Our Team

Assaf Zaritsky
Principal Investigator
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Postdoc, Danuser lab, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Ph.D., Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
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M.Sc., Computer Science, BGU
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B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science, BGU

Alon Shpigler
Ph.D. student
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B.Sc., M.Sc. Industrial Engineering, BGU
Alon is developing methods for application of deep generative networks for microscopy images.

Amos Zamir
Ph.D. student
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B.Sc., Computer Science, BGU
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M.Sc., Software and Information Systems Engineering, BGU
Amos is investigating intercellular information transfer during collective calcium signaling.

Oded Rotem
Ph.D. student
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B.Sc., Physics, TAU
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M.Sc., Energy Engineering, BGU
Oded is developing generative deep neural networks to live imaging of developing embryo from in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments as part of designing a "virtual embryo".

Yishaia Zabary
M.Sc. Student
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B.Sc., Software and Information Systems Engineering, BGU
Yishaia is developing computational methods and agent-based simulations to study mechanisms of collective cell death.

Katya Smoliansky
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Bioinformatics, BGU
Katya is applying deep generative networks to image cell data to systematically infer protein localization patterns.

Yuval Amit
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Computer Science, BGU
Yuval is interested in how heterogeneous local non-linear dynamic events integrate in time and space to drive global emergent properties in a simple model of contractile gels.

Amit Shakarchy
M.Sc. student
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Software and Information Systems Engineering, BGU (direct M.Sc. track)
Amit is investigating fundamental principles of muscle regeneration using quantitative live cell imaging,
and machine learning.

Naor Kolet
M.Sc. student
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Software Engineering, BGU (direct M.Sc. track)
Naor is developing methods to measure alterations in intracellular organization via microscopy-based high-content phenotypic screening and generative neural networks.

Noam Tzukerman
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Computer Science, TAU
Noam is using the "side information" of embryos from the same in vitro fertilization treatment cohort to improve machine-learning driven embryo assessment.

Hila Ben Ami
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, BGU
Hila is developing methods to measure how cells influence each other during migration.

Lion Ben Nedava
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, TAU
Lion is interested in understanding the potential and limitations of in silico labeling - localizing subcellular structures from 3D transmitted light images - to make it a practical tool.

Saar Ben-David
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Computer Science, BGU
Saar investigates how calcium signaling orchestrates emergent multicellular behavior in vivo.

Gil Baron
M.Sc. student
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B.Sc., Software and Information Systems Engineering, BGU
Gil is benchmarking and develop new deep learning architectures for in silico labeling, localization of subcellular structures from 3D transmitted light images.

Netanel Shaked
Undergraduate research
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B.Sc., Software and Information Systems Engineering, BGU
Netanel is developing an analysis pipeline for automated analysis of 3D brain reconstruction containing activated neurons in the adult mouse brain.