The Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics leads, promotes, and coordinates bioinformatics research and education at Tel Aviv University (TAU).
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The annual student conference of the Edmond J. Safra Young Researchers' Forum took place last week at @TelAvivUni. The conference, "Byte-Sized Science", organized entirely by the students, featured eleven lightning talks by graduate students.
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Dr. David Amar joins @TelAvivUni as a faculty member in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science & AI and the Dept. of Human Genetics & Biochemistry (@TAUMedFaculty). He is also joining the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics. Welcome aboard!
The Annual Fellowship Ceremony of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics took place on January 15, 2025 at @TelAvivUni
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Congratulations to Hagai Levi, Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow (Computer Science & AI and Medical & Health Sciences, TAU) who was awarded the 2025 Edmond J. Safra Excellent Research Student Prize.
Congratulations to Prof. David (Dudu) Burstein, Edmond J. Safra Center member (Life Sciences, @TelAvivUni), who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
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Announcing the Awardees of @Tel_Aviv_Uni-Clalit Health Services Joint Research Grant Program.
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Fellow microbial immunity, mobile elements, and plasmid enthusiasts: the paper of our wonderful @BruriaSamuel on anti-defense genes in plasmids is now published in @Nature!!!
Check out her thread below for highlights of our new results.
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Meet The Shielded Plasmid🛡️🧬
Our new @Nature paper reveals how plasmids outsmart bacterial defenses during conjugation.
It's all about being in the right place at the right time! The positioning of anti-defense genes boosts transfer efficiency🧵(1/7) nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Congratulations to Prof. Roded Sharan, Edmond J. Safra member, who is the new head of the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at the Exact Sciences Faculty at @TelAvivUni.
Edmond J. Safra researchers at @TelAvivUni , Profs. @judithberman11, @ugophna, Carmit Levy, Saharon Rosset, Roded Sharan and Dr. Rotem Rubinstein - were all awarded research grants from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) in the 2024-2025 grants cycle. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Maya Metzger, undergraduate student in Bioinformatics at @TelAvivUni , who was awarded Excellent Student Prize by the School of Computer Science.
Congratulations to Prof. Yoav Benjamini, Edmond J. Safra member, Prof. Daniel Yekutieli & Prof. Ruth Heller (Statistics & Operations Research, @TelAvivUni) who won the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, for their pioneering work on False Discovery Rate. shorturl.at/Rdkp2
Read the article, published in Nat Commun, by Yadid Algavi, MD-PhD student and Prof. @EBorenstein_TAU (Medical & Health Sciences, @TelAvivUni) on a new metric for predicting newly colonized microbial population in the microbiome after fecal transplant. shorturl.at/f39Fz.
Congratulations to Shiri Baum, Edmond J. Safra MSc student fellow, and Ido Meshulam, 3rd year student in the bioinformatics program, who won the first place prize for their joint research project in the School of Computer Science at @TelAvivUni.
Prof. Uri Ben-David, Edmond J. Safra member (Medicine), was elected as a member of the Israel Young Academy.
Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Prof. Asaf Madi, Edmond J. Safra affiliate (Medicine), who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
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Check out Prof. Madi's lab: asafmadilab.com
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A TAU team, led by Prof. Tamir Tuller, Edmond J. Safra member (Engineering), will participate in the @iGEM 2024 competition for the sixth time.
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Prof. Ron Shamir, former head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics, was awarded "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Israeli Bioinformatics Society (IBSCB).
The prize was presented to Prof. Shamir in the Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium 2024 in Ben Gurion University.
Congratulations to Tal Bamberger, Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow (Borenstein lab, Medicine) who was awarded the third place in the best poster competition in the Israel Bioinformatics Symposium 2024 in Ben Gurion University.
Congratulations to Rami Nasser, Edmond J. Safra PhD student fellow (Sharan lab, Computer Science) who won the Deutsch Prize for PhD students in Computer Science, acknowledging excellent achievements in studies and research. 🏆