Lab news

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!

Congratulations to Maya Metzger, who won the Safra Center undergraduate fellowship!Maya has been working in the group on EMR analysis in parallel to her undergrad in bioinformatics. 

Eran’s manuscript describing a new algorithm for ranking features for clustering EMR data is available in medRxiv (link)

Read Hagai’s paper in medRxiv (link) on the importance of imputation panel ethnicity when transferring a PRS across populations.

Tom’s paper on inferring silencers and enhancers using deep learning is available on Research Square (link).

Congratulations to Omer Noy, who won the Prof. Amnon and Mrs. Anat Ramati Shaashua fellowship in computer science!

Congratulations to Hagai, who won the Weinstat Memorial Graduate Award in Cancer Research!

Read the study (link) of Ella Ranon and Ella Goldschmidt and others on predicting if the antibiotic administered was appropriate.