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Principal Investigator

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Debbie Lindell, 
Professor,
Dresner Chair in Life Sciences and Medicine

Research Staff

Gazalah Sabehi
Ph.D.

Lab Manager & Research Scientist

  • The function of photosystem II genes in cyanophages

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Laure Arsenieff
Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

  • Influence of temperature on cyanobacteria-phage interactions

Svetlana Goldin Ph.D.

Research Scientist

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Shay Kirzner
Ph.D.

Research Scientist

  • Cyanophage dynamics in the North Pacific Ocean and their impact on the cyanobacterial community

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Kira Kondratyeva
Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

  • Genome-wide adaptations of marine picocyanobacteria to environmental conditions

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Revital Israeli

Administrative Assistant

Students

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Camelia Shopen-Gochev
M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

  • Seasonal dynamics of cyanophages and host-infection in the Sargasso Sea

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Ran Tahan
M.Sc.
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Jonathan Greenbaum
B.Sc.
Bashir Said
B.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

  • Host take-over in T4-like cyanophages

  • Development of inducible gene expression system for marine Synechococcus

Ph.D. Student

  • Host availability effects on evolution of generalist and specialist cyanophages

Ph.D. Student

  • Host take-over in T7-like cyanophages

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Meral Aias
M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

  • Carbon metabolism genes (Calvin cycle & PPP) and Syn9 phage fitness

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Elena Khavin
M.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

  • Cyanobacteria-phage interaction in different environmental conditions

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Maor Berkovich
B.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

  • Identification and investigation of phage and host factors that regulate T4-like cyanophage genome expression 

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Valeria Tsvichenko
B.Sc.

M.Sc. Student

  • The impact of mutations in two porin genes on resistance to viral infection in Synechococcus

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Sharon Shperling
B.Sc.

M.Sc. Student

  • The effect of environmental conditions on virus production & virus decay across the Pacific Ocean

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Yuval Aharon
B.Sc.

Ph.D. Student

  • Reacquisition of photosynthetic genes in cyanophages over the course of evolution

Alumni                         

Current Position

Michael Carlson -
Postdoc Associate 2016-2020
Visiting Fellow 2021-2023

Assistant Professor, California State University, USA

Sigitas Šulčius - Sponsored Visiting Researcher 2019-2023

Senior Researcher, Head of  Bioinformatics Department, Nature Research Center, Lithuania

Lea Reuveni - Master Student 2019-2022

Research Assistant, Poole Lab, Oxford Univeristy, United Kingdom

Julia Weissenbach - Postdoc 2018-2022
Ilia Maidanik - PhD 2019; Postdoc 2019-2022

Biomedical Data Scientist , Syqe Medical, Israel

Dror Shitrit - PhD 2020; Postdoc 2020-2022

Research Scientist at ImaginDairy, Israel

Margalit Peleg - Research Assistant 2015-2021

Bioinformatician, Technion Genome Center

Yotam Hulata - MSc 2015; Research Assistant 2015-2021

Clinical Research Coordinator at the Ministry of Health, Israel

Sophia Zborowsky - PhD 2019; Postdoc 2020 

Post-doc, Pagliera Lab, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Lilach Pnueli - Research Scientist 2015-2020

Research Scientist, Melamed Lab, Technion

Nava Baran - Lab Manager 2006-2011; Research Scientist 2012-2020

Retired

Noor Marwat - PhD 2017; Postdoc 2018-2020

Lab Director, Laboratory for Applied Cancer Research, Rambam Hospital

Irena Pekarski - Research Assistant 2009-2019

Research Assistant, Béjà Lab, Technion

Nitzan Shamir - MSc 2018; Research Assistant 2019-2020

Lab Associate, MyHeritage

Daniel Schwartz - MSc 2011; PhD 2017

Scientist, dsm-firmenich, The Netherlands

Svetlana Fridman - PhD 2016

Lab Assistant Manager, Central Microbiology

Ayalla Fedida - PhD 2016

Post-doc, Falik-Zaccai Lab, Bar Ilan University

Svetlana Goldin - Postdoc 2015

Research Scientist, Lindell Lab, Technion

Shay Kirzner - PhD 2014

Chief Technology Officer, Foresee Genomics Ltd

Eyal Greengrass - MSc 2013

Data Team Management, ICTS Europe

Sarit Avrani - PhD 2012
Roi Feingersh - Postdoc 2012

Assistant Professor, Haifa University

R&D Manager, Galil Genetic Analysis Ltd

Naama Dekel - MSc 2012

Postdoctoral Researcher, Merck R&D Department, Israel

Gazalah Sabehi - Postdoc 2007

Lab Manager and Research Scientist, Lindell  Lab, Technion

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