The Friedman Lab
Ecology & evolution of microbial communities
Jonathan Friedman (CV, Google Scholar, )
Principal Investigator
Postdoc Center for Physics of Living Systems, MIT, 2017 (Mentor: Jeff Gore)
PhD Computational and Systems Biology, MIT, 2013 (Mentors: Eric Alm & Daniel Rothman)
BSc Physics and Biology, Tel-Aviv University (2007)
yonatan.friedman@mail.huji.ac.il
Jonathan has a background in bioinformatics, mathematical biology, and experimental microbiology. His main area of interest and expertise is microbial community dynamics.
Nesli Tovi
Research Scientist
PhD Environmental Microbiology, Hebrew University & Volcani center, 2019
MSc Microbiology, Bar Ilan University, 2012
BSc Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, 2010
nesli.tovi@mail.huji.ac.il
Nesli's research interests are bacteria-bacteria interaction and horizontal gene transfer. She has experience in molecular biology, plants, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.
Nittay Meroz
PhD student in Agroecology
MSc Microbiology, Bar Ilan University, 2018.
Nittay studies long-term co-evolutionary dynamics of competing bacterial species and their predictability.
Gal Toledano
MSc student in Computational Biology
BSc Computer Science and Computational Biology, Hebrew University, 2020.
Gal is interested in the evolution of interspecies interacations.
Amichai Baichman-Kass
MSc student in Agroecology
BSc Agroecology & Biotechnology, Hebrew University, 2019.
Amichai's research is focused on metabolic exchange in interspecific bacterial networks.
Yael Sorokin
Lab technician
BSc Nutrition Science, Hebrew University, 2019.
Yael supports all the experimental project in the lab.
Tingting Song
Visitng Research Fellow
PhD Agro-grassland science, Northeast Agricultural University (China), 2020 (expected)
MSc Botany, Northeast Agricultural University (China), 2017.
Tingting’s research aims at identifying novel antimicrobials using high-throughput screening.
Einat Nestor
Undergraduate researcher
BSc Computational Biology, Hebrew University, 2021 (expected).
Einat uses machine learning to predict how microbes interact.
Hildah Amutuhaire
PhD student in Agroecology
(co-advised by Eddie Cytryn, ARO)
MSc Agroecology, Hebrew University University, 2020.
Hildah is bioprospecting for novel bacterial antifungal secondary metabolites for plant protection.
Damilola Olaewe
MSc project student in Plant Sciences
B. Tech Crop production and soil sciences (Nigeria), 2018.
Dami’s research focuses on characterizing bacterial isolates for biocontrol of plant-pathogenic microbes.
Sam
Emotional support specialist
Former lab members
Graduate students
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Yaron Goldberg, Masters student 2018-2020 (with distinction); currently: PhD student at Tel-Aviv University.
Visiting students
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Joshua Derrick, visiting undergraduate student (MIT) 2019; currently: PhD student at John Hopkins University.
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Aswin Krishna, visiting undergraduate student (IIT Patna) 2019; currently: Masters student at ETH.