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Congratulations to Idan Frumkin for starting his new lab at Tel Aviv University. It will be a great place to study evolution of new genes. Highly recommended! Good luck frumkinlab.com/people

📢 New preprint! our latest research on how microbial culture complexity affects physiology! We explored the influence of TDA antibiotic production across diverse species combinations, revealing intriguing insights into microbial interactions. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

What's the evidence for Evolution? If you want to give Creationists something to think about, here's my top 10 list of classic discoveries from genomics, biogeography, the fossil record, microbiology, developmental biology, origin of life work and population genetics. 🧵🔽 (1/11)

Very honored to receive this recognition from @ScienceMagazine & the BioInnovation Institute @BioCPH for our bacterial vaccine research. Would not be possible without entrepreneurial students like @Neil_D_Butler & fantastic collaborators like @cfromen !

Our latest publication lead by @RBLVAL is out 🎉 revealing a fascinating collaboration between bacteria and algae! 🌊🧫 We've uncovered how bacteria contribute a polysaccharide to an algal-bacterial shared matrix, promoting aggregation! 🧶🔬 nature.com/articles/s41522-0…

נהנתי להתראיין - המעבדה - פודקאסט בהגשת רונה גרשון תלמי kan.org.il/content/kan/podca…

Some drugs increase the #mutation rate of their target #pathogen, raising the concerns they might increase the pathogen’s rate of adaptation. This #PLOSBiology Perspective proposes a four-step process to evaluate the evolutionary safety of new treatments. plos.io/491R2sq

Fungus vs. Fungus: Newly Identified Yeast Might Prevent Life-Threatening Fungal Infections - Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander - News, Features and Discoveries wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/li…

Our new paper in @MolBioEvol suggests that #aneuploidy can be an *evolutionary diversion* on the path to adaptation rather than a stepping stone. doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae0… By Ilia Kohanovski & Martin Pontz, help from @AnnaSelmecki, Petra Vande Zande @TPilpel, Orna Dahan, Avihu Yona

I heard from my father-in-law Avner Shitreet zl يا شاب بين الشباب، اللي عمرك وزمانك ما استشببت، كل الشباب استشببوا وأنت بعضك ما استشببت O young man among the youth, the one who never aged with you and your time, all the young people aged while you remained unchanged

A very exciting study and findings

Nature research paper: Transcription–replication interactions reveal bacterial genome regulation go.nature.com/48Ldxmk

היום התראיינתי לתוכנית המשובחת ״שלושה שיודעים״ בהנחיית שרון קנטור שראיינה אותי על עבודתנו בנושא בטיחות אבולוציונית של תרופות, למשל כנגד קורונה. התוכנית כולה מעולה, הראיון איתי מדקה 48 kan.org.il/kan.org.il/conten…

As they have done for the past decade, Prof. Avraham Levy and Naomi Avivi-Ragolsky of Weizmann’s Plant and Environmental Sciences Department planned to conduct a field experiment with wheat this year at the Gilat experimental station in the south. But on October 7, that entire region became a war zone in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel. Undeterred and perhaps even motivated by the harsh circumstances, Levy and Dr. David Bonfil from the Gilat station decided to conduct the experiment at Gilat as planned, as a symbol of renewal and resilience in the face of adversity. In November, when fighting in Gaza was still in full swing, the researchers proceeded with the wheat sowing. One of the varieties sown in Gilat this year is also being documented in the "Wheat Grows Again" project, which live streams wheat growing in the Institute's greenhouse to raise international awareness about the hostage crisis. The growth of wheat, which was sown by Prof. Levy himself, illustrates the passing of time, and the live stream also displays the names of the hostages, as well as a clock that has already counted a hundred days since their kidnapping. Read more >> bit.ly/Gilat-WIS-ENG The Wheat Grows Again project >> weizmann.ac.il/bring-them-ho… Photos by: Ben Kelmer #Bringthemhomenow #WIS_Stand_Together #TheWheatGrowsAgain

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Congratulations to Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam of the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics for being awarded the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, awarded by the Tel-Aviv-Yaffo Municipality

Congratulations to Dr. @roi1avraham of the Immunology and Regenerative Biology Department upon being elected an Outstanding Early Career Investigator by the American Society for Microbiology.

Congratulations to Prof. Yohai Kaspi of the @EPS_Weizmann for being awarded the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal of NASA for his contribution to the Juno space mission to the planet Jupiter.