Prof. Dan Mishmar
Status : Lab Head (Professor)
Email : dmishmar@bgu.ac.il
Department of Life Sciences
Building 40, room 009
Ben-Gurion University
Beer Sheva,84105
Israel
Tel: +972-8-6461355+972-8-6461355, 6477917
Fax: +972-8-6461356
Present graduate Students and postdoctoral fellows
Dadon Sara
Status : Technical and teaching support (M.Med.Sc)
Email : sarahd@bgu.ac.il
Daria Arakelova, MD
Status : PhD candidate
Email : arakelov@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project:
The regulatory coordination of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes: the role of C/EBPB in glioblastoma as a model
Noam Shtoltz
Status : PhD candidate
Email : shtolz@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project:
Studying mtDNA variation throughout metazoan evolution
Gavriel Minor
Status : PhD candidate
Email : minor@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project:
Investigating C/EBPB as a novel candidate regulator of mitochondrial and nuclear gene expression
Naomi Zamir
Status : M.Sc. candidate
Email : Naomiza@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project: studying the impact of genetic variants on mitochondrial transcription
Dana Uzan
Status : M.Sc. candidate
Email : danauza@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project: Assessing pattern of co-expression of mtDNA and nuclear DNA-encoded genes of the OXPHOS system in autoimmune diseases
Undergrad students
Ohad Cohen
Status: B.Sc. candidate
Email : asaelavi@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project: Investigating genomewide response of antlion species to heat shock
Avital Asael
Status: B.Sc. candidate
Email : asaelavi@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project: Investigating genomewide response of antlion species to heat shock
Yael Tal
Status: B.Sc. candidate
Email : yaela3@post.bgu.ac.il
Current project: Assessing mtDNA copy number in C/EBPB manipulation
Alumni
Name | Degree at the Mishmar lab | Where are they now? |
Mrs. Sarit Suissa (Zaguri) | MSc (2007) | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. |
Ms Yael Garbian | MSc (2009) | PhD student, Hebrew University |
Dr. Jeanette Feder | PhD (2010) | Project Manager, Karolinska Inst, Sweden |
Dr. Shirly Amar | PhD (2011) | The Genetic Institute, Soroka Medical centre |
Ms Mor Buchshtav | MSc (2010) | Regulatory project manager at ConTIPI Ltd |
Ms Yasmin Toiw | MSc (2010) | PhD student, Technion |
Ms Naama Shani | MSc (2011) | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. |
Dr. Moran Gershoni | PhD (2012) | PI, Agriculture Research Organization – Volcani Institute |
Dr. Ilia Zhidkov | PhD (2012) | EvoGene LTD |
Dr. Gal Avital | MSc (2012) | EvoGene |
Dr. Michal Silber | Basic Science studies for MD interns | Meir Hospital, Kfar Sava. |
Dr. Noa-Sophie Kohler | Postdoctoral fellow [Jacque Loeb Center for the Philosophy of Science fellowship] | Research associate, Jacque Loeb Center for the Philosophy of Science fellowship |
Ms Oshrat Or | MSc (2015) |
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Dr. Jami Milam | PhD – postdoctoral (2015) |
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Dr. Dan Bar-Yaacov (joint supervision with Dr. Amos Bouskila, BGU, Rector prize, Negev Scholarship) | PhD (2016) | PI, The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics |
Dr. Amit Blumberg (Negev Scholarship) | PhD (2017) | Postdoctoral fellow, Shragi Schwartz Weizman |
Dr. Liron Levin (Negev Scholarship) | PhD (2017) | Bioinformatics Core Facility, BGU |
Mrs. Nicol Poznianski | MSc (2018) | |
Dr. Shani Marom | PhD (2018) | Research Team head, Microbiome R&D Department Scientist at Merck Life Science |
Dr. Gilad Barshad (Darom scholarship) | PhD (2019) | PI, Department of biology, Technion |
Dr. Shir Zaccai | MSc (2019) | Trojan Bio |
Mrs. Rotem Levin | MSc (2019) | Fraud Analyst, Forter |
Dr. Tal Cohen | PhD (2020) | Bioinformatics scientist, Applied Genomics |
Ms. Shani Levi | MSc (2021) | Research Associate, Kadimastem Ltd |
Ms. Hodaya Turgeman | MSc (2021) | Research Associate, Anima Biotech |
Shirly Gruman | BSc, project student (2020) | MD-PhD candidate, HUJI |
Roni Hahn | MSc (2021) | PhD candidate, TAU |
Amit Zirman | MSc (2021) | PhD candidate, Volcani Institute |
Omer Papier | MSc (2023) | PhD candidate, TAU |
Dr. Hadar Medini (Dekalim, Negev Scholarship) | PhD (2024), short postdoc (2025 | Postdoctoral fellow, MRC Cambridge UK |
Ms Yuval Caruchero | MSc (2025) | PhD candidate, BGU |
Ms Li Horovitz (Dekalim) | MSc (2025) | PhD candidate, HUJI – faculty of agriculture |