Lab news

We welcome to David Lasry, who is joining the group – and Rani Elkon’s group – as a programmer. David’s project is creating a web version of the Expander software.

A plug-and-play solution for online systems medicine and network-based drug repurposing, was published in NAR (link). The large team effort was led by Jan Baumbach. Hagai and Gideon from the group contribute with the DOMINO tool.

Congrats to Maya and Thomy who won poster prizes at the 18th Edmond J. Safra center retreat in Ma’ale Ha’chamisha!

Ron Shamir received the Career Award of the ISBCB (Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) at the 22nd Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium. Warm congrats from all the lab!

David’s study with I. Mizrahi’s BGU group revealing mechanisms driving plasmid dispersal and selection in the human gut was published in Nature Communications (link).

We welcome Roie Feinsod, an MD student, who will be doing his final project in the group, guided by Dan.

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Hait, whose PhD thesis “Methods for inferring and utilizing enhancer-promoter networks” (link) was just approved! Tom was co-supervised by Prof. Rani Elkon (Medicine).

Congrats to Eran Shpigelman who submitted his MSc thesis and passed the thesis exam. Eran’s thesis deals with feature ranking in clustering of medical data (link).

Netanel Erlich, a third year undergrad student in bioinfo, will be joining the lab as a research assistant. He will be working with Omer N and Tammy on EMR data.

Hagai’s paper on the importance of imputation panel ethnicity when transferring a PRS across populations has been published in Bioinformatics (link).