Group Members

Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel

The Ben May Professorial Chair

Principal Investigator

pilpel@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6058 +972-8-934-6060

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

408

Esther Weindling

Lab Manager

esther.weindling@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6201

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

420

Dr. Orna Dahan

Associate Staff Scientist

orna.dahan@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-2462

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

428

Dr. Noa Hefetz

Research Associate

noa.hefetz@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-3630

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

419

Dr. Saurav Mallik

Research Associate

saurav.mallik@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Dr. Ehud Sass

Research Associate

ehud.sass@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6460

Arnold R. Meyer Building

Room:

122

Dr. Noam Hadar

Postdoctoral fellow

noam.hadar@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Dr. Vjaceslav Tretjacenko

Postdoctoral fellow

vjaceslav.tretjacenko@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Ruthie Golomb

PhD student

ruthie.golomb@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

419

Dr. Omer Kerner

PhD student

omer.kerner@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

419

Yotam Lifschytz

PhD student

yotam.lifschytz@weizmann.ac.il

Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences

Room:

306

Elizabeth Vaisbourd

PhD student

elizabeth.vaisbourd@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

419

Bar Cohen

Msc student

bar.cohen@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Shani Kagan

Msc student

shani.kagan@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Meir Sylman

Msc student

meir-yehiel.sylman@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

421

Matanya Wiener

Msc student

matanya.wiener@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Maayan Yoles

Msc student

maayan.yoles@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Dr. Sivan Struass

Consultant

sivan.kaminski@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

160

Dr. Shu-Ting You

Postdoctoral fellow

shu-ting.you@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Name	Degree	Thesis Title	Graduated	currently at
Lian Narunsky Haziza	PhD	Pan-cancer characterization of the tumor mycobiome and its clinical effects	2022
Jonathan Grozovski	MSc	In-silico investigation of translation errors, SARS-Cov-2 mutations; and their immunization potential	2022
Ruthie Golomb	MSc	Studying evolutionary game dynamics through public good protein production	2020
Tzahi Gabzi	MSc	Exploration of Rugged Fitness Landscapes Explains Wild Type's Sub Optimality	2019
Ernest Mordret	PhD	Translation Fidelity	2018
Alisa Greenberg	MSc	Systematic detection of cellular factors affecting translation accuracy upon physiological and genetic perturbations	2019
Avia Yehonadav	MSc	Detection and Analysis of Translation Errors in E. Coli Upon Induction of Environmental Perturbations	2018
Idan Frumkin	PhD	Evolutionary mechanisms of cellular machineries of the central dogma	2018	PI at Tel-Aviv University
Liron Zahavi	MSc	Intra-species genomic variability in the human gut microbiome and its association with host factors	2018
Omer Asraf	MSC	Starvation to amino acids modifies the cost of gene expression in E. coli.	2017
Noa Aharon- Hefetz	MSc	Regulation of mRNA decay kinetics in response to environmental stimuli	2017
Itamar Françoise	MSc	Experimental evolution of horizontal gene transfer	2016
Sivan Kaminski	MSc	Reverse Transcription as a potential molecular mechanism for Lamarckian evolution	2015
Aviv Rotman	MSc	How do Cells Minimize the Cost of Translation?	2015
Nir Fluman	Post Doc		2014	PI Weizmann Institute
Sivan Navon	PhD	Deciphering the codons’ code: Selection beyond amino acid sequence.	2014
Hila Gingold	PhD	Dynamic interplay between codon usage and the tRNA pool affects translation efficiency and may play a role in shaping the cell fate	2013	Staff Scientist Tel Aviv U
Avihu Yona	PhD	The role of genomic duplications in adaptive evolution	2013	PI Hebrew University
Zohar Bloom	PhD	Exploring the dynamics of the tRNA pool through systematic deletion of tRNA genes	2013
Shalem Ophir	PhD	Post transcriptional regulation and its interaction with transcription revealed by genome-wide and synthetic gene approaches	2012	PI U. Penn
Idan Frumkin	MSc	What are the mechanisms driving the evolution of tRNA multi-copy gene families?	2012	PI Tel-Aviv University
Yishay Shoval	Post Doc		2012
Yair Manor	MSc	Genome-wide coupling of mRNA transcription and degradation, and promoter-mediated mRNA decay in two distant yeast species	2012
Nitai Steinberg	MSc	Bet-hedging in the evolutionarily-conditioned response of Escherichia coli towards sugars	2012
Ilya Venger	PhD	Robustness of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to deletion mutations and response to environmental perturbations through the lens of large-scale metabolic	2010
Amir Mitchell	PhD	Adaptive environmental conditioning: Prediction of environmental changes by eukaryotic and prokaryotic micro-organisms	2009	PI U. Mass
Reut Shalgi	PhD	Coupling transcriptional and post-transcriptional miRNA regulation in the control of cell proliferation	2009	PI Technion
Maria Rodriguez Martinez	Post Doc		2009	PI Yale
Asaf Carmi	MSc	The evolution of coding sequences and tRNA pools, and its role in shaping translation efficiency	2008
Naomi Siew	Post Doc		2008
Orna Man	PhD	The involvement of regulation of protein expression in species divergence	2007
Yuval Dorfan	PhD		2007	PI HIT
Ophir Shalem	MSc	Regulation of mRNA decay kinetics in response to environmental stimuli	2007	PI U Penn
Tamir Tuller	postdoc	Ribosomal flow on mRNA	2010	PI Tel-Aviv U
Michal Lapidot	PhD	Sequence elements controlling gene expression: The case of transcription regulatory motifs and of antisene transcripts	2007
Ron Kafri	PhD	Mechanisms and regulation of genetic buffering and the evolution of genetic redundancy	2006	PI U. Toronto
Arren Bar-Even	PhD	Noise in protein abundance obeys a general scaling law over multiple genes and growth conditions	2005	PI Max Planck
Ilana Lavie	MSc		2005
Roni Rak	postdoc	tRNA pool regulation	2019	PI- Volkani Institute
Yael Kfir-Garten	MSc	Computational extraction and visualization of regulatory elements in the yeast transcriptional network from genome-wide data	2005
Dan Bar-Yaacov	postdoc	mRNA editing in bacteria	2017	PI- Ben Gurion U
Martin Mikl	postdoc	Regulation of translation and splicing	2018	PI Haifa U.
Ilana Lavie	MSc	Identification of protein residues and amino-acid properties that determine binding specificity of G protein-coupled receptors	2004