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

Daria Bykova

daria.bykova@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Dr. Aldema Sas-Chen

aldema.sas@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

1408

Dr. Vjaceslav Tretjacenko

Postdoctoral fellow

vjaceslav.tretjacenko@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Valeriya Chugaeva

PhD student

valeriya.chugaeva@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Saar Shoer

PhD student

saar.shoer@weizmann.ac.il

Ullmann Building of Life Sciences

Room:

211

Ran Ashkenazi

Msc student

ran.ashkenazi@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Sana Khatib

Msc student

sana.khatib@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Tehila Leiman

Msc student

tehila.leiman@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Dr. Miriam Eisenstein

Consultant

miriam.eisenstein@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-4911

Arnold R. Meyer Building

Room:

419A

Meir Yehiel Sylman

Lab Technician

meir-yehiel.sylman@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

421

Esther Weindling

Lab Technician

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. Shu-Ting You

Postdoctoral fellow

shu-ting.you@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Dr. Sivan Struass

Postdoctoral fellow

sivan.kaminski@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

160

Noa Hefetz

Postdoctoral fellow

noa.hefetz@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-3630

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

419

Gabriela Lobinska

PhD student

gabriela.lobinska@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

Itay Varkovitzky

Msc student

itay.varkovitzky@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Name	Degree	Thesis Title	Graduated
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
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
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
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
Avihu Yona	PhD	The role of genomic duplications in adaptive evolution	2013
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
Idan Frumkin	MSc	What are the mechanisms driving the evolution of tRNA multi-copy gene families?	2012
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
Reut Shalgi	PhD	Coupling transcriptional and post-transcriptional miRNA regulation in the control of cell proliferation	2009
Maria Rodriguez Martinez	Post Doc		2009
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
Ophir Shalem	MSc	Regulation of mRNA decay kinetics in response to environmental stimuli	2007
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
Arren Bar-Even	PhD	Noise in protein abundance obeys a general scaling law over multiple genes and growth conditions	2005
Ilana Lavie	MSc		2005
Yael Kfir-Garten	MSc	Computational extraction and visualization of regulatory elements in the yeast transcriptional network from genome-wide data	2005
Ilana Lavie	MSc	Identification of protein residues and amino-acid properties that determine binding specificity of G protein-coupled receptors	2004