Dr. Rotem Rubinstein completed his Ph.D. studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine under the supervision of Prof. Steve Almo and Prof. Andras Fiser. His studies have focused on receptor-ligand interactions regulating the immune response. As a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, Dr. Rubinstein worked with Prof. Barry Honig and Prof. Larry Shapiro on the molecular basis of neuronal self-avoidance, a process requiring neurons to discriminate between self and non-self.