Lab news

Congrats to Assaf, who submitted his MSc thesis and passed the final MSc exam!

Assaf’s paper on optimizing and condensing the MDS-UPDRS scale for measuring progression in Parkinson’s disease has been posted in medRxiv (link). The work is joint with Profs. Anat Mirelman and Roy Alcalay of Ichilov Hospital.

Our NAR paper (link) with the Elkon (TAU) and Darzacq (Berkeley) groups is just out. It used micro-C, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq to measure the impact of p-53 stress on spatial genome organization. Hadar led the work in the group.

Congratulations to Assaf, who was awarded an excellence prize from the school of CS!

Read Nimrod’s paper (link) in Nature Medicine on a reference model for hematopoietic stem cells across lifespan. The work, jointly led by Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay, may facilitate clinical applications of single-cell genomics in hematology.

Congrats to Thomy and Tal who both won the first poster prizes in the two sessions of the Safra retreat. See here (link) for details.

Congrats to Maya for winning a poster prize at the IBS for her poster! The work described is from her undergraduate project in Borenstein’s lab. 

Farewell to David Lasry, who finished his work in the group as a programmer in the Expander Server problem

Omer’s paper on using ML for clinical trials (in collaboration with Shalit and van der Schaar groups) has been accepted to AISTATS2025 and will appear in the PMLR proceedings. It is now available on arXiv (link).

Ron Saad’s paper on identifying genes that drive recurrent chromosome arm losses has been posted on BioRxiv (link). Ron’s work is co-supervised by Prof. Uri Ben-David.