Lab news

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).

We welcome Yaara Alkalay, a 3rd year bioinfo student who will do a project in the lab guided by Dan.

The paper on clustering the white matter of the brain (link) by Ittai Shamir, Yaniv Assaf and Ron, has been published in Brain Structure and Function.

Nimrod Rappoport’s PhD is now officially approved. Congratulations Dr. Rappoport!