Lab news

Congrats to Hagai Levi, who passed the PhD Candidacy exam! Hagai’s research topic is adaptation of Polygenic Risk Scores across populations.

We welcome Tal Ben Yishay, who is joining the group as an MSc student. Tal finished a BSc in bioinformatics at TAU. His work will be on chromothrypsis, co-supervised by Uri Ben David (Medicine). Welcome Tal!

Lianrong’s paper on a 3-way classifier of contigs in metagenomic assembly graph has been accepted to ECCB 2022 and will appear in Bioinformatics.

Congrats to Dan Flomin, who completed his MSc studies! Dan’s thesis was recently published in JCB.

Read Dan Flomin and David’s new paper in JCB on using adaptive minimizer order to cut the memory size of Gerbil k-mer counter by 30-50%. The paper is included in a special issue in honor of M. Waterman’s 80th birthday.

Congratulations to Hagai who won a prize at the 25th Human Genome Meeting 2022 for his poster “Genotype imputation strategy for improving disease risk prediction on diverse ethnic groups”.

Congratulations to Omer for completing her MSc – and continuing to the PhD program! Omer’s PhD thesis will develop computational methods for healthcare, and she will be co-supervised by Prof. Uri Shalit of the Technion.

Congrats to Omer Noy, who won the 2021-2022 Celia and Marcus Maus Prize for MSc students in Computer Science.

Congrats to Nimrod who won the Youdim Family Prize for outstanding student in cancer research for the year 2022.

Prof. Ron Shamir won the ISCB 2022 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award. The award recognizes annually a senior member of the computational biology community who has made major contributions to the field of computational biology. Ron will give a keynote talk and receive the award at ISMB 2022 in Madison Wisconsin in July.