Multi-omics and machine learning workshop
We concluded our 7th Haifa Winter Workshop in Bioinformatics, which was focused on multi-omics and machine learning applications in omics. It was especially challenging this time around because of a…
New lab records
Aparna just finished constructing RADseq libraries for her project on social polymorphism in Cataglyphis niger, and shipped them for sequencing. She broke the lab record for the largest number of…
Israeli Evolutionary and Zoological meetings concluded
Over the last days we participated in two Israeli meetings. These were online meetings, obviously, so unfortunately no photos. But it quite was an experience! The second meeting of the…
אובדן הכנפיים של הנמלים וכתבות על נמלי אש
איל התראיין בתכנית שלושה שיודעים ברדיו כאן תרבות לגבי מחקר חדש שמתאר איך השרירים של הנמלים התאימו את עצמם באבולוציה לסחיבת משאות כבדים אחרי אובדן הכנפיים https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mm9zW4VVpLR1qjniLmNsgx8V3VZrZD9P וכן, התפרסמו בזמן…
Israeli Evolutionary and Zoological meetings announced
Two upcoming Israeli meetings are now open for registration and abstract submission: Israeli Society for Evolutionary Biology Israel Zoological Society (Eyal is involved in the organization of both)
Undergrad project presentations on social polymorphism
Doaa Tehawey and Yara Ghnamah concluded their third-year projects and presented them today as posters! They both managed to finish and wrap up their analyses very nicely, in spite of…
נמלת גיהנום בת 100 מיליון שנה
איל התראיין אצל דודו ארז בתכנית שלושה שיודעים (רדיו כאן תרבות) בנושא נמלת גיהנום שנמצאה כלואה בענבר בן 100 מיליון שנה כשבפיה לכוד טרף (תיקן קדום). הנה ההקלטה: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xnmode85pGCD6DviBn0fWd5aDRVG529w והנה…
Another NSF-BSF grant! – PhD/postdoc positions available!
Our lab received another NSF-BSF grant(!!!) in collaboration with the labs of Mickey Kosloff (at Haifa) and Juergen Liebig (at ASU). We are recruiting Ph.D. student and postdoc: NSF-BSF funded…
Sampling under the coronavirus!
Today we (Eyal and Aparna) went out sampling Cataglyphis for the first time of this reproductive season, looking for drones (for their haploid genomes). We had to get special permits…
Shani & Pnina’s paper on colony-level pool-seq GWAS published!
Shani and Pnina's paper was published in PLoS Computational Biology! https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007653 This methodological study was actually a pilot for our GWAS of cuticular hydrocarbons. We wanted to optimize our genomic…