We welcome Eran Shpigelman who is joining the group as a master student. Eran did his BSc in the Hebrew University and is coming back to research after a period in the hi-tech industry.

Maya Metzger will be joining the group as a research assistant. She will be assisting Dan Coster in work on EMRs. Welcome Maya!

Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport who won the Zvi and Esther Weinstat Graduate Students Award on Cancer Research. His work was selected as an outstanding research project by the Cancer Biology Research Center at TAU.

We welcome Dan Flomin, CS MSc student, who is joining the group.  

Hagai Levi, having completed his MSc, is entering the doctoral program. Like the MSc, the PhD is supervised jointly with Rani Elkon of the Medical school.

Roi Cohen will be joining the group as a research assistant. He will be working on ageing with Nimrod. Welcome Roi!

Read the new paper by David Pellow describing a new algorithm to classify bacterial vs. plasmidic sequences.

Read Hagai's paper on BioRxiv about the pitfalls in network-based module detection algorithms, how to overcome them, and about DOMINO, a novel algorithm that performs very well on gene expression and GWAS data.  

 

Congratulations to Dvir Netanely, who submitted his PhD thesis titled  "Cancer subtype identification using large-scale omics data analysis".  

Congratulations to Hagai Levi, who submitted and defended his MSc thesis titled "Analysis of network-based module discovery algorithms from the perspective of biological enrichment".