Lab news

Congrats to Assaf Ben Shimon who received a scholarship from the Aufzien Family Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (APPD).

Congrats to Tal who submitted his MSc thesis (co-supervised by Prof. Uri Ben-David) on chromothripsis and passed the MSc exam.

We welcome Maya Metzger, who is joining the group as an MSc student. Maya has previously been a research assistant in the group.

Congrats to Omer Noy, who passed her PhD Proposal Exam!!

Hagai Levi is among the winners of a Ph.D. scholarship from the Yoran Institute for Human Genome Research at TAU. Congratulations to Hagai!

Lianrong’s paper describing the 4CAC algorithm for classifying metagenomic contigs into four classes has been published in NAR (link)

Welcome to Noam Teomim, a new PhD student in the group in joint supervision with Prof. Carmit Levy (Medicine).

Welcome to Ofir Ariel, an undergrad Bioinfo student who is joining the group for a project on mCRC under the supervision of Dan.

Congrats to Tal, who won the CBRC travel award, allowing him to present his chromothripsis analysis in the FASEB Aneuploidy conference in Sept 2024.

A study of Dan and Thomy with Ben Boursi, showing difference across races in some fungi species presence in tumors has been posted in BioRxiv (link)