg, H. C. (2006). Osmotic stress mechanically perturbs chemoreceptors in
Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 592-596.
Vaknin, A., and Berg, H. C. (2007). Physical responses of bacterial chemoreceptors.
366: 1416-1423.
J. Mol. Biol.
Sourjik V., Vaknin A., Shimizu T.S., Berg H.C., (2007). In vivo measurement by FRET of pathway
activity in bacterial chemotaxis. Methods Enzymol. 423: 365-391.
Vaknin, A., and Berg, H. C. (2008). Direct Evidence for Coupling between Bacterial Chemoreceptors.
J. Mol. Biol. 382: 573-577.
Frank V., Koler M., Furst F., and Vaknin A., (2011). The physical and functional thermal sensitivity of
bacterial chemoreceptors. J. Mol. Biol. 411: 554-566.
Vaknin A., (2013). The dynamics in the bacterial chemosensory arrays. AIP proceedings.
Frank V., and Vaknin A., (2013). Prolonged stimuli alter the bacterial chemosensory clusters. Mol.
Microbiology. 88: 634-644.
Sommer E., Koler M., Sourjik V., and Vaknin A., (2013). The Sensory Histidine Kinases TorS and EvgS
Tend to Form Clusters in Escherichia coli Cells. PloS one. 8: e77708.
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