Yael Eshed-Eisenbach is a biologist, currently working as a staff scientist in the Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Molecular Cell Biology in Prof. Elior Peles’ laboratory. Yael received her PhD in 2009. Her thesis, “Mechanisms of Node of Ranvier Formation”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Elior Peles, and won the J.F. Kennedy […]

Noam Stern-Ginossar is an immunologist and molecular geneticist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on profiling viral infections, and she is the Principle Investigator in a lab within the Department of Molecular Genetics, which aims to elucidate the complex cellular changes that occur during encounters between viruses and human cells. Her lab […]

Ofer Shayevitz is a senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Tel Aviv University, a position he has held since 2013. His main research interests are in the areas of information theory, communication, distributed computation, as well as statistical signal processing. His specific interests include interactive communication in noisy channels, […]

Ariel Procaccia is a computer scientist and an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009, his thesis “Computational Voting Theory” was written under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey S. Rosenschein. Ariel usually works on problems at […]

Olga Khersonsky is a biological chemist primarily interested in enzymology, directed evolution, computational design and synthetic biology. She is currently a senior intern at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, working in Dr. Sarel Fleishman’s lab. Olga was awarded her PhD in 2009 by the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her thesis, "Mechanistic Enzymology – From […]

Dan Hermelin is currently a senior academic staff member at the Industrial Engineering and Management Department at Ben-Gurion University, a position he has held since October 2013. His primary research focuses on designing and analyzing combinational algorithms for computational problems that have real-world applications, as in computational biology. This includes designing fixed-parameter and approximation algorithms […]

Amir Goren is a clinical field specialist at St. Jude Medical, a global medical device manufacturer in St. Paul, Minn, dedicated to transforming the treatment of some of the world’s most expensive, epidemic diseases and a product manager at Medogar Medical Equipment, Ra'anana. Amir received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University’s Department of Human Genetics and […]

Chen Davidovich is a Chemist and Senior Research Fellow, EMBL Australia Group Leader at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University. His lab  seeks to understand, down to atomic resolution, how PcG proteins’ function is modulated by their environment and their various binding partners. Prior to this Chen was a postdoctoral […]

Avraham Ben-Aroya is a computer scientist. His general interest is in theoretical computer science and his research focuses on quantum computation quantum information and pseudorandomness. Avraham completed his PhD in Tel-Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Oded Regev and Prof. Amnon Ta-Shma. His thesis, “Quantum Computation and Quantum Information”, explored the power of computing devices […]

Reut Shema is a neurobiologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Reut has been working in the Heiman Lab since the fall of 2012. She is studying the mechanistic basis of neuronal longevity and aging, and how they interact with neurodegenerative disease mechanisms, specifically in the context of Huntington’s disease. She […]