Dr. Menachem Katz earned his B.Sc. in life sciences at the Tel Aviv University, and MSc and PhD in biochemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he studied EGFR-signaling in Prof. Yosef Yarden’s lab. For his postdoctoral training, Menachem joined the lab of Prof. Shai Shaham at the Rockefeller University, where he studied the roles of astroglia in control of C. elegans behavior.