News

Hive2 arrives on campus

After considerable delays…. Hive2, the new computer cluster for our Faculty, finally arrived on campus today. It was assembled by Matrix at their facility, now

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PhD proposal presentations

We had two PhD proposal presentations in the departmental student forum today! Yoann presented his project titled: “Exploiting the evolution of odorant receptors in ants

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Byzantine grapes paper out!

Pnina’s paper on ancient DNA population genomic analysis of grapes from the Byzantine era is out in PNAS!https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2213563120 Ancient DNA is so cool! It allows

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Hosting ISEB 2023

The 4th meeting of the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology was hosted by the Institute of Evolution, co-organized by Eyal Privman and Eran Tauber. About

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Back from sabbatical!

Eyal is back from the one year sabbatical in London where he refined his expertise in Bayesian population genomics and the art of luggage packing.

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Deborah’s samples landed!

Felix have just received, safe and sound, the shipment of a large collection of samples from Deborah Gordon’s lab. These priceless samples were collected over

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Sabbatical in London!

Eyal started a one-year sabbatical in University College London, hosted by two hosts: Ziheng Yang and Seirian Sumner. The Yang lab develops methods in molecular

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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),

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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

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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

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נמלת גיהנום בת 100 מיליון שנה

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

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Isaeli conference season

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

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Busy times!

Eyal is busy nowadays writing the next ISF grant for continued genomic work in the Cataglyphis social polymorphism system, and the lab is very busy

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Conference season

This year, Eyal and Pnina represented the lab in SMBE and ESEB. Pnina presented a poster on her mutation rate study and Eyal gave a

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Microbiome workshop participants

Microbiome workshop

Our workshop on “Omics for environmental and host-associated microbiomes” was a smashing success (see the program). With more than 40 participants we could not find

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הרצאת מדע על ההר

איל ידבר על ״פרדוקס האבולוציה של אלטרואיזם״ במסגרת סדרת ההרצאות ״מדע על ההר״, המיועדות לקהל הרחב

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נמלים לוקחות חופשת מחלה

התפרסם מחקר מהמעבדה של לורן קלר בשוויץ שהראה שנמלים שנדבקות במחלה מרחיקות את עצמן משאר חברותיהן, ובכך מצמצמות את הסיכון להתפשטות המחלה בקן. הארץ פרסם

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ראיונות ברדיו

בעבקבות הכתבה בהארץ איל התראיין בתכניות רדיו על האבולוציה של נמלי האש ובכלל על סיפורי נמלים: ברדיו קול רגע אצל חיים הכט וברדיו כאן תרבות

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Rana and Pnina receive their M.Sc

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

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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

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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

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Igor Chebotar, Yair Bellehsen, Nimrod Lahav, Eyal Privman, Doron Chelouche, and Mickey Kosloff raising their glasses in honor of the Hive

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

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DeWayne Shoemaker and Eyal Privman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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

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מכתב למערכת “הארץ” בתגובה למאמר בריאתני

מכתב עליו חתומים חוקרים ישראלים בתחומי האבולוציה והאקולוגיה מכל האוניברסיטאות התפרסם ביום שישי (9/1/15) במוסף ספרים של “הארץ”: http://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/letters-to-editor/.premium-1.2529953   המכתב שלנו הוא תגובה למאמר

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Join our team!

Graduate student positions are available! If you are interested in computational biology research and the evolutionary genomics of social insects please to contact us. Candidates should have

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