Alex submitted her M.Sc. thesis and presented her study to the department today in her public defence. This is the end of a very large and ambitious project that Alex…

Eyal visited John Wang in Taiwan (en route to a confernce in Okinawa...) for the first time after 15 years of good but remote contact (and a joint paper). The…

We concluded the Transcriptomics! workshop, which was awesome as always. The workshop was attended by 60 participants from all Israeli universities, including mainly Ph.D. students, and also some M.Sc. students,…

Eyal made a grand tour of the UK, including participating in the PopGroup meeting in Sheffield and visiting Adria LeBoeuf in Cambridge, presenting our recent findings of the social chromosome…

Ready for the next level in computation? Hive2 is finally here! It was a long and difficult process with many obstacles and delays, in which Eyal was involved as the…

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…