Lab News

10/2024         Mike won the 'Dean's Fellowship'. Great Job, Mike

9/2024           Tamir completed his MSc degree. Congratulations!  

5/2024           Noga Carmon completed her MSc degree. Mazal Tov Noga!  

5/2024           Yumi was selected for the FGS Dean Award of Excellence in Physics/Chemistry/Math & CS-oriented research for Outstanding International Doctoral Students

5/2024          Iri won the Environmental Sustainability (IES) Doctoral Fellowship  

4/2024          Our first 'Next Generation Baby' was born. Welcome Re'em. Mazal Tov Tamir and Aluma

4/2024          Yumi had three collaborative projects that won the 8th Systems Biology innovative award

3/2024          Yumi won National Forum for BioInnovator-Teva PhD Fellowship

3/2024          Noga Levy completed her MSc degree. Mazal Tov Noga! 

1/2024           Yumi, our talented PhD student won the 'Pearlman Student Fellowship. congratulations Yumi!

8/2023          Our work with Dr. Muhammad Jbara from Tel-Aviv University was published.  

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202310913

6/2023          Our DNA printer arrives to Israel. Can't wait to print our first chip.

5/2023          Our first Postdoc joins the lab. Goodluck Mike!

4/2023          Our UV paper is highlighted on PNAS COMMENTARY by Richard O. Adeyemi:  https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2303201120

4/2023          Finally!!! We are moving to our new lab.

3/2023          Our UV paper is published on PNAS. UV irradiation remodels the specificity landscape of transcription factors https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217422120

2/2023          Ariel is an invited speaker at the 10th ILANIT conference in Eilat, Israel. 

2/2023          Ariel speaks at the 7th Nucleic Acids Conference, Cancun, Mexico.

2/2023          Ariel is an invited speaker at the MRC Human Genetics Unit Seminar, Edinburgh, Scotland.

12/22             Ariel's Nature paper (Afek, A. et al. Nature 587, 291–296 (2020)) was described as a "Fundamental Discovery" in https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04172-8?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=c2faae4cd1-briefing-dy-20221201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-c2faae4cd1-45334230

11/2022         Ariel speaks at ‘Specificity Determinants of Biomolecular Interactions’, Weizmann Institute, Israel

11/2022         Ariel wins Alon Fellowship for outstanding young faculty.

11/2022         Chen is joining the lab.

10/2022        Ariel organizes and speaks at ‘Protein-DNA Interactions: from Biophysics to Cell Biology’, Weizmann Institute, Israel

9/2022          The renovation of the permanent lab starts!

9/2022          Our first Ph.D. students join the lab. Welcome Iry and Yumi.

8/2022          Ariel is invited to speak at the Gordon Research Conference, USA. ‘DNA Topoisomerases in Biology and Medicine’

8/2022         Artemy is joining the lab.

7/2022          Our research grant proposal on ‘High-throughput investigation of the protein-DNA recognition code using mismatched, bulged and nicked DNA  was founded by the ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant.

7/2022          Our first MSc students join the lab. Welcome Noga L., Noga C., and Tamir.

4/2022         Our collaboration with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates was funded.

4/2022          Naama is joining the lab.

3/2022          Frist successful "on-chip" protein-DNA binding experiment in the lab. Many more will come.

12/2021         Vered is joining the lab.

9/2021          Ariel arrives as a new faculty member (Assistant Professor) to the Department of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Weizmann Institute of Science.