Cataglyphis albicans sampling trip
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…
Congratulations Dr. Pnina Cohen!
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.…
UC Riverside visit
Not yielding to the coronavirus! Eyal visited Jessica and Alan in Riverside, to discuss the BSF project on genome evolution (linkage mapping 10 formicine species), to meet with their lab…
New lab members
Welcome Yoann, Felix and Volans! The lab expanded significantly in the last few months, despite substantial COVID challenges. Yoann was the first to make it over from France in January.…
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…