**Serge Ankri**

Prof. Serge Ankri is an associate professor at the B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, in Haifa, Israel. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Paris XI in France, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. His laboratory at the Technion specializes in the regulation of virulence and adaptation to environmental stresses in the parasite *E. histolytica*, with a focus on the role of epigenetic mechanisms, redox regulation and gut microbiota in infection. He has published more than sixty peer-reviewed papers and received twenty competitive research grants from national and international funding agencies. He serves as a reviewer for high-ranked journals such as *Nature Communications* and *PLoS Pathogens*, as well as for various international funding projects. Prof. Ankri is an Editorial Board Member of *Antioxidants* and *Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences*.
