PEOPLE
Tamar Friedlander
Tamar Friedlander
Principal Investigator
PhD Physics
MSc EE
BSc Physics & Math (Talpiot)
Lab Collaborators
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Rok Grah, IST Austria
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Yitzhak Pilpel, Weizmann
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Nicolas F. Martin, University of Illinois
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Ohad-Noy Feldheim, HUJI
Post-doc
Amit Jangid
Post-doc (joined in 2022)
PhD Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2022)
MSc Physics, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer (2015)
Amit is studying how different selection pressures shape the evolution of the plant collaborative non-self recognition (CNSR) system in panmictic and structured populations.
MSc
Koren Erad
MSc student
BSc Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University (2019)
Koren is interested in the impacts of the spatial structure of self-incompatible plant populations and constructed an ad-hoc model of a spatially structured population. Specially, his research aims to test the sensitivity to the population spatial structure of the invasion capability of a self-compatible mutant into an otherwise self-incompatible population.
David Enrique Sayag
MSc student (joined in 2023)
BSc Physics, Tel Aviv University (2021)
The functionality of the collaborative non-self recognition self-incompatibility system depends on gene combinations. Hence these genes are tightly linked, but low levels of gene exchange were still detected empirically. David is researching the evolutionary effects of such gene exchange.
Ben Stescovich
MSc student (joined in 2024)
BSc Marine Biotechnology, Ruppin Academic Center (2022)
The self-incompatibility mechanism in plants is based on specific molecular recognition between ad-hoc proteins expressed in the male and female reproductive organs. Ben joined the lab in Fall 2024 as an MSc student. He is studying how the protein's mechanical flexibility affects the evolution of its binding domain.
Raz Samet-Shenvald
MSc student (joined in 2025)
BSc Biochemistry, food science, and agro-informatics, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2024)
She is using mathematical modeling to study the signal processing of the plant’s ABA receptors, which induce the plant drought response.
Programmer
Elinor Natanzon
Programmer (joined in 2025)
BSc Marine Biology, Ruppin Academic Center (2022)
BSc Computer Science, Netanya Academic College (2013)
She is responsible for the lab code management. Her research will focus on the evolution of the inbreeding depression and the interplay between the inbreeding depression and the population mode of mating.
Lab Alumni
Ilan Smoly
Post-doctoral fellow
PhD, MSc & BSc Bioinformatics & Computer Sciences
Tzahi Gabzi
MSc Mathematics
Jointly supervised with Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann)
Guy Kornowski
Programmer
Under-graduate mathematics