Principal investigator

Shai Carmi

Post-docs

Michelle Grunin

• BSc, Biology, Touro College, 2009
• MSc, Biomedical Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
• PhD, Biomedical Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018
• Post-doc, Case Western Reserve University, 2018-2021
• Since 10/2021
• In collaboration with Jonathan Haines, Case Western Reserve University
• Research interests: Genetics of age-related macular degeneration

PhD students

Idit Tessler

• MD, MPH, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Joint with Ronen Durst and Dan Gilon, Hadassah Medical Center
• Since 11/2019
• Research interests: Genetics of bicuspid aortic valve

Liraz Klausner

• BA, Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018
• MA, Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021
• Since 10/2021
• Research interests: runs of homozygosity, genetic epidemiology, polygenic embryo screening

Master’s students

Guy Mizrachi

• Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Since 10/2021
• Research interests: preimplantation genetic testing

Johanna Valensi

• BSc, Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Joint with Dror Sharon, Hadassah Medical Center
• Since 09/2020
• Research interests: Inherited retinal diseases

Research assistants

Ariel Lomes

• Data scientist
• Since 12/2022 (part time)
• Research interests: Population genetics

Undergraduates

Key collaborator

Daniel Backenroth

• PhD, Biostatistics, Columbia University, 2017
• Since 04/2017 (formally a post-doc in 2020-2021)
• Research interests: preimplantation genetic testing, statistical genetics, population genetics

Open positions

Previous lab members

Post-docs

• Einat Granot-Hershkovitz
  • 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

• Shamam Waldman
  • BSc, Psychobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012
  • MA, Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2016
  • 11/2016-11/2022
  • Thesis title: Development and Application of Haplotype-Based and Other Analyses of modern and Ancient DNA to Reconstruct Historical Demographic Events
  • Next position: post-doc, Harvard University

• 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

• Daria Triffon
  • BSc Pharm, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Joint with Itay Chowers, Hadassah Medical Center
  • 05/2020 – 10/2022
  • Thesis title: Prediction of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Israeli Population Based on Polygenic Risk Scores
• 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 and research interns

• Hila Rotbard
  • Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 10/2021-8/2022
• Sa’ar Armon
  • Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 09/2019-06/2021
• Dana Golan
  • Biomedical sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 08/2020-06/2021
• Adam Green
  • A visitor from Washington University, USA
  • 11/2019
• 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
  • 08/2016 – 10/2016