Photo Credit: Rami Chelouche, Technion Spokesperson s Office
Microbes Team, Mentors and Dean: Front row: Right to left: Asst. Prof. Avi Shpigelman, Prof. Yoav Livney (Leading the Technion project), Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Prof. Marcelle Machluf, Rachel Bitton, Itzik Engelberg;
Back row, right to left: Assoc. Prof. Uri Lesmes, Alon Romano, Leechen Mashiah and Prof. Yechezkel Kashi
Students at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, The Technion, have harnessed a virus a bacteriophage found in the environment of fruit trees to prevent spoilage of fruit juices â a phenomenon that causes tens of millions of dollarsâ worth of damage each year.