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PhD. student at

The Department of Cell Research and Immunology,
George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel,
under the supervision of Prof. Tal Pupko.

RESEARCH INTERSESTS

Molecular evolution and phylogeny: inferring evolutionary and co-evolutionary dynamics, developing and applying probabilistic evolutionary models.

Evolution of microbial species:
Genome scale evolution of microorganisms: the role of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in adaptation and the factors that determine gene's transferability.

Correlating microbial gene content shifts with changes in habitat and traits: discovery of correlations between acquisition of novel gene families and transformation into virulence strains.

Metazoan evolution:
Analysing Indels phyletic patterns to study Eutherian phylogenetic relations.

Evolutionary dynamics in linguistics:
Studying the evolutionary relations among languages: analyse the dynamics of gain and loss of lexical units (cognates) among neighboring languages as mechanism explaining language innovations.