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Modeling microbiome dynamics. A productive week after EcoNet2023.

Following EcoNet2023, Johannes Nauta (postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Physics, University of Padua, Italy) extended his stay in our lab for an extra week as part of our HFSP-funded collaboration project. Ying Jie and Johannes led intensive discussions and worked hard to model microbiome population dynamics under perturbations using different approaches. Johannes employed ODE systems in his modeling approach, while Ying Jie explored the domain of agent-based modeling. It was a productive week and we are looking forward to the results.

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Farewell to Vicente and wishing him the best

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!

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Welcome Ying Jie to our lab as a postdoctoral researcher!

Ying Jie Wang, a postdoctoral researcher, has recently joined our lab in March. Originally from Taiwan, she brings a wealth of knowledge in stress ecology, community ecology, and eco-evolutionary feedbacks. Despite being with us for just a month, she has already become a key player in our international collaborative project on agent-based modeling of highly-diverse microbial communities. This project brings together ecology and evolution, microbiology, and statistical physics. We are excited to have Ying Jie with us and wish her the best of luck in her research. Welcome to the Lab, Ying Jie!

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Itamar has joined the lab!

We are pleased to welcome Itamar, a second-year undergraduate student at BGU, who has recently joined us. Itamar is already working hard, learning the necessary skills and methods to start his project next year. Hope that Itamar enjoys his time in the lab and look forward to seeing the results of Itamar’s hard work. Welcome to the Lab!

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A Gift for the lab

Before leaving for vet school, Maya visited the lab one last time and gifted us with a beautiful painting she made.
Thank you Maya, and best of luck in the future!

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Julie obtains a permanent position!

We wish all the best to Julie in her new position at Anses, the French Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety.

We will miss her, but we’re sure she’ll do a lot of good there!
If you want to see what she’s up to, check out her website.

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Project Students Posters!

Today on the department’s day our project students, Maya Goldstein and Klil Shahar, presented their work throughout the year with posters!
Come and take a look:

Maya’s – The Influence of Distance on Modularity in Multilayer Spatial Networks

Klil’s – Species Roles in a Temporal Multilayer Network of Host-Parasite Interactions