Picture this: thousands of years ago, humans thrived on diets rich in fiber, packed with tough plant materials like cellulose. Back then, our guts were

Our recent publication in Nature Microbiology presents findings elucidating the complex dynamics of gut microbial communities, with a focus on the role of plasmids in

Shalom! My name is Sabrina Liu, and I am a rising junior from MIT interning at the Mizrahi lab this summer through the MISTI Israel

Hello! My name is Ido, and I’ve been a member of the Mizrahi lab for the past two years. During my undergraduate degree, my involvement

Itzik is talking about the rumen microbiome and microbial ecology in Hebrew with Shimon and Yomiran in ”Medabrimmada” – Talking about science – a wonderful

This story begins at a dairy science convention in Jerusalem. When I (Ori Furman) was about to graduate from my Master’s degree, in 2013.  I was

Hey there, my name is Johanna, 22 years old, and I am from Germany. I visited Israel and the MizrahiLab in March 2020 for 6

So how is it like to be a first-year master student and taking baby steps towards becoming a researcher at the Mizrahi lab? From the

Have you ever wondered how do we know who are the microbes in environmental samples? Understanding microbial life requires us to study their functionality and

By Tamar Zehavi Being a part of the field of anaerobic microbiology, it’s always better to learn from the best. My story begins with an

  A recent study of ours has been chosen as editors’ choice of the Science journal,  Aug 2017 (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6350/468.3). Cattle are able to metabolize otherwise

  Our recently published study examines the connection between specific heritable microbes and the efficiency of ruminants at producing energy from their feed. Ruminants host a unique and

by Sarah Morais WASTE2FUELS aims to develop next generation biofuel technologies capable of converting agrofood waste (AFW) streams into high quality biobutanol. This European Union

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The Ultimate Project Student   The Mizrahi lab already has three full-functioning (and quite pricey) robots that can do almost anything (they can’t make coffee

Hey, I’m Tamar. I completed my Master’s degree and continued to a Ph.D. while focusing on community assembly. How communities come to be? It is

Despite the seemingly limitless knowledge mankind possesses nowadays, it is surprising how relatively little we know about the estimated 100 trillion bacterial cells that reside

I’m David, in my second year of postdoc in the lab, and my problem are plasmids. To tell you how I got there I need

Hi, I’m Goor, PhD candidate and a proud member of the Microbial Ecogenomics group at BGU, under the supervision of Professor Itzik Mizrahi. My research

This month I am celebrating three years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Microbial Ecogenomics Group (Mizrahi Lab)! I am a fish physiologist by training,

Hi, I’m Stav Eyal, a Master student in the lab. I study microbial interactions within digestive tract microbiomes, with an emphasis on methanogenic-bacterial interactions in

Hi, we are the Mizrahi lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The usual questions from people outside the group – or even outside science,