Ehud Banin is an associate Professor at the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Microbiology, Tel-Aviv University. Following a short career in the Biotech Industry as director of data analysis at Glycominds LTD a biotech company that is traded on the Israeli stock exchange, Ehud continued to postdoctoral studies in the University of Iowa and later in the University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Peter Greenberg. In 2006 Ehud returned to BIU and established the Biofilm Research Laboratory. His work focuses on the deciphering the signals and processes that govern biofilm development with an aim of developing new antimicrobial and antibiofilm agents. Prof. Banin currently heads the Division for Developmental Biology and Physiology in the Faculty of Life Sciences at BIU and is also head of the University Committee for research with infectious agents. Prof. Banin is also active in the microbiology community and served as the secretary of the Israel Society for Microbiology and is also currently an editor and on the editorial board of journals related to microbiology and biofilm research.