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…
Transcriptomics workshop / Feb 2016
Together with Daniel Sher and additional invited speakers. February 21-25, 2016, 8:30-16:30. More details in this Advertisment Booked out
Tandem runs
First footage of beautiful tandem runs of Camponotus sericeus ants in our lab. These ants were collected south of the Dead Sea to participate in Daphna's behavioral-genomics experiments. In a…
New lab celebrations – Swiss style!
We celebrated moving into our new lab (the construction was actually completed in September). We had a great crowd of friends and colleagues gathering together for a Swiss-style apéro: Swiss…
Hive inauguration
We celebrated the signing of the ATP (for those unfamiliar with hi-tech jargon: Acceptance Test Procedure) of our Faculty's new computer cluster: The Hive. We also received news that we…
Israel Science Foundation grant to fund a new research program on desert ants!
Our lab received generous funding from the ISF that will allow a new research program into the evolution and genomic basis of social recognition in Israeli desert ants (Cataglyphis), in…
BSF Bergmann Award
In addition to the BSF funding of our collaboration with DeWayne Shoemaker's lab at the USDA, we now received the Bergmann Award: http://www.bsf.org.il/bsfpublic/DefaultPage1.aspx?PageId=697&innerTextID=697
Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium 2015
Our lab starred in IBS 2015! Rana presented the first poster from our group on the evolution of odorant receptors in seven ant species and Eyal gave a talk on…
Cataglyphis digging season begins!
We began our Cataglyphis digging season in Bezet beach (close to Rosh Hanikra). It was lots of fun and hard work! We came back with 4 nests. Many more ahead!…