Minerva School on Sociogenomics
We organized a German-Israeli Minerva School on "New Frontiers in Sociobiology and Sociogenomics" together with Guy Bloch from the Hebrew University, Juergen Gadau from the University of Muenster, and Judith…
כתבה בהארץ על האבולוציה של נמלי האש
התפרסמה בהארץ כתבה על מחקר שלנו: נמלי האש משגשגות בזכות כישורים חברתיים
Rana’s odorant receptor paper published
Rana's evolutionary study of the gene family of the odorant receptors (ORs) in ants was published in Genome Biology and Evolution! We found evidence for widespread positive selection following the…
Our new robot is at work on its first genomic libraries!
Our new Tecan liquid handling robot is here! It started to learn the TruSeq protocol for constructing genomic libraries. Shani will use it to construct 300 libraries for genomic sequencing…
BSF grant to study genome evolution
We won a BSF grant together with Jessica Purcell and Alan Brelsford from UC Riverside, and also in collaboration with the GAGA consortium. In this four-year project we will construct…
נמלים פרמדיקיות – ראיון בלונדון את קירשנבאום
איל התרייאן בלונדון את קירשנבאום על מחקר שהראה שנמלים אפריקאיות שמתמחות בצייד טרמיטים מפנות את הפצועות משדה הקרב ומעניקות להן טיפול מציל חיים https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFHX0AYeBns
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!
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…