Education and Degrees

• 1964‑1967: B.Sc. Physiology and Biochemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 1967‑1969: M.Sc. Physiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Advisor:  Prof. E. Auerbach, M.Sc. thesis "The unit response to binocular stimulation in the cat's striate cortex" 
• 1969‑1973: Ph.D. Biophysics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Advisor:  Prof. P. Hillman, Ph.D. Thesis:  "Electrophysiological study of the transduction process in photoreceptors"
• 1973-1975: Post Doctoral Training in  Genetics & Electrophysiology of the Visual system, Purdue University, Laboratory of Prof. W.L. Pak at the Department of Biological Sciences, W. Lafayette, IN, USA

Positions

• 1967‑1969: Research Fellow, Vision Research Laboratory Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital with Prof. E. Auerbach
• 1969‑1972: Teaching Assistant in the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University
• 1972‑1973: Instructor in the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University
• 1973‑1975: Research Associate at Purdue University.  Department of Biological Sciences, W. Lafayette IN, USA
• Summer 1974: Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. USA
• 1975‑1978: Lecturer, The Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology
• Summers of 1976‑1979: Visiting Scientist, Max‑Planck‑Institut für BiologischeKybernetik, Tübingen, Germany
• 1978‑1982: Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology
• 1980‑1981: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, USA
• 1982‑1987: Associate Professor in Physiology at the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine
• Summer 1983: Visiting Scientist, Experimental Ophthalmology Laboratory, Hospital Cantonal Geneva, Switzerland
• Summer 1986: Visiting Scientist (EMBO Fellowship) in the Institut for Biology RWTH, Aachen, Germany
• 1987-Present: Full Professor of Physiology, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology
• Summer 1988: Visiting Scientist, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• 1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
• 1989-1992: Chairman, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine
• 1996-present: Director, The Kühne Minerva Center for Studies of Visual Transduction
• Summer 2004: Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) 

 Awards

• 1973: Senior Fulbright ‑ Hays Program, US-Israel Educational Foundation
• 1976: Excellent research on Phototransduction, Bat‑Sheva de Rothschild Foundation, Jerusalem
• 1985: Wolf  Research Grant for Excellent Research, Wolf Foundation for Research, Israel
• 2010: Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research from Spain
• 2010: EMET Prize in Life Sciences on Brain Resear
   

Sample of recent research publications

• Kohn, E, Katz B, Yasin B, Peters M, Rhodes E, Zaguri R, Weiss S, Minke B.  2015.  Functional cooperation between the IP3 receptor and phospholipase C secures the high sensitivity to light of Drosophila photoreceptors in vivo.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 35(6):2530-46.

• Katz, B, Oberacker T, Richter D, Tzadok H, Peters M, Minke B, Huber A.  2013.  Drosophila TRP and TRPL are assembled as homomultimeric channels in vivo.. Journal of cell science. 126(Pt 14):3121-33.

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3319679/

  Katz, B, Minke B.  2012.  Phospholipase C-mediated suppression of dark noise enables single-photon detection in Drosophila photoreceptors.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 32(8):2722-33.