Lab news

Lianrong’s paper on a 3-way classifier of contigs in metagenomic assembly graph was published in Bioinformatics.

Assaf Ben Shimon is joining the group as an MSc student. Welcome Assaf!  

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.