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.

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.

Amichai Baichman-Kass
PhD student in Agroecology
(co-advised by Lianet Noda Garcia, HUJI)
MSc Agroecology , Hebrew University, 2021.
BSc Agroecology & Biotechnology, Hebrew University, 2019.
Amichai's research is focused on metabolic exchange in interspecific bacterial networks.

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.

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.

Bar Meron
PhD student in Biochmeisty and Food Sciences
(co-advised by Tzvi Hayouka, HUJI)
MSc Biochemisty and Food Sciences, Hebrew University, 2021
BSc Food Sciences, Tel-Hai College , 2019.
Bar is studying the evolution of resistance to antimicrobial peptides.

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.

Einat Nestor
MSc student in Computational Biology
BSc Computational Biology, Hebrew University, 2021.
Einat uses machine learning to predict how microbes interact.

Rameez Moidu Jameela
Postdoctoral reseach fellow
PhD Microbiology, Bose Institute (India), 2020.
Rameez has expertise in experimental bacteriology, microbial physiology-ecology-
evolution. He explores fundamentals of bacterial evolution within clones and
communities.

Sam
Emotional support specialist

Yael Sorokin
Lab technician
BSc Nutrition Science, Hebrew University, 2019.
Yael supports all the experimental project in the lab.
