PhD, Public Health, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2019
01/2019-07/2019
Research: IBD sharing on the X chromosome
Next position: post-doc, Harvard Medical School
Shay Tzur
PhD, Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2013
12/2016-12/2018 (approximately; part time)
Research: Jewish genetics, mtDNA and Y chr
Avner Halevy
PhD, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation, University of Maryland, 2011
08/2016-12/2016 (part time)
Research: phenotypic effects of runs of homozygosity
PhD students
Hila Fridman
BSc, Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009
MSc, Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2011
Joint with Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Shaare Zedek Medical Center
12/2017-03/2021, graduated with distinction
Thesis title: Clinical Utility of Next Generation Sequencing Genomic Tests in Determining Risk Assessment for Healthy Individuals
Next position: post-doc, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Master’s students
Idit Tessler
MD-MPH, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joint with Ronen Durst and Dan Gilon, Hadassah Medical Center
03/2017 – 06/2019
Thesis title: Identification of Genes Associated with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Among Families and Sporadic Cases
Ehud Karavani
BSc, Computer Science and Computational Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2016
12/2017 – 06/2019 (part time)
Thesis title: Evaluating the utility of screening human embryos for polygenic traits
Next position: IBM research
David Raveh-Brawer
MD, Tel-Aviv University
08/2016 – 11/2018 (part time, graduated cum laude)
Faculty’s excellent thesis award
Thesis title: Improving the empiric antimicrobial treatment: Trend analysis of bacterial resistance, construction of a model for prediction of resistance and early detection of outbreaks of bacterial resistance
Undergraduates
Sa’ar Armon
Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
09/2019-06/2021
Research interests: Low-coverage sequencing
Dana Golan
Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
08/2020-06/2021
Research interests: preimplantation genetic testing
Kobi Landau
Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MD thesis)
08/2016-11/2019
Itamar Medved
Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
04/2018-06/2019
Or Yaacov
Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
02/2016 – 12/2017
Next position: post-doc, Medicine, New York University
Noam Bar
Computer science and computational biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10/2015 – 08/2016
Next position: MSc, Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
Gavriel Fialkoff
Computer science and computational biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10/2015 – 08/2016
Next position: MSc, Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Adina Barchichat
Bioinformatics, Jerusalem College of Technology
02/2016 – 07/2016
Dana Baril
Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
