Once every 4 years we meet with the global social insect research community and it's always the most worthwhile conference imaginable. This time we met in Freiburg, Germany. It was…

Yoann's super-analysis of the mega-dataset of odorant receptors (ORs) based on the huge collection of 163 ant genomes from the Global Ant Genomics Aliance (GAGA) was just publised in Molecular…

The meeting of the Israeli Society for Evolutionary Biology (ISEB) was held two weeks ago in Ben Gurion Univeristy and was a great success. Eyal stepped into office as the…

Alex submitted her M.Sc. thesis and presented her study to the department today in her public defence. This is the end of a very large and ambitious project that Alex…

Eyal visited John Wang in Taiwan (en route to a confernce in Okinawa...) for the first time after 15 years of good but remote contact (and a joint paper). The…

We concluded the Transcriptomics! workshop, which was awesome as always. The workshop was attended by 60 participants from all Israeli universities, including mainly Ph.D. students, and also some M.Sc. students,…

Eyal made a grand tour of the UK, including participating in the PopGroup meeting in Sheffield and visiting Adria LeBoeuf in Cambridge, presenting our recent findings of the social chromosome…

Ready for the next level in computation? Hive2 is finally here! It was a long and difficult process with many obstacles and delays, in which Eyal was involved as the…

We got some amazing denovo genome assemblies of Pogonomyrmex barbatus! They were done as part of our collaboration with Deborah Gordon's lab. These super-high-quality, near-chromosome-level assemblies will hopefully improve the performance…