An Associate Professor in the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. Her research focuses on the regulation of gene expression with particular interest in the core promoter - the DNA region that directs the initiation of transcription - often referred to as the gateway to transcription. Her lab combines methodologies of molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, bioinformatics and developmental biology. Juven-Gershon received her B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She carried out her M.Sc. and Ph.D. research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Juven-Gershon joined the Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University in 2009. She is an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group.