Roni joined our team as part of the MD-PhD program. Before her medical studies, she earned a B.Sc. with honors in mathematics and had served in the IAF and 8200 unit. In her service and later work in the tech industry, Roni gained an extensive experience as a software angineer. In her studies, Roni is using novel quantitative data-driven methods in clinical research. Roni is an Edmond J. Safra center for Bioinformatics fellow and a recipient of the 2022 Tel Aviv University Innovation Lab Fellowship for interdisciplinary studies.
Michael Lavi
Michael received his B.Sc. in Plant Biology and Biotechnology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Agriculture in 2019 . During his studies, he worked in the NSG lab in the department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institution, studying the HCMV virus. In 2020, he joined the Shomron lab for his Masters and is studying the interaction and effects of miRNA on the Splicing Mechanism.
Nir Pillar
Nir completed his MD studies at Ben Gurion University with distinction. He then worked for 18 months as a resident in the Oncology Institute at Sheba Medical Center prior to commencing his PhD studies at our laboratory. Nir has extensive clinical background, knowledge on theraputic protocols, and comes with novel ideas on how to advance cancer diagnostics and prognostics using small RNAs. During his PhD Nir will tackle these questions and lead to new perspectives in cancer treatment. Nir received the prestigous Colton Fellowship Award in June 2015, the same month as his first daughter, Noga, was born. Nir won The Djerassi Cancer Technology Innovation Award in January 2017. Nir received the Faculty of Medicine distinction for his Ph.D. work.
Henni Zomer
Henni studied Microbiology and Dance at the University of California in Santa Barbara from where she graduated with highest honors. After working in the Pharma-Biotech industry for a number of years she returned to Israel and to academia in pursuit of her PhD at TAU. In the process she has completed her MSc in Virology, and is currently investigating the genetic variation and within-host evolution of HIV-1 as a method to infer incidence, and improve treatment, vaccine development and prevention. She has received scholarships throughout her studies based on personal achievements and excellence.
Malak Darawshe
Malak has received her Bachelor degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018. During her degree she participated in a study in Prof. Joel Yisraeli's lab from the department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research. She also worked in the R&D team at Medinol, a cardiovascular intervention company. Currently, Malak is a Masters student in our lab.
Almog Boaron
Almog started his B.Sc at Tel Aviv University, After starting a Biomedical engineering degree and finishing one year as an honorary student, Almog changed his studies and transferred to bioinformation at Edmond J. Safra Bioinformatics Program because of his love for analytical problem solving, and computing. Almog joined our lab in hope to learn and make an impact. Almog was assigned his own project, as a researcher and as a software developer
Ravit Peretz
Ravit is a medical student performing project support in our lab. Ravit earned a B.Sc. in computer science and has extensive experience as a software engineer, assisting in bioinformatical projects.
Britannia Fleming
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Hadas Shaham
Hadas is a Bioinformatics Bsc student performing project support in our lab. Hadas is proficient in programming languages such as Python and C. Hadas brings her experience as a low level developer in the IDF.
Chen Raff
Chen is an programmer that will begin studying in Sagol School of Neuroscience who joined our team to assist in several lab projects which include machine learning algorithms. Chen's computational knowledge is based on her extensive experience in the IDF.
Maya Cahana
Maya is a computer science student performing project support in our lab. Maya is proficient in programming languages such as Python, JAVA, SQL, C# and AngularJS. Maya brings years of experience as a web developer in the IDF.
Eden Avnat
Eden is an MD/MPH student in his clinical years in Tel-Aviv University. Eden has a computational background including Bioinformatics studies for one year at Tel-Aviv University, working in the tech industry, and research experience at Yuval Tach's lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Tal Barkai
Tal is a Medical student running projects in our lab associated to microRNAs and splicing. He brings his expertise in combining deep biological knowledge, clinical perspective and bioinformatics capabilities. Tal adds novel perspectives to any of our projects.
Aviv Leemann
Aviv Leemann graduated his BSc in Biology from Tel-Aviv University
Adi Romano
Adi is a Medical student running small projects in our lab and assisting programming tasks. Adi also studied Physics and Philosophy during her Bachelors degree.
Malak Saada
Malak completed her Bachelor degree at the Sagol school of Neuroscience in Tel Aviv University. During her studies, she took part in a research project on the neurobiological basis of addiction with Prof. Segev Barak; was a research assistant at Prof. Uri Gophna's lab; and conducted a research project on mutation cloning in autism under the supervision of Prof. Illana Gozes. Malak joined our lab as a Masters student in 2017; her thesis focuses on Genomics of Mental Illness.
Linor Solomon
Linor is currently an MD student at our faculty after she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Open University reaching a Deans' Distinguished award. Prior to this Linor graduated with distinction an IDF software course where she then spent 5 years at. In the past two years Linor head a programming team at the Israeli National Center for Cyber Security.
Avital Polsky
Avital completed her BSc in Biology with a Minor in Philosophy from New Mexico State University where she spent the final year of her degree working in the lab of Dr. James Kroger. She then worked several years at the University of Colorado Denver in Dr. Yosef Refaeli's lab. In order to pursue a MSc degree, Avital moved to Israel where she studied at the Technion under the supervision of Dr. Itai Yanai. After completing her MSc, Avitalworked at the Technion Genome Center where she gained extensive knowledge of and experience with Illumina-based Next Generation Sequencing techniques.
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Or Kamara
Or is a Masters student in our lab focusing on novel computational methods to understand the organization of the human genome. Or brings know-how and years of experience in computational methods and techniques.
Yazeed Zoabi
Yazeed is an MD student currently pursuing his PhD in computational biology. Yazeed comes with a strong computational background and previous research experience, having worked in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT and as a computational biology research assistant at the Yeger-Lotem lab at Ben-Gurion University. Yazeed is an Edmond J. Safra center for Bioinformatics fellow. In 2021, Yazeed recieved the Data Science PhD Fellowship from the The Council for Higher Education (CHE), The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC). recipients of: The Faculty best paper award for 2022
Mariam Iskilova
Mariam is a joint Masters student with Professor Hannah Kanety from Sheba Medical Center. Mariam has many years of experience in the endocrinology lab at Tel Hashomer and works on regulation of microRNAs in endocrinology associated pathways.
Danielle Haguel
Danielle graduated her BSc in Biology from Tel-Aviv University on 2016. During her degree, she participated in a study at Prof. Amir Ayali’s neuroscience lab at TAU and was a research assistant at Weizmann institute at Prof. Ilan Lampl’s lab.
Ori Mayer
Ori is an MD student at our faculty who joined our team to pursue his PhD. Ori comes with expertise in structural biology and will implement his knowledge to existing and new projects in our lab. Ori had served in the IDF as a paramedic and later worked in Angola as a medical specialist in a large scale project. For the last five years he is working in MDA (Israeli Ambulance Services).
Ifat Israel-Elgali
Ifat graduated her B.Sc with honors in Biology and Psychology from Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel-Aviv University in 2016. During her degree, she was a research assistant at Dr. David Gurwitz's lab in TAU's faculty of medicine. Ifat started her M.Sc at our lab and following the first year, transferred to the Direct PhD program at Sagol School of Neuroscience. Currently Ifat Studies microRNA regulation in Major Depression Disorder.
Tom Rabinowitz
Tom achieved his PhD in genomics at our lab as part of the MD-PhD program, and now he continues his research while finishing his MD studies. During his PhD, Tom has won the best poster awards at the 2017 and 2019 Annual Conferences of Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics , the 2019 David and Paulina Trotsky Foundation Award for Excellence, the 2019 Sackler Publication Distinction Award.
Liron Yoffe
Liron completed her Bachelors degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Computer Science – Computational Biology, and her Masters degree at Tel Aviv University in Computer Science under the Bioinformatics track. She worked in 'Google' and 'Microsoft' before joining our laboratory to pursue her PhD. Liron gave birth to her first daughter Omer on December 2011, and her first son on Itamar on Januray 2014. Liron is an Edmond J. Safra center for Bioinformatics fellow (2012) and an Eshkol fellow (2014) from the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space also Liron is the recipient of the 2017 Na'amat Biomedical Award (2017).
Luba Farberov
Luba completed her B.Sc at Ben Gurion University with distinction and then joined the Medical faculty program at Tel Aviv University for her Masters degree. After one year she transferred to the direct PhD program based on her high merits. Luba studies the effect of small RNA on viral replication in the context of host-pathogen interaction. Luba receives a distinction fellowship from the Medical Faculty based on her achievements to date. Luba received the distinction in tutoring Histology award for 2017 year.
Avital Gilam
Avital completed her Bachelors and Masters degree at the Hebrew University both with distinction. She worked three years at Rosetta Genomics prior to commencing her PhD studies at our laboratory. During her PhD Avital searches for mechanisms of miRNA regulation overlapping with caner pathways. Avital is an I-Core Center of Excellence fellow (2012 and 2013) and was awarded the Yehudit Segal prize for cancer research (2011) and the Kalina prize for excellence (2014). Avital gave birth to her first son Nadav in November 2011 and had her second son, Amir in January 2015. Avital has won the Marian Gertner Institute for Medical Nanosystems – Excellence Award (2017). Avital has received the 'Distinguished Student Paper Award of the Faculty of Medicine'(2017). Avital completed her degree in October 2017.
Keren Kipnis-Oved
Keren is a Postdoc student under co-supervision of Dr. David Gurwitz. Keren completed her B.Sc is the joint Life Science and Medical faculty program at Tel Aviv University and continued to a Masters degree at the Medical Faculty. After one year in her Masters degree Keren was admitted to the direct PhD program. Keren focuses on the effect of miRNAs on pharmacogenomics, specifically on their control of mood disorder drugs. Keren is an I-Core Center of Excellence fellow (2012) and received the Yosef Sagol Neuroscience Fellowship (2013), the Adams Super Center for Brain Studies Sieratzki Prize for Students in Neuroscience (2014) and the Buchmann Fellowship Prize 2014. Keren completed her degree in October 2017.
Daphna Weissglas
Daphna graduated from the Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where she subsequently did her first post-doc and served as a teaching assistance, partially supported by the NHGRI. Prior to this, in Israel, she completed courses at the Open University in Bioinformatics, Genetics and Genome Analysis and a Bachelors in Science degree, Magna Cum Laude, at the Life Science and Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Daphna published 20 papers, some in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature. Daphna recevieved the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and fellowship and the Safra center for Bioinformatics fellowship. Daphna completed her degree in October 2017.
Shira Modai
Shira graduated from the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology with a B.Sc. then moved onto Tel Aviv University to complete her M.Sc mastering in virology. She works on miRNAs expressed from viral genomes and the interplay with host miRNAs and genes. Shira was awarded the Kalina research prize (2010). Shira gave birth to Alon, brother to Romi, on September 2012.
Eyal Mor
Eyal carried out his B.Sc. in Ben-Gurion University and his M.Sc. at Tel-Aviv University. Eyal started working on miRNAs during his M.Sc. research and continues to do so, currently, in his Ph.D. work. Eyal focuses on the role of miRNAs during cellular stress response following LPS activation and teratogen exposure. Eyal was awarded the Buchman Fellowship (2011-2012), the Adams Super Center for Brain Studies paper of the year prize (2012), the Presidential fellowship of the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Program for brain research (2012), the Tel Aviv University Life Science faculty travel scholarship (2010), the Switzerland Institute for Developmental Biology travel award (2012), the Constaintiner Travel award (2012) and the Adams Super Center for Brain Studies Travel award (2010, 2012).
Ofer Isakov
Ofer is an MD student currently pursuing his PhD in computational biology. Ofer works on using Deep Sequencing data to decipher genetic diseases. In this capacity he uses available software in addition to developing his own methods for data acquisition, integration and interpretation. Ofer is an Edmond J. Safra center for Bioinformatics fellow (2010-2012), a Foulkes fellow, England (2012) and a Colton fellow (2012). Ofer has also received the Kalina research prize (2012).
Yaron Einhorn
Yaron completed his Bachelors degree in electrical engineering at the Technion in Haifa where he was listed in the distinguished Dean's list three consecutive years. During his studies he specialized in digital and signal processing, computers and communication. He spent a summer semester in Babson College in Boston where he combined academic and hands-on entrepreneurship experience. Prior to joining the lab for a Masters degree Yaron worked for almost two years in Qualcomm as a verification engineer. Yaron's thesis focuses on developing computational methods to analyze and parse human genome sequences. Yaron was a final runner up of the Ramon-Sungularity University innovation competition, he received the Deans' Distinction award, and a fellowship to pursue Bioinformatics for 3 months at Maryland University.
Amir Hamenahem
Amir completed with distinction his Bachelors degree at Tel Aviv University studying both Physics and Computer science. He then joined the Medical faculty Masters program here at Tel Aviv University and completed his courses with top grades. Amir works on deciphering viral genomic polymorphism in a given population based on myriad amounts of deep sequencing derived data.
Gershon Celniker
Gershon completed his undergraduate studies in Molecular Biotechnology at the Technion and then a Masters degree in Bioinformatics and Genomics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Masters thesis focused on the study of flexible protein-DNA interactions using computational methods to investigate DNA recognition processes, docking, and protein flexibility during its encounter with DNA. Gershon participated in the Oscar Getz research program at the Weizmann institute under the supervision of Prof. Doron Lancet and was part of the GeneCards project (an integrated database of human genes). Subsequently, Gershon was employed as a Bioinformatics developer at the Life Science Faculty at Tel Aviv University where he devloped tools for molecular evolution and structural biology.
Elena Milanesi
Elena is a Postdoc student under co-supervision of Dr. David Gurwitz. has completed her Bachelors and Master degree in Medical Biotechnology at the Faculty of Medicine of Brescia, Italy. During her PhD at Brescia Molecular and Translational Medicine Department and at the Clinical Research Center S. Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli Elena’s research focuses on peripheral biomarkers associated with mood disorders and drug response and the identification of new genetic pathways linked to Fronto Temporal Lobar Degeneration. Elena is a Shabbetai Donnolo I-Core Center of Excellence fellow (2013-2014) Elena gave birth to her first daughter Marta on May, 2010.
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Dubi Eldor (Msc) Marie Perrone (Project; an MIT Bachelor graduate) Dr Liat Edry (Post-doc) Naama Volk (MSc) Adam Weinstock (Project) David Golan (Project) Judit Kovarsky (Programmer) Adi Givati (Project; Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering student) Sharon Ben-Zvi (Project; Bachelor in Biomedical Engineering student) Jakob Rukov (visiting PhD student from Denmark) Dr Raquel Catarino (MD/PhD; visiting summer researcher) Dana Braff (Project; an MIT Bachelors degree summer student) Harel Zalts (MSc) Zlata Lerner (Project; 3nd year Medical student) Roni Wilentzik (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student) Omer Ramote (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student) Didi Amar (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student) Shahar Kidron (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student) David Zeevi (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student) Maya Genel (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student) Ori Arditi (Project; Bachelor in Bioinformatics student)