Current Students & Staff in the Computational Immunology Lab - and their Projects
Dr. Hilla Tabibian-Keissar - Staff Scientist Analysis of immunoglobulin gene diversification (Project supervised in collaboration w/Dr Iris Barshack, Department of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer)
Dr. Gitit Shahaf - Ph.D., Comp. Bio.+ Statistics 2007, Staff scientist, FLARE-2 Fellow B Lymphocyte Development and Modeling the Humoral Immune Response
Yishai Pickman - M.Sc. & PhD., Comp. Bio. Analyzing Lymphocyte Repertoires using Machine Learning
Lena Hazanov - M.Sc. & PhD., Comp. Bio. Mutational analyses of Immunoglobulin gene diversification
Michal Sternberg-Simon - M.Sc. & PhD., Comp. Bio. Models for NK Cell education
Miri Michaeli - M.Sc. & PhD., Comp. Bio., Combined Technologies Scholarship. Clonal evolution of B cells revealed by Ig gene
lineage tree analysis (Supervised in collaboration w/Dr Iris Barshack, Sheba Medical Center)
Dana Averbuch - M.Sc., Comp. Bio. Mathematical modelling of the effects of aging on B cell development, maturation and homeostasis
Noemie Rosenthal - M.Sc., Biotechnology The effects of aging on the B cell antigen receptor repertoire during B cell development in the bone marrow (Supervised in collaboration w/Dr Iris Barshack, Sheba Medical Center)
Aviya Shapira-Rakovsky - M.Sc., Biotechnology The effects of aging on the B cell antigen receptor repertoire in secondary lymphoid tissues (Supervised in collaboration w/Dr Iris Barshack, Sheba Medical Center)
Maya Shmailov - M.Sc. & PhD., Science History The history of Mathematical Biology.
Alumni
- Dr. Michal Barak - PhD 2008, Post-doctoral trainee 2008-2010 B lymphocyte Phylogenies
- Dr. Dvorah Kaplan - Post-doctoral trainee. 2007-2010 Mathematical models of cell population dynamics
- Dr. Neta Zuckerman - M.Sc. & Ph.D. Comp. Bio. 2003-2009 Analysis of Lineage Trees from B cell Malignancies and Simulations of The Humoral Immune Response
- Aviad Ohayon - M.Sc., Comp. Bio. 2006-2009 Mathematical Models for Lymphocyte Maturation
- Hanna Edelman, Research Assistant and Lab Manager, 2001-2009.
- Dr. Marjet Elemans - Post-doctoral trainee 2005-2008 Mathematical models of lymphocyte populations (supervised in collaboration w/Prof Klas Kהrre, IRIS center, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center , Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Dr. Shuly Kotzer - Ph.D. Comp. Bio. 2002-2008 Immunological Synapses
- Asya Kaplan - M.Sc., Comp. Bio. 2003-2006 NK cell synapses
- Amit Ashkenazi - M.Sc., Comp. Bio. 2005-2007 NK cell activation
- Avital Steiman-Shimony - M.Sc., Comp. Bio. 2005 B Lymphocyte Lineage Trees in Autoimmune Diseases and Database Construction
- Dr. Cheng Shuhan - Post-Doctoral trainee 2002-2003 Statistical Analysis of lineage tree properties
- Dr. Hiba Ben-Asher - M.Sc. & PhD, Comp. Bio. Joint w/Dr. Rami Don 2000-2008 Spermatogenesis
- Dr. Mali Salmon-Divon - Ph.D. Comp. Bio. 2000-2005 NK cell repertoire formation
- Barak Yaish - M.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2000-2003 Immunoglobulin Class Switch (best poster prize in the ISTMB meeting, 2002)
- Gil Kalmanovich - M.Sc., LS 2001 Rearrangement of Immunoglobulin Genes
- Alex Belelovsky - M.Sc., CS 2001 Graph-Theoretical Analysis of B lymphocyte Lineage Trees
- Amikam Benouaich - M.Sc., CS 2001 Selection of T lymphocytes
Undergraduate projects
- Revital Hershkovich and Mali Zaituni - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2011 Understanding B cell development changes in aging using mathematical modeling
- Avigail Nissim - B.Sc Comp. Bio. 2011 Simulation of immunoglobulin gene rearrangement
- Avia Ratzon - M.Sc Computer Science 2010 Automation of Lineage Tree Analysis programs
- Hila Barak and Avia Shapira-Rakovsky - B.Sc Biotechnology 2009 Analysis of immunoglobulin genes in lymph nodes
- Nir Zioni - B.Sc. Biotechnology 2009 Analysis of immunoglobulin genes in lymph nodes
- Refael Cohen - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2009 NK cell synapse simulations with cis interaction
- Gilad Halpert - B.Sc. Biotechnology 2009 NK cell synapse simulations
- Yitzhak Cohen - B.Sc. Biology 2006 Analysis of Ig gene mutation motifs
- Roi Buchnik - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2006 B Cell Homeostasis: Dependence upon BLyS (B Lymphocyte Stimulator) Availability
- Guy Eilat - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2006 Macro Evolution of Immunoglobulins
- Meital Davidson - B.Sc. Biology 2006 Simulations of The Humoral Immune Response and Lineage Tree Data Analysis
- Ilan Shiber - B.Sc. Biology 2006 Immunological Synapse Termination
- Leah Kantan - B.Sc. Biology 2006 Translating Molecular Dynamical Parameters from 3D to 2D
- Anat Hutzler - B.Sc. Biology 2005 B Lymphocyte Lineage Tree Database Update and simulation data analysis
- Ravit Saada and Moran Weinberger - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2004 B Cell Receptor gene Rearrangement
- Oren Mizrachi and Yahav Dikshtein - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2004 Stem Cell - Stroma Interactions
- Neta Zuckerman and Naamah Swerdlin - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2003 Simulations of The Humoral Immune Response
- Yoav Getter - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2003 B Lymphocyte Lineage Tree Generation
- Avital Steiman (Comp. Bio.) and Ainat Heller (CS) - B.Sc. 2003 B Lymphocyte Lineage Tree Database Construction
- Daniel Dotan and Pini Akiva - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2001 The humoral immune response
- Yehuda Maler and Barak Yaish - B.Sc. Comp. Bio. 2001 Immunoglobulin Class Switch
- Dan Sztybel - B.Sc., Biology 2000 Generating B lymphocyte Lineage Trees
- Lital Gerassi and Eyal Akiva - B.Sc., Biology /Computer Science 2000 Evolution of Immunoglobulin Genes
