Lab Members:

Professor Sagi Snir

Education

Postdoc: Math & Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2006

Ph.D.: Computer Science, Technion , Israel, 2004

Contacts:

Phone: (972) 4-8288774, Fax: 4-8288763

Email: ssagi@research.haifa.ac.il

Principal Research Interests:

Phylogenetics, Quartet Methods, Universal Pacemaker (UPM) of genome evolution, Lateral Gene Transfer, Comparative Genomics, Convex Recoloring, Hadamard Conugation, Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, Approximation Algorithm

Shai Hakim – Ph.D. student

Education:

Contacts:

Phone: (972) 54-3994119

Email: shayhakim@gmail.com

Shelly Brezner

Education:

Contacts:

Phone: (972) 55-8820467

Email: shellybrzner@gmail.com

Noor Kezil – Ph.D. student

Education:

Contacts:

Phone: (972) 52-5018228

Email:noor4874@gmail.com

noor

Sapir Carmi

Education:

Contacts:

Phone: (972) 

Email: sapirosh10@gmail.com

Udi Mahanaymi – Lab Manager

Education:

B.Sc. Math & Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1986

Contacts:

Phone: (972) 52-8933515

Email: udimaha@yahoo.com

Recent Close Collaborators

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Director for Biomathematics Research Centre
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND

Professor, biophysicist 

Lab – UCLA Life Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

Professor

Computer Science
Human Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles

Senior Investigator

National Center for Biotechnology

Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Professor of  Mathematics

Department of Mathematics
University of Haifa, Israel

Former Lab Members

Name

Tzahi Yona

Gilad Levi

Dr. Vladimir Frenkel

Gon Carmi

Ben Yohai

Noga Perry

Position

MSc Student

MSc Student

Staff Researcher

MSc Student

MSc Student

MSc Student

Subject

MaxCut

Genome Mapping

Combinatorics, Genetics

Genome Mapping

Prokaryotic Evolvability

Superfamily Evolution

Orit Adato

Dr Assaf Malik

Dr Reuven Cohen

Anton Shifman

Cyril Nikolaev

Ofer freedman

Nitsan Daniel

Oren Srulevich

Noga Ninio

 

 

Yifat Felder

MSc Student

Post-Doc

Post-Doc

MSc Student

Undergrad Student

Undergrad Student

Undergrad Student

Undergrad Student

MSc Student

 

 

MSc Student (joint with Benny Chor)

Detecting Horizontal Gene Transfer

Spalax Evolution

Quartet Based Supertree

Whole Genome Phylogeny

Synteny based Phylogeny

Synteny based Phylogeny

Rooted Supertree Construction

Rooted Supertree Construction

Synteny Index: A Tool for Detecting Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Closely Related Species and Constructing Phylogenetic Trees

Using novel enrichment techniques to analyze protein superfamilies abundances