ד"ר יבגני ביננבאום

Jenia Binenbaum is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security at Tel Aviv University. He received his B.Sc. in Plant Sciences from the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from Tel Aviv University. He then conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Education

2017–2022 | Ph.D. in Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University

2015–2017 | M.Sc. in Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University

2012–2015 | B.Sc. in Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Academic Appointments

2026–present | Senior Lecturer, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University

2024–2026 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

2022–2024 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Our lab studies how epigenetic mechanisms regulate plant responses to changing environmental conditions. We are particularly interested in how chromatin states shape gene expression and developmental plasticity in response to nutrient availability, and how these responses are coordinated across different tissues and cell types. By combining molecular biology, genomics, epigenomics and targeted epigenome engineering, we aim to uncover the mechanisms that allow plants to sense and adapt to their environment and to develop new strategies for improving nutrient use efficiency in crops.

*Binenbaum, J., *Adamkova, V., Fryer, H., Xu, L., Gorringe, N., Włodzimierz, P., Burns, R., Papikian, A., Jacobsen, S. E., Henderson, I., & Harris, C. J. (2025). CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications,16(9587).
*Equal contribution

Anfang, M., Ben Yaakov, S., Su, N., Shafir, A., Binenbaum, J., Haj Yahya, R., Yu, X., Procko, C., Bar, H., Chory, J., Schroeder, J., Fichman, S., Mayrose, I., Shani, E., & Zhang, Y. (2026). mTACT: Cell type-specific transportome-scale amiRNA toolbox to overcome functional redundancy in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 200(2), kiaf682.

Lazary, S., Maman, G., Binenbaum, J., Ronen, M., Tal, I., Yariv, E., Ben Yaakov, S., Shani, E., & Weinstain, R. (2025). Triphenylphosphonium is an effective targeting moiety for plants mitochondria. New Phytologist, 247(6), 2601–2615.

Binenbaum, J., Wulff, N., Camut, L., Kiradjiev, K., Anfang, M., Tal, I., Vasuki, H., Zhang, Y., Sakvarelidze-Achard, L., Davière, J.-M., Ripper, D., Carrera, E., Manasherova, E., Ben Yaakov, S., Lazary, S., Hua, C., Novak, V., Crocoll, C., Weinstain, R., Cohen, H., Ragni, L., Aharoni, A., Band, L. R., Achard, P., Nour-Eldin, H. H., & Shani, E. (2023). Gibberellin and abscisic acid transporters facilitate endodermal suberin formation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 9(5), 785–802.

Gal, A., Dalal, A., Anfang, M., Sharma, D., Binenbaum, J., Muchaki, P., Kumar, R., Egbaria, A., Duarte, K. E., Kelly, G., de Souza, W. R., & Sade, N. (2023). Plasma membrane aquaporins regulate root hydraulic conductivity in the model plant Setaria viridis. Plant Physiology, 193(4), 2640–2660.

Hu, Y., Patra, P., Pisanty, O., Shafir, A., Belew, Z., Binenbaum, J., Ben Yaakov, S., Shi, B., Charrier, L., Hyams, G., Zhang, Y., Trabulsky, M., Caldararu, O., Weiss, D., Crocoll, C., Avni, A., Vernoux, T., Geisler, M., Nour-Eldin, H., Mayrose, I., & Shani, E. (2023). Multi-Knock: a multi-targeted genome-scale CRISPR toolbox to overcome functional redundancy in plants. Nature Plants, 9(4), 572–587.

Machnev, A., Ofer, D., Gilad, H., Binenbaum, J., Schneidman, L., Levitt-Barmats, Y. A., Ginzburg, P., & Noskov, R. E. (2022). Bound states in the continuum help shrimp eyes to catch more light. ACS Photonics, 10(1), 179–184.

Binenbaum, J., Weinstain, R., & Shani, E. (2018). Gibberellin localization and transport in plants. Trends in Plant Science, 23(5), 410–421.