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PEOPLE

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Tamar Friedlander

Tamar Friedlander

Principal Investigator

PhD Physics

MSc EE

BSc Physics & Math (Talpiot)

Lab Collaborators

Post-doc

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Amit Jangid

Post-doc (joined in 2022)

PhD Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2022)

MSc Physics, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer (2015)

amitjangid050@gmail.com

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

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Koren Erad

MSc student

BSc Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University (2019)

koren.erad@gmail.com

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.

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David Enrique Sayag

MSc student (joined in 2023)

BSc Physics, Tel Aviv University (2021)

davidesayag@gmail.com

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.

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Ben Stescovich

MSc student (joined in 2024)

BSc Marine Biotechnology, Ruppin Academic Center (2022)

bensho3@gmail.com

​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.

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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)

raz.shenvald@mail.huji.ac.il

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

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Programmer (joined in 2025)

BSc Marine Biology, Ruppin Academic Center (2022)

BSc Computer Science, Netanya Academic College (2013)

elinor.nat@gmail.com

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.

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Lab Alumni

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Keren Erez

Researcher

PhD Brain Science, MSc & BSc Physics

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Haim Elbaz

Programmer

BSc Ag. Plant Science & Agroinformatics

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Ilan Smoly

Post-doctoral fellow

PhD, MSc & BSc Bioinformatics & Computer Sciences

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Tal Sokolinsky

Programmer

BSc Mathematics

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Yair Neve-Oz

Post-doctoral fellow

PhD Physics

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Tzahi Gabzi

MSc Mathematics

Jointly supervised with Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann)

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Guy Kornowski

Programmer

Under-graduate mathematics

The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture

The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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