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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
במסגרת סדרת ההרצאות לקהל הרחב ״מדע מההר״ המיוחדת לתקופת הקורונה, איל נתן את ההרצאה הראשונה (ולכן סלחו בבקשה על הבעיות הטכניות הקלות) בנושא ״פרדוקס האבולוציה של אלטרואיזם״. הנה ההקלטה https://youtu.be/yUH0e6yy7Ig?t=52…
Our lab received an NSF-BSF grant in collaboration with the lab of Deborah Gordon at Stanford! We have advertised Ph.D. student and postdoc positions: NSF-BSF funded positions for a Ph.D.…
״עושים היסטוריה עם רן לוי״ עשו פודקאסט נהדר על ״מה אפשר ללמוד מנמלים״ שבו גם התארח איל https://www.ranlevi.com/2020/01/20/ep299-ants/
Aparna and Doaa are conducing 1000 aggression assays to determine which of the 30 nests we sampled are separate monogyne colonies (so they aggress ants from other nests) and which…
Our lab participated in the meeting of the Israel Zoological Society (in Jerusalem) and the first ever meeting of the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology (ISEB 2019, in Tel Aviv).…