PhD proposal presentations
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"…
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)
Yoann, Felix, Volans and Eyal attended Camp Evolution VIII in Sede Boqer. This is a unique one-week course organized by Ariel Novoplansky. Every time Ariel gets a superstar lecturer and…
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Felix have just received, safe and sound, the shipment of a large collection of samples from Deborah Gordon's lab. These priceless samples were collected over many years from their study…
Eyal started a one-year sabbatical in University College London, hosted by two hosts: Ziheng Yang and Seirian Sumner. The Yang lab develops methods in molecular evolutionary analysis, including (in the…
Our lab expanded our phylogenetic scope beyond the Cataglyphis bicolor species group and into the C. albicans sister clade. We went on a two day sampling trip all around the Negev to…
Mazal tov! We celebrated Pnina's PhD today with a concluding PhD lecture ("public defense") and the general ceremony of the University for awarding the PhD diplomas of the past year.…