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She focused on the roles of non-coding RNAs during the meiotic maturation of mammalian oocyte and early embryo development. Daria joined our laboratory in September 2023 as a postdoc and studies the RNAi pathway as a part of the innate immunity of Nematostella vectensis, with a particular focus on the RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs). She intends to discover in which molecular aspects of antiviral response RdRPs are involved in N. vectensis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/4fe3474a-f79b-4a31-b6d4-db1d45442795/Hee+Jin+Kwak_edited.jpg Welcome Hee-Jin Kwak (postdoc) someting2 at gmail.com Hee-Jin obtained his MSc and PhD in 2021 from the Program of Zoology and Conservation Biology of Chungbuk National University (South Korea). He was working in his PhD on evo-devo of leeches in the lab of Prof. Sung-Jin Cho. He joined our group in November 2021 and his current research focus is the role of OAS1 and RNAse L in the cnidarian innate immunity as well as evolutionary comparisons of the antiviral innate immune systems of different Nematostella populations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/ab5f5822-e8fb-4e67-a04c-3851f5698249/Adrian+Jaimes.jpg Welcome Adrian Jaimes-Becerra (postdoc) ajjb80 at gmail.com Adrian joined our lab as a postdoc on October 2021. Before joining our group he obtained his PhD from São Paulo University (Brazil). He worked there with Prof. Antonio Carlos Marques on the molecular evolution and phylogeny of cnidarian toxins. In our group Adrian works on the functional genetics of Nematostella venom, applying genetic-manipulation tools for revealing the roles of specific venom components. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/1519168126073-B6I8CE5EMH2B0OG06P9Z/Keren.JPG Welcome Yael Admoni (PhD student) yael.admoni at mail.huji.ac.il Yael studied towards her BSc in Life Sciences in the Etgar program for excellent biology students at the Hebrew University. During her 3rd and final year she performed in our lab her final student science project. From 2017 until 2019 she was a master student in the lab working on knocking out specific miRNA genes in Nematostella and on the complementarity requirements of cnidarian miRNA targets. Yael rejoined our group as a PhD student in late 2020 after working for several months as a reseaech assistant. Her PhD work is focusing on revealing the roles of RNA interference in cnidarian biology and the evolution of this ancient system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/0b804950-ced0-41e6-81af-eb4ba92ab30d/Yael+Hazan.JPG Welcome Yael Hazan (PhD student) yael.hzn at gmail.com Yael received her BSc in Biology from the Hebrew university and her MSc in Marine Biology from Ben Gurion University. She started her PhD in our lab in April 2017 studying the evolution of RNA-based immunity mechanisms in Cnidaria. One of her main research focuses is revealing the roles of Cnidarian RdRPs (RNA-dependent RNA Polymerases). Yael’s projects include a significant computational component and she is co-advised by Prof. Michal Linial, a computational biologist from the Department of Chemical Biology at our University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/e1c378b7-8230-4515-84f5-c94501aba0ba/IMG_4815.JPG Welcome Joachim M. Surm (postdoc) joachim.surm at mail.huji.ac.il Dr. Joachim Surm received his PhD with distinction from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia At QUT Joachim worked on the molecular evolution of toxins and other proteins in sea anemones. He joined our group in February 2019 and he studies the evolution of toxins and toxin-like proteins in Nematostella as well as their variation between populations. He is also currently working on genetic mamipulation of venom genes in order to understand their contribution to organismal fitness. Joachim received the Golda Meir and Lady Davis Fellowships from the Hebrew University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/1490813412358-X8FRSS3OKREDFSSZHEB6/rubi.jpg Welcome Reuven Aharoni (Lab manager) reuven.Aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il Rubi obtained his MSc in Biomedical Studies and his PhD from the Institute of Dental Sciences of the Hebrew University. Before joining our lab in 2014 and taking important part in its establishment, he was working in the lab of Doron Steinberg on bacterial biofilm. He is our lab manager and is responsible for everything running smoothly. Rubi significantly contributed to our understanding of the evolution of Argonaute proteins and their function in Cnidaria. Recently, he was taking part in our functional studies of cnidarian innate immunity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/0bf11d21-2a2c-4ef4-b8c7-1030ad1d96a6/Itamar+Kozlovski_.jpg Welcome Itamar Kozlovski (PhD student) itamar.kozlovski at mail.huji.ac.il Itamar majored in Biology at Colby-Sawyer College (New Hampshire, USA) and obtained his MSc from the Hebrew University Medical School in 2017. During his MSc Itamar studied under the guidance of Prof. Rotem Karni the roles of RNA splicing in cancer biology. Since May 2020 he is a PhD student in our group and studies the antiviral response of Nematostella. Itamar integrates into his work advanced cell biology methods and fluorescent-activated cell sorting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58dbdcea29687fd202b2df94/7e0cc433-9341-4a1e-bd3d-d337e14e1368/Ton+Sharoni+for+site.jpg Welcome Ton Sharoni (PhD student) sharoni.rko at gmail.com Ton obtained his BSc in Marine Biotechnology from the Ruppin Academic Center (Michmoret Campus). He joined our lab in October 2017 as an MSc student to study the function of RLR proteins in Nematostella. In December 2019 he graduated and rejoined the lab in April 2020 as a PhD student. 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