Sarit Smolikove
Associate Editor, Genome Integrity Transmission

Sarit Smolikove is a Professor of Biology at the University of Iowa. Her studies focus on the elaborate processes that lead to the formation of functional gametes. She received her BSc in Biology, MSc, and PhD in Molecular Microbiology from Tel Aviv University. There she worked on Telomere length regulation using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model at the laboratories of Dr. Anat Krauskopf and Dr. Martin Kupiec. For her post-doctoral training, she switched her interest to meiosis and Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system, where she studied the synaptonemal complex at the laboratory of Monica Colaiacovo at Harvard Medical School. In recent years her research has centered around DNA damage repair in the germline, understanding the response to both programmed and induced DNA double strand breaks. Her current research program combines cell biology and genetics approaches to understand the effects of R-loops and cosmic radiation on gamete formation.

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