Our collaborative research on marine iguanas in the Galapagos

Global warming increases the strength and frequency El Niño events, affecting marine ecosystems along the equatorial pacific region. One of the best-documented examples of the effect of this extreme climatic event on marine biodiversity is found in the Galapagos Islands. There, the rise in water temperatures forces changes in the diet of marine iguanas that […]

My first steps in the Mizrahi Lab- by Inbal, A first Year Master student

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 moment I stepped into the Mizrahi lab, I knew I have joined a special place.  Where you are encouraged to think, learn, be creative, improvise and take your ideas into […]

Insights Into The Culturomics Of The Rumen Microbiome

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 metabolism which is also only possible in pure culture. Sadly, with the increasing technological advances, isolating new microbes from the environment was pretty much abandoned, as it is not an […]

Anaerobic microbiology and pumpkin patches- my adventures in Wisconsin

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 email invitation by Prof. Paul J. Weimer, who recently retired from the USDA. I was invited to Wisconsin to learn from him about his methods of growing rumen microorganisms and […]

Changing ecosystems in cow stomachs

  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 indigestible plant materials with the help of methane-generating bacteria, named methanogens, in their first stomach, the rumen. Methanogens play a key role in sustaining rumen metabolism and function. Our study […]

The link between genetics and microbial composition

  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 obligatory relationship with their microbiome, in which their ability to digest certain feeds relies completely on the presence of specific microbes. This connection has been first established in another study […]

Rending waste valuable: a 6 million dollar project

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 project is a cooperation between 20 groups (both industries and academic) from 8 countries including two groups Israel (Weizmann and us at BGU). This common effort aims to achieve a […]

Project Student, how do we see you…

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 yet, but it’s a work in process). In other words, we aren’t looking for pipetting robot-students. Project students are, undoubtedly, an inseparable part of our research team and the Mizrahi […]

To assemble or not to assemble this is an important question

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 a question asked by researchers across many disciplines. It has been studied throughout history [1] to this day, involving sociology, economy, biology, and statistics and is dated back to ancient […]

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