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

Dr. Dan Bar Yaacov

Postdoctoral fellow

dan.bar-yaacov@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

421

Ran Ashkenazi

Msc student

ran.ashkenazi@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Gal Zanir

Msc student

gal.zanir@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

Diana Gataulin

Lab Technician

dianaga@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-952-9124

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

416

Noa Hallak

Lab Technician

noa.hallak@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

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. Ruth Towers

Lab Manager

ruth.towers@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6201 +972-8-934-6079

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

420

Dr. Roni Rak

Postdoctoral fellow

roni.rak@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

419

Dr. Yonat Gurvich Inbal

Postdoctoral fellow

yonat.gurvich@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

417

Dr. Shu-Ting You

Postdoctoral fellow

shu-ting.you@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Sivan Kaminski

PhD student

sivan.kaminski@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

160

Dvir Schirman

Postdoctoral fellow

dvir.schirman@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-6059

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

421

Lian Narunsky Haziza

PhD student

lian.narunsky@weizmann.ac.il

Office:

+972-8-934-3634

Ullmann Building of Life Sciences

Room:

239

Noa Hefetz

PhD student

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

Jonathan Grozovski

Msc student

jonathan.grozovski@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Room:

318

Itay Varkovitzky

Msc student

itay.varkovitzky@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Yossi Ovadia

Lab Technician

yossi.ovadia@weizmann.ac.il

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research

Name	Degree	Thesis Title	Graduated
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
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	2009
Naomi Siew	Post Doc		2008
Orna Man	PhD	The involvement of regulation of protein expression in species divergence	2007
Yuval Dorfan	PhD		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
Asaf Blumental	MSc