Lab news

Tal’s paper (with Ben-David group) characterizing chromothripsis in over a thousand cancer cell lines is out on BioRxiv (link)

Congrats to Tal, who passed the exam on his PhD proposal

Congrats to Thomy Margalit, who submitted her MSc thesis and passed the final MSc exam!

Congratulations to Tal, who won an EACR travel grant to present his work at the Chromosomes in Crisis meeting in Berlin in November 2026.

We welcome Altar Horowitz, who is joining the group as an MSc student. Altar graduated from TAU with a BSc in bioinformatics. She will be co-supervised by Prof. Carmit Levy (Medicine).

Congratulations to Tal for winning the 8th Esther and Zvi Weinstat Memorial Graduate Award in Cancer Research!

Hagai’s new deep learning method for adapting a polygenic risk score developed on one population to anther ethnic group has been posted in medRxiv (link).

Welcome to Yael Kaplinsky who is joining the group as a BSc project student.

Thomy’s paper on using deep learning to summarize GWAS signals into cellular contexts is out in BioRxiv (link).

Congrats to Thomy (1st place) and Tal (3rd place), who both won poster prizes in the Safra retreat. See here (link) for details.