Graduated!
Rana and Pnina received their M.Sc. diplomas! Pnina is already on track for her direct Ph.D. and Rana will hopefully also come back soon to continue her studies
First made-in-Israel RADseq library
A big day for the lab! We got the sequencing results for the first RADseq (Restriction-site Associated DNA sequencing) library, and they look great! Shani built this library from 117…
Poster prize to Tal!
Gratulations Tal on the best poster prize in the meeting of the Zoological Society of Israel!
Hive cluster
Hive computer clsuter Our group runs intensive computational analyses on Hive - the computer cluster of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. See some of our high-throughput computational analyses featured on…
Conference season
We attended two insect/social-insect conferences this summer: the meeting of the European Sections of the IUSSI in Helsinki and the American IUSSI satellite meeting of the huge ICE 2016 in…
Pop science in Nola Socks
Eyal gave a talk in the Nola Socks pub on "The paradox of the evolution of altruism", from Darwin's ants to our genomic age research of the molecular basis of…
הרצאה לקהל הרחב בנולה סוקס
איל יתן מחר הרצאת מדע-על-הבר בנושא ״פרדוקס האבולוציה של אלטרואיזם״ בפאב נולה סוקס
The BIG Camponotus dig
This was it! after several failed attempts we came back to the Dead Sea with full intent not to let those difficult Camponotus cericeus ants delay the progress of science…
Hosting the Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium 2016
IBS 2016 (http://ibs2016.haifa.ac.il/) For the first time in IBS history we hosted the symposium at the University of Haifa, and it was a huge success! Close to 400 participants attended…
Transcriptomics! workshop concluded successfully
We (Daniel Sher and Eyal Privman) held a whole week workshop on transcriptomics at the University of Haifa. Five full days packed with lectures and hands-on tutorials, including invited lectures…