1. Lital Lahav Ariel
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 22.3.82
Home address: PinhasAyalon17, Holon.
Cellular: 0507315753
E-mail: litalmm@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2014:Bioforum - Graduate ofMonitoring and Coordinating Clinical Trials (CRA) course.
EDUCATION
2007- 2015 Ph.D
Department of Human Microbiology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, direct course to
Ph.D. degree, in the laboratory of Dr.RinaRosin-Arbesfeld. Thesis title: Restoring the function of APC
to colorectal cancer cells and studying the function of a novel N'-APC binding protein.
2004-2006 B.Sc.
B.Sc. degree in the Extended Life Sciences Program, major in Cellular and Molecular Biology,Life Sciences
Faculty,Bar - IlanUniversity.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-2015 Managing the PhD project at the cancer researchlab in Tel Aviv University, while specializing in
cell culture and molecular methods.
Experience in preparing and giving lectures on the Ph.D project and other areas of research.
Teaching assistant in the anatomy department of the Sackler Schoolof Medicine at Tel Aviv University.
Project managing and graduate student training at the cancer researchlab at Tel Aviv University. This involved
study design, developing and creating new ideas to promote the researchand personal mentoring of graduate
students.
Participate in writing scientific manuscripts.
2007-2002 Part of the management team of the international fashion network “Castro”. The job includes
team shifts management, customer service, cashier operation, customer service, meeting goals and staff
management and motivation.

2. TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Molecularbiology:Cloning, PCR, RT-PCR, Site-directed mutagenesis, DNA and RNA purifications.
Cell culture: Transient and stable transfections; siRNA applications; Cell proliferation assays; Wound assay,
proliferation and migration assays.
Cell biology:FACS, Confocalmicroscopy, protein extraction from cells, Westernblot analysis,
Co- immunopreciptation .
PUBLICATIONS
LitalLahav-Ariel, Ilse Hofmann, Kirsten K. Hanson, Hans Heid, Ralf Zimbelmann, W. Werner Franke and
Rina Rosin-Arbesfel. Striatin - a novel modulator of cell adhesion. In press
Shiri Dovrat, Michal Caspi, AlonaZilberberg, LitalLahav,Anastasia Firsow, Hila Gur, Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld.
14-3-3 and b-catenin are secreted on extracellular vesicles toactivate the oncogenic Wnt pathway.Molecular
Oncology.2014.
AlonaZilberberg, LitalLahav and Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld. Restoration of APC Gene Function in Colorectal
Cancer Cells by Aminoglycoside- and Macrolide- Induced Read-through of Premature Termination Codons.
Gut. Published online first: 1 December 2009.
CONFERENCE MEETINGS
Restoration of Wild Type APC in Colorectal Cancer.
LitalLahav, AlonaZilberberg and Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld. Wnt meeting 2009 WasiningtonD.C.
(Oral presentation).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-2002 Part of the management teamof the international fashion network “Castro”. The job includes
team shifts management, customer service, cashier operation, customer service, meeting goals and staff
management and motivation.

3. MILITARY SERVICE
2000-2002 Radar team headquarters at the intelligence corps.
KNOWLEDE AND SKILLS
Installation and implementation of various computer programs
Extensive knowledge in Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, SPSS.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Hebrew: Mother tongue.
English: fluent written and spoken.