Elucidating the complexity of ecological systems
Time flies! A year has passed, and it’s time to say goodbye to Vicente, who has completed his internship in our lab. We hope his time in Israel was fulfilling both personally and professionally. We do not doubt that Vicente will continue to make meaningful contributions to the field. Take care, Vicente, and all the best!
Shai was invited to speak at UNAM, Mexico on multilayer networks. You can view the lecture, Redes multicapa ecológicas: de los fundamentos a los desafíos, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3MquS6xMY8 .
Shai’s paper, The network structure and eco-evolutionary dynamics of CRISPR-induced immune diversification, has been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01312-z)
The new semester has started, and with it many new students have joined the lab! We’re excited to welcome Julie, Dafna, Itai, Ofir, Amit, Niv, and Michael. You can learn more about them and their research here.
Shai has received a grant from the Israel Science Foundation to study ecological multilayer networks. The lab will be developing both theory and methodology, and using these to analyze multiple datasets. We hope to further our understanding of what can be learned from taking the different layers (temporal, spatial, etc) into account, and in which ecological networks it is most beneficial to do so.