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…

We had a super busy trip to America! Aparna and Eyal represented the lab in the Cold Spring Harbor Lab meeting on Biology and Genomics of Social Insects. It was…

We concluded our latest installment of the Haifa winter workshop in genomics and bioinformatics - the 9th actually! (see more info about the workshops under teaching) As always, the workshop…

Max has some preliminary results from training a machine learning model (deep network) to identify and track ants in videos with multiple ants. You can see that it's pretty good…

After considerable delays.... Hive2, the new computer cluster for our Faculty, finally arrived on campus today. It was assembled by Matrix at their facility, now it will be installed here,…

Now this event was truly something else! We travelled all the way down to Avdat in the Negev highlands to celebrate the planting of a new ancient vineyard. The grapes…

We had two PhD proposal presentations in the departmental student forum today! Yoann presented his project titled: "Exploiting the evolution of odorant receptors in ants to decipher the olfactory code"…

Pnina's paper on ancient DNA population genomic analysis of grapes from the Byzantine era is out in PNAS!https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213563120Ancient DNA is so cool! It allows us to see how the grapes…

The 4th meeting of the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology was hosted by the Institute of Evolution, co-organized by Eyal Privman and Eran Tauber. About 200 researchers and students from…

Our 8th Haifa Winter Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop attracted a diverse assemblage of students and researchers, and included this time a number of lecturers from abroad (especially from BioCyc)